Video of Elderly Kansas Newspaper Co-Owner Being Raided By Police Released After Death
A new video has emerged after a 98-year-old newspaper co-owner was raided by police and died the next day. The footage displays the Aug. 11 raid of Joan Meyer’s home and the newspaper’s office. As police searched her…
A new video has emerged after a 98-year-old newspaper co-owner was raided by police and died the next day.
The footage displays the Aug. 11 raid of Joan Meyer’s home and the newspaper’s office. As police searched her residence, she stood in the corner using a walker and urged them not to touch her belongings.
One of the officers looked at her and started to speak but was interrupted when she declared, “This is my house!”
The officer then explained, “We’ll be out of here pretty quick.”
Meyer said, “Get out of my house!” and then walked around the police, asking what they were doing as they examined her computer.
According to the Post Millennial, Meyer and her son, Eric, own the Marion County Record. Eric Meyer now blames the raid for his mother’s death. There were reports she was “stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief.”
The police chief in charge of the raid, Gideon Cody, had already faced calls to be removed from his position at an earlier City Council meeting.
In addition, a prosecutor on the case has stated the search and seizure of Meyer’s belongings has ended due to “insufficient evidence.”