Days after he was suspended, the Kansas police chief who led a widely condemned raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in August has resigned.
Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody’s resignation was announced by Mayor Dave Mayfield at a City Council meeting Monday night, The Associated Press reported.
Cody was suspended on Thursday in a surprising reversal from Mayfield, who had previously said he would wait for a state police investigation of the raid to conclude.
The suspension followed the release of body camera video of the raid on the Marion County Record on Aug. 11, which showed an officer searching the desk of a reporter investigating the chief’s past, according to The AP.