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Great interview with owner of county Record, a small town newspaper that was Raided by police over allegations from a Restaurant owner

thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a

Just before she died, Joan Meyer, a newspaperwoman since 1953, said this about a police raid on her
Kansas home: “These are Hitler tactics and something has to be done.”

kansas.com/opinion/editorials/


The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and more than 30 news organizations, including The New York Times, Dow Jones and The Washington Post, have written to the chief of the Police Department to condemn its raid on the Marion County Record:

From KSHb41 news

KBI along with the county attorney issued a statement saying “insufficient evidence exists” to establish the alleged crime with County Records newspaper

will return all seized evidence promptly

aka "Oops, please don't sue our major F-up"


Affidavits released on COunty Register search.

1. Reporter gets publicly available Drivers record

2. Reporter goes to State website to verify

3. Reporter sends tip to Police about information

4. Police chief claims Reporter broke the law, gets search warrant

"What Zorn (reporter) did is perfectly legal under both Kansas and U.S. law."

Police chief REALLY screwed up

kshb.com/news/local-news/inves


on the day of the illegal searches that 'there is not a probable cause affidavit filed.'

While the affidavits purport to be signed before Magistrate Viar on the day of the illegal searches, no explanation has been provided why they were not filed prior to the execution of the illegal searches."

so the Police chief asked for a search warrant without filing an affidavit? and the Judge signed off on it?

THIS IS NOT LEGAL!

Police Chief e-mails to County lawyer titled "Crimes?" misstating something was a crime, that wasn't a crime to obtain warrant.

themessenger.com/news/full-ema

@Kinnison

Getting some real retro vibes from this small town, and not in a good way.

@Kinnison As bad as the story was, it managed to get worse. This is going to be very costly for the county, the restaurant owner, and the corrupt sheriff and judge.

@mach1group oh this phrase comes to mind:

"You done Fucked up real good"

heard the judge that signed the warrant is up for re-election next year

@Kinnison With a true statement like that, it's no surprise that she didn't survive the encounter.

The police won't police themselves, but they silenced someone who would continue to cause them trouble.

@Kinnison That and a buck fifty will get you a cup of coffee. The government will need to step in before those people care. Threat of arrest and/major monetary type fines are the only thing they pay attention to, and even those don’t stop them because so far no one has forced them to comply.

@cjcrew

oh, believe me, the DOJ and the KS DA are already investigating. Clear violation of journalistic rights, and even a possible wrongful death

might take a year, but I can see the Police, Judge and the Restaurant owner facing jail time and fines by the end of this

@Kinnison I hope you’re right. One of them needs to be held accountable for their criminal behavior. I want to see some punishment!

@Kinnison
Sue them.
Sue them all.
Sue them to the point they can't afford to take sip of water without getting permission.

@Kinnison time to sue for the entire police and municipal budget. If those jack-booted morons can’t uphold the First Amendment, what can they be trusted to do? Shut them down and deny unemployment.

@Kinnison they accomplished what they snd the dui bitch was after! Only in a Nazi red state would something like this go down! Did floriDUHs DeSatan school them?

@Kinnison Some people are not at all familiar with the phrase "due process".

@Kinnison And it looks like the police chief and judge both had some dirty laundry that looks to have been suppressed by nefarious means.

@Kinnison Only suspended? I hope everyone involved rots in hell

@Kinnison
This raid has some insane back story, and it gets weirder with every revelation. That's a whack town.

@Kinnison As far as I am concerned, the only question that needs to be answered is when the police chief and the magistrate judge resign.

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