Dozens of news organizations on Sunday condemned a police raid on a Kansas newspaper and its publisher’s home, sending a letter to the local police department’s chief urging him to immediately return all seized materials.
In wicked evil communist north korea, papers that are critical of a local small business kulak get raided by the police as punishment for speaking truth to power
What has remained unreported until now is that, prior to the raids, the newspaper had been actively investigating Gideon Cody, Chief of Police for the city of Marion. They’d received multiple tips alleging he’d retired from his previous job to avoid demotion and punishment over alleged sexual misconduct charges.
The Newspaper is gonna take them to court but like, the fact that the raid can happen and the only recourse is after the fact, potentially years later, is a joke