Posted on 08/14/2023 5:38:04 PM PDT by george76
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 where they 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.
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until now had never been at the center of a national battle over freedom of the press.
But as First Amendment advocates spoke out against the raid, it emerged 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.
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Eric Meyer told The Handbasket substack 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.
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The explosive claims – as well as the identities of who made them – were contained on one of the computers seized during the raids at the newspaper’s office, Meyer said.
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This is Gestapo tactics from World War II.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Lock all of them up and the judge that issued the warrant.
In America, a charge of murder #1 is sure to follow...
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Well, now.
That's very interesting.
Apparently, the practice of covering up widespread sexual crimes is far more common, and far more widespread, than some people would have us believe.
A whole lot of not-so-local, not-so-"deputydawg" lawman types need that treatment.
Like, for example, the gang of thugs that kidnapped Paul Manafort ... or the gang of thugs that raided Mar-a-lago.
The saddest part is that, even if the newspaper ultimately “wins” on this issue, the taxpayers will pay the costs involved for all of the lawyers, court costs, and financial judgments that ensue.
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I think that the saddest part was that this ever happpened. Where have our rights gone?
If i were ruler they would hang in the town square, their bodies would be dipped in tar and hung from lamp posts at the edge of town until they rotted away.
No fan of the press but these idiots crossed the Rubicon and they did it because they see the illegal president and his thugs do the same thing nearly every day.
Was the chief getting free donuts, lunch, booze or something else at Newell's bar and grill?
As for the press, don't the sheeple need to know if their police chief is corrupt?
Back up off site, back up off site!
Granted that the State Police or other investigators should be able to recover the computer, and if it's been tampered with, more charges will follow.
This story, rather incomplete, was on our local news too. So it appears to be getting traction.
Publishing may not be easy for the survivors. The police confiscated every bit of electronic gear they had and likely all the paper they could find. Unless the police are technologically deficient and don’t have an IT guy all that data is vaporized and likely there has been some physical destruction besides. Unless some incensed folks have set up an online fund they probably do not have the money to start up anew. If they can, I hope all that data was stored on a couple of remote servers, in the cloud, as it were.
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