Police raid Kansas newspaper

[matt_garth]

Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones

https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08...per-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones

https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08...per-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/

This is where the “enemy of the people” **** leads. And worse.

Hopefully that police department gets shredded in court.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Probably not the last time something like this happens, given the road we are headed down.

 

[I Should Coco]

Probably not the last time something like this happens, given the road we are headed down.

Also not the first time intimidation like this has happened to reporters, who have been subpoenaed and jailed for not revealing sources.

But the brazen tactics here are apalling.

 

[WriteThinking]

So, the police, who arrested Newell for a DUI, seemingly have no problem with her driving without a license, and called her to let her know that the Marion County paper had a story on her, and the paper got raided, over that story, which the publisher decided not to run? And the paper got kicked out of a public meeting without reason?

Because that's what this looks like.

And no, this raid and seizure of equipment, records and resources of the newspaper cannot be allowed to stand. I would be taking this to the Supreme Court, federal/constitutional lawyers, the FBI and anyone else this might need to go through to be reversed and everything returned. The paper did nothing wrong. In fact, it seems Meyer backed off in the name of caution, concern and principles regarding the confidential source and where the information for their possible story came from, and Newell should've been thanking her lucky stars, not making more problems.

This search and seizure doesn't have a leg to stand on, and the district court judge who signed the search warrant, Laura Viar, needs to be censured and/or ousted, too.

 

[Dude]

Per the paper's story, one of the owners whose home was raided is a 98-year-old woman.

Police raid newspaper office, homes, seizing computers and phones<!----> | Marion County Record | Aug. 11, 2023 ()

These are some fake tough guys hiding behind badges.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Not the first time Kansas cops ignored the Constitution. They're dirtier than a Baltimore precinct house.

The Kansas Highway Patrol's 'Two-Step' tactic tramples motorists' rights, a judge rules

 

[DanOregon]

I don't understand what the real story is here - more than a few cops should probably lose their badges. I've always felt that retraining, paid for out of the retirement funds for police officers might be the best way to keep cops in line. The unions sure don't do it.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

You don’t understand? Occam’s razor: the drunk ***** in question knows a high-ranking police official and/or the magistrate who signed the warrant.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

The piece was never published in the end, then comes out and admits it was true. Even if it’s the most libelous story ever, shouldn’t the papers info be subpoenaed, not confiscated? At least if I remember correctly going back to my college days.

 

[SixToe]

This was a caterer, right? A caterer? Not a politician or elected official or child/spouse/relative of the mayor or Popo chief.

A caterer. A good friend

****ing astonishing. I can’t wait for the higher courts to have a jolly good time with this one.

 

[Della9250]

Also this


https://x.com/marisakabas2/status/1690402031238791168?s=46&t=_W7hUghOMTN-B1Yxf95VTg

 

[Baron Scicluna]

What’s really adorable about these hicks in the police department is they actually thought that nobody was going to know what they did to the paper.

It’s 2023, not 1953. There’s this little thing that Al Gore invented called the Internet. Whatever Barney Fife and Judge Judy do can get reported without a printing press.

I hope each individual journalist at the paper finds out how much the town’s budget is, and sue for at least double the amount. Maybe if the residents’ taxes go up in multiple amounts, they’ll get mad enough to run the corrupt cops out of town.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

It gets worse ...

 

[WriteThinking]

Seems like those cops and that district court judge maybe could be on the hook for manslaughter charges.

 

[garrow]

It gets worse ...

Just absolutely awful

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Maybe if the residents’ taxes go up in multiple amounts, they’ll get mad enough to run the corrupt cops out of town.

Or there will be a big-time backlash against that "uppity newspaper for sticking their nose where it don't belong, by God!"

I know which scenario I'd expect to play out.

 

[Dude]

Try that in a small town, indeed.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Seems like those cops and that district court judge maybe could be on the hook for manslaughter charges.

It’s Kansas. The cops will be grand marshals of the next parade. And the courts will do nothing.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Per the paper's story, one of the owners whose home was raided is a 98-year-old woman.

Police raid newspaper office, homes, seizing computers and phones<!----> | Marion County Record | Aug. 11, 2023 ()

These are some fake tough guys hiding behind badges.

She died: UPDATED: Illegal raids contribute to death of newspaper co-owner<!----> | Marion County Record | Aug. 12, 2023 ()