The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas has resigned, days after he was suspended from his post.

The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas resigned Monday, just days after he was suspended from his post and following the release of body camera video of the raid showing an officer searching the desk of a reporter investigating the chief’s past.

Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody’s resignation was confirmed to The Associated Press both by Mayor Dave Mayfield and City Council member Ruth Herbel, following an announcement by Mayfield at Monday’s council meeting. Mayfield had suspended Cody on Thursday for reasons that have not been made public. In a text message Monday night to the AP, he said he couldn’t answer questions about the chief’s resignation “as it is a personnel matter.”

Cody stepped down weeks after a local prosecutor said that there wasn’t sufficient evidence to justify the search of the Marion County Record or searches at the same time of the publisher’s home and Herbel’s home.

  • Zetta@mander.xyz
    26·
    1 year ago

    Scumbag can just resign and get a job elsewhere.

    Broken ass system, this human should never be allowed in any type of law enforcement or authority position again. He should also be charged with a crime, but we all know that’s not going to happen.

      • GONADS125@lemmy.world
        182·
        1 year ago

        I had a client tell me to go back to wherever I came from (I’m a pasty ass white guy) and she left this letter on my car accusing me of being a middle-eastern “Islamic Jew” and telling me to do something with “your gold”, and to “bury your head in the sand.”

        It was one of the more amusing accusations I’d received over the years. I tried to address the letter with her and she just kept telling me “Move back to whatever country you came from.” I said I was born in the US, and told her that I’m mostly of Irish decent, and she looked me dead in the eyes and said so matter of fact: “Then go back to Ireland” and stormed off.

        I wasn’t upset and when she went back in the facility I couldn’t help but let out a pretty good laugh. Another client was on the porch laughing and he was just saying “Man you’re so white!” (he was black and seemed so amused by the accusations). My hair is black, but my skin is Conan white… My supervisor was an African American (in that she immigrated here from South Africa) and she would tease me relentlessly about being ‘middle-eastern’ for years.

        But that wild note under my windshield was a lot better than the rocks that Client covered a facility worker’s car with! My supervisor made me drop that client from my caseload fearing more false accusations.

        Man, sorry for this rant out of no where… That user and your response just made me think of it. That deportation part of his comment was just so absurd it just brought me back to that other situation.

            • GONADS125@lemmy.world
              181·
              1 year ago

              So justification thru whataboutism?

              Fuck the police, but also fuck eroding our constitutional rights…

                • GONADS125@lemmy.world
                  12·
                  1 year ago

                  Listen man, I’m no supporter of the police… I have worked for years with the population that is fucked over by the criminal justice system and stuck in the revolving door. I have known good police fucked over and forced out by corruption and dirty piece of shit cops. The criminal justice system is systemically racist and in need of so much reform.

                  And I’m angry and pissed off about it too. But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t have calculated responses instead of calling for things that ultimately undermine our rights and would possibly allow for worse treatment of US citizens by the justice system.

                  And because there are so many emotions tied into this problem (and justifiably so when there are unaccountable murders and rapists with badges and impunity), people on the same side of the issue become at odds when discussing approaches to address the issue.

                  This is not directed at you [Edit: actually it 100% is!] (certainly other users), but there is a significant amount of people who make actual societal change harder because of the fact that they are emotionally reasoning with great rigidity. They will be at the throats of other people on the same side, any time the smallest disagreement arises.

                  Look at the childish responses I received by the top commenter [yourself], despite the fact that I agree with their sentiment. But because I disagreed with one aspect, they became emotional and created a wedge between people on the same side of the issue.

                  I’m pissed off and want retribution, not just an end. I want to feel that visceral satisfaction imagining an eye-for-an-eye justice inflicted on these sick pieces of shit. But I am not so emotional and deluded that I can’t remain in the real world and focus on realistic goals and movements.

    • zaph@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      You can’t make someone stateless and for very good reason. Congrats, you suggested the one thing worse than execution.

    • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
      22·
      1 year ago

      I’m a police abolitionist and going through your exchange here is almost enough to get me to reconsider my position. You really ought to do some reading into the case for abolition. Your undirected rage is doing more harm than good. Sit down, think and learn about the concepts you’re trying to communicate because you sound like a literal child right now. Maybe you’re just a troll and I’m falling for the bait but jeeeeeeesus christ you’re insufferable