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The raids put Marion, a town of 1,900 residents some 150 miles southwest of Kansas City, at the center of a fierce national debate over press freedoms

The raids put Marion, a town of 1,900 residents some 150 miles southwest of Kansas City, at the center of a fierce national debate over press freedoms

The raids put Marion, a town of 1,900 residents some 150 miles southwest of Kansas City, at the center of a fierce national debate over press freedoms

The raids put Marion, a town of 1,900 residents some 150 miles southwest of Kansas City, at the center of a fierce national debate over press freedoms

Chief Gideon Cody has stepped down after being suspended last Friday

The raids put Marion, a town of 1,900 residents some 150 miles southwest of Kansas City, at the center of a fierce national debate over press freedoms

(CNN) — The Marion, Kansas, police chief who ordered a widely-condemned law enforcement raid on a local newspaper and its publisher’s home this summer has resigned, the city’s mayor said.

The police chief who led a highly criticized raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended.

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. Marion City Council Member Ruth Herbel confirmed to The Associated Press that mayor announced Chief Gideon Cody’s resignation at Monday’s City Council meeting. Recently obtained body camera video from the police raid shows that an officer rifled through a desk drawer of a reporter who was investigating its chief during the August police raid. ...

Gideon Cody orchestrated the widely criticized raids on The Marion County Record and the home of its publisher.