A police official in Arizona has been placed on administrative leave after showing up armed to a student-led protest and provoking an altercation that led to the arrest of a teenage girl. The officer told fellow police who arrived on the scene that he attended the students’ immigration rights protest with the intent of acting as an agent provocateur, according to a news report.
Dusten Mullen, a sergeant with the Phoenix Police Department, has been suspended with pay pending an internal review of his conduct at a protest at Hamilton High School in Chandler, Arizona, on January 30, according to Phoenix Police Chief Matthew Giordano.
“As law enforcement professionals, we are held to higher standards of conduct — both in and out of uniform,” Giordano said. “When we fall short, we must be accountable, and we will not tolerate actions which undermine the trust the community has placed in the Department.”
Fox 10 Phoenix, the outlet to first identify Mullen, reported that Mullen told Chandler Police Department officers on the scene that he was there in the hopes of getting a rise out of the kids that would then allow the local cops to cuff them.
As law enforcement professionals, we are held to higher standards of conduct
Bullshit. The officer isn’t dead.
Alex Pretti is.
As always, ACAB.
Why does it seem that police depts seemingly hire the dumbest fucks?
Because theyre built to attract bullies?
Because they do higher the dumbest fucks.
Smart people tend to realize corruption is bad.
hire
As always, ACAB.
No…
This is literally an example that some actually give a fuck:
Fox 10 Phoenix, the outlet to first identify Mullen, reported that Mullen told Chandler Police Department officers on the scene that he was there in the hopes of getting a rise out of the kids that would then allow the local cops to cuff them.
“My plan is legitimately to just let them all assault me and you guys arrest them all and I’ll keep it on film,” Mullen said, according to a police report obtained by the local TV news site. “I also have other people filming from a distance.”
The department didn’t release it, but the cop who included that in their report 100% put their career if not life on the line to put that in their report and likely was pressured not to mention any of it.
The cops didn’t release it, but that one cop putting it in a report is why it was there when journalists request the records.
It’s wild so many people don’t understand that immediately…
Like, can anyone explain how they thought this got in a police report if all cops supported this shit?
They suspended him with pay. You are wrong in your assessment. ACAB. All the time. The quote from the pd is just marketing.
Like, can anyone explain how they thought this got in a police report if all cops supported this shit?
Very possible that they just filed it all on reflex because nobody really thought hard about what they were putting in the record. Cops are both evil and stupid. Sometimes they just do stupid shit, thinking they’ll never get caught.
That said, maybe someone actually did the right thing here. And maybe that’s why it is a news article getting passed around the back alleys of social media, rather than a conspiracy theory whispered at DSA meet ups.
Ofc it’s not all cops, the same as not all men are rapists or paedophiles. But it’s enough cops and enough men that it is a massive issue.
Ofc it’s not all cops
What do you think “ACAB” means?
Jfc. C’mon now. Use that brain of yours.
There were no good slave catchers. There are no good cops. I understand you have faith in people, but do not apply it to an institution, an institution that exists to oppress you. Anyone who becomes a police officer, regardless of their moral intentions, serves the interests of the ruling class.
Literally the only way I can find out what you think it means, is by asking you…
It means:
All Cops Are Bastards
I just want to know what you think it means since you immediately followed that with:
Ofc it’s not all cops
Because they do. They don’t want ”smart” people because they will get “bored” with the job.
When in truth they don’t want “smart” people because they will actually do the job police are supposed to do instead of keeping minorities and poors down.
givesomefucks is a pure troll. He always takes outlandish takes on all kinds of threads and gets downvoted severely all over the site. It seems to be how he gets his rocks off. He is clearly not really here to talk about the issues themselves. If we had a cumulative downvote number on lemmy I’m sure it’d show this.
The officer told fellow police who arrived on the scene that he attended the students’ immigration rights protest with the intent of acting as an agent provocateur, according to a news report.
Dusten Mullen, a sergeant with the Phoenix Police Department, has been suspended with pay pending an internal review of his conduct at a protest at Hamilton High School in Chandler, Arizona, on January 30, according to Phoenix Police Chief Matthew Giordano.
So he picked a fight with a teenage girl, she gets arrested and he gets a paid vacation?
He doesn’t get the same charges?!
Buy guns
Mullen, who in 2025 drew a salary of $336,518, is suspended with pay and was required to surrender his badge and gun pending the outcome of the investigation, according to a spokesperson for the department.
Fucking hell. These guys are not worth a third of that salary, even when they’re working and not just on vacation as a reward for being extra shitty.
suspended with pay
= paid trip to disneyland. They really went hard on him didnt they. Meanwhile, the teenage girl he “provacateured” was arrested because of his actions.
Yeah but at least we can all sleep comfortably knowing this guy is not collecting as much OT as he regularly would while they determine he did nothing wrong.
They have to pay them enough to look down on average people.
suspended with pay
So a vacation then?
The reason this came out is at least one cop did the right thing and put it in their report.
We don’t need to just prosecute the cop antagonizing protestors, but every cop who didn’t mention in their own report all the shit this guy was saying.
If they ommitted any of it to protect a cop, they’re not fit to be cops.
If they ommitted any of it to protect a cop, they’re not fit to be cops.
Cops have their own Omertà. Sort of the reverse, in practice. If you rat out your fellow officers, you’re the one who isn’t going to be on the force for much longer.
If you rat out your fellow officers, you’re the one who isn’t going to be on the force for much longer.
And it’s been going on for decades. Remember Frank Serpico?
Fantastic movie.
He just turned 90 a couple of days ago. Amazing man.
He’s one of them “good apples”, he did it off the clock AND he didn’t murder or rape anybody! Not even a choke hold.
EXEMPLARY
Dude got a paid vacation…
ACAB
Why isnt he arrested?
If he wasnt a cop, he’d be arrested.
And in an ideal world, any crime a cop commits would be an automatic felony for betrayal of the power invested in them and of the public trust.
Sorry. The best they can do is time off with full pay.
And these chuds wonder why a large chunk of the population hates their guts. ACAB.
Phoenix Police Department.
I just watched a John Lang video about how this is the most corrupt police department in America. After they murdered a man in 2020 outside his house.
Again, how much does our president make?
Mullen, who in 2025 drew a salary of $336,518, is suspended with pay and was required to surrender his badge and gun pending the outcome of the investigation, according to a spokesperson for the department.
This doesn’t seem like the same incident where the guy fell on his ass trying to beat up a high school girl and then arrested her. They only seem to be going after the girls, I wonder why?
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“with pay”
And an investigation that will do nothing.
