The police chief who led a highly criticized raid of a small Kansas newspaper, that saw its 98-year-old owner die the following day, has been suspended.
The Marion County mayor has defended the cops who raided a local Kansas newspaper and elderly co-owner Joan Meyer s home - and blamed the judge for approving the search warrant.
The raid, carried out the Marion County Record on August 11, was personally led by Chief Gideon Cody. Another raid was enacted on the home of the publisher s mother, who died the next day.
The woman whose battle with a Kansas newspaper led to a raid has revealed the hate mail she s received blaming her for the death of the publication s owner.