Video released by the newspaper Monday shows Joan Meyer shouting at the six officers inside the Marion, Kansas, home she shared with her son, Marion County Record Editor and Publisher Eric Meyer. Standing with the aid of a walker and dressed in a long robe or gown and slippers, she seems visibly upset.
“Get out of my house … I don’t want you in my house!” she said at one point. “Don’t touch any of that stuff! This is my house!” she said at another.
Have DoJ announced anything about dealing with this authoritarian physical assault on journalism?
The newspaper is suing the cops and city. And since I’m NAL I’m unsure if the state or feds have first juristiction on this, iirc the state has already begun an investigation.
I would not call this a civil case, especially with a dead victim.
The feds can look into it as a civil rights violation afaik. Because this is a major civil rights violation.
The FBI supporting this and the far right is why we are here as a nation so I wouldn’t put much stock in them doing anything. They are federal police. Their brothers are the police officers who did this. They are one in the same. The FBI can just afford better messaging.
They’re all going to claim qualified immunity :(
I don’t imagine they are in a hurry to say anything.