Kansas Newspaper Says Its Co-Owner Has Died After Being Traumatized by Police Raid
thedailybeast.com
The Marion County Record said its co-owner died Saturday after a police raid left her “stressed beyond her limits.”
The Marion County Record said its co-owner died Saturday after a police raid left her “stressed beyond her limits.”
RIP, Joan.
Also, the following is courtesy of @roguetrick in one of the other threads:
If I was one of those 6 people, I'd be moving the fuck out of Kansas ASAP. That's seems like almost certainly a motive in seizing their equipment.
Where's the FBI raiding the police department when you need them
It certainly explains why the cops were so willing to go along with an illegal search warrant. Heck, maybe it wasn't even that the restaurant owner went to the cops to complain after the city hall meeting; maybe the police chief saw this as an opportunity to raid the newspaper and take the names and he approached the restaurant owner.
Edit: another story here has the police chief posting on the department's Facebook page:
Which is bull. The newspaper was emailed information which they did not publish and which they reported to the police. They were not 'taking part in the underlying wrongdoing'. 1312, especially the Marion County police chief.
This is mentioned in this article anyway:
The police are a street gang and if the violence they impose ever aligns with the law that is, at best, a happy coincidence. They're hired thugs designed to protect power and property from people. One thousand three hundred and twelve
Holy crap. If that theory is correct, the "anonymous tip" was to give the newspaper a reason to pull up everything they could find on Newell, and then make this digging look like identity theft. They may have even committed actual identity theft as part of this plan, hoping to pin the crime on the journalists at the paper. If Newell is not playing a role in this, they could have been trying to destroy two careers with one stone and winded up pitting these parties against each other.
That's a shitload of speculation.
I didn't pass it off as anything else, not sure what your point is. The comment section is to discuss thoughts and ideas on the article. It's a theory regarding why an entire police force could have come after a newspaper with what appear to be illegal and extreme tactics that resulted in the traumatization and death of its co-owner. Good thing this is being investigated so we can find out if something so immoral was behind their actions.
And conservatives are cheering. Fuck conservatism. They are a plague and should be banned from positions of power.
Put em all in a wood box... Better yet shallow under soil.
No coffin please, just wet, wet mud.
wew KS! making headlines!