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Susan A. Kitchens

How Dare They
Blistering Op-Ed by Eric Meyer, publisher of #MarionCountyRecord

“Officials waited until days after the search to file affidavits…
Unlike reporters covering the story, police listened to only 1 person, who simultaneously spewed lies at a city council meeting.”
https://shar.es/afNOvk

As A journalist, I’m incensed by government violating the First Amendment by raiding a constitutionally protected newsroom. </p>
As a citizen, I’m incensed by government violating the Fourth Amendment by searching for things it could have obtained simply by asking — particularly when the only way it knew about them was because the target had revealed them and offered, without any response, to cooperate.
As a taxpayer and a resident, I’m incensed by government wasting huge sums on drawn-out simultaneous raids involving every officer available for a supposed crime that, if true, was nowhere near the level for which such operations are reserved.
Irregularities incense me more. Officials waited until days after the search to file affidavits that warrants supposedly were based on. Unlike reporters covering the story, police listened to only one person, who simultaneously spewed lies at a city council meeting. The police chief and perhaps even the mayor had ample motive to have manipulated t...

11:44 PM - Aug 16, 2023

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