First Amendment Concerns Raised After Police Raid Small-Town Kansas Newspaper Office And Staff Homes During Raid

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Breaking: Newly released footage of 98-year-old Kansas newspaper owner, Joan Meyer, shows her home being raided by police and the property of her newspaper, Marion County Record, seized by police.

Tragically, Ms. Meyer died the next day. pic.twitter.com/svPEcZH7R7

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First Amendment Concerns Raised After Police Seize Materials From Small-Town Kansas Newspaper Office And Staff Homes During Raid

By Brandon Drey • Aug 13, 2023 DailyWire.com

A small-town newspaper in Kansas is raising First Amendment questions on a national level after local police raided its office and homes of staffers on Friday, seizing material linked to alleged identity theft violations.

Marion County Record, a family-owned weekly newspaper published in the midwestern state about 60 miles north of Wichita, was named in a search warrant signed by Marion County Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar on Friday morning, which alleges violations of identity theft and “unlawful acts concerning computers.” CNN reported.

Eric Meyer, co-owner and publisher of the paper founded more than 150 years ago in the small city of Marion, reportedly said four Marion police officers and three sheriff’s deputies seized personal cell phones, computers, and other materials at his home and Marion County Record office, including some unrelated equipment needed to publish.

“Our first priority is to be able to publish next week,” Meyer said. “But we also want to make sure no other news organization is ever exposed to the Gestapo tactics we witnessed today.”

Reporter Deb Gruver wrote in a post on Facebook she had filed a report with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation that accused Marion, Kansas Police Chief Gideon Cody of re-injuring a previously dislocated finger after he allegedly “forcibly yanked” her cell phone from her hand.
“I thought I lived in the United States,” Gruver added.

Authorities also searched the home of its 98-year-old co-owner Joan Meyer, who died less than 24 hours later — after she collapsed from hours of “shock and grief” that caused her to lose sleep and not eat, the newspaper reported.

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Staff Sgt

8 months ago

“They will take your guns, your kids, your property, your taxes, your right to speak and practice religion, control the healthcare, the education, the banks, the corporations, and the military.”

They can try but not without us citizens firing back and protecting and defending our rights no matter what they say or do!

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Snowedin

8 months ago

Similar situations like this have been going on for awhile. But the GOP as usual is silent about it.

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Steven

8 months ago

Likely obeying an unlawful order.

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Dee

8 months ago

We are in a totalitarian, dictatorial, and fascistic government. The Demoncrat party is a power-hungry party and will try everything unlawful and illegal to hold on to that power.

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Mik

8 months ago

Fyi people freedom of the press.
Btw Harris did this in Cali.
Investigative reporter found collusion between democrats and Planned parenthood. Organ harvesting businesses. 💲💲💲💲. They stole all his data. Raided home. Confiscated all info.

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Nike

8 months ago

Damn! My heart goes out to the family R.I.P. To this poor Lady who probably was someone grandmother or mother and If I was the next of kin I would definitely be fileing a wrongful death punitive damage lawsuit against this High Treasonous compromised agency and the left-wing democratic corrupt judge that were involved in this unconstitutional raid what a disgrace to our country real laws. They all need to be held accountable for this illegal raid on this poor woman home it’s unbelievable poor woman.

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Nike

8 months ago

Even if she had a week or even a year to live they strip that away from this poor woman in one day, because she could not take their abuse of power and High Treasonous compromised right-wing gestapo act. They need to be held accountable for their crimes.

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GWC

8 months ago

Sadly the Sheriffs are going to the dark side. All LEO’s are appointed by politicians. Therefore they are beholden to their pensions, unions and the politicians. Sheriffs are elected by the people and beholden to the Constitution and the community that elected them. Sadly that is slowly disappearing. the Sheriffs are getting in bed with the politicians.

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