A reporter was taken to the ground, cuffed, arrested, jailed, and is going to charged with criminal trespass...for reporting live at the beginning of a press conference.
""My, 'I didn't order the reporter be arrested' t-shirt is raising many questions already answered by my 'I didn't order the reporter be arrested' t-shirt"--DeWine.
#USPolitics #Ohio #Fascism #DeWine #ACAB
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/midwest/newsnation-reporter-arrested-ohio-news-conference/
You know what Evan Lambert was reporting on that got him tackled, handcuffed, arrested and charged?
The train derailment that did this.
You know what #RailroadStrike was about?
Preventing this.
This is, apparently, what a "controlled" explosion of the toxic chemicals that the derailed train was pulling, looks like.
The question is: do you trust a word these people are saying? They work for the people who couldn't give days off to #RailroadWorkers to avoid things like this.
(Biden is complicit on this disaster, by the way)
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/06/1154760911/ohio-train-derailment
People were forced to leave their pets and other animals in the town--where they're now dying en masse.
#Ohio #RailroadWorkers #RailroadStrike #NorfolkSouthern
Reported here:
https://qz.com/norfolk-southern-is-giving-25-000-to-an-ohio-town-wher-1850094599
from twitter:
"five dollars per person for poisoning the air, water, and land of this town. all pets dead, the poisoned water now flowing into the ohio river on its way to the mississippi. five dollars"
https://twitter.com/drewtoothpaste/status/1624215484945076224
From twitter:
"There are videos of folks in East Palestine who lost all of their livestock (chickens) and dead fish in the rivers they say is safe to drink. A reporter was assaulted by police, but you know it's safe. 55 billion dollar train company casually causing death and destruction."
This is an environmental disaster that will affect millions in short order.
#Ohio #NorfolkSouthern #RailroadWorkers
https://twitter.com/VioletRiotGames/status/1624422626172055556
The braking system in the railroads that carry so-called 'bomb trains' (like the one that derailed in #Ohio this week), date to the U.S. Civil War. That's one hundred and sixty years ago.
Look who gets the money and who dies over it:
Ohio authorities have lifted an evacuation order for residents of East Palestine, following Friday’s freight train crash and fire, and the controlled release of toxic chemicals into the air by authorities Monday. The accident has drawn scrutiny to so-called bomb trains, which transport crude oil and other dangerous chemicals across the U.S. Some residents of East Palestine have sued the rail company Norfolk Southern for negligence. New reporting by The Lever reveals that Norfolk Southern helped lobby against federal safety rules for freight trains, including a requirement to update Civil War-era braking systems. Meanwhile, Norfolk Southern paid executives millions and spent billions on stock buybacks while slashing thousands of jobs.
There's an update to the QZ piece, and, will you look at this: this has happened before, the EPA has covered for the railroad companies before, and the residents/the public have paid with their health/lives for the big honchos' profits.
#EnvironmentalDisaster #Ohio #RailroadWorkers
https://qz.com/norfolk-southern-is-giving-25-000-to-an-ohio-town-wher-1850094599
Something I didn't know, but makes all the sense in the world. Via Defend the Atlanta Forest (@defendATLforest on twiter):
"Norfolk Southern funds Cop City, bc enviro, labor & safety disaster like what is happening in East Palestine, OH is daily reality. It doesn't have to be.
Norfolk Southern will protect massive profits for investors at the expense of lives. They can't do that without police."
What exactly is the federal response to this environmental disaster? The chemicals in that train were used as war weapons in WWI, ffs.
If Democrats would act decisively in the interest of the people of #Ohio, they would do their jobs, save lives, AND nail the result of the next election, no problem
Nick Dram has an excellent breakdown of what is happening now: acid in the air, water, etc. in a series of tiktok videos (the captions are not the best)
His question: why are we hearing this from a guy in TikTok and not the press or the government? Why indeed.
#Ohio #NorfolkSouthern #EnvironmentalDisaster
https://www.tiktok.com/@nickdrom/video/7197262870793473322?lang=en
https://www.tiktok.com/@nickdrom/video/7197327096002137387?lang=en
https://www.tiktok.com/@nickdrom/video/7197365626338348334?lang=en
https://www.tiktok.com/@nickdrom/video/7198865981630958890?lang=en
https://www.tiktok.com/@nickdrom/video/7199529468317142318?lang=en
I recommend reading this piece by More Perfect Union.
These companies spend money lobbying for fewer regulations--and they get their way and fatter pockets. Meanwhile, we keep seeing more derailments--there were two on Monday alone!--more environmental destruction, and more suffering.
@herhandsmyhands The reason you're hearing this from a guy on TIkTok instead of from the press or the government is probably because you're not reading the press? Everything he said in those videos is stuff I've seen in news articles.
Here's coverage of the EPA letter from the local TV station: https://www.wfmj.com/story/48367308/residents-want-transparency-long-term-testing-and-an-end-to-a-one-mile-radius-since-chemicals-travel-east-palestine-oh
And all of their coverage so far: https://www.wfmj.com/category/341107/east-palestine-train-disaster
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