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Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality
- bfkwlfkjf 4mo agoLand of the free
- 6stringmerc 4mo agoWorld Cup Tourists about to get some “civic lessons” if they buy that too much, mmmhmmm.
- vjvjvjvjghv 4mo agoI assume you mean "Land of the fee"
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- nozzlegear 4mo agoThis is newsworthy because it's a clear and flagrant violation of her rights. Source: I was threatened with a lawsuit by my own town for criticizing them online, but the ACLU helped me counter sue and win a settlement for violating my first amendment rights.
- poly2it 4mo agoWas the comment you are replying to edited?
- markoman 4mo ago'Equal Justice Under Law'
- nxm 4mo agoYea compared to Europe where you get arrested for memes
- snvzz 4mo agoIn Europe, this sort of thing is routine and doesn't make the news.
- nadermx 4mo agoImagine the town of flynt getting arrested for having your government fail you.
- 6stringmerc 4mo agoNot 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 4mo ago"Meanwhile a pardoned Jan 6 rioter just told a City Counsel “they should be strung up” and isn’t even being charged." A great candidate to get some money from the lawfare fund.
- Duwensatzaj 4mo agoIs this from 2024? The news article mentioned a threatening note. Curious what it said.
- 6stringmerc 4mo agoIt said they were covering up abuse by a Deputy and that they should clean house old school out front of their HQ. There was a drawing of a noose on it. At no point did the note say anything about action being planned or threatened against them, only that they should do it themselves. I’ve got a copy of it if you’re interested to see the real thing. that.sam.cliff via the mail service of the company under alphabet. Even my public defender read it line by line with me and admitted “there’s no threat here” but he’s a fat drunk dependent on them giving him work. He even told me about his “chats” with the Prosecution attorney to “negotiate” the plea deal. Totally rotten. Turned my life around since then but by no means was justice served…I keep my squeaky clean self out of the County as much as possible. FWIW 70 inmates have died in custody in the past 5 years. Place is understaffed by 100+ officers.
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- gdulli 4mo agoWe should call this obsession "longest Covid". Certain people will be on this until they die.
- stouset 4mo agoI would imagine it’s hard to be reminded of things that didn’t actually occur.
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- thinkingtoilet 4mo agoProvide proof of someone getting arrested for a social media post.
- userbinator 4mo agoDid the ones posting about the water provide "proof" also?
- queenkjuul 4mo agoRtfa
- nilslindemann 4mo agoLying is not free speech.
- GaryBluto 4mo agoIt very much is.
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- vjvjvjvjghv 4mo agoI 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.
- snazypaparazzi 4mo agoI think everything is consistent with the perspective Texas represents toward the united states. It's fine if Texas doesn't implement reforms and fails. (There are 49 other states and may the ones that invent or adopt the best practices survive.)
- smt88 4mo agoWhat do you think “fails” means exactly? How does Texas fail in a way that doesn’t harm innocent people in both Texas and the rest of the country/world? Texas is larger (in both population and economy) than most countries in the world.
- snazypaparazzi 4mo agoThe Federal government enforces a few rules and then leaves things to the state and people. Obviously that means the state and people have no nanny to protect them from consequences of their decisions. If they drain their budgets fighting the civil rights of their population instead of fixing a problem then they might look like a lot of bankrupt municipalities. The US is obligated to let that happen.
- autoexec 4mo agoNot really. The federal government bails Texas out of the messes they get themselves into all the time (like their shitty power grid). Historically, Texas has often received more in federal funding than it contributes in federal taxes.
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- SilverElfin 4mo agoThe 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.
- rightbyte 4mo agoExactly which types of politicians, judges etc would be targeted by liability do you think? The unrighteous politicians? The judges in favour of those in power?
- SilverElfin 4mo agoI mean that when someone files a lawsuit to defend their civil/constitutional rights and wins, the penalty must be paid by the offenders and not taxpayers. For example the police who made the arrest and their supervisors.
- Bilal_io 4mo agoI hear you, but there has to be some balance between full immunity and no immunity at all. The one thing that comes to mind is rich and powerful people, because they have unlimited resources to sue and ruin the lives of cops, judges and politicians, which would lead to these officials avoiding to hold rich and powerful individuals accountable even when they have committed crimes.
- ben_w 4mo agoI'm not a lawyer, but what you're describing sounds to me like an example of strategic lawsuits against public participation, just where the targeted "public" isn't a member of the general public but a public servant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...
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- nkrisc 4mo agoYikes, 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.
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- markoman 4mo agoThis 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.
- jyounker 4mo agoWell said.
- dlubarov 4mo ago> the U.S. makes excuses for Israel's attack on its own USS Liberty in 1967. It's strange how this 59-year-old incident keeps getting brought up. Friendly fire happens all the time, and Israel apologized and paid reparations ages ago.
- samrus 4mo agoThe conspiracy theory is that it wasnt just friendly fire but an attempted false flag. Make if that what you will
- markoman 4mo agoExcept they don't happen all the time, because this incident killed 34 Americans & wounded 171. Is that not remarkable enough for a 'blue-ribbon' commission of investigation? If one of our European allies had done this, wouldn't a commission be held to review all the evidence and make a determination as to cause? One needn't dig too deep to see there isn't too much wiggle room for mere misunderstanding. The nearly defenseless ship suffered 2 hours of withering attack by both waves of jets and torpedo boats; this with an American flag and its hull number in open display as it operated in international waters. The context was that this ship was an intelligence ship bristling with antennas and recording everything it could from the combatants in the ongoing six-day-war in 1967. If there's any conspiracy, its how for years afterward whenever a congressman sought an investigation as requested by one of the family of those killed, the effort was silently killed despite its impact, over and over. There are a lot of details involved and many actions to be assessed on both sides, but it should merit more than a Navy Court of Inquiry. When the captain of the ship received his Medal of Honor for saving his ship while injured, it was awarded to him by the Secretary of the Navy quietly at the Washington Navy Yard. The usual procedure is that the MoH be presented by the president in the White House in a ceremony. So, there's that.
- mvdtnz 4mo agoHow 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?
- beAbU 4mo agoPresumably because they are spending their money prosecuting people complaining about bad water. Money does not grow on trees, you know!
- umvi 4mo agoWater is handled at the city level, not the federal level. If you have incompetent local leadership, this can happen. Incompetent local leaders can (and have!) bankrupted their cities.
- azinman2 4mo agoTexas also is all about no/low taxes.
- SJMG 4mo agoYou must not own property in Texas
- nxm 4mo agoMeanwhile in Flint Michigan…
- frankharv 4mo agoThankfully most cities were not stupid enough to buy lead lined pipes.....
- array_key_first 4mo agoTheoretically. In practice, the total tax burden in Texas is above average for US states.
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- pstuart 4mo agoThis 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.
- Lionga 4mo agoWho decideds what is free speech and what is a conspiracy theory? For a long time saying tabaco creates lung cancers was basically a conspiracy theory and saying it is healthy was free speech.
- jyounker 4mo agoSince at least the 70s everyone knew that it caused lung cancer. It's just that industry spending prevented anyone from doing something about it, in the exactly the same way that we've been seeing with global warming.
- pstuart 4mo agoAgain, free speech as commonly used, is about Constitutional protection from the government trying to curtail and/or punish individual's speech. Prior to the internet, the "free speech" you're thinking of was down to whoever owned the printing press of interest. The OP was about the government punishing a woman for criticizing their public utility.
- jyounker 4mo agoI wasn't replying to the OP.
- infinite_spin 4mo agoI'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.
- jazzypants 4mo agoQualified Immunity should not apply ever. Period. No one should be above the law for any reason ever.
- pdpi 4mo agoLet's not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Qualified immunity, as a concept, makes perfect sense. Police officers are not jurists, and they will make mistakes in enforcing the law. Making those officers personally liable for honest mistakes is, IMO, excessive. The issue isn't qualified immunity itself, but rather the maximalist interpretation that seems pervasive in the US justice system, and the overwhelmingly broad definition of "honest mistake" that seemingly applies to the police, and the police alone.
- jazzypants 4mo agoI think you would find that they would make far fewer illegal mistakes if they actually had to deal with the consequences of those mistakes. Qualified Immunity didn't exist as a concept until the 1960s, and it was put in place to shield policemen enacting racist policies and corrupt cronies of Nixon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
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- hk1337 4mo agoI think we would see far fewer actions at all for fear of being sued.
- thekevan 4mo agoThe city issued a boil water advisory about about 13 or 14 days after her arrest.
- luxuryballs 4mo agothey said to make sure you boil it slowly though, so the local frogs don’t jump out! /s
- vsgherzi 4mo agoThis 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.
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- coderintherye 4mo agoSomewhat 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-jailed-over-his-charlie-kirk-social-media-comments-now-hes-won-a-835000-settlement https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/a-tennessee-man-was-ja...
- rami3l 4mo agoI 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enemy_of_the_People
- alsetmusic 4mo agoThis is the sort of comment that really enriches my life. Not only would I not have known about this author (I'm an english-only speaker), but I clicked onto another work ("Ghosts" in english, possibly more accurate as "Again Walkers" per the wiki), and this quickly grabs my interest: "Because of its subject matter, which includes religion, venereal disease, incest, and euthanasia, it immediately generated strong controversy and adverse criticism." This author wrote stuff that broke norms with taboo. That alone doesn't make the work meaningful, but the accolades mentioned in the article make me think of him as a P.T. Anderson of his time. Thanks for the reference and link!
- thekingshorses 4mo agoThis 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.
- p_j_w 4mo agoDo you have information on this? I’m curious to see.
- jkestner 4mo agohttps://www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/politics/retired-cop-jailed-over-charlie-kirk-meme https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/politics/retired-cop-jailed-o...
- paconbork 4mo agoHere's a post about it from FIRE, the org that defended him https://www.fire.org/news/victory-tennessee-man-jailed-37-days-trump-meme-wins-835000-settlement-after-first-amendment https://www.fire.org/news/victory-tennessee-man-jailed-37-da...
- scoofy 4mo agoThe charges have already been dismissed: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/charges-dismissed-against-trinidad-texas-water-protestors-as-city-hall-closes/ar-AA23MnJv https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/charges-dismissed-against-... Good on the grand jury for not indicting this ham sandwich.
- pfdietz 4mo agoThat town now has not just a bad water problem, but a large free speech lawsuit problem. Maybe they could dock the Chief's retirement account?
- conductr 4mo agoShould be a “cut and dry” decision just like how he described the arrest
- p_j_w 4mo agoThe chief of police stands proudly by his decision. This will happen again.
- cortesoft 4mo agoThey always knew the charges wouldn’t stick. The punishment they were handing out was she had to spend a night in jail and spend money on a lawyer. They already dished out the punishment, so they don’t care that it was dismissed.
- rolph 4mo agoupon 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 4mo agoApparently people here will also censor speech that doesn't align with their narratives, but will complain loudly when speech that does is censored.
- nnutter 4mo agoIt 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/t39.30808-6/665402239_1287167780269989_9352582374064712_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg_tt6&_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=g3NAaLglEocQ7kNvwHkJiYa&_nc_oc=AdqY3HPjqq-0Zbnko9Eo791Ensqoqn7r88pVs3DsYPmvh4cz_SpczzNO2VIsEA4SQHuWWvkch7nrguTU1ZIaTU_w&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.fcps4-2.fna&_nc_gid=PkSjfcbZW_oQYRw3wNnOvQ&_nc_ss=7b289&oh=00_Af76UcbgmNFummKZm-ScENHVsOVrnnZsgB0GE5HrTDvxuA&oe=6A17BF2E https://scontent.fcps4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/6654022...
- xeromal 4mo agoThis link doesn't seem to load
- jolmg 4mo agoThe domain only has an IPv6 address, so the link doesn't work on IPv4.
- SV_BubbleTime 4mo agoSeems like someone is aiming for the future.
- tardedmeme 4mo agoIPv6 is the present. IPv4 is the past. IPv8 is the future.
- _zoltan_ 4mo agoI disable v6 on all my networks.
- tardedmeme 4mo agoMany people are stuck in the past.
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- metalman 4mo agoI 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.
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- arjie 4mo agoThese small towns are often just armed HOAs and the law is usually secondary to administration whim. One would imagine that state and federal police are the weapons to bring to bear on them.
- thiht 4mo agoIs America great yet?
- jimnotgym 4mo agoSaving this one for the next time an American says, 'In your stupid European country you can get arrested for simply saying something online'
- dylan604 4mo agoYou left out the word legally. You can legally be arrested for simply saying something online. This was not a legal arrest. Small difference
- wokkel 4mo agoSemantics. The result is the same. The cause: no repercussions for missing the system that is in place is a bigger fallacy imho
- dylan604 4mo agoHow is it semantics? If someone posts something in a land that has laws preventing it, then they know the possible repercussions. Someone posting something where it is legal gets arrested, they have recourse for the violations done to them. It's so not the same, I'm straining to understand what you think the point you are making is.
- geekone 4mo agoI'd guess the semantics is along the lines of she was still arrested, and any legal recourse she may have will take time and money with likely zero repercussions to the police dept.
- gib444 4mo agoDoesn't 'legal arrest' have a specific legal meaning? How have you ascertained it was an illegal arrest? And what made it illegal?
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- gblargg 4mo agoWhen not being arrested is your only singular concern, this is a good approach.
- samrus 4mo agoThis country got where it did because people refused to follow the bullshit your peddling
- ShinyLeftPad 4mo agoSomeone is speedrunning getting a thread to comparison with you know who's Germany in you know what years...
- computersuck 4mo agoso much for democracy
- dylan604 4mo agoyou forgot to date that properly, 20 January, 2025
- jmyeet 4mo agoIf you look at the legal system through the lens of "what benefits the wealthy or powerful?" you will more accurately guess what is going to happen and this goes from local issues such as this one all the way to the Supreme Court. We just had the Broadview 6 case dismissed (with prejudice) this week. The Broadview 6 included former Chicago Congressional primary contender, Kat Abugazaleh. It was a bullshit set of charges for daring to protest an ICE facility. It was always going away but what was more disturbing is the prosecutorial misconduct [1]. The level of misconduct should rise to the level of disbarment. It will get referred to the bar and it'll probably be some slap-on-the-wrist sanctions however. Prosecutors hold a lot of power and can make your life hell. They need to be held to a very high standard and any whiff of this kind of misconduct should forever bar you from being a prosecutor or a judge. In this case the prosecutor basically engaged in witness tampering (effectively) with the grand jury proceedings and then tried to cover it up by redacting those parts of the grand jury transcripts. Those redactions basically amount to committing perjury, making false filings to the court under oath. That's the lengths prosecutors will go to to crush protests. This goes equally for exposing incompetence, negligence or corruption by the town for mismanaging the water supply. This kind of overreach and misconduct is all too common. [1]:https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/broadview-6-trial-canceled-as-prosecutors-acknowledge-misconduct-before-grand-jury/ https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/broadview-6-trial-cance...
- oooyay 4mo ago> The statute requires that a person knowingly circulate a false report. Combs says she was repeating what people told her. Gregory says she should have verified it with the hospitals first It would be a violation of HIPAA for a medical system to disclose that to a private individual. The State Health Services or TCEQ would need to conduct that investigation and ask those questions. Both of those are state level agencies and would require significant momentum for a small town like Trinidad to trigger their attention. Ironically, it sounds like her social media post and the Streisand effect around it have triggered a TCEQ boil water notice and (likely) an investigation. It is absolutely bizarre for a municipal or county law enforcement agency to take interest in this kind of thing. Texas Rangers and federal authorities should be looking at what triggered her arrest and whatever investigation came before it. That's assuming Greg Abbot, Dan Patrick, or Ken Paxton haven't totally compromised them at this point.
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- throwaway902984 4mo agoDidn't greg abbot spend a lot of time trying to make political hay out of persecuting a Muslim charity? Not from the state, so correct me if I am wrong.
- mcphage 4mo agoYou wish your state had more politicians that disregarded the constitution?
- margalabargala 4mo agoWhat do you mean? Abbott and politicians like him are well known for disregarding the law for their own advancement/benefit. There's a long list of court cases they've lost if you want to look this up. Your desire that more politicians behave this way doesn't make them not corrupt.
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- worik 4mo ago> The city’s mayor, Dennis Haws, told reporters the pipes date back to the 1950s How long should water pipes remain useful? Am I outrageously naive to think more than 75 years? Perhaps they have been doing no maintenance....
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- LocalH 4mo agoAll arrests that don't result in a conviction should be completely expunged.
- xtiansimon 4mo ago> "[Chief Charles] Gregory says she should have verified it with the hospitals first." What is a hospital going to tell a member of the public with HIPPA laws? As police chief he has a great deal of deferred power. Officials will talk to him. Private citizen making an inquiry is going to get crickets. Heck--have you ever been walking down the street or walked outside your home and found a police or fire department cordon? Asked what's going on and the fire department won't respond to your questions and the police department will tell you to go back in your house or move along. One point of Devil's Advocate. Social media, YouTube and mobile phone video has created a very difficult situation. People who are untrained in reporting are making wild statements. And Evil People are undermining good faith everywhere (news, politics, public safety, health, citizenship, the rule of law). I've never ever seen so many legal cases taking this strong line against free speech in my lifetime. These are extraordinary times.
- sigbottle 4mo agoAnd they said it wouldn't happen. Everything is an accident, an anecdote, only trust the state with your authoritative quantitative data! There's surely no philosophical issues with that! There's no issues with definitional authority!
- gigatexal 4mo agoI hope she sues the city and everyone involved personally for tens of millions. This is insane. The water is brown. Do not drink it. Instead boil it. Posts that it’s bad. Get jailed. Wtf?
- ninjahawk1 4mo agoI see so many shitpost twitter and facebook pages that claim actually harmful misinformation, absolutely disgusting levels of picking one and ignoring the other. Especially when given the evidence now, she was sharing legitimate information.
- rimeice 4mo agoAll the criticism the UK and European countries get from American tech billionaires for censorship…then…this. No one anywhere could argue this post is some sort of hate speech to even mildly cover their arses.
- dudul 4mo agoThe difference with Europe may be that in this case the charges have already been dropped. Not saying it's great, but at least it was stopped, and she may sue for reparations. I don't think the "hateful posts" cases in the UK or Germany end up like this.
- jimt1234 4mo ago> [The mayor] acknowledged discussions about forming a committee to address the issue. Sounds like concepts of a plan. So, they ain't doin' shit, except arresting people who speak up.
- dudul 4mo agoI got to admit, whoever at the town hall or whatever sent the cop to this woman's door really has some balls considering the color of the water. I feel like when this is the water your citizens get out of the faucet you should be busy doing something else instead of trying to jail people who complain about it.
- EchoReflection 4mo agoI predict it won't stand. “We have received reports that some citizens have been hospitalized due to bacteria in the water. This is a serious public health concern that deserves immediate attention. If your water looks discolored, contains sediment, has a strong odor, or you have experienced related health issues, please send us a message. We are gathering information and reporting findings to the state.” that is pretty solidly "free speech", not defamation, not allegations of anything, not "libel"‡ ‡libel noun 1. a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation Example: he was found guilty of a libel on a Liverpool inspector of taxes -defamation -defamation of character -character assassination 2. (in admiralty and ecclesiastical law) a plaintiff's written declaration verb 1. defame (someone) by publishing a libel Example: the jury found that he was libelled by a newspaper ---- But law can be complex and "injustices" happen all the time, so we'll see...
- varispeed 4mo agoWhere is JD Vance preaching about free speech like he did in the UK. Twat.
- goofy_lemur 4mo ago100% of all law enforcement is criminal. Nobody makes laws except criminals
- justsid 4mo agoI don’t agree with the arrest and definitely not every law either, but this has got to be rage bait. I’m quite happy to live in a society with laws
- goofy_lemur 4mo agoWhen people are paid to hurt others, they will always hurt the weak, not the evil.
- jdjdndj2838ejd 4mo agoLooks to me like a pre-emptive fence electrification “Don’t share concern about water quality online, or else”
- marsxr360 4mo agoI would love to hire myself as legal professional in cases like this. In fact I've already started collecting evidence on a no-win-no-fee basis. Ready for action
- yowo 4mo agoWow, many dictatorships wouldn't mind this level of speech.
- wbshaw 4mo ago"We have received reports..." Is factually true and plausible given the accompanying photo and statements from city officials.
- yawz 4mo ago> The water is brown. The city admits it. No kidding! Looking at that picture, I would be beyond worried if that was my tap water.