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>> reporter: tonight, abc news has obtained video of a small town kansas police force raiding the newsroom of the marion county record. now the heart of a battle over the first amendment. officers reading a reporter her rights, snapping photographs and taking away computers. >> its everything you ever heard in the third world. it really is like were living in stalinist russia or nazi germany or vladimir putins russia. >> reporter: eric meyer co-owns the paper with his 98-year-old mother whose ho...

The home of the papers owner and a city council women, seized computers, servers, and phones belonging to reporters and editors. the marion county record, which has just seven employees, says the raid was due to tensions between the publication and government officials. its owner and editor say its done nothing wrong the marion county record, which has just seven employees, says the raid was due to tensions between the publication and government officials. its owner and editor say its done nothi...

Moments before their planes crashed. a kansas police department at the center of a growing firestorm afraiding a local newspaper and the home of its publisher, a raid so traumatic the publisher is blaming it for his mothers death. have fun, sis! ( ♪♪ ) ( ♪♪ ) cant stop adding stuff to your cart? get the bank of america customized cash rewards card,

Them to strip and take a shower to get rid of that evidence, and then they planned this cover up where they planted a gun and drugs that they tried to pin on the victims. so, chris, this is every black mans nightmare. the prosecutor is recommending sentences in the state charges from five to 30 years. they also have been convicted on federal charges, which carry a lot more time, and the department of justice has opened a civil rights investigation of this mississippi police department that seeme...

Freedom of the press. >> gestapo-like tactics, this is what they do in the third world. >> eric miers says his mother collapsed and died just one day after the raid. >> she became so upset about this that she wouldnt eat that day, she wouldnt sleep that night. >> reporter: at issue is a tip one of his reporters received about a local business owner, kari newell, accused of driving without a license. they didnt publish the story. newell accused the paper of invading her privacy and illegally obta...

Surveillance obtained by nbc news has made headlines nationwide. stirring a debate over freedom of the press. >> were letting this gestapo like tactics, this is what they do in the third world. >> reporter: eric meyer said his 98-year-old mother joan, the other co-owner, collapsed and died one day after the raid. >> she became so upset, that sthe wouldnt eat that day and sleep that night. >> reporter: a tip they received about a local business owner, carrie newell, they did not publish the story...

Reporters received about a local business owner, carrie newell, accused of driving without a license. they did not publish the story. after she threw meyer and a reporter out of a political event. >> this is an intimidation tactic. >> reporter: the marion police chief defending the raid, saying the judicial system that has been questioned will be vindicated, while myers defends his paper. >> when someone comes in your house and takes your computer and your mothers computer you begin thinking a l...

Georgia. thanks so much. boris. a police raid on a small kansas newspaper is leading to serious criticism today. more than 30 news and press freedom organizations including cnn are strongly condemning the marion police department for raiding the papers office and the home of its owner. this is a photo of the aftermath. were going to show it to you in just a second. at the marion county record. you can see, as soon as we get the photo, where a reporters computer tower sat before police seized i...

Per federal laws. heres what a -- what the letter from the reporters committee for freedom of the press wrote to the marion police chief demanding those materials be returned to the journalists, saying "there appears to be no justification for the breadth and intrusiveness of the search, particularly when investigative steps may have been available, and we are concerned that it may have violated federal law strictly limiting federal, state, and local law enforcements ability to conduct newsroom ...

Caplyta can help you let in the lyte. ask your doctor about caplyta. find savings and support at caplyta.com. a local kansas newspaper says publication will continue in the aftermath of a police raid that they argue violated the first amendment. the publisher of the number compared it to stalinist russia, said it is the reason his elderly mother died just one day later. correspondent stephanie gosk explains what happened. >> reporter: the publisher of a small local newspaper, eric meyer said h...