\u201cWhat happened, as we presented in the Loudermill presentation, is that he actually was assaulted, then asked to have those individuals who assaulted him dealt with,\u201d Serbalik said in court. \u201cHe was told to go back into the crowd, and at that point, based out of frustration, he says, ‘Well, this is my plan.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Serbalik said the video did not show Mullen encouraging anyone to attack him. Brnovich appeared to agree with that part of Mullen\u2019s argument.<\/p>\n
In her order, she wrote that the video presented to her in court did not show Mullen instigating or provoking students to assault him.<\/p>\n
She wrote that Mullen appeared to make the statement out of frustration after Chandler officers made minimal effort to intervene when students surrounded, followed, yelled at him and threw water on him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is buttressed by the fact that Sgt. Mullen never encouraged any students to assault him,\u201d Brnovich wrote.<\/p>\n
Phoenix argued firing was justified<\/p>\n
The city argued in court that Mullen\u2019s firing was justified because his conduct damaged public trust and created concerns for law enforcement operations.<\/p>\n
Stephen Coleman, an attorney for Phoenix, told the judge the case was not a routine request to preserve the status quo because Mullen was asking the court to order him reinstated and placed on taxpayer-funded paid leave while the case continues.<\/p>\n
Coleman said Mullen\u2019s conduct had led to \u201ca cascade of negative publicity\u201d and raised questions for people who want to protest peacefully.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re probably wondering, if the police show up, are they here to protect me or are they gonna trap me?\u201d Coleman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat happened, as we presented in the Loudermill presentation, is that he actually was assaulted, then asked to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":819328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,50653,8142,3228,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-819327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-injunction","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-phoenix","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116630583269176471","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819327","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=819327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}