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Recently, Revolver reported a troubling story about a small Kansas newspaper that was raided in Gestapo-style by local authorities. The official reason for the raid remains unclear, but it appears to be connected to a local restaurant owner, who alleges the newspaper violated her privacy while investigating one of her past DUIs. However, this may just be a cover story for the actual reason behind the raid. A new and deeply disturbing possibility has just come to light.
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A new report suggests the police may have ordered the raid to protect their chief, who was being investigated by the newspaper for some very unsavory reasons.
The police chief whose “Gestapo”-style raid on a small-town newspaper has become the focus of national outrage was being investigated by its reporters over claims of alleged sexual misconduct.
Gideon Cody and every officer in the Marion Police Department stormed into the Marion County Record’s offices Friday with a search warrant and seized computers and servers.
They also raided the home of the editor and publisher, Eric Meyer, and his 98-year-old mother, Joan Meyer, the paper’s co-owner.
She died the following day of “shock and grief,” Meyer said, stressed and unable to sleep when police seized her computer and smart speaker, as well as her son’s cellphone and even his router.
He had answered the door thinking it was her Meals on Wheels delivery.
Thanks to individuals who were justifiably outraged by this assault on the First Amendment, they investigated the story and discovered that the small newspaper was actually investigating the police chief for multiple instances of sexual misconduct. The New York Post story continues:
But as First Amendment advocates spoke out against the raid, it emerged that the newspaper had been investigating Cody, 54, after receiving an “outpouring of calls” claiming he had retired from his last police post to avoid demotion over sexual misconduct allegations.
Cody joined the Marion County Police Department in late April after retiring as a captain in Kansas City, Mo., where he worked for 24 years.
Eric Meyer told the Handbasket substack that his outlet had been contacted by Cody’s former colleagues about the claims of sexual misconduct, but that the six-plus anonymous sources ultimately never went on the record and reporters couldn’t obtain Cody’s personnel file.
What’s truly alarming is that one of the seized computers contains the names of the “anonymous” individuals who lodged complaints against the chief.
In addition, it’s also very concerning how so many officials, even in small towns, seem to be taking the regime’s lead and using their power as a weapon against their enemies.
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