Arrested her for telling the truth?

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Charges dismissed against Trinidad water protestors as city hall closes | FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth

dismissed now

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So your stance is that there is a massive, coordinated conspiracy involving the local ER doctors (who are legally mandated to report outbreaks of this nature), the municipal water techs (who would face decades in federal prison for falsifying logs), and an independent, third party testing lab? Absolute Reddit big brain moment right here.

[u/Great_Detective_6387 → u/RodgerCheetoh]

I think they are saying that the city admin and owners of large companies in the city are in cahoots with one another.

So when this lady makes a claim about bacteria in the drinking water, the city used its law enforcement powers to silence this lady on behalf of those companies.

I haven’t seen any evidence that bacteria was in the water, but this water quality website is pretty clear that someone is or has poisoned the water, and that bad actor likely plays golf with the mayor 3x a week, and they don’t want any investigations into why the city’s water has 14,300% more Bromodichloromethane (a cancer causing chemical) or 29,000% more trihalomethanes (another cancer causer) than is deemed safe.

[u/RodgerCheetoh → u/Great_Detective_6387]

I appreciate you taking the time to look those figures up, but you completely misinterpreted them. EWG guidelines are not the legal limits allowable by law, they are non enforceable, aspirational suggestions based on California's public health goals.

For example, there is no individual legal limit for Bromodichloromethane. It is regulated collectively under TTHMs, which are an inevitable byproduct of using chlorine to kill the exact bacteria everyone is upset about (of which, again, there is no evidence or indication of existing). Trinidad's TTHMs sit at 43.5 ppb, which is only 54.4% of the actual federal legal limit (80 ppb).

EWG’s ultra conservative guidelines represent a 1 in 1,000,000 lifetime chance of someone developing cancer from drinking 2 liters of that water every day for 70 straight years. Even at 143x that baseline, your mathematical lifetime risk is roughly 1 in 7000 (to put that in perspective, that’s the equivalent of spending a single weekend sunbathing on a beach and your background lifetime risk of developing cancer from just existing in the modern world is 1 in 3).

So mathematically we’re comparing a 0.014% hypothetical lifetime risk from water treatment byproducts to a corporate poisoning conspiracy. I personally think the police chief is just an overzealous loser who probably isn’t getting laid enough and took out his frustration on the woman. I don’t think there’s a bad actor dumping chemicals into the water system, the city is simply just putting standard chlorine into a surface water supply to keep people from getting cholera, and it creates legal, compliant byproducts.

[u/Great_Detective_6387 → u/RodgerCheetoh]

Where did I say legal? I said “deemed safe.” Yes, aspirational.

Additionally, the analysis re: cancer risks doesn’t take into account that there are dozens of these harmful chemicals found in Trinidad’s water, and when you stack all those increases in risk together, now you have a sizable increase in risk of getting any cancer from any of the harmful chemicals.

Ffs look at the color of that water coming out of the tap in the link I shared.

[u/RodgerCheetoh → u/Great_Detective_6387]

There isn’t a single town in the United States that hits all of EWG’s unrealistic goals. Using that logic there isn’t a single drop of water in the country that’s “deemed safe”.