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>>anigbr+(OP)
All this because someone leaked the paper a report about a local restaurateur getting a dui while driving without a license? A report that the paper went to the police about after deciding not to publish it.

None of these police should ever be allowed power over another human being ever again. They can muck stables for the rest of their days.

>>sleepy+F4
No, the newspaper was investigating Chief of Police Gideon Cody's sexual misconduct, and the identities of the accusers were on one of the seized computers.

Source: https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the...

>>jacobo+05
Crazy. Imagine the environment in this is either lawful or felt like they could get away with it.

>>barbaz+p6
Americans live it every day...

>>uoaei+P6
I think humans have lived with it every day ever since the first human picked up a rock and told someone else what to do or else. The point is an orderly use of power according to the law. These events do seem fairly far outside the norm in America, otherwise it wouldn’t be a top story on HN or anywhere else. It would be common life.

There are many place on earth where writing such a story is itself a crime because it’s illegal to criticize the government in any way.

While the American law enforcement system is broken in a systemic and fundamental way, and there are better places, and there are worse places, there is at least a system of laws that often provides relief and redress - but most importantly there exists avenues to fix the system over time and the open ability to advocate loudly for a restructuring of the government and its powers. This is a blessing in every society that has it, including in America.