Joan Meyer, 98, dies apparently due to a raid on her small-town newspaper

[Yoused]

This is a strange and complicated story that is very difficult to suss.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kansas-newspaper-police-raid-marion-county-record-joan-meyer-dies/

original story:

In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper’s reporters, and the publisher’s home.​

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Eric Meyer, owner and publisher of the newspaper, said police were motivated by a confidential source who leaked sensitive documents to the newspaper, and the message was clear: “Mind your own business or we’re going to step on you.”​

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The city’s entire five-officer police force and two sheriff’s deputies took “everything we have,” Meyer said, and it wasn’t clear how the newspaper staff would take the weekly publication to press Tuesday night.​

It looks like the paper may have been investigating the local police chief, which would explain the need for a raid. Meanwhile, the original search warrant has been rescinded, for whatever that is worth

 

[fooferdoggie]

yes and it seems the cops broke the law. its a real FUBAR

 

[Yoused]

Video of the house being ransacked, in which,

The video captures the stress Joan Meyer, a retired journalist who her son has said was in good health before the raid, faced during her final 24 hours as police filled her living room, rifled through her personal belongings and attempted to block her from moving within her own house. It also reportedly shows her attempting to call her son through her Alexa smart speaker. His cellphone had already been seized by police at The Record’s newsroom, The Record reported.

The video shows the veteran newswoman didn’t take kindly to what she later described as “Hitler tactics.” … “[Does] your mother love you?” she asked one officer. “Do you love your mother? You’re an asshole, police chief. You’re the chief? Oh, God, get out of my house.”​

 

[fooferdoggie]

this is crazy they did nothing wrong it was all on the word of one woman who lied.