EXPLAINER: Why is a police raid on a newspaper in Kansas so unusual?
Tensions between public officials and the press are hardly unusual.
Source: ksat.com
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Tensions between public officials and the press are hardly unusual.
Law enforcement officers in Kansas raided the home and office of a newspaper owner, prompting a sharp rebuke from a press freedom group and raising constitutional questions far beyond the small city in the state.
By Sarah Moon, CNN
Kansas police raided a local newspaper's newsroom and its publisher's home, seizing devices and reporting materials and injuring a reporter's hand.
Joan Meyer, the co-owner of the Marion County Record, died less than 24 hours after police raided her home, the newspaper reported.