Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

nadermx

Imagine the town of flynt getting arrested for having your government fail you.

bfkwlfkjf

Land of the free

6stringmerc

Not surprised. Tarrant County told the US Marshals my styrofoam cooler with vomit in it was a “bomb threat” and charged me with use of a DEADLY WEAPON. Honestly. If my public defender hadn’t colluded with the Prosecution it wouldn’t be on my record today. This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better in the US. I’m a nonviolent cripple. Meanwhile a pardoned Jan 6 rioter just told a City Counsel “they should be strung up” and isn’t even being charged. Totally depends what team you’re on right now.

vjvjvjvjghv

I assume she will get a settlement, the city (the taxpayer) will pay for it and nothing else changes. There will be even less money for infrastructure repair and people will keep voting for the same people.

SilverElfin

The craziest part is the police defending this action as a “cut and dry” case. Meanwhile the lawsuit this woman just filed will hurt taxpayers and not the corrupt city officials and police that caused this. We need to ban all forms of immunity - none for cops, politicians, or judges. They need to be personally liable for their actions.

nkrisc

Yikes, they’ll have to arrest most of the current federal administration if they ever set foot in Texas if that post meets the criteria for that particular law. That’s going to cause problems.

markoman

This type of treatment of citizenry by the State of Texas, and its various (and especially red ) localities should be all one needs to see of where conservatives (and Christian Naitonalism) will take our country in the future -- should they get their way. Republicans hope to enable just such a future by scaring Americans with made-up visions of transsexuals 'grooming' their children, yet they cleverly hide what awaits behind the curtain. The is the same curtain that hides why Israel is supposed to be so very, very important to the U.S. but not so much that we make them state #51. This is the magical (read: Biblical ) rationale that the U.S. makes excuses for Israel's attack on its own USS Liberty in 1967. Saying nothing of the future of abortion & contraception, U.S. conservatives base their worldview on sexuality & reproduction and seek to burden it with fixtures that we have already spent hundreds of year to free ourselves from. At the same time, they take their eye off the ball of keeping our country competitive in the world. How embarrassing it is now to have the Chinese president suggest that the U.S. is in decline and that it shouldn't get caught in a Thucydides Trap. Yet, that is where Trump has put us indeed.

mvdtnz

How does a town in the richest nation in the history of the planet not have the resources to get clear drinking water flowing through their taps?

pstuart

This is a textbook free speech issue, versus not being able to post your conspiracy theory on some web site which has nothing to do with free speech.

infinite_spin

I'm not a lawyer, but I think qualified immunity should not apply to constitutional violations. Giving an opt-out for those violations is antithetical to the very substance of our (US) constitution.

thekevan

The city issued a boil water advisory about about 13 or 14 days after her arrest.

vsgherzi

This is dumb af. There should be an extremely small subset of things you can say online that get you arrested. This is definitely not one of them. I hope she she’s and it’s sets a precedent for cases after. I’d hate to see a ruling like the UK. While is vervently disagree with some of the awful things they post they shouldn’t be arrested for it.

coderintherye

Somewhat similar premise to the recent settlement that came out for the man arrested for posting a meme in Tennessee https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/a-tennessee-man-was-ja...

rami3l

I was immediately reminded of this old piece on water quality issues and local politics... > An Enemy of the People [..] is an 1882 play [..] that [..] centers on Dr. Thomas Stockmann, who discovers a serious contamination issue in his town's new spas, endangering public health. His courageous decision to expose this truth brings severe backlash from local leaders [..] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enemy_of_the_People

thekingshorses

This week, there was two different settlement close to $800K related to someone posting and getting arrested about what charlie kirk said. This woman shouldn't settle for anything less.

scoofy

The charges have already been dismissed: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/charges-dismissed-against-... Good on the grand jury for not indicting this ham sandwich.

rolph

upon inspection of images pertaining to water at the point of usage, i declare said water to be Alaskan well water. use a 5micron, and 1micron particulate filter in series, and it looks like it came from a bottle. you would be well advised to test for heavy metals, esp. arsenic most people here dont use softening or reverse osmosis

userbinator

Apparently people here will also censor speech that doesn't align with their narratives, but will complain loudly when speech that does is censored.

nnutter

It seems suspicious to me that they do not include the "offending" Facebook post. It seems like this is it, and it seems completely in the realm of journalism, https://scontent.fcps4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/6654022...

metalman

I once stated to one of my fathers aqaintences in the local town council that I was considering refuseing to pay my water bill on the grounds that water is defined as a coulorless, odourless liquid, and what comes out of my tap is niether, his imediate request was "can I use that?" and so, not too long after we got a significant upgrade to the towns water, which is now of a much better quality, withmore upgrades all the time.