Police Chief Mark Saunders will resign his position on short notice, leaving effective July 31. Saunders, the City’s first black chief, has overseen five years of increasingly tumultuous times marked by gun crime, death and unexpectedly, increased criticism from black dissidents. Saunders oversaw responses to the North York van attack and the Danforth mass shooting. Speaking at a news conference Monday, Saunders said he made the decision in order to put family first. The decision comes at a time of demonstrations and unprecedented demands by some for police to be defunded and disarmed. News conference (begins at 20.21 on unedited TPS video)