BREAKING: Kansas newspaper co-owner dead after police raidoffices, home over ‘leaked’ DUI of prominent resident
Law enforcement officers conducted an unprecedented raid on thepaper on Friday, seizing computers, cellphones, and documentsfrom the office and reporters.
NOTE TO THOSE READING THE HEADLINE: 98-year-old died of stress from said raid. No violence toward person.
Hmm, what was the nature of the raid? If they calmly walked in, presented a warrant, and did their search then I suppose it is incidental and can't be helped.
If the cops busted in the door screaming "THIS IS A RAID MOTHERFUCKERS EVERYBODY ON THE GROUND" and trashed the office, I'd call that violence.
The death is incidental, I'm not sure why they highlighted it in the headline. Almost certainly due to the raid and pressure put on her by the police but you couldn't prove that in a courtroom.
It is the story behind it that is so interesting and bizarre, also highlights some clear abuse.
More of a causal link between this raid and her death than Chauvin's knee and George Floyd's death but I know we live in clown world and that would never be acknowledged in court.
It would depend on the legality of the raid. An unjustified raid is violence.
that definitely changes the context, still shitty.
What the fuck?
This whole thing is really messed up, seems like a ton of abuse by both the police and the politicians.
Also, the police, instead of acting in their law enforcement capacity, acted as bodyguards for the criminal, alongside the politicians.
What I don't understand, why'd this lady not get her drivers license back during the past 15 years? Unless the DUI was multiple incidents and it was permanently revoked. But then she would have also been in jail. Some context seems to be missing.
Maybe she has been just getting away with it. Did the cops arrest her when the "found out?" Nope. So why would they ever?
She's a local political heavy, with evidently lots of clout at the PD.
From the way it sounds, that town depends on her for its continued existence.
Sounds just like the owner of a local pizza joint is one of the top 50 most powerful people in Washington D.C.
https://rumble.com/v1c9szb-pizzagate101-ben-swann-pizzagate-.html
If you read the article, not only did the newspaper take the driving w/o license allegation to the police first, they only published the allegation after the person accused complained about journalistic bias. Police then raided the newspaper offices, even though the accused actually admitted the story was correct. This is a Karen wielding the local PD as her enforcers. All these cops deserve prison.
And they alleged "identity theft" to get the warrant. I hope Kari Newell, local drunk driving restaurant owner, was worth the federal civil rights lawsuit and possibly having the DOJ get in their chili. Just weird all around.
She certainly was not successful at hiding from people the fact that Kari Newell is a drunk driver and serial violator of licensing restrictions. Yesterday, I didn't even know who she is.
Exactly; the Streisand Effect in action.
Question: "What do you think of Marion County, KS and Keri Newell?"
The world yesterday: "Where? Who?"
The world today: "Crooked as fuck banana republic shithole and drunk mega-cunt who goes crying to the police when she's embarrassed. I hope a fucking tornado destroys that bitch and her shitty town"
Good job Keri, sounds like a real fucking improvement on your image problem.
Absolutely . . . a politically powerful Karen, one of the worst kinds.
Constitution says trials are to be speedy and ... PUBLIC.
But we get a police chief stating the law is on his side after commenting on a law that .. he didn't even follow.
The law is on his side, because the law is violence, and he commands the local jackboots with a monopoly on aggressive force.
Oh I was thinking the police killed her. Not directly. She was 98 and stressed. I'm sure it didn't help.
So this small-fry politico capitalizes on the righteous hatred of the major "news" outlets, hoping to use this hate and mistrust to justify her bulldozing a podunk paper in a petty personal squabble nobody outside this little Kansas burg knows or cares about.
I can't help but be reminded of the great Don Knotts vehicle, "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken."
"Attaboy, Luther!"
I assume that small town was called 'Europe'.
LOL. Happens here too.
It's not just small towns that use cops to raise revenue. I lived in a mid-sized Canadian city years ago when I was at uni. Our apartment building was on a dead-end street across a set of railway tracks from a shopping district where the supermarket was. We used to cross the tracks all the time to get food and get to the bus stop because it took less than half as long as walking all the way up to the other end of the street and then over the bridge. But the railway track was privately owned, so eventually the municipality just stationed a cop down there to ticket everyone who cut across the tracks. $250 each time for "trespassing," even when there weren't any trains for hours.
Whatever you do, don't speed on Highway 17 near Dryden, Ont. They WILL catch you.
They don't have anything better to do, and there's only the one highway.
I go through that area occasionally. Thanks for the heads up.
Why would the feds care about something that doesn't threaten them? If anything, it creates an opening to insert their own stooges.
The Dukes of Hazzard
(But no, ignore the corrupt cop vs low-level bootlegger angle, let's just cry over the car's paint job - the left)
They're just following the example of the Feds.