Compton’s public safety chair announced Wednesday he would resign from his role but run for mayor a day after the city’s current mayor asked for his resignation amid the circulation of a video showing him poking a local activist in the eye during a confrontation.

Public Safety Chair Bishop L.J. Guillory held a press conference in response to Mayor Emma Sharif’s call for his resignation. In his speech, he shared publicly his intentions to run for office.

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“Mayor Emma Sharif, I will accept your request for my resignation,” Guillory said. “On Monday of next week at our Public Safety Commission, I will ask for a reorganization and for another person to be nominated by our commission to serve as the chairman of the Pub

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