Overview
- House Resolution 2004 passed on a party-line vote, condemning Mayes’ comments about potential use of force in encounters with masked federal officers.
- The measure urges her to retract the remarks, issue a corrective on state law, publicly support law enforcement, and resign.
- Mayes made the original comments in a KTAR interview discussing Arizona’s expansive self-defense statutes and scenarios involving ICE agents, citing the Minneapolis death of Renee Good.
- Republican lawmakers and police groups said her remarks could be read as encouraging violence against officers, while Mayes rejected that characterization as a distortion.
- Before the House vote, the GOP-led Senate approved a party-line resolution calling on Mayes to resign, and Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs labeled Mayes’ comments inappropriate.