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.”
According to CNN, Cody allegedly forcibly grabbed reporter Deb Gruver’s cellphone and injured a finger that had previously been dislocated.
Outrage over this alleged violation of Meyer’s First Amendment rights have spread and all confiscated equipment was returned. But Joan Meyers is now gone.
Carrie Renegers wrote an article for the Marion County Record titled, “‘A whole lot of history’ dies with Joan Meyer,” on Aug. 16.
'A whole lot of history' dies with Joan Meyer: Joan Meyer spent each of her almost 10 decades of life in about a six-block radius in Marion, but she was a worldly woman who had an impactful newspaper career, a vigilance with words, a powerful sense of… https://t.co/nzchzzj1pN
— Marion County Record (@marionrecord) August 17, 2023
This noted that after the Friday raid, Joan Meyer said, “These are Hitler tactics, and something has to be done.”
The article also stated, “Joan Meyer couldn’t sleep Friday night.”
It detailed how she asked her son, “Where are all the good people who are supposed to stop this from happening?”
She couldn’t eat and died mid-sentence when her son tried to feed her the next day.
The article also noted that Eric Meyer is “not sure how long his mother might have lived if the raid hadn’t happened.”
