 Well, I was never too optimistic about the prospect of Flint residents ever getting justice after they were poisoned But now we have confirmation that there will indeed be No justice because the charges against their former governor Rick Snyder who poisoned them Have been dismissed as Ed White of HuffPost reports a judge had no authority to issue indictments in the Flint water scandal The Michigan Supreme Court said Tuesday wiping out charges against former governor Rick Snyder His health director and seven other people. It's an astonishing defeat for Attorney General Dana Nessel who took office in 2019 Got rid of the special prosecutor and put together a new team to investigate whether crimes were committed when lead contaminated Flint's water system in 2014 through 2015 state laws authorized a judge to investigate subpoena witnesses and issue arrest warrants as a one-person grand jury The Supreme Court said but they do not authorize the judge to issue indictments. The court said in a six to zero opinion So in essence Dana Nessel the Attorney General completely bungled this case and we'll get to that But it's been a while so I want to jog your memory if you haven't been following this case as close lately But this video is from January 20th of 2016 This is from CNN and they explain what happened to the residents of Flint Melissa Maze says the ominous change in the water was particularly noticeable at bath time My youngest were telling mom it's yellow and it's a filmy gross foamy thing and it would smell like open sewer But we were being told we're still getting used to the new system. It's safe. It's okay But it wasn't okay far from it Flint's tap water was laced with dangerous levels of lead The state knew about it and did nothing The trouble began two years ago when the state decided to switch Flint from Detroit's drinking water to a new system But the new system wouldn't be ready for two years in the meantime to save money. They switched to the Flint River water That first decision turned out to be a mistake as did nearly every step the state took after it Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality shoulders much of the blame what a preliminary task force report calls an abysmal public response At the time the state agency told Flint it didn't have to add an anti-corrosive agent to the water Saying it was not necessary until two six-month monitoring periods had been conducted In other words, they were willing to wait a year to see whether the water was safe All the while highly corrosive river water flowed through the city's lead pipes leaching lead and other dangerous metals Into the water supply and what came out of the tap in many homes was toxic Almost immediately residents started complaining their water was brown some people developed rashes became sick Early tests revealed fecal coliform bacteria So the city and state officials added chlorine to the water supply and told people to boil their water both Mistakes which can actually increase the level of lead At city meetings residents were repeatedly told the water was safe We found the worst lead in water contamination that I have seen in 25 years and Believe me. I've seen a lot residents didn't find out about the lead until this man stepped in Mark Edwards is a Virginia Tech researcher who tested the water early last year It was very scary to see the levels of lead that were hazardous waste Levels of lead coming out of her tap water. That's right. The lead levels in one home were so high Water from the tap could be considered hazardous waste now since then so much more has been uncovered Not just a criminal conspiracy involving the former governor Rick Snyder, but a cover-up attempt Deleting emails. There was a lot here and so there was a case That was teed up against him, but then Dana Nestle came in and She fired everyone now Jordan Sheridan who's been following the story for years put together a really long and comprehensive thread And he explains how basically this is the fault of Dana Nestle the attorney general of Michigan he writes reminder from 2016 through 2018 an independent flint prosecutor and lead investigator Former head of Detroit FBI office had built a widespread criminal prosecution charging 15 state and city officials with crimes Ranging from involuntary manslaughter to financial fraud as we broke that team was building a case against Snyder for involuntary manslaughter And had compiled evidence showing Snyder helped cover up deadly Legionnaires outbreak that killed many in Flint Yet Nestle fired the special prosecutor and chief investigator and the entire original criminal prosecution team based on them quote Not securing all the evidence. They never gave any evidence for that claim and my reporting indicates It was never true and Nestle got rid of them for political reasons in addition to the fire team building a case against Snyder for involuntary manslaughter As I broke they were also building major racketeering RICO case against state officials for financial fraud that led to poisoning of Flint They were months away from filing charges when Nestle fired them after firing the original prosecution team for dubious reasons Nestle then inserted prosecutors who had zero experience investigating or prosecuting widespread financial fraud Her team didn't even properly debrief with the outgoing fired team of prosecutors Who has built the case for three years and had all of the institutional knowledge of a complicated investigation that had been Investigating the governor his top officials his health department his environmental department and local Flint officials Nestle's team basically restarted from scratch for no real reason Nestle on her team badly bungled a case that included the following bombshells We broke Snyder's top advisor and best friend offered payoffs to sick Flint residents and told them Snyder was aware Prosecutors concluded Snyder and his top officials had covered up the deadly waterborne Legionnaires outbreak weeks before his 2014 gubernatorial reelection and had obtained an avalanche of Snyder's phone calls They concluded show this Snyder's top officials press secretary top health department officials had their phones erased soon before the launch of the Flint criminal Investigation in 2016 several had all of their text messages for 2015 through October of 2015 Erased the period Flint used Flint River Snyder refused to provide prosecutors with key documents and governor's briefings He received for many years Snyder's evasiveness potentially would have led to obstruction of justice charges top officials and Snyder's administration and local Flint officials were soon to be charged with major financial fraud Linked to a bond deal that led to Flint joining the KWA water pipeline and using Flint River while it was under construction So long story short They were ready to file charges there could have been justice until Dana Nestle came in and then fired everyone for No compelling reason whatsoever. So now because of that AG's incompetence Rick Snyder is going to literally get away with murder or involuntary manslaughter But he killed people his decision as governor led to people dying getting poisoned and He's just gonna get away with this got free This is outrageous and if you're not concerned with Flint Understand that this can happen in your area as well because there are a lot of areas in the United States That are vulnerable to a crisis similar to flints and for those of you wondering Flint still contrary to popular belief does not have clean drinking water because even though they replace the pipes Well the pipes that lead to the houses are still corroded because of the lead that flowed through them So the older pipes that had lead going through them that poison people those still haven't been replaced you have to replace all of them So I mean the situation has improved somewhat But at the end of the day They still don't have clean drinking water and the message that descends to other governors is that they can now do whatever they want they can literally poison their own residents to save a buck or two and There's gonna be no charges in the one case that there could have been accountability for an elected official You have some idiot attorney general come in and fuck it all up for no reason It's just infuriating, but I can't pretend as if I'm surprised because I was never really Optimistic as I stated at the beginning of this video, but just when it seemed like maybe there was some hope of course That's all dashed. So here we are That's the latest update no charges for Rick Snyder the governor who literally poisoned a hundred thousand people Most of which people of color. They're still dealing with the ramifications of lead poisoning till this day but no justice for them America is an embarrassingly pathetic country where we let our public officials do whatever they want get away with murder and Nobody surprised by it do you enjoy watching independent news shows like the humanist report the rational national and the majority report But oftentimes YouTube doesn't deliver our videos to your subscription box. 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