Video released by the newspaper Monday shows Joan Meyer shouting at the six officers inside the Marion, Kansas, home she shared with her son, Marion County Record Editor and Publisher Eric Meyer. Standing with the aid of a walker and dressed in a long robe or gown and slippers, she seems visibly upset.
“Get out of my house … I don’t want you in my house!” she said at one point. “Don’t touch any of that stuff! This is my house!” she said at another.
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It doesn’t take much to find out how little protection one has from the state once they have their eye on you. Poor woman died the next day. What a terrible way to leave the world: traumatized.
What a terrible way to leave the world:
traumatizedkilled.FTFY.
She literally dies from the stress of this. Another cop murder.
What happened with this newspaper raid anyway? Why was it conducted? I’m ootl
The newspaper received a FB dm with a local restaurant owner’s driver’s licence and DUI convictions. The paper verfied the info (as one can do, online, legally AND through the local PD) but decided not to use it.
Another of their reporters was looking into the new chief of police as to why he left his former job (which paid a lot more). Seems there was some evidence of sexual harassment. The paper hadn’t run that either.
So restaurant owner hears about this and freaks out because she’s been driving around town with a suspended license AND is trying to get a liquor license for her restaurant. She calls the PD, PD gets search warrants from a judge, and here we are.
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The judge who signed off on the search warrant also has 2 DUIs
That’s a nice and succinct summary.
I’ve been following this story pretty closely. I’m nowhere near to being part of the press, but I do enjoy seeing clumsy attempts at suppression blowing up in spectacular fashion. As this one has done.
But what does the old lady have to do with any of it?
She owned the newspaper. The PD was brazenly attempting to intimidate.
She was the mother of the reporter who got the DMs. She lived with the reporter.
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Straight up illegal attempts from the mayor and sheriff to shut down the local paper thqt was criticizing them
That couldve criticized them, but chose not to. But they knew and in Fascie Kansie that’s apparently enough.
The judge should be disbarred and the police chief fired, stripped of any benefits and banned from working any job at any level of government.
You’re not going to believe this! If you click the link, and read the article, it actually explains all of that!
Have DoJ announced anything about dealing with this authoritarian physical assault on journalism?
The newspaper is suing the cops and city. And since I’m NAL I’m unsure if the state or feds have first juristiction on this, iirc the state has already begun an investigation.
The feds can look into it as a civil rights violation afaik. Because this is a major civil rights violation.
I would not call this a civil case, especially with a dead victim.
They’re all going to claim qualified immunity :(
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Unfortunately, police aren’t afraid of doing the wrong thing.
I was trying to explain this story to my partner. It’s absolutely bonkers and that’s before I knew that poor lady died.
