“We will be seeking maximum sanctions under the law possible,” Marion County Record’s publisher said after the entire local police department seized reporting materials.
UPDATE - headline changed: Kansas Newspaper Says Its Co-Owner Has Died After Being Traumatized by Police Raid
"A local Kansas newspaper whose offices were raided by an entire police department on Friday says its 98-year-old co-owner has now died after she was left “stressed beyond her limits.”
Joan Meyer “collapsed Saturday afternoon and died at her home,” the Marion County Record reported, noting that she had been “in good health for her age.”
Daily Beast archive link: https://archive.is/c2Byu
Latest information available here: http://marionrecord.com/direct/updated_illegal_raids_contribute_to_death_of_newspaper_co_owner+5447raid+555044415445443a20496c6c6567616c20726169647320636f6e7472696275746520746f206465617468206f66206e657773706170657220636f2d6f776e65723c212d2d2d2d3e
Marion Record archive link: https://archive.is/axP8d
From the Marion Record article:
Stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief after illegal police raids on her home and the Marion County Record newspaper office Friday, 98-year-old newspaper co-owner Joan Meyer, otherwise in good health for her age, collapsed Saturday afternoon and died at her home.
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As her home was raided, other officers descended upon the Record office, forcing staff members to stay outside the office for hours during a heat advisory. They were not allowed them to answer the phone or make any calls.
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Marion vice mayor Ruth Herbel’s home also was raided at the same time.
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A Record reporter later requested a copy of the probable cause affidavit necessary for issuance of the search warrant
District court, where such items are supposed to be filed, issued a signed statement saying no affidavit was on file.
County attorney Joel Ensey, whose brother owns the hotel where Newell operates her restaurant, was asked for it but said he would not release it because it was “not a public document.”
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Ever notice how with the far right, the second amendment is the only one that matters? Any attempt to restrict gun access in any way is immediately challenged as unconstitutional, no compromise. But the first amendment never gets that benefit. We’ll ban books and raid newspapers just fine.
No, they have no problem with gun control when it’s applied to other people either
True. Just like free speech only matters when a far-right news pundit is banned on social media.
Slams…ugh…
‘Slams’ has been commonly used as a short punchy word in newspaper headlines for well over 50 years. It’s not ambiguous. Probably time to get over it.
Destroys!
Eviscerates!
Skewers!
Eyes are on this one now. USA today (that great bastion of journalism) picked it up too. Police chief says criminal charges and the affidavit will justify his actions and he’s gotten the state investigators involved in his nonsense criminal charges. His corrupt ass must be sweating.
Is it time to retire again already?
The important thing to remember here is that Kari Newell had been convicted of DUI and was driving without a license. Attempting to cover up this fact is apparently more important than the First Amendment to Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar.
Be sad for this poor woman, but be angry that you can’t remember a story where police did bad shit during a raid and anything at all came of it. They will have no consequences at all for this.
well that entire county is populated with nothing but cowards and lickspittles
if you’re near Marion, here’s what you do… go around to the convenience stores, and Dunkin Donuts, etc… and just casually but sort of sly-like ask people if they’ve seen the Federal agents going around asking questions about the local cops… then just say, okay, you wondered if anybody had seen them… then leave…
