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Jesus. It's crazy to learn that tons of cops are as comically corrupt and incompetent as Chief Wiggum.
The end really topped everything off-
Cody told Soyez that it “made his day” to yank Gruver’s phone out of her hand during the raid. Soyez then told him that his body camera was still on, and Cody had Hudlin turn it off, saying he couldn’t “get this damn thing to turn off,” the lawsuit states.
Shit. I knew the shit stunk when they first talked about this police rate of a newspaper. But holy shit it only gets worse. Thank fuck they have as much as they do on video.
This story gets worse with every new revelation.
I've been following some of the aftermath. The restaurant owner with the DUI who's been driving without a license for ~15 years, and wasn't eligible for a liquor license because of it? She got her liquor license, and there's been no reports of her either getting her driver's license back, or getting stopped for driving without a license, or her no longer driving. The County Attorney who should've reviewed the illegal search warrant before it went to the judge, and the judge who signed off on the illegal search warrant? Slap on the wrist; I think they both got admonitory letters or something similar. The sheriff who arranged the illegal raid? He hung on in office for a couple months before abruptly resigning with no further comment; the county has resisted firing him because they were afraid they'd have to pay out his severance package, which I suspect they ended up doing just to make the corrupt, sexist asshole go away.
The raid broke the spirit of the journalist who was working on the story about the sheriff; she retired, and I hope her finger healed okay. The deputy mayor who was trying to discretely find out whether it was legal for the DUI restaurant owner to have a liquor license; she was voted out of office in November. I believe the reporter who was working on the story about the DUI restaurant owner, I think she's still with the paper but she had to take some time off to get over the stress. And the newspaper owner/editor is still there, of course, but the stress literally killed his mother and I'm not sure what that's done to his spirit, either.
In the end, I can't help but feel that all the corrupt people in this story got something close to what they wanted, while all the actually moral people each lost something important to them. :(
Absolutely despicable! Thank you for summarizing all of these details, this story has such sprawl it's difficult to capture just how all the issues factor into one another anymore. Really hope that justice starts to play out in the long term, but I'm not convinced that will happen on account of the corruption emanating from the State; the Kansas Bureau of Investigation decided to involve CBI in the matter, indicating the rot likely permeates much of the state bureaucracy as well.
There's also the attempt to undermine Kansas' 2016 Open Records Act in preventing the release of pertinent communications by officials and court records during and shortly before the raid (which many anti-transparency activists in the Kansas GOP are trying to use to get rid of the KORA (1 and 2)).
Not only are they awful, they aren't even good at being awful
An the former police chief is going to face zero consequences.
Throwing a pizza party over bossing around a 98 year old woman.
What the fuck is wrong with people.
Gideon Cody is a piece of shit.
cannot make sense of headline starts reading article like good little lemming thinking this would make a good comedy starring nicolas cage damn the cooked cops could make bank selling the rights wait, is this the onion? wondering how stupid malicious idiots get into positions of power realizing this has been going on since the dawn of time
Damn now I'm hungry for pizza
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