Newly released video shows the 98-year-old mother of a Kansas newspaper publisher confronting police officers as they searched her home in a raid that has drawn national scrutiny.
Video released by the newspaper Monday shows Joan Meyer shouting at the six officers inside the Marion, Kansas, home she shared with her son, Marion County Record Editor and Publisher Eric Meyer. Standing with the aid of a walker and dressed in a long robe or gown and slippers, she seems visibly upset.
“Get out of my house ... I don’t want you in my house!” she said at one point. “Don’t touch any of that stuff! This is my house!” she said at another.
It doesn’t take much to find out how little protection one has from the state once they have their eye on you. Poor woman died the next day. What a terrible way to leave the world: traumatized.
The newspaper received a FB dm with a local restaurant owner's driver's licence and DUI convictions. The paper verfied the info (as one can do, online, legally AND through the local PD) but decided not to use it.
Another of their reporters was looking into the new chief of police as to why he left his former job (which paid a lot more). Seems there was some evidence of sexual harassment. The paper hadn't run that either.
So restaurant owner hears about this and freaks out because she's been driving around town with a suspended license AND is trying to get a liquor license for her restaurant. She calls the PD, PD gets search warrants from a judge, and here we are.
I've been following this story pretty closely. I'm nowhere near to being part of the press, but I do enjoy seeing clumsy attempts at suppression blowing up in spectacular fashion. As this one has done.
The newspaper is suing the cops and city. And since I'm NAL I'm unsure if the state or feds have first juristiction on this, iirc the state has already begun an investigation.
The FBI supporting this and the far right is why we are here as a nation so I wouldn't put much stock in them doing anything. They are federal police. Their brothers are the police officers who did this. They are one in the same. The FBI can just afford better messaging.