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As law enforcement professionals, we are held to higher standards of conduct
Bullshit. The officer isn't dead.
Alex Pretti is.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2026
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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.
The dude got a paid vacation as a reward for this stunt...
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.'
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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.
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
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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.
I’d challenge the idea that he’d be arrested. White privledge isn’t what it used to be if you’re female, a queer male, or identifiably not a MAGAt, but violent, straight, CIS white men harassing anyone in the outgroups in the name of dear leader often gets “a talking to” at best. I watched our local cops stand shoulder to shoulder with and backs turned to a crowd of armed boogaloos and patched outlaw MC bikers to stare down our much smaller BLM group. When one of their white boys decided to pop a shot into the ground to cause a panic, he was given a pass because “accidental discharge, his safety was off and he was only 16”. Meanwhile the 16yo punk girl who drew a small (A) symbol on the statehouse was a terrorist.
Cops or not, they go out looking to insight this kind of interaction. They drape themselves in body cams or bait it in front of uniformed police so that they can make themselves out to be the victim. So knowing that, either don’t take the bait, or if you do, make them find out what it’s actually like to be a “victim”.
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“As law enforcement professionals, we are held to higher standards of conduct — both in and out of uniform,”
Everyone laughed
The higher standard of conduct here being not OPENLY ADMITTING to being agents provocateurs when infiltrating protests to be agent provocateurs.
Which I 100% guarantee is why they are pissed off with him. Cause he undermined their efforts to falsely arrest people now, and in the future, because protestors in that area are now gonna be on much higher alert for infiltrators intent on sowing discord and undermining the cause.
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.
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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.
Not only did they suspend him with pay, but he succeeded in doing what he set out to do, which was get a rise out of someone to give his fellow bastards an excuse to arrest them. The article states that his encounter led to an altercation resulting in a teenage girl being arrested.
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.
You're right, a cop writing a report that includes some evidence of bad faith behaviors from other cops proves it! Remember what they say, One bad apple is bad but the rest are probably totally fine!
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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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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.
The state wants more like him, so they pay for it. Let it sink in. The state encourages this type of behavior.
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.
Cops in my town arrested parents that were handing out water to the students that walked out.
And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free.....
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.
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
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.
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Dude got a paid vacation...
ACAB
Important to note this dude was a fucking sergeant!
And these chuds wonder why a large chunk of the population hates their guts. ACAB.
“with pay”
And an investigation that will do nothing.
...has been suspended with pay pending an internal review of his conduct...
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