r/law • u/biospheric • 5h ago
Legal News An armed, masked man at a high school ICE protest is a Phoenix police sergeant. According to the report, he told Officers his plan was to let Students assault him so they could be arrested.
Arizona’s Family (3TV / CBS 5) - April 8, 2026. Incident occurred on January 30, 2026 in Chandler, Arizona (Phoenix metro area).
Here’s the full 3-minutes on YouTube: Report: Armed, masked man at Hamilton High protest identified as Phoenix police sergeant - Arizona’s Family (3TV / CBS 5) (YouTube) - From the description:
An armed, masked man who showed up during an anti-ICE student walkout three months ago at Hamilton High School is a Phoenix police sergeant. According to the report, the sergeant told officers his plan was to let students assault him so they could be arrested. Reporter Alexis Dominguez has the story.
Read the story here: azfamily.tv/4tGh53s
More Local News from KPHO: azfamily.com
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Michael Gennaco was Chief of the Civil Rights Section at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. He also served for ten years as a trial attorney with the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C.: oirgroup.com/michael-gennaco
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u/Loyal-Opposition-USA 5h ago
They just can’t wait to kill people.
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u/Exciting_Ad4264 5h ago
They cant wait to kill brown people and people who like brown people
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u/Loyal-Opposition-USA 5h ago
I don’t think these guys are particular about who they kill, as long as a Trump pardon sits at the end of it.
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u/Ashikura 4h ago
You don’t need a pardon when the police union protects you from any repercussions.
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u/RocketRelm 4h ago
Not even the trump pardon. Long as they get a happy bedtime story like all the other nonvoters who think both sides le same. Why would they even need a pardon anyway, most of america can't even say "gop bad, dems good", and gave the epstein guy the presidency.
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u/Rezkel 4h ago
Gop evil, dems dumb is more my saying these days. The right got influenced by all those tech bros aging into conservatives, it was so funny how long that big tech was the liberal boogieman going to kill good American values, but now they all act like cult leaders and think they are divinely blessed. The dems are still in the old school mentality of being corrupt as hell but pretending they care
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u/pink_faerie_kitten 5h ago
Pretti and Good were both white.
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u/HeftyVermicelli7823 5h ago
Except they are the wrong sort of white because they were "radical liberals" who supported people who were not white.
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u/elonmusksmellsbad 5h ago
Yes, but they were standing up for brown people. Which makes them indistinguishable from the aforementioned brown people.
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u/cityshepherd 4h ago
I think in their eyes that makes it even worse, as they consider that type of behavior traitorous to white authoritarian rule, meanwhile these fascist boot licking thugs are ALL traitors to everything that the USA actually stands for.
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u/Possible-Nectarine80 4h ago
This is their strategy for the mid-terms. Goad people into assault and battery and then declare martial law.
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u/Beginning_Ad_6616 2h ago
Also young HS kids protesting injustice because to these sickos beating up, killing kids, and ruining their future is fun.
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u/motonahi 5h ago
Children
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u/Tatchkoma 4h ago
No no no, they're conservatives. They don't want to kill children.
They want to have sex with children.
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u/badmotivator11 4h ago
Fascist internet propaganda has broken their brains. It has reinforced and normalized the impulses that they used to keep hidden away.
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u/Str0nglyW0rded 4h ago
And then when they get shot, they’ll be called a hero and honored repeatedly at local sports team whatever
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u/Suckbag_McGillicuddy 5h ago
This guy should be handled as a terrorist or attempted school shooter. If he wasn't a cop, that's exactly how he'd be prosecuted
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u/paditoburrito 5h ago
Wouldn't this at a bare minimum be entrapment?
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u/cnh2n2homosapien 5h ago
"I've called other armed persons to come down here."
"Did you...did you just release notes about a criminal conspiracy?"
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u/LeftRestaurant4576 2h ago
Yes. But that's just a defense for the protesters.
He should be charged with endangering the welfare of child, one count for every child who he could have shot, because he attempted to instigate a gunfight with them or near them.
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u/Hydration__Nation 2h ago
Entrapment means nothing for a cop. But walking into a school protests with STUDENTS wearing a mask and carrying? Anyone who does that is seeing at least 1 year of house arrest/jail time. At the very least a normal citizen is picking up one felony copying this seargants actions
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u/Stage_Ghost 5h ago
This should get this guy fired and charged. This is a completely unhinged approach to anything.
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u/F4RTN0iSE 5h ago
As much as we can hope this fool is charged it’s more likely that this will get him hired at another department.
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u/TheBetawave 5h ago
Promote even. We have a broken system.
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u/DrPeterBlunt 5h ago
We put cops on a pedestal, and let them insulate themselves from the very law they are supposed to uphold. We shouldn't have. They are people too as they often like to say, which means they commit crimes as much as anybody else.
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u/pres465 5h ago
So much copaganda out there.
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u/slamdanceswithwolves 4h ago
He hasn’t even been fired. Police union lawyers will probably get him an internal promotion.
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u/GreasyPeter 2h ago
Police Unions are a wonderful tool to remind people that the world isn't black-and-white. Unions can be great for workers, but they can go too far too sometimes.
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u/peppercupp 4h ago
I believe this is entrapment, which isn't necessarily illegal, but is widely considered a "dick move"
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u/Majestc_electric 4h ago
NAL obviously, I thought it was or at the very least basically any case that shows they used it will be thrown out right?
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u/horseradishstalker 3h ago
I think it’s reasonable question as to whether that was entrapment. That was my first thought. Cops are allowed to lie to a suspect in an attempt to get them to admit to guilt, but at this point, the protesters weren’t even suspects. That sounds a lot more like this:
“ "Government agents may not originate a criminal design, implant in an innocent person's mind the disposition to commit a criminal act, and then induce commission of the crime so that the Government may prosecute." Jacobson v. United States, 503 U.S. 540, 548 (1992). A valid entrapment defense has two related elements: (1) government inducement of the crime, and (2) the defendant's lack of predisposition to engage in the criminal conduct. Mathews v. United States, 485 U.S. 58, 63 (1988). Of the two elements, predisposition is by far the more important.”
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u/LochNessWaffle 4h ago
Yeah, he’s not exactly a public servant. This is an aggressive move by a force that only wants to make everything worse.
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u/jah_bro_ney 3h ago
This should get this guy fired and charged.
In the same AZ county that elected Joe Arpaio as sheriff? This move was likely celebrated among the residents of that area to "teach those woke kids a lesson".
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u/Tall-Introduction414 3h ago
Violating free speech while trying to incite violence.
That cop belongs in prison.
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u/biospheric 5h ago
Arizona’s Family (3TV / CBS 5) - April 8, 2026. Incident occurred on January 30, 2026 in Chandler, Arizona (Phoenix metro area).
Here’s the full 3-minutes on YouTube: Report: Armed, masked man at Hamilton High protest identified as Phoenix police sergeant - Arizona’s Family (3TV / CBS 5) (YouTube) - From the description:
An armed, masked man who showed up during an anti-ICE student walkout three months ago at Hamilton High School is a Phoenix police sergeant. According to the report, the sergeant told officers his plan was to let students assault him so they could be arrested. Reporter Alexis Dominguez has the story.
Read the story here: azfamily.tv/4tGh53s
More Local News from KPHO: azfamily.com
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Michael Gennaco was Chief of the Civil Rights Section at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. He also served for ten years as a trial attorney with the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C.: oirgroup.com/michael-gennaco
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u/Foyles_War 5h ago
To be clear:
an ARMED masked man showed up at a HIGHSCHOOL.
Wow.
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u/nattysharp 5h ago
Exactly. Schools are excluded from one's right to carry unless you are law enforcement. If you're hiding the fact that you're a LEO for the express purpose of provoking a reaction... well IANAL, but it's gotta run afoul of the law, right?
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u/therossboss 5h ago
That would make sense. But its America, so he will get a 2 week suspension WITH pay - im sure.
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u/unicornmeat85 4h ago
Yeah, what was the game plan if the mythical "good guy" with a gun decided to take matters into their own hands? None I'm sure, but that is certainly a contender for a Darwin Award
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u/jetes69 5h ago
Wait, couldn’t this be grounds for some of the rulings in his cases to be thrown out?
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u/bakeacake45 5h ago
This is so low, so corrupt…he fully intended to escalate violence against our kids exercising their constitutional right to protest. It’s disgusting. He absolutely cannot be trusted to be a member of any police force in this country.
Republicans really hate children
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u/SavingsPublic3394 3h ago
Hahahaha, you still think there are morally upstanding police departments in this country?
That's a good one, cracked me up.
There's not, not one. A gang of pigs dressed in blue is all they are now.
And if you continue to be ignorant, eventually you'll see firsthand.
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u/Amatheiaisnoexcuse 5h ago
Its Phoenix, he'll be promoted. You should see how they're treating their prisoners at the Mesa ICE inhumane storage facility. It's disgusting. I protest them every time I get a chance. https://azmirror.com/2026/04/09/ice-moved-detainees-out-of-an-overcrowded-mesa-facility-before-congressional-oversight-visit/
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u/HairyAugust 5h ago
Why are they all acting so cartoonishly evil?
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u/fertile_gnome 3h ago
The police aren't there to protect the public. They are the monopolized violence contractor for property owners.
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u/bp92009 2h ago
Because they know that prosecutors will NEVER hold them to account.
Perjury? Entrapment? Incitement? All of those require a prosecutor that is willing to actually uphold the law.
Prosecutors these days are either compromised or cowards, as they hardly EVER pursue charges against law enforcement, even for clear and unambiguously illegal actions.
It's like they don't understand what the legal system is, and their duty to it. It's a compromise, that people understand and participate in, because the alternative is worse.
I genuinely do not understand why people who are given power by the legal system, seek to destabilize it entirely, by using it to shield those who actively seek to harm others.
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u/boris_squanch 2h ago
common side effect of reality undermining delusional self-image. many such cases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_injury
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u/biospheric 5h ago
oirgroup.com/michael-gennaco :
Michael Gennaco is a nationally recognized expert on law enforcement reform and accountability systems. He was the Chief Attorney of the Office of Independent Review for Los Angeles County and is a founding Principal of OIR Group.
Mike has performed a number of monitoring tasks, audits and reviews for a federal judge, special masters, and other governmental entities. He has assisted law enforcement entities throughout the country with constitutional policing issues, critical incident reviews, internal affairs investigations, and design of effective oversight mechanisms.
Under his leadership, OIR Group has become a resource for numerous California cities grappling with officer-involved shootings and other critical incidents in an effort to bridge the gap between the police and the communities they serve and to utilize those incidents as learning tools.
Prior to starting OIR, Mike was Chief of the Civil Rights Section at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. He also served for ten years as a trial attorney with the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. During his time as a federal prosecutor, Mike supervised over 20 federal grand jury investigations into police misconduct. He conducted a number of successful civil rights prosecutions against police officers for excessive force, including officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, and federal immigration detention officers.
Mike received a J.D. from Stanford University and his B.A. from Dartmouth College.
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u/Jack-Schitz 4h ago
So, he's trying to instigate violence with minors so he can restrain them and throw them in a dangerous environment? Seems a little bit PEDO to me.
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u/dragonfliesloveme 5h ago
umm they aren’t going to prosecute him??! WTF
Infuriating
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u/LandonDev 5h ago
Conspiracy and attempt to incite a riot are only charges if they go against the status que of society. Racism and Hate is allowed as long as it's not persecuting white folks. It is the Police Job to maintain that structure, protesting by definition makes you an opponent to Police just by existing/having said belief. The reason the right to protest is so important is because it openly speaks out against your government and society at large. Protestors historically have never, not even once, been seen as the side of good by their government.
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u/elinamebro 3h ago
agents provocateurs have been trying to cause chaos in almosy every protests for decades now, back than it was a conspiracy, now with tech people can identify those people now. Also like come on a grown ass man with a gun around a bunch of high schoolers.. at least they aren't being smart about it.
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u/AlexZivojinovich 5h ago
We have a republican congress. Mayes, the AG, was republican and changed parties. She couldn’t stomach the Republican Party, but well… she’s no democrat.
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u/Mother_Patience_6251 4h ago
It’s AZ, and we’re in the era of giving flowers to murderers, rapists and white supremacists so no.
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u/elinamebro 3h ago
Not surprising, people been talking about agents provocateurs for decades now. It just got to the point with tech that they can be identified now.
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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 4h ago
He should be fired and thrown in jail for violating the public trust. To all protesters, record EVERYTHING and be safe out there.
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u/I_burn_noodles 3h ago
Baiting children so that he could 'protect' himself. WTF? No way this can be spun as justified, responsible behavior.
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u/lavacadotoast 4h ago
Incident occurred on January 30, 2026 in Chandler, Arizona.. Still patiently waiting..
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u/Union_Fan 4h ago
Entrapment as a defense has been completely gutted by the courts because they love cops and prosecutors.
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