Police raid Kansas newspaper

What’s really adorable about these hicks in the police department is they actually thought that nobody was going to know what they did to the paper.

It’s 2023, not 1953. There’s this little thing that Al Gore invented called the Internet. Whatever Barney Fife and Judge Judy do can get reported without a printing press.

I hope each individual journalist at the paper finds out how much the town’s budget is, and sue for at least double the amount. Maybe if the residents’ taxes go up in multiple amounts, they’ll get mad enough to run the corrupt cops out of town.

 

It gets worse ...

 

Seems like those cops and that district court judge maybe could be on the hook for manslaughter charges.

 

Just absolutely awful

 

Or there will be a big-time backlash against that "uppity newspaper for sticking their nose where it don't belong, by God!"

I know which scenario I'd expect to play out.

 

Try that in a small town, indeed.

 

It’s Kansas. The cops will be grand marshals of the next parade. And the courts will do nothing.

 

She died: UPDATED: Illegal raids contribute to death of newspaper co-owner<!----> | Marion County Record | Aug. 12, 2023 ()

 

If I were Eric Meyer, I'd be suing all these people not only to get all his paper's equipment and resources back, but especially with regard to the death of his mother.

Intentional malice and wrong-doing could be shown because, let's face it, police and judges know about things like protections for journalists, and they did this anyway, without cause.

 

Whenever I hear about these police raids, and the frequency of tragedy - I'm always amazed how the judges seem to avoid any criticism. Lets see the warrant the idiot signed, send the idiot back to law school (if they aren't banished by the state bar).

 

Horrible as this is to say, the death of that innocent old woman is gonna be the news hook that sends a covey of bigfeet national media down to this town, which gets the governor asked uncomfortable questions and that above all, gets the town introduced to some polite, conservatively dressed men and women from the FBI.