Other local newspapers are helping the Record so it can publish this week, and press associations are prepared to support the Record, Emily Bradbury, executive director of the Kansas Press Association, told USA TODAY. “This has never happened in Kansas, so this has a chilling effect and we’re going to do everything we can to make sure that this kind of practice is not encouraged and people are held accountable,” she said.
the 98-year-old co-owner (in name only, literally just an old lady in her house) is fucking dead now. they bust into her house with no explanation, rifle through her shit, take her computer internet router and fucking PHONE, then leave. she doesn’t sleep or eat for two days from the stress and DIES. fuck all cops everywhere for all time, no faster way to identify yourself as something less than human than to wear the badge
In Soviet Country, No Free Press Because Police Will Raid You
It’s wild that sheriffs have decided they can just… interpret laws however they want, and get away with it.
The sheriff is going to get the city sued, and will get re-elected.
heard in another thread that the paper was working on an exposé of the police chief Gideon something or other
Yeah they were investigating the police chief who led the raid.
luckily they went and made it a national story then
Not shocking behavior from cops, to say the least.