Sounds like this restaurant owner has some friends high up on the force?
Police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom
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#12If the article is even half accurate, they must be using a different definition of "identity theft" than the one I understand.
Are there any details about those allegations? I'd be interested to see what the warrant gave as cause. We seem to be jumping to the conclusion that these journalists are innocent.
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#13Sounds like this restaurant owner has some friends high up on the force?
That's exactly what I was thinking. Either the judge who issued the order or something like that.
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#14Who has authority to investigate the police department for this obvious corruption? Can anyone be held accountable?
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#15If the article is even half accurate, they must be using a different definition of "identity theft" than the one I understand.
It's in quotes because that's the allegation made as probable cause for the warrant. So, the article is correct, but the allegation is preposterous and big reason that everyone is inferring the entire operation was retribution and abuse of power.
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#16Who has authority to investigate the police department for this obvious corruption? Can anyone be held accountable?
Basically go up the food chain. This corruption is probably more on the magistrate who signed the warrant than the police who served it, but that gets investigated by the state or the DOJ.
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#17Who has authority to investigate the police department for this obvious corruption? Can anyone be held accountable?
I can’t vouch for it, but the article I read yesterday stated that the police department violated a federal law governing how law enforcement seizes information from journalists. If so, the feds could become involved.
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#18> "It is true that in most cases, [the Privacy Protection Act] requires police to use subpoenas, rather than search warrants, to search the premises of journalists unless they themselves are suspects in the offense that is the subject of the search," Cody said.
Presumably the restaurant owner accusing the newspaper editor of identity theft gives good cover for the police chief to get a warrant and search for anything else (ie information about investigations into himself). That does give a veneer of legality to the raid.
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#19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37102271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37096015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37105764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37120188
At least one of those is currently buried on 3rd page, despite "110 points by uptown 1 hour ago | ... | 19 comments". It sounds like a tragic and suspicious situation, and what I'm most curious about (since this is HN) is whether the federal government will step in, and figure out what's going on.
Every one of these turns into a flamewar of cynical "America bad, corruption is the norm, there is no free press, etc." comments.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least one of those is currently buried on 3rd page, despite "110 points by uptown 1 hour ago | ... | 19 comments". It sounds like a tragic and suspicious situation, and what I'm most curious about (since this is HN) is whether the federal government will step in, and figure out what's going on.
Every one of these turns into a flamewar of cynical "America bad, corruption is the norm, there is no free press, etc." comments.
really makes u tink huh