Soon after Brown's retirement announcement, the mayor said publicly that it was her decision—and hers alone—that he step down. But observers say the writing was on the wall for Brown's departure since at least 2020, when the union representing Salt Lake City police officers overwhelmingly took a vote of "no confidence" in the chief.

I want to urge everyone in the public to be calm, to give one another grace and to look out for one another tonight in the coming days.” Three people also believed to be part of the incident were taken into custody,

A shooting during Saturday night's "No Kings" protest in Salt Lake City left one person critically injured and another hospitalized, prompting Mayor Erin Mendenhall to denounce the violence and urge calm,