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John Hanna | Associated Press

‘Get out of my house!’ Video shows 98-year-old mother of Kansas newspaper publisher upset amid raid

Eric Meyer, editor and publisher of the Marion County Record, looks over the first newspaper published after police raided the newspaper’s offices and his home Aug. 11, seizing cellphones, computers and documents. (Associated Press)

MARION, Kan. — Newly released video shows the 98-year-old mother of a Kansas newspaper publisher confronting police officers as they searched her home in a raid that has drawn national scrutiny, at one point demanding: “Get out of my house!”

Video released by the newspaper Monday shows Joan Meyer shouting at the six officers inside the Marion, Kansas, home she shared with her son, Marion County Record Editor and Publisher Eric Meyer. Standing with the aid of a walker and dressed in a long robe or gown and slippers, she seems visibly upset.

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