That police department is corrupt! And every police officer who barged into the 98 year old woman's house, and caused her death the very next day, belong in prison for murder.
Cop's don't care about the collateral damage that they cause, whether it's a botched raid or putting someone innocent behind bars and destroying that family...! As long as they and their blue line gang go home safe every day, that's all they care about...
The time for being NICE and playing by the rules & laws they don't follow is OVER. The system IS failed. The junkies are running the pharmacy, the inmates are running the asylum...however you want to say it...your local government employee is not to be trusted or obeyed. It's time to take down the NWO, agent by agent. Yet, I digress...everything I just said is moot...Revelation Chapter 18 is how this ends for Mystery Babylon.
Yes it does, it’s called “qualified immunity” these cops will not face any criminal prosecution, tax payers will cover any lawsuit. Even if fired, these cops will be hired by some other department and move on like nothing happened. ZERO accountability is why cops are hated more and more by regular people.
TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242. They deprived his mother of her rights and she died. Note that the sentence includes up to the death penalty in the case of causing a death.
If they do not return the original and settle for a copy they will have no prove it was destroyed nor what else was done with it while in the code enforcers possession.
@@matthewwarren7879Not if they're lying to the court. Falsifying evidence or giving false testimony in court is a good way to wind up on the Brady list.
Sad that most cops(not LEOs) like these local cops and judges are so low IQ that they think they can lie about anything and they do and usually get away with it.
I've said since the raid that there was ONE purpose: they wanted to know who the papers sources were, what they were investigating, and what evidence they had already gained. I've said since the warrant was "retracted" and equipment returned that it didn't matter; they ALREADY had all of those answers as they would have dug through everything immediately. The paper needs to file a lawsuit so large it bankrupts that town into oblivion.
So wise. That's scary when corrupt people have all their information. These bad guys will surely quietly terrorize people on that computer who have helped reporters. What a sad thing.
They should and I do think they are going to file. I just hope its soon and some lawyer does it pro bono. They should take the city and county for as much money as they can.
@@bwktlcn I would agree. The police chief, officers of the department, probably the judge that signed the warrant, clerk since that affidavit went missing, are all likely in on something else... and the fact that the paper started investigating something about the chief got them shaky. Last time I dealt with a police chief whose entire department was smaller than my shift, he threatened to arrest me in his lobby for making a complaint on one of his officers, then, 3 months later, resigned under FBI investigation of corruption.
@@kameljoe21 Sadly, any reward they get, comes out of constituents pockets. It should come out of the police, the judge, and the restaurateurs pockets, not the peoples. When government acts criminally, they really never pay, we do. WAY past time that changed and monetary damages start coming out of the pockets and retirement funds of these criminals. Make it hurt enough to be criminal, and we might staunch the bleeding.
As journalists, every bit of coverage of this story and others like it is protecting THOSE journalists AND yourselves as well as ALL of us. Truly. Thank you McMaster and all those who contributed to this story being out out, thanks to you all.
So, they're admitting to being in contempt of a court order by not turning over the digital copy they made. To fix it, they're offering to make a copy of the copy they withheld, give that copy to the newspaper's lawyer, and then (take their word for it) destroy the original copy in their possession. This is a train wreck in slow motion, and I can't look away.
Government and its agencies have gotten too big and corrupt, time to eliminate alot of useless government entities and get back to real law and order, strip it back down to the 10 commandments and the constitution
@@KingPossum the wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. this is getting national attention, and i dont think we're going to wait too many more months before federal charges start dropping. you know the feds, they have to make sure they preserve their precious conviction rate, so they will not move till they have an airtight case.
Regardless of your political leanings, I think most of us can agree this is an EGREGIOUS violation of the paper's 1st and 4th Amendment rights. People need to burn for this one...
Yes, and since that judge had his own axes to grind against the dead woman, her son and the paper, his gleeful approval of the attacks puts HIM at the highest levels, too.
That's why bodycams and citizens with phones need to record every interaction. Accountability will happen and policing will change. Time of automatic trust for police is OVER.
The Chief and Sheriff both need to be facing an indictment for Conspiracy AgInst Rights, illegal search and seizure, illegal retention of seized data, The "judge should also face indictment for being a participant in the conspiracy. The officers and deputies should be terminated and Indicted as they were also willing participants.
I'm not sure what "Conspiracy Against Rights" is, but I agree with your sentiment. Edit: I looked it up... "Conspiracy Against Rights" IS a real thing.
Crazy? Why because I know the POLICE work directly for BANKERS and corporations. POLICE enforce policy not laws. YOU are not obligated to obey POLICY un less you are a public servant.@@relaxedsack1263YOU also dont know the REAL meaning of Juris-Diction. it is not location. Juris- latin hebrew for RIGHTEOUS and Diction is how we define right and wrong with understanding of words yet you are most likely un educated.
That is terrible. The sheriff sounds crooked as does the woman whoseDUI report started this. There sounds like a few of the "higher ups" in that small town are crooked and trying to cover up. The death of the elderly woman whose home was raided by the sheriff is a complete disgrace. I sure hope the good guys win against these people and their influence.
Across the country law enforcement is harassing local media if they dare step out of line. This affronts our first amendment and needs to be handled more seriously.
This police chief needs to go to jail!!! Warrant was revoked. This is very concerning as to how many others this police department has done this to other Marion citizens!!!
Every person who had a hand in this needs to be disbarred/decertified, and charged with hundreds of civil rights violations. They all need 20 years for this BS
Not going to happen since they are the ones who feed the whole judicial system for the prosecutors and judges@@lonebikeroftheapocalypse9527. The other cops aren't the only blue line buddies cops have.
Worst violation of the First Amendment in Kansas since the free state newspaper publishers were indicted in 1856 and the U.S. troops allowed the proslavery forces to throw the printing presses into the Kansas River.
This is a prime example of the results one gets when a party's platform is fascistic in nature with the rhetoric to back it up. We should all be taking this personally.
Which party’s platform is “fascistic”? The last time I checked it was DEMwits attempting to control every action of every American citizen AND engaging in censorship.
for sure, they can not be taken at their word. While I can understand why we, as a society, allow them to lie in certain situations I personally can't trust someone I know can and will freely lie to me regardless of if I understand why they may do it. I mean anyone can lie to anyone else at any time but there is a general implied assumption between normal people that we don't do that and there is no such assumption between regular people and law enforcement(actually the opposite assumption). So yeah I don't trust anyone involved in law enforcement in any way.
The coverup is usually worse than the crime. Eventually they will pick someone to throw under the bus. What I find amusing is that they concocted this raid because the paper was going to expose some not so flattering things about this police department yet they pretty much ruined their own reputation and will probably get the crap sued out of them.
Well they already committed a crime against the Constitution so why shouldn't they just keep committing crimes!? They won't straighten up until they're held accountable for the crimes they have already committed! 69-year-old American veteran here. Vote💙
"...and the original will be destroyed." Except that this sheriff's office already lied to both the attorney AND the court regarding the contents of what was returned.
Naturally. It's also a violation of 18USC242 and those idiot cops have no qualified immunity in a 42USC1983 Federal Civil lawsuit. It's gonna be very expensive for those individual RIGHTS VIOLATORS.
18 U.S.C. § 241 CIVIL RIGHTS CONSPIRACY Unlike most conspiracy statutes, §241 does not require, as an element, the commission of an overt act. The offense is always a felony, even if the underlying conduct would not, on its own, establish a felony violation of another criminal civil rights statute.
All the officers involved in this case should be arrested and imprisoned for strong-arm robbery and electronic information fraud as well as contempt of court
The original is still the hard drive at the paper. The cops took a copy onto their own device. They can't turn over that physical device if it has or had unrelated data on it as well, so they have to make a copy of the downloaded data, onto a fresh device or one provided by the paper. Legit technical/security reason.
@@peter9477 Give the cop's computer to the newspaper staff so they can download/wipe their digital property. The paper will, of course, peruse the police dept files to determine if all of the paper's files are accounted for. They may have to make copies of police files, in order to study them in depth.
I knew this was happening when they refused to return them and they didn't. It's disgusting that they think they can get away with doing things like that. (and also the crime of falsifying documents/fraud). I think there are more criminal cops in this country than there are criminals that aren't cops.
That's what I've been saying for years. Public oversight is needed in courts to keep the courts in line with the law and protect the accused from being improperly jailed against their will.
Triple angle, triple redundancy for each angle (9 streams) video and audio recording for all LE. Random audits of the recordings, as well as regular audits. Humans can listen to and view audio and video at rates many times that of real-time. If that sounds like too many resources for auditing, that tells you we have too many LE personnel. All government agents should be subject to similar scrutiny, but perhaps not as stringent as for those with arrest authority. When we have more government agents than resources to monitor/audit them, it means we have too many government agents. Oh, and government employees shouldn't be able to vote for their own raises, or affect their jobs by forming unions. They shouldn't be able to vote in elections at whichever level of government they're employed, i.e. city employees can't vote in city elections, etc. This gives a chance at keeping the size of government from reaching critical mass.
@@johngalt97so if city employees can’t vote in city elections, then should only property owners be allowed to vote on ANYTHING that would raise their property taxes? I’m a firm believer that as a property owner, someone that doesn’t own property, they shouldn’t have any say in how much my property taxes should be.
The fact that these crimes are being put on RU-vid and not one other police agency has come to arrest these people just shows that it's the whole system that is corrupt and not just these cops.
The FBI needs to be investigating that whole police force, the judge, and everyone involved in illegal raid, this United States of America is getting unrecognizable
They need to push for the original back, not a copy. They also need to make sure the police doesn't have a copy of it also. They weren't entitled to it in the first place and now the Sherriff is still playing games.
[For the upcoming novelization SPOiLERS] And in a shocking twist, to preserve evidence in the criminal trial, a federal warrant is issued to seize all computers, servers and storage devices from the police department, to find that the data copied from the newpaper's computers was not destroyed, but parsed into a secret persecution list of all "anonymous" sources. Then WikiLeaks ends up with that copy of the copy of the original. In the end, the whole thing was just a hack by the chief's jilted mistress' teenage son, who was promised a Steam giftcard if he would do mommy this one little favor.
No matter what they give back, the police now know the names of the sources for the story that the newspaper was going to print. And that was the reason behind the raid in the first place. Those sources better be very careful and not go anywhere alone.
The main purpose for this unlawful raid was to get the names of the sources for the story the paper was developing. The paper rightfully refused to divulge that information, so the cops raided the paper's offices and took their computers to get those names. They now have those names, regardless of them having returned any computers or records containing the names. They should be held in contempt of court and not be let of the hook in any way for their illegal actions. Federal investigation and civil rights charges are needed.
Let’s see, here. The police are going to make a copy of the data, give them the now copy and destroy the original data they took? Man, I was born in the morning, but not this morning. The police as far as I can see here is that they have company server information and have been going through their customer and financial bases “sniffing” out crime. Anyone taking an oath should have questioned their bosses whether they were violating rights or not. This lawsuit is probably going to be a tad expensive to all the county residents who will pay for the chief’s stupidity.
There's potentially a legitimate technical and security reason behind this. If they made a copy onto a storage device that had been used for other data (and maybe still had it) then they can't turn over that physical device. Aside from the fact that devices is police property, the other data, even if erased, could be recovered by an expert. Making a copy onto a fresh device or one provided by the paper is the only safe way to do what's requested.
@@peter9477 Sounds like an excuse and bad policy. If they are mixing evidence, that sounds a lot like contamination to me. I don't care what their excuse is, they could have destroyed the evidence by deleting it, but they chose not to. Just like they do to citizens, that's no excuse. Do you think they care that you were only driving with out license to get to work? NO they don't care if you lose your job. Why would we care if they had mixed cases on a drive, that's not the news papers problem, that's the polices problem. They were ordered to give it back and they didn't. That is called contempt of court and is yet another crime they've committed.
@@dougaltolan3017 I'm guessing them thinking that way is the benign explanation for why it was left off the other list, but aside from that, the paper would want to be able to see exactly what information they had access to, so they could learn which sources were compromised etc. A copy of the copy is the only way, though I'd hope if I were them to have someone present when the copy is made so they could have confidence in it.
Every judge must consider, that signing a warrant for the press has the real likelihood of triggering a Federal investigation. 🤔 -New MI sub w/notifications! Looking forward to more good work on this from KSHB!
They always do whatever they want. Then lie to cover it up. It’s time to strongly reconsider why we are paying taxes to a criminal entity that wipes its ass with the law.
They said the attorney and the sheriffs department reached a deal. That news paper needs a new attorney. It sounds like the attorney is on the sheriffs side.
It is glaringly obvious the newspaper’s integrity may have been irreparably compromised. The civil judgement could be disgustingly substantial if there are impartial judges to be found in Kansas.😂😂😂
The law enforcement officers caused the death of the 93 year old co-owner of the paper by invading her home. Are they going to give her life back since the warrant was deemed invalid?
It looks like the people need to show up to the department with full Constitutional backing and shut down the Sheriff office. Sure sounds like a tyrannical government
So wait a minute …. The court ordered them to give something back and they didn’t …. And now this lawyer believes they will destroy it because they agreed to it? …… I’d fire that attorney in a second if he honestly believes these cops will destroy it …… I thought the cops were dumb but this lawyer takes the cake 🤦🏻♂️
Lawyer works in that city and has multiple cases that he needs police help with. So it’s - you scratch my back - kind of a deal. They will return the favor to him in another case where his client is guilty ( of murder maybe); and they will fail to find the gun or knife of fail to list it in the case evidence they send the judge. It’s not always about YOUR CASE ; when you deal with a Lawyer. He has to deal with the Judges and Police on a daily basses ; he bows out to dinner and drinks with them ; they are his buddies. Wake up ; that’s the system of Justice we have.
@@bingatos1879 WTF are you talking about its not always about my case when dealing with a lawyer? .....I hire a lawyer because it's only about my case with my lawyer.....if your lawyer works like that fire them and hire a new one....ive had 3 different attorneys in the last year dealing with multiple issues if any of them told me it isn't always about your case sometimes we gotta work with the cops .... I WOULD FIRE THEM IMMEDIATELY
Destroyed my ass!!!! You're going to go through it and look for whatever it is that they wanted to look for, and we got rid of it, here's the copy of what we got rid of, we don't have it anymore, but it's sitting on the Chiefs computer at home!!!!
The Marion police are the shame of Kansas. Something had better be done about them because they make the entire state and the profession of law enforcement look terrible.
I'm a native Kansan and the Marion cops are far from the worst. Salina cops drink openly on the job, sexually harass women, take bribes, and are pretty much MIA if you call 911.
@@phatplates Having dealt with and observed cops in many different parts of the US, I agree. In the USA, cops make the law, rather than enforce it--and we, the people, have let them do it.
The search was illegal. It should be referred to KBI and FBI. CRIMINAL complaints need to be filed against the magistrate and police department as the chief of police who perjured himself to obtain the unlawful warrant.
Great research journalism, this is what fuels America, honest and responsible reporting. The Integrity of Law enforcement here and the Ethics of the Prosecutor in Atlanta spells volumes of corruption!
The DMV sells its access to private data. No need to access databases illegally. In several states, the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) supplements its income by selling drivers' personal information-including their names, dates of birth, addresses, and the cars they own-to third parties. The raids of the newspaper and the homes of the Meyers and a City Council member happened on Aug. 11 after a local restaurant owner accused the newspaper of illegally accessing information about her.
These people think they can just do whatever they want with impunity. From the very beginning, they had no actual evidence a crime had been committed. All they had to go on was that some how the newspaper had obtained obtained information the complaintent and the cop thought was buried but it was still part of the public recored. They were either just too stupid to realize it was available or they thought they and their corrupt, criminal judge were powerful enough to steamroll the newspaper. The corruption is bad enough but the abject gall, operating from a point of sheer stupidity is astounding.
Famous last words from law enforcement who thinks their above law that refuses court orders, "we will return the original, and the copy will be destroyed".
ANYONE WHO HAS Watched a RU-vid video of the "police" disregarding the CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS of the people realize that this is common among police departments.
