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Small-town Kansas paper was probing ‘Gestapo’ police chief over sex claims before he raided it
New York Post ^ | August 14, 2023 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 08/14/2023 5:38:04 PM PDT by george76

The police chief whose “Gestapo”-style raid on a small town newspaper has become the focus of national outrage was being investigated by its reporters over claims of alleged sexual misconduct.

Gideon Cody and every officer in the Marion Police Department stormed into the Marion County Record’s offices Friday with a search warrant where they seized computers and servers.

They also raided the home of the editor and publisher, Eric Meyer, and his 98-year-old mother Joan Meyer, the paper’s co-owner.

She died the following day of “shock and grief,” Meyer said, stressed and unable to sleep when police seized her computer and smart speaker, as well as her son’s cellphone and even his router.

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until now had never been at the center of a national battle over freedom of the press.

But as First Amendment advocates spoke out against the raid, it emerged the newspaper had been investigating Cody, 54, after receiving an “outpouring of calls” claiming he had retired from his last police post to avoid demotion over sexual misconduct allegations.

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Eric Meyer told The Handbasket substack his outlet had been contacted by Cody’s former colleagues about the claims of sexual misconduct, but that the six-plus anonymous sources ultimately never went on the record and reporters couldn’t obtain Cody’s personnel file.

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The explosive claims – as well as the identities of who made them – were contained on one of the computers seized during the raids at the newspaper’s office, Meyer said.

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This is Gestapo tactics from World War II.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kansas
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1 posted on 08/14/2023 5:38:04 PM PDT by george76
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Most States have a criminal statute covering “official oppression”


2 posted on 08/14/2023 5:42:43 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: george76

“Small-town Kansas paper was probing ‘Gestapo’ police chief over sex claims before he raided it”

Biden and his ‘Gestapo’ Attorney General did the same thing to Project Veritas.


3 posted on 08/14/2023 5:44:34 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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If you are a small town in Kansas making headlines in The WaPo and the NYTimes, you’re likely to be in big trouble.


4 posted on 08/14/2023 5:45:41 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: george76

“Eric Meyer told The Handbasket substack his outlet had been contacted by Cody’s former colleagues about the claims of sexual misconduct, but that the six-plus anonymous sources ultimately never went on the record and reporters couldn’t obtain Cody’s personnel file.””

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What they can publish is a Front page above the fold facial mug shot of every tough guy that conducted the raid and all others involved including the azzholes (Magistrate Judge Laura Viar) that created the illegal warrant.

Full name, area they live in, job designation, everything.

Let the town do the job on them.

No gas, no groceries, do not enter signs, whatever business the locals are running will have “You are not welcome and will not be served” signage with a copy of the front page of the paper.

The front page should look like a Wanted Poster.

Next edition rolls around they can put the mugshots up and down the left and right side of the front page.

Keep it up a few months until the local deputy dawgs have had enough and move out of the area.

“Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel.”

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5 posted on 08/14/2023 5:52:33 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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This is a ‘big deal’ A 98-year-old co-owner of the paper died due to stress caused by the illegal raid. This one will not pass easily.


6 posted on 08/14/2023 5:52:51 PM PDT by iontheball
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Sounds like an episode of Mannix.


7 posted on 08/14/2023 5:53:14 PM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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https://www.kwch.com/2023/08/13/legal-experts-talk-next-steps-after-marion-county-newspaper-seizure/


Local news is pretty tight lipped. Not a time to believe sensational headline.......................


8 posted on 08/14/2023 5:56:54 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: lightman

“Most States have a criminal statute covering “official oppression”

Who you going to get to enforce it? Other brothers in blue?

Even if it does exist it doesn’t exist.


9 posted on 08/14/2023 5:57:50 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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Exactly.


10 posted on 08/14/2023 5:58:36 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Openurmind

State AG’s Office or State Police.

The latter generally consider the locals their little bastard “brothers”.


11 posted on 08/14/2023 6:00:54 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the-newspaper

EM: We’ve gathered a lot of information. Deb, one of our reporters, has worked for weeks on this story. And we kind of didn’t get anywhere with it. We tried to alert the city through backdoor channels that they needed to really look at his employment record. They said, “oh, we have,” and we talked to the Kansas City, Missouri Police where he was from, and the Human Resources Department said, “no, nobody’s ever looked at his record.” Then two days later, somebody did look at it after they’d already told us they’d done so.

But the Kansas City Missouri Police HR Department told us, they [the city of Marion] asked specifically for only those things in which he [Cody] had been convicted and disciplinary action had been taken. And so that’s all they gave him. This action wasn’t completed. So that was where we kind of had to leave the story. They went ahead and hired him.


Some info there. They shook the tree and police took the bait?


12 posted on 08/14/2023 6:03:57 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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This is Gestapo tactics from World War II.”

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It is. And any minute now,Garland and the DOJ will file 10-15 different federal charges against these bastards.

Oh, who am I kidding?


13 posted on 08/14/2023 6:06:49 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Tagline for sale.)
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Comparing the Tactics of the Dems to the Nazis is No Longer Seen as Unreasonable ..

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4174966/posts


14 posted on 08/14/2023 6:11:16 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Proving their point.


15 posted on 08/14/2023 6:18:56 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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“..receiving an “outpouring of calls” claiming he had retired from his last police post to avoid demotion over sexual misconduct allegations. ..”

Background investigations are no longer part of the hiring process?????


16 posted on 08/14/2023 6:21:16 PM PDT by elpadre
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To: PeterPrinciple

The fact that the underlying affidavit remains undisclosed without a court order sealing it in contravention of state law tells me somebody is being shifty and it’s not the newspaper.


17 posted on 08/14/2023 6:28:12 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: george76

Seven cops for seven trees.


18 posted on 08/14/2023 6:30:48 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: george76

A newspaper is covered in:
First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.


But Dems believe we have no God given rights and no constitutionally guaranteed rights. It is up to fight hard to establish and protect those rights.

Okay, we will do so.


19 posted on 08/14/2023 6:32:22 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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The saddest part is that, even if the newspaper ultimately “wins” on this issue, the taxpayers will pay the costs involved for all of the lawyers, court costs, and financial judgments that ensue.


20 posted on 08/14/2023 6:32:45 PM PDT by NEMDF
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