Georgia mayor who fired town’s entire police force resigns, citing family ‘health concerns’

Ron Shinnick did not mention the firing of the Cohutta police force, which was later rehired, in resignation letter The mayor of a small town in the US state of Georgia has resigned shortly after firing his community’s entire police department, a step that the local governing council ultimately reversed – but that he nonetheless took amid a political spat pitting him and his wife against members of the force. In a 15 May resignation letter that the Guardian reviewed, Ron Shinnick avoided ment...

By Ramon Antonio Vargas