The police chief of wealthy Tiburon announced his retirement as the community reels over a confrontation between police and two Black business owners.
The police chief of the wealthy Bay Area town of Tiburon has announced his retirement as the community reels over a confrontation between police and the Black owners of a local business.
Police Chief Michael Cronin will step down Sunday, Tiburon’s city manager, Greg Chanis, said Tuesday. Cronin has served 12 years at the helm of the department and logged more than 50 years of public service. The announcement came a week after a police sergeant resigned amid public backlash over a video in which he pressed shopkeeper Yema Khalif and his wife, Hawi Awash, who are both Black, to prove they had a right to be in their downtown store after hours, the Marin Independent Journal reported.
Chanis said that Cronin’s departure was not connected to the incident and that the chief selected the retirement date to coincide with the anniversary of his entrance into the military in 1966.“He and I have been discussing the timing of his retirement for some time, but he only recently chose the date that corresponds with his entry into public service 54 years ago,” Chanis wrote in a news release.
Cronin, 72, was hired by the town in 2007 after he retired as San Rafael’s police chief in 2004. He did not respond to requests for comment.
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