“On the afternoon of October 21, seven Phoenix police officers gathered for a briefing in a Cave Creek station when the meeting diverged into a discussion about the defund-the-police movement,” the Arizona Republic reports.

When Officer Steven Poulos expressed his thoughts, the room went quiet: “If the mayor defunds the police, I’m going to shoot her.”

The sergeant broke the silence, saying: “You’re not going to shoot the mayor.”

Poulos doubled down: “That’s a promise.”

not fired
not off the job
still entitled to his pension