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Feeling the Bern

(3,839 posts) Sun Feb 7, 2016, 07:25 AM Feb 2016

More Good Cops: Flint Police Lie To People Saying They're Bringing Water Filters Then Arresting Them

Police in Flint Michigan have been preying on people’s hopes for clean water, by showing up with filters, then arresting people who have outstanding warrants.

The Genesee County Health Department declared a public health emergency for the City of Flint. They told residents that they should immediately stop drinking the city’s tap water due to the high levels of lead that had been coloring the water a ruddy orange.

It was another two months before the mayor of Flint declared a state of emergency. The mayor explained that all of this was due to the city’s pipes leaching lead, and the water was unsafe to drink for the foreseeable future.

Since then, the National Guard began distributing of bottled water to Flint residents. The state had received the bottled water a full year earlier, but they didn’t start handing them out until this January.

Worthless pigs serving their political and corporate masters

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More Good Cops: Flint Police Lie To People Saying They're Bringing Water Filters Then Arresting Them (Original Post) Feeling the Bern Feb 2016 OP

That might explain the photo of an LEO(?) handing water to a boy through a window. JimDandy Feb 2016 #1

Good grief. They have to spoil even a good deed. Ilsa Feb 2016 #2

More evidence 2naSalit Feb 2016 #3

Wouldn't it depend on what the warrants were for? randome Feb 2016 #4

People have been trying to trick those with warrants to giving their real names for years. Igel Feb 2016 #5

hopefully the jails have clean water lame54 Feb 2016 #6

Correct me if I'm wrong shadowrider Feb 2016 #7

You're not wrong. TheManInTheMac Feb 2016 #9

This was a bullshit story sourced by lying cons Major Nikon Feb 2016 #8

Even cons partake in clickbait. romanic Feb 2016 #10

Amazing how people here believe this BS with zero evidence oberliner Feb 2016 #11

JimDandy

(7,318 posts)

1. That might explain the photo of an LEO(?) handing water to a boy through a window.

Reply to Feeling the Bern (Original post)

Sun Feb 7, 2016, 07:59 AM

Feb 2016

People with warrants may have heard this was happening and are having their kids receive the filters and bottled water deliveries through their windows.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)

2. Good grief. They have to spoil even a good deed.

Reply to Feeling the Bern (Original post)

Sun Feb 7, 2016, 08:15 AM

Feb 2016

Anyone participating in this roundup is a sociopath.

2naSalit

(86,646 posts)

3. More evidence

Reply to Feeling the Bern (Original post)

Sun Feb 7, 2016, 09:34 AM

Feb 2016

that our social fabric is pretty tattered.

randome

(34,845 posts)

4. Wouldn't it depend on what the warrants were for?

Reply to Feeling the Bern (Original post)

Sun Feb 7, 2016, 09:48 AM

Feb 2016

Sure, it's Michigan and I wouldn't put it past them to arrest people for minor violations but the article does not address that. What if there is an outstanding warrant for drunk driving? Or for assault?
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Igel

(35,317 posts)

5. People have been trying to trick those with warrants to giving their real names for years.

Reply to Feeling the Bern (Original post)

Sun Feb 7, 2016, 11:53 AM

Feb 2016

I'd also point out that as far as I know, water and water filters aren't being handed out door-to-door in neighborhoods by LEOs but through distribution points by National Guardsmen and volunteers.

In other words, I think I'm supposed to infer that somehow the LEOs are at distribution points where they say they're offering water and water filters to all residents and then when you go up and say who you are they arrest you if you have an outstanding warrant. Of course, that's not what the article says, but content doesn't always bear a strong relationship to the message some people take away.

I'd also seriously wonder what these are warrants for. Assault, robbery, battery? Or parking tickets? (And if "parking tickets," 1 or 500?) Because once you decide the "pigs" are the enemy at all times and to be thwarted, you're de facto on the side of alleged rapists who've skipped bail and alleged armed robbers with witnesses and security footage as evidence every bit as much as the poor person wanted for jaywalking.

lame54

(35,293 posts)

6. hopefully the jails have clean water

Reply to Feeling the Bern (Original post)

Sun Feb 7, 2016, 03:42 PM

Feb 2016

shadowrider

(4,941 posts)

7. Correct me if I'm wrong

Reply to Feeling the Bern (Original post)

Sun Feb 7, 2016, 05:56 PM

Feb 2016

But weren't we cheering, just a few days ago, LEO lying to the occupiers in Oregon that they were free to go, then arresting them?

So now they arrest people with warrants against them, for who knows what, and it's now bad?

I'm so confused about what is and what isn't allowed, what is or what isn't bad, what is or what isn't cheered. Someone help me out here.