# Police stage 'chilling' raid on small Kansas newspaper, seizing computers (due to divorce conflict?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** breaking-news\ **Created:** [August 12, 2023, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-small-kansas-newspaper-seizing-computers-due-to-divorce-conflict/988438 "2023-08-12T02:57:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2023, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-small-kansas-newspaper-seizing-computers-due-to-divorce-conflict/988438/6 "2023-08-12T19:58:39Z")
This reminds of a story in a recent thread (warning, [Pit content](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1990)) - although the incident in question can be reviewed here: [Oklahoma officials recorded making racist and threatening remarks | Oklahoma | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/18/oklahoma-mccurtain-county-sheriff-officials-recording-racist-threatening-remarks#:~:text=A%20sheriff%20and%20several%20officials,journalists%20and%20lynch%20Black%20citizens). Granted, it utterly lacks the additional racial profiling, insults, and threats, but the whole “local government does what it wants and how DARE you report on it” feels perfectly in sync. It also continues an ongoing trend of politicians, local, state and federal, treating our excess of police and security forces as a private army. And the extremely limited pushback they get when they do so. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-small-kansas-newspaper-seizing-computers-due-to-divorce-conflict/988438)._