Police Folk Allegedly Behaving Badly

[HavokFour]

How very fortunate for them that it took so long.

PHOENIX — The Phoenix Police Department will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020.

In a press release, the department wrote that six officers were internally investigated with Chief Matt Giordano ultimately determining that three violated policy.

However, sources tell ABC15 all three officers who violated policy are now retired and can’t be disciplined.

One of the key officials involved in the gang charges was Sgt. Doug McBride, who was the officer who misled a grand jury to secure the indictment, records show.

The court called his testimony “egregious.”

McBride retired in December 2025 before the internal investigation was completed, and he now collects a $98,000 annual pension.

No Phoenix officers will be disciplined after protesters falsely charged as gang members

Phoenix police will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020.

www.abc15.com

 

[RangerRay]

How very fortunate for them that it took so long.

No Phoenix officers will be disciplined after protesters falsely charged as gang members

Phoenix police will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020.

www.abc15.com

Holy shit.

The scandal largely began following the arrest of a group of 17 protesters on October 21, 2020. In the days after the arrest, Phoenix officers and county prosecutors colluded to invent a gang and then falsely charge the protesters as members.

The city and county stood by the charges until February 2021, when ABC15 launched its “Politically Charged” investigation.

The news series exposed how Phoenix police and county prosecutors lied to a grand jury to obtain the gang charges and testified that the protesters were comparable to the Bloods, Crips, and Hells Angels, according to a confidential transcript obtained by ABC15.


As a direct result of ABC15's investigation, more than 40 felony protest cases were dismissed, the city and county admitted to widespread failures with the arrests, and the lead prosecutor was suspended from practicing law for at least two years and may never practice again.