- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody on Saturday defended the raid and said that once all the information is available, “the judicial system that is being questioned will be vindicated.”
Cody also allegedly forcibly grabbed reporter Deb Gruver’s cellphone, injuring a finger that had previously been dislocated.
The search warrant, posted online by the Kansas Reflector, indicates police were investigating identity theft and unlawful acts concerning computers.
The raid appears to have violated federal law and the First Amendment, according to Seth Stern, advocacy director of Freedom of the Press Foundation.
“This looks like the latest example of American law enforcement officers treating the press in a manner previously associated with authoritarian regimes,” Stern said Friday.
“Journalists rely on confidential sources to report on matters of vital public concern,” Shannon Jankowski, PEN America’s journalism and disinformation program director, said in a statement.
I’m a bot and I’m open source!
The cops and judge better have a very good reason for raiding and shutting down a newspaper over such a petty reason.
Must be nice to be connected like unlicensed DUI driver Kari Newell. Seems that literally all public resources work directly for you when you’re friends with a corrupt Kansas Judge - whose name I cannot seem to find - like drunk driver and facisim enthusiast Kari Newell.
The rest of us should all be angry that drunk and suspected narcissist Kari Newell was able to leverage her corrupt judge friend to issue an illegal warrant against the first amendment and journalism in general.
Hopefully drunk, divorced, Kari Newell and her Corrupt Judge friend are harshly punished for their corruption and crimes against America and the freedom of speech.