ARK POLICE CHIEF RESIGNS (AP) — The police chief of a small North Arkansas community has resigned after posting social media threats calling for violence towards Democrats. Marshall, Arkansas Mayor Kevin Elliott said in a statement over the weekend that Police Chief Lang Holland had resigned effective immediately. Elliott said the city "...strongly condemns Holland’s posts ..." after his online comments drew outrage from local residents and other people nationwide.. Holland posted on Parler, a new social media site popular with conservatives and used as an alternative to Twitter.
Holland was also among a number of police chiefs and sheriffs in Arkansas who said they wouldn’t support Governor Asa Hutchinson’s statewide face mask requirement aimed to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
