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“As law enforcement professionals, we are held to higher standards of conduct — both in and out of uniform,”
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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.
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.
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.
The state wants more like him, so they pay for it. Let it sink in. The state encourages this type of behavior.
Important to note this dude was a fucking sergeant!
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
As law enforcement professionals, we are held to higher standards of conduct
Bullshit. The officer isn't dead.
Alex Pretti is.
The dude got a paid vacation as a reward for this stunt...
We try to hold them to higher standards of conduct, and they gripe and rage and abuse and kill us for it. They strongarm our courts and our laws making sure their murderous boys' club isn't interfered with.
Dude got a paid vacation...
Fuck the Police.
If they were held to higher standards, he'd be summarily getting life in prison or the death sentence for getting a traffic violation, much less for aggravated assault.
The Police aren't held to higher standards, what ... how can anyone even say that with a straight face?
Fuck off with that insanely obvious bullshit.
Don't even suffer this kind of insane gaslighting bullshit for a moment.
I think maybe they meant double standards, not higher standards.
They are held to higher standards, he failed to successfully incite violence. For a cop, that's unacceptable.
Suspended with pay. Motherfucker got a paid vacation for this.
ACAB.
Paid vacation when his salary is well over 300k too
300k? Holy CRAP.
$340,000 and he claims to be working 80 hours every week (12 hours a day 7 day a week) yet still has time to go try and fight children on his 'time off.'
80 hours every week
Its probably 26 hours a week paid at triple time for whatever crooked shenanigans police union BS reason. I bet this hero actually works more like 3 days a week for his 340k/year.
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SOP. If you're at a protest and you see some guy in a fitted cap, underarmor, and steel toed boots, you better fucking believe your event is being surveilled and infiltrated.
Don’t forget the telltale sign: an out of place expensive diving watch.
We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong
That's a union thing. Unions are a good thing, until they decide they need to protect their own over the good of the populace instead of just against capitalism.
Any union that is a involved union busting shouldn't be a union, end police unions
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?!
This is the type of stuff a Union can get you. The Police Unions in the US are the single greatest advertising for unions and collective bargaining on the planet. Everything you can think of to complain about the double standard with police, comes back to union negotiated requirements.
The reasoning behind the whole suspension with pay stuff is essentially to not punish officers who are falsely accused while investigations are under way. Let that sink in for a minute as you think about everyone arrested for a crime and waiting months or years for trials...
Police officers are falsely accused of things all the time. There are also a ton that are correctly accused and end up receiving no punishment. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Police unions are the greatest example of not all unions being created equal.
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As always, ACAB.
Why does it seem that police depts seemingly hire the dumbest fucks?
Because theyre built to attract bullies?
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ACAB
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.
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And these chuds wonder why a large chunk of the population hates their guts. ACAB.
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