A conversation with a newspaper owner raided by cops

Current title of this post: &quot;Paper investigating police chief prior to the raids on his office and home.&quot;<p>But it was the newspaper owner, not the police chief, who was raided.<p>Actual article title and subtitle: &quot;A conversation with the newspaper owner raided by cops &#x2F; Eric Meyer says his paper had been investigating the police chief prior to the raids on his office and home.&quot;

Love the part where a bunch of people subscribed to their news service to show support...including apparently a famous movie producer and screenwriter.<p>Yikes for the chief...he stepped right on top of a cherished American value. That&#x27;s instant-villain territory.<p>I&#x27;m sure even a talented screenwriter wouldn&#x27;t complain when huge chunks of a story offer to write themselves...

Not only was this newspaper reporting on a restaurant owners DUI, <i>it was investigating sexual misconduct by the former police chief</i>!!! This is truly heinous cop-on-a-power-trip shit. We really need to curtail the so called justice system in this country…

For those who can support the paper, an annual electronic subscription is just $34.99. The subscription link is buried on the marionrecord.com homepage under &quot;MORE...&quot;; here&#x27;s a direct link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marionrecord.com&#x2F;credit&#x2F;subscription:MARION+COUNTY+RECORD" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marionrecord.com&#x2F;credit&#x2F;subscription:MARION+COUNTY+R...</a> .

The chilling affect has me not even wanting to post this excerpt: “People in this town have been very supportive, but not publicly. And I talked to one person who said, “Oh, are you sure It&#x27;s ok that I can talk to you because they might come and seize my computer?””

It gets &quot;better&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marionrecord.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marionrecord.com&#x2F;</a><p>&quot;Illegal raids contribute to death of newspaper co-owner&quot;<p>&quot;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.&quot;

From the report this newspaper did when the police chief took office in April:<p>&gt; Cody said two priorities would be transparency and more responsive media relations.<p>That went well.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marionrecord.com&#x2F;direct&#x2F;marion_selects_new_police_chief+5431breaking+4d6172696f6e2073656c65637473206e657720706f6c696365206368696566" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marionrecord.com&#x2F;direct&#x2F;marion_selects_new_police_chi...</a>

Know anyone in a small news outlet? Now would be a great time to talk to them about the importance of secure, redundant, off-site backup and archiving. Obviously wouldn&#x27;t have prevented this— for all I know these folks were doing all of that— but it would mean police in this situation couldn&#x27;t stop you from accessing your data (and likely, leverage,) even if they controlled your equipment.

&gt; But the allegations—including the identities of who made the allegations—were on one of the computers that got seized.<p>That’s really bad

According to an update posted to the newspapers website [0], the owners mother just died. The police had raided both the newspapers office and their home. In the interview they had mentioned she&#x27;d been very stressed out by the raid.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marionrecord.com&#x2F;direct&#x2F;updated_illegal_raids_contribute_to_death_of_newspaper_co_owner+5447raid+555044415445443a20496c6c6567616c20726169647320636f6e7472696275746520746f206465617468206f66206e657773706170657220636f2d6f776e65723c212d2d2d2d3e" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marionrecord.com&#x2F;direct&#x2F;updated_illegal_raids_contrib...</a>?

Just proves anonymous expose and investigation is superior to attaching your name and identity to your muck raking. People will kill you for uncovering their secrets.

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The co-owner has now died from the stress of it all <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marionrecord.com&#x2F;direct&#x2F;updated_illegal_raids_contribute_to_death_of_newspaper_co_owner+5447raid+555044415445443a20496c6c6567616c20726169647320636f6e7472696275746520746f206465617468206f66206e657773706170657220636f2d6f776e65723c212d2d2d2d3e" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marionrecord.com&#x2F;direct&#x2F;updated_illegal_raids_contrib...</a>

&quot;I haven&#x27;t been able to see enough of the outpouring from the people in this town.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s concerning. Either the town&#x27;s folk are all &#x27;in&#x27; on it or we&#x27;re only getting one side of this story and they know more about what&#x27;s going on.<p>I&#x27;m withholding judgement until the other shoe drops and we get the full story.

This story omits the most crucial information: why was the warrant issued?<p>Judges issuing warrants is one of the least accountable aspects of our legal system. Warrants can cause major damage, disruption, or even death. There are never consequences for a mistake (cf. Breonna Taylor incident).<p>They can also cause political interference and there&#x27;s little mechanism to prevent abuses. The FISA warrants against Carter Page were later declared invalid[1]. Document mishandling sometimes resulted in essentially nothing (Clinton, Biden) and sometimes warrants and raids (Trump). There could be good reasons for all of this but there&#x27;s not really any mechanism to sort it out. Next time there might not be good reasons, and the target might be a politician we desperately need (rather than Trump).

I eagerly await the post about how the writer on Substack has been raided...

I’m sure this can be solved by voting!

This title is confusing

Police in the US are becoming lawless gangs. Abolish qualified immunity. Stop having taxpayers&#x27; foot the bill, start using their pension fund and watch police make a 180 degree turn in terms of behavior and professionalism.

Ahh small town Kansas. I love you and also hate ya. This kind of bs is one of the reasons why I can’t live there. (Grew up in KS)