A small newspaper and a police department in Kansas are at the center of a dispute over freedom of speech after police raided the office of the local newspaper and the home of its owner and publisher.
An attorney for the newspaper deemed the searches and seizures illegal and said the police department’s action “offends the constitutional protections the founding fathers gave the free press.” The Society of Professional Journalists pledged $20,000 toward the newspaper’s legal defense.
What were the police thinking? This is clearly illegal. Elsewhere in the article it mentions the paper was in the midst of an investigation of the police chief.
Oh... Fun Fact. I'm from KCMO where the Chief served for 24 years. Look up our gun violence rate (maybe you can't, I tried, and it looks like news agencies just stopped counting due to the frequency - the last one was just on Saturday) and our homicide rate.