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.
No…
This is literally an example that some actually give a fuck:
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.
How many good cops does it take to change a light bulb? 💡
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I’ll let you know when a good cop changes anything.
Doing his job reporting a crime that points at profound corruption is the bare minimum and doesn’t disprove ACAB.
If they were all bastards, why did none of them go along with the plan?
Like. 99% are bastards sure, but this is a rare case of some cops doing the right thing.
People not being able to understand that is very very concerning.
ACAB is pithy and simple. It’s the kind of messaging that appeals to base instinct. The kind of messaging the right does well and the left always laments we don’t do. Except the left is the party of thoughtful nuance and not mindless outage. That simplistic messaging doesn’t work because life isn’t simple no matter how comforting it is to imagine so.
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.
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:
I just want to know what you think it means since you immediately followed that with: