A small newspaper and a police department in Kansas are at the center of a dispute over freedom of speech after police raided the office of the local newspaper and the home of its owner and publisher.
An attorney for the newspaper deemed the searches and seizures illegal and said the police department’s action “offends the constitutional protections the founding fathers gave the free press.” The Society of Professional Journalists pledged $20,000 toward the newspaper’s legal defense.
What were the police thinking? This is clearly illegal. Elsewhere in the article it mentions the paper was in the midst of an investigation of the police chief.
Oh… Fun Fact. I’m from KCMO where the Chief served for 24 years. Look up our gun violence rate (maybe you can’t, I tried, and it looks like news agencies just stopped counting due to the frequency - the last one was just on Saturday) and our homicide rate.
What were the police thinking? This is clearly illegal. Elsewhere in the article it mentions the paper was in the midst of an investigation of the police chief.
I posted this elsewhere, but:
Oh… Fun Fact. I’m from KCMO where the Chief served for 24 years. Look up our gun violence rate (maybe you can’t, I tried, and it looks like news agencies just stopped counting due to the frequency - the last one was just on Saturday) and our homicide rate.
And Missouri just voted to mandate that KCMO gives KCPD 25% of our municipal budget… While not even having full control of the force. Nothing like Civil War relics fucking us over in the 21st century.
KCPD has only solved 32 murders this year (as of June 28). As we’re on pace for to make a new record for annual homicides
And, of course, Missouri has some of the loosest gun laws in the nation. And the State bans the city from passing firearm regulation.
So… yeah, 24 years of service to a PD that is known to be corrupt. And misogynistic. And Racist. Very Racist.