{"id":773327,"date":"2026-05-04T20:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/773327\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:30:13","slug":"phoenix-police-chief-barred-from-disciplining-sergeant-over-behavior-at-ice-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/773327\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix police chief barred from disciplining sergeant over behavior at ICE protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix police chief is barred from disciplining a sergeant over his behavior at a student protest while a federal judge weighs whether to order additional investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix police Sgt. Dusten Mullen has been on paid leave for weeks while internal affairs investigates his off-duty actions at a student protest against ICE in Chandler.<\/p>\n<p>Mullen was scheduled to face discipline Monday morning. Instead there was a show-cause hearing in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for Mullen wants the city blocked from firing the sergeant until it does more investigating of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Mullen alleges his rights to free speech and due process were trampled.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for the city says he\u2019s accused of making false statements to Chandler police, unprofessional conduct and provocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix police chief is barred from disciplining a sergeant over his behavior at a student protest while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":773328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-773327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116518206177738987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}