Meanwhile in Kansas …

[St. Louis Hawk]

A small town police department raided a small town newspaper and seized all their computers.

A small town magistrate signed off (OMG) on the search.

Small town newspaper may own the police HQ in about two years.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Wow.

And claiming “identity theft.”

No doubt everyone involved would call themselves patriots. They probably carry pocket Constitutions.

 

[runkpanole]

A small town police department raided a small town newspaper and seized all their computers.

A small town magistrate signed off (OMG) on the search.

Small town newspaper may own the police HQ in about two years.

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Lock them up. No, not the newspaper employees. the magistrate and the police.

 

[anon_b29nm7v7dwp6r]

In Soviet Russia….I mean….MAGA america….

 

[hawkbirch]

Iowa will say hold my beer soon enough.

 

[Chishawk1425]

 

[Hawk_4shur]

Over a "well connected person's DUI"?

A Preview of Trump's America.

 

[tarheelbybirth]

This will not end well for the police dept. Unless it goes to SCOTUS. Can you imagine Thomas getting his hands on this?

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

Over a "well connected person's DUI"?

A Preview of Trump's America.

Can't be much more fascist than that. Thanks trump and maga scum.

 

[50kWidowmaker]

Iowa will say hold my beer soon enough.

In what way? How do you see this playing out in Iowa?

Also, what kind of timeline?

 

[lucas80]

In what way? How do you see this playing out in Iowa?

Also, what kind of timeline?

Admit it, this story got you hard. Stupid Lib journalists. The only thing better to you would have been if the cops could have knocked the journalists around a little.

 

[Bank of Hawk]

Try that in a small town

 

[pjhawk]

This will not end well for the police dept. Unless it goes to SCOTUS. Can you imagine Thomas getting his hands on this?

Maybe the small town newspaper can organize a go-fund me to finance a junket for Thomas?

 

[THE_DEVIL]

Try that in a small town

Speaking of...

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

Admit it, this story got you hard. Stupid Lib journalists. The only thing better to you would have been if the cops could have knocked the journalists around a little.

Or shot them.

 

[Chishawk1425]

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

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Holy fvcking shit! That government overreach just killed a person! WTF?

 

[TunzaHawk]

Over a "well connected person's DUI"?

A Preview of Trump's America.

Was it a Koch?

 

[St. Louis Hawk]

There it is. The paper was investigating the chief for sexual misconduct.

 

[93hawkeye]

So government bureaucracies get it wrong sometimes, is the takeaway?
Why does the FBI, as one of the supreme Law Enforcement Agencies in our nation, get a free pass for their heavy-handed tactics?

 

[BioHawk]

For some reason most the tweets in this thread are showing up as unavailable. I suspect it's a computer issue on my end, but is anyone else having the same problem?

 

[Old_wrestling_fan]

For some reason most the tweets in this thread are showing up as unavailable. I suspect it's a computer issue on my end, but is anyone else having the same problem?

Same here. Fwiw.

 

[St. Louis Hawk]

For some reason most the tweets in this thread are showing up as unavailable. I suspect it's a computer issue on my end, but is anyone else having the same problem?

I think it’s a Rivals issue. If you click where it says unavailable, it usually comes up.

 

[OILCHECKER]

Yes, says unavailable but when I click on them they come up just fine and are viewable

 

[TC Nole OX]

Police defend raid on Kansas newspaper amid backlash over 'brazen violation of press freedom' • Kansas Reflector

Marion County police on Saturday defended their unprecedented raid on a newspaper office and the publisher's home by pointing to a loophole in federal law that protects journalists from searches and seizures.

kansasreflector.com

 

[St. Louis Hawk]

Police defend raid on Kansas newspaper amid backlash over 'brazen violation of press freedom' • Kansas Reflector

Marion County police on Saturday defended their unprecedented raid on a newspaper office and the publisher's home by pointing to a loophole in federal law that protects journalists from searches and seizures.

kansasreflector.com

That’s their defense? Good luck.

 

[THE_DEVIL]

“Basically,” Eric Meyer said, “all the law enforcement officers on duty in Marion County, Kansas, descended on our offices today and seized our server and computers and personal cellphones of staff members all because of a story we didn’t publish.”

 

[fsu1jreed]

Police defend raid on Kansas newspaper amid backlash over 'brazen violation of press freedom' • Kansas Reflector

Marion County police on Saturday defended their unprecedented raid on a newspaper office and the publisher's home by pointing to a loophole in federal law that protects journalists from searches and seizures.

kansasreflector.com

 

[millah_22]

ACAB

 

[St. Louis Hawk]

Good read from the reporter’s committee, which is a top notch org.

https://x.com/benmullin/status/1690824247038382080?s=46&t=UXxSHqQBRAsu8i52B5FFuw

 

[TC Nole OX]

Hopefully the DOJ charges everyone involved, including the judge.

 

[millah_22]

Hopefully the DOJ charges everyone involved, including the judge.

I can prob already tell you how that will turn out.

 

[lucas80]

Weird that the people who say Trump can’t be prosecuted due to his 1st Amendment rights are fine with this newspaper being raided.
8 years of non stop screaming by Republicans that the media is bad has paid off.

 

[BioHawk]

Weird that the people who say Trump can’t be prosecuted due to his 1st Amendment rights are fine with this newspaper being raided.
8 years of non stop screaming by Republicans that the media is bad has paid off.

Because it violates the secret 0th amendment.
"These rights only apply for the people rich white people want them to apply to".

You can only read it if you hold the bill of rights up to a window and look through the paper.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

That Magistrate is FOOOOOkeed. Dumbass.

 

[lucas80]

That Magistrate is FOOOOOkeed. Dumbass.

Betcha they aren’t. MAGA is already lining up in support. The principal plaintiff in an action is dead.

 

[markfromj]

Weird that the people who say Trump can’t be prosecuted due to his 1st Amendment rights are fine with this newspaper being raided.

Name one such person.

 

[Chishawk1425]

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Betcha they aren’t. MAGA is already lining up in support. The principal plaintiff in an action is dead.

He can easily be removed from office if he broke the law. I don't know if he broke the law, but if he/she was grossly negligent/reckless in violation of the requirements for a valid search warrant, he is toast.

Obviously, I can't give a well informed opinion until I see the application for warrant. And if the officers fraudulently represented facts in application, they are toast and are subject to civil suit/criminal charges

 

[lucas80]

He can easily be removed from office if he broke the law. I don't know if he broke the law, but if he/she was grossly negligent/reckless in violation of the requirements for a valid search warrant, he is toast.

Obviously, I can't give a well informed opinion until I see the application for warrant. And if the officers fraudulently represented facts in application, they are toast and are subject to civil suit/criminal charges

I like you, but, LOL. Dick squat is going to happen.