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In Marion County newspaper raid, a grim threat to Kansans’ First Amendment rights (kansasreflector.com)

submitted 1 year ago by superflippy@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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Police raided the offices of a local newspaper, the Kansas Reflector, seizing computers & cell phones.

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[–] vd1n@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

An article about someone's DUI and personal life is trashy and lame. Its like when newspapers used to out gay men.
Police are just human and can be corrupt and gang like. You should never blindly trust anyone.
I'm sick of waiting for America to collapse. Let's speed this up, whatever the ending is for America's "freedom", we are just wasting time pretending we aren't passed a point of repair of our social collapse. The longer society doesn't fight corruption the stronger corruption becomes. I'm convinced only common men and woman making war can make a change now. Corrupt people aren't going to save you.

[–] czech@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They didn't publish the article they just alerted police that the woman was driving with a suspended license.

[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It's not like it would be hard to figure out either. You know she has a DUI conviction on x date, you know the amount of time that you have to wait to get your license back after that, it's basic math.

[–] MadMenace@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Absolutely wild, apparently a local restaurant owner had a beef with this newspaper for some reason, and I'm guessing she has connections with the police department (especially since they were letting her drive on a suspended with impunity). Context leading up to it:

http://marionrecord.com/direct/media_ejected_at_open_forum_+5446forum+4d6564696120656a6563746564206174206f70656e20666f72756d20

http://marionrecord.com/direct/restaurateur_accuses_paper_councilwoman+5447newell+52657374617572617465757220616363757365732070617065722c20636f756e63696c776f6d616e

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Daily Beast has picked up the story: https://www.thedailybeast.com/marion-county-record-subjected-to-police-raid-after-unpublished-dui-story-about-restaurateur-kari-newell

edit: archive link - https://archive.is/wip/c2Byu

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They just updated it to say the 98 year old co-founder died “because of stress related to the raids.”

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

RIP.... This is tragic and unbelievably criminal. The FBI should absolutely be involved at this point. That whole police department needs to be held responsible.