announced Monday.Magnus was named Tucson’s police chief in 2016 after having been chief in Richmond, Calif., and Fargo, N.D.
He started his law enforcement career as a dispatcher in his hometown of Lansing, Mich., in 1979, and he rose through the ranks there.While working in Richmond, located in the San Francisco Bay Area, in 2014, he was photographed holding a Black Lives Matter sign at a protest shortly after the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.