The chief of police in Charlottesville, Va., stepped down on Monday, two weeks after the release of a sharply critical report about the department’s failure to contain violence this summer between white supremacists and counterprotesters, which left one demonstrator dead and dozens injured.

The report found that as bloody fighting broke out, the police did not immediately intervene but remained behind barricades, and that they had no training in handling civil unrest. The city’s plan to control the streets was “much like it is on Saturday afternoon for a football game,” despite warnings of a serious threat, concluded the report, which was overseen by a former United States attorney.

Chief Al S. Thomas Jr., who has denied some of the accusations in the report, said on Monday that he was retiring. “Nothing in my career has brought me more pride than serving as the police chief for the City of Charlottesville,” he said in a statement released by the city.

The violence in Charlottesville, over two days in August, sparked intense soul-searching nationally about emboldened white nationalism, which was heightened when President Trump did not unequivocally condemn the torch-carrying marchers who chanted neo-Nazi slogans.