Great interview with owner of #Marion county Record, a small town newspaper that was Raided by police over allegations from a Restaurant owner
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https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the-newspaper
Just before she died, Joan Meyer, a newspaperwoman since 1953, said this about a police raid on her
#marion Kansas home: “These are Hitler tactics and something has to be done.”
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https://www.kansas.com/opinion/editorials/article278199777.html
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Affidavits released on #Marion 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
#Marion
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!
#Marion County Registrar journalists files Federal lawsuit against the Chief and the police department for violating constitutional rights
Police chief who ordered a raid on a #Kansas weekly newspaper suspended by mayor.
#marion #News
http://marionrecord.com/
#marion Police Chief e-mails to County lawyer titled "Crimes?" misstating something was a crime, that wasn't a crime to obtain warrant.
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https://themessenger.com/news/full-email-police-chief-gideon-cody-marion-county-records-crimes
After being suspended by Mayor. The Police Chief of #marion county Resigns less than 2 months ager illegal raid
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kansas-police-chief-approved-raid-journalists-resigns-rcna118512
@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.
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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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 #Marion Police Department to condemn its raid on the Marion County Record: