Some U.S. police resist enforcing coronavirus mask mandates

Little Rock, Ark. • Lang Holland, the chief of police in tiny Marshall, Ark., said he thinks the threat of the coronavirus has been overstated and only wears a face mask if he’s inside a business that requires them. He doesn’t make his officers wear them either.So the day after Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed an order requiring masks to be worn in public throughout Arkansas, Holland made it clear his department wasn’t going to enforce the mandate in the Ozarks town o