The City of Phoenix is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by former police Sergeant Dusten Mullen.

Mullen claims political retaliation after being fired for attending an anti-ICE student protest in Chandler while armed and masked.

The City defends the termination, arguing Mullen admitted to a plan to provoke the teens into assaulting him and lied to Chandler officers. FOX 10's Justin Lum reports.

I remember if you said cops do this they would say you are just paranoid. Now it is on the local news. The dollar has been 1/2ed and it get worse everyday. for the lols

Boy, that headline isn't giving the opposite impression. Nope. Not at all.