Joan Meyer, the 98-year-old co-owner of the Marion County Record in Kansas, had worked at the newspaper for over 50 years. She died after the newspaper was targeted in illegal police raids on August 11. Marion city police and the Marion County sheriff’s office, according to the Record, raided Meyer’s home as well as the newspaper’s office. They seized Meyer’s computer and her router. At the newspaper’s office, officers seized cell phones, computers, the newspaper’s file server, and “other equipment unrelated to the scope of their search.” While snatching a cellphone out of Record reporter Deb Gruver’s hand, Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody injured Gruver.
— source thedissenter.org | Aug 13, 2023