Small KS newspaper gets raided by overzealous gestapo; Newspaper nets $3M

Kansas county apologizes over raid on a small-town newspaper, agrees to pay over $3 million

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A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked an outcry over press freedom.

Marion County sheriff's officers were involved in the raid on the Marion County Record and helped draft search warrants used by Marion city police to enter the newspaper's offices, the publisher's home and the home of a local city council member.

"They intentionally wanted to harass us for reporting the news, and you're not supposed to do that in a democracy," the editor and publisher, Eric Meyer, said Tuesday. He added he hoped the payment was large enough to discourage similar actions against other news organizations in the future.

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Interesting read

So a restauranteur/buddy of police chief is trying to get a liquor license for her business. Newspaper does a bit of digging on her background and all hell breaks loose. Newspaper owner dies the day after the raid (she was 98 FWIW).

Police chief will more than likely go to prison for civil rights violations both in this case and the previous case where he was busy telling people to delete evidence This has all the earmarks of the Karen Read/Canton PD case.