Steve WolgastSix weeks after violating federal and state law in a newspaper raid, and three days after being suspended, the Marion, Kan., police chief resigns. Eric Meyer, the paper’s editor, tells The AP: “It kind of leads you to believe that there’s some smoking gun somewhere that everybody knows about and we’re going to try to get ahead of it.” #FirstAmendment #PressFreedome #FourthAmendment
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Police chief who led raid on Marion newspaper has resigned, official says
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas resigned Monday, just days after he was suspended from his post and following the release of body camera video of the raid showing an officer searching the desk of a reporter investigating the chief’s past. […]