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MARION, Kan. (AP) — A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism for raiding a local newspaper’s office and the home of its owner
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Police Raid On Kansas Newspaper: Why Is It So Unusual? EXPLAINER - Across America, US - It's rare in a democratic society for police to raid a news organization's office or the home of its owner. It happened in Marion, Kansas.
Tensions between public officials and the press are hardly unusual
A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism for raiding a local newspaper’s office and the home of its owner and publisher, seizing computers and cellphones, and, in the publisher’s view, stressing his 98-year-old mother enough to cause her weekend death. Several press freedom watchdogs condemned the Marion Police Department’s actions…