Original title "A Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million and apologize over a raid on a small-town newspaper" compressed to fit within title limits.

Related:

Ex-Kansas police chief who raided local newspaper criminally charged - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41240755 - August 2024 (92 comments)

Kansas police chief who led the raid on the Marion County Record has resigned - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37757664 - Oct 2023 (8 comments)

Police chief who led raid of Marion County Record has been suspended - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37722438 - Oct 2023 (48 comments)

Marion County atty withdraws search warrant against Kansas paper, returns items - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37151697 - Aug 2023 (37 comments)

Police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37120350 - Aug 2023 (146 comments)

Small Kansas newspaper says co-owner, 98, collapsed and died after police raid - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37120188 - Aug 2023 (43 comments)

Co-owner of Kansas newspaper dies after police raid - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37114892 - Aug 2023 (4 comments)

Illegal raids contribute to death of newspaper co-owner - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37105764 - Aug 2023 (103 comments)

A conversation with a newspaper owner raided by cops - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37102271 - Aug 2023 (118 comments)

Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37096015 - Aug 2023 (138 comments)

Ignorance is the natural enemy of Democracy.

If the authorities elected to serve in this town were OK with this raid, you can bet a significant portion of the local population was too.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45910142