Way to "keep it quiet", Chief: do something ill-advised and make it to the national news cycle! Wait 'til @ProPublica or some other big investigative outlet gets hold of it. That will make things a lot more fun and interesting.
@w7voa "People in this town have been very supportive, but not publicly. And I talked to one person who said, “Oh, are you sure It's ok that I can talk to you because they might come and seize my computer?” They're afraid. They're really afraid that the police power is unchecked, and that they can be punished like this. And I think that's why I think it's important for us to fight this as much as we can, because it is destroying everything we're trying to do with democracy, which is to get people more involved."
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Reports now that the mother of Eric Meyer, who owns the paper, has died. Also that the #probablecause#affidavit for the #warrant was never filed.
The Record never printed the allegations of sexual misconduct from coworkers in his previous job against the Police Chief – on this job for only 2 months – b/c they cldn't get anyone to go on the record, but "the allegations—including the identities of who made the allegations—were on one of the computers that got seized." #Marion#Kansas
“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. https://tinyurl.com/y6uda5n7
@w7voa By virtue of the illegal warrant and raid: the law enforcement who requested the illegal search warrant, the judge who signed off in it, and those that executed the warrant have now committed Involuntary manslaughter.
I am yet again forced through no fault of my own to imagine what I would do if a loved one of mine were mistreated by a #Nazi piece of shit. I’ve lost count on another daily goddam tally. Mother fuckers.
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This tragedy just to cover up some doubtless banal/ugly misdeeds, amongst crony officials, has revealed the of late rash of(like DeSantis)frighteningly partisan/personal exploitation of law enforcement. Has someone questioned the representative, whose public meeting the journalist was kicked out of?
@w7voa FBI needs to make some arrests here, because that was straight up murder. The cruelty in this raid not to mention the obvious freedom of the press violations....this is the kind of shit we expect to see in RUSSIA not America. And yet we're seeing it. As long as it goes unpunished, it'll only get much worse.
@w7voa “It does violate the Privacy Protection Act, 42 USC § 2000aa, designed to prevent executing warrants for evidence from the media.” Orin Kerr, Berkeley Law
@w7voa Seth Stern, advocacy director at Freedom of the Press Foundation, makes the defining point about the illegality of this search: “You can’t say, ‘I’m allowed to raid the newsroom because I’m investigating a crime,’ if the crime you’re investigating is journalism,” he added.
Reporters Without Borders issues a statement about the August 11th police raid on the Marion County Record in which the #Kansas newspaper’s devices and reporting materials were confiscated.
@w7voa@BBCWorld As well it should. Republicans are trying to turn the US into something that looks more like Russia, and small towns are a soft target.
“A law enforcement raid of a newspaper office is deeply upsetting anywhere in the world. It is especially concerning in the United States, where we have strong and well-established legal protections guaranteeing the freedom of the press.” - Eileen O’Reilly, president of the National Press Club, and Gil Klein, president of the National Press Club Journalism Institute https://www.press.org/newsroom/press-club-leaders-condemn-raid-kansas-newspaper-local-law-enforcement
@w7voa Until the law enforcement and political heads who likely pushed it face severe criminal consequences for it, little to nothing will change. Consequences are a deterrent, without those, tyrants will tyrant without fear.
@w7voa the only way to stop these Nazi tactics is to sue the perpetrators for their net worth. the only thing these folks understand better than hate is money.
@w7voa#JoanMeyer, the 98-yo mother of the publisher of the Marion, Kansas newspaper that police raided along with her home has died. 😭💔#MarionCountyRecord
@w7voa press or not, I read the article 3 times and I'm not sure what exactly they did that was illegal?
Someone told them that a restaurant owner had a DUI and continued to drive, they told the police, then they were raided by the police. Wtaf?
They were raided for finding uncomfortable/embarrassing information about the judge, probably online through the Kansas State portal, and informing law enforcement but deciding to not report on it with the newspaper?
Seems like the judge basically outed herself.
@w7voa welp. Sounds like federal marshals need to raid the police station and the judge and the restaurant owner and seize all records and communication devices. We need faster turnaround on a case that is obstruction of the media first amendment rights.
@w7voa “An attack on a newspaper office through an illegal search is not just an infringement on the rights of journalists but an assault on the very foundation of democracy and the public’s right to know,” Bradbury said. “This cannot be allowed to stand.” YES!
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