8/12/23
Police in Kansas Execute 'Chilling' Raid on Small-Town Newspaper, Seizing Phones and Computers
Police in the small Kansas town of Marion have raided a local newspaper office and the home of its publisher, seizing equipment and sparking claims of abuse of power and threats of legal action.
Eric Meyer, the owner and publisher of the Marion County Record, said in an Aug. 9 edition of the newspaper that four Marion police officers and three sheriff's deputies recently carried out a raid on his home and the Record office, seizing personal cell phones and computers.
Mr. Meyer said that the police also seized the newspaper's file server and equipment that was unrelated to their search but which was needed to continue publishing work.
"Our first priority is to be able to publish next week," Mr. Meyer was cited by the Record as saying. "But we also want to make sure no other news organization is ever exposed to the Gestapo tactics we witnessed today."
A reporter for the Record said on social media that she was injured in the raid, which she called "chilling."
"The chief of the Marion, Kansas Police Department, Gideon Cody, forcibly yanked my cell phone out of my hand, so heads up that I will be without it (my phone, not my hand) for a while," reporter Deb Gruver wrote in a post on Facebook.
"I've filed a report with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation because a previously dislocated finger was re-injured," she added.
"I thought I lived in the United States," she wrote.
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Wonder what the reason they gave was?
Nevermind full text above… but still not clear lol
I mean at this stage in the game. I almost instinctively distrust anything reporters and journalists claim.
Maybe this guy is just playing the victim. Reportedly the warrant and seizure is related to a criminal investigation related to identity theft. And the Newspaper and one it’s Journalists was implicated in participating.
Or perhaps it is a legitimate case of corruption and suppression of press. Which seems to be the not so subtle implication epochtimes is giving.
Maybe he's a pedo or a commie.