This was very hard to watch. It is absolutely unbelievable that they got away with this! My heart goes out to the families who lost loved ones unnecessarily because of this.
Yes that's very true. These people doesn't care about you and me. We should follow these people and make sure every single thing they put their hands in, we must make sure they are expose and don't succeed in whatever their are doing.
the black majority commissioners of Flint hired this black unqualified utility director. This white governor did not hire the unqualified black utility director who had ZERO training or experience with water treatment. I followed this from the beginning as I have 500 hours in water treatment training from University of Florida and Cal State university Sacramento and 10 years of experience with water utilities. Blame the black Flint commission for this mess they were the ones who made the choices, not the governor.
@@ChaplainBobWalkerBTh your loud and wrong! So what about our governor being notified about it a year prior to him telling the public about ppl dying of legionnaires? Or the DIRECTOR of the DHS that knew how tainted the water was and that no corrosion protection was being used but instead told workers to stay quiet. Everyone was wrong at different levels I live here and we know the truth.
@@ComptonMarsh the white governor did not hire the black unqualified utility director named Howard Croft. Tell us about the BLACK water utilities director who was in charge of this mess named HOWARD CROFT. He installed SOLAR PANELS and HAD NO WATER TREATMENT TRAINING OF EXPERIENCE who was hired by the MAJORITY BLACK CITY COUNCIL, not the white Governor. They were responsible for this mess, not the white governor. Your black council who voted for this made this mess, not the whites. I have hundreds of hours of water treatment training and over 15 years of experience in the field. this was an easily preventable and no expensive fix. but you want to blame the white governor who had nothing to do with creating this mess. then you cry and expect whites to fix things you mess up.
Being from Saginaw and watching my neighbors go through this is heartbreaking. So many state officials should be in prison they don't care at all even with all this blood on their hands
I have family in Saginaw and was very concerned (and still am) that this could happen in Flint. If this can happen (and be handled like this) in Flint; it can happen anywhere else in America as well. Everyone should be outraged.
I’m from flint and I have lived in other states and they don’t get exposure either, but yes this can definitely be anybody’s city because America infrastructure needs to be rebuilt as a whole. So others need to be woke and know that no ones city is safe! Dame shame I never thought my city would be dealing with this amongst the many other issues our city has.. plus in general the other surrounding cities like flint have problems in Michigan too, and it’s really a bigger issue frfr
And don't forget Chris Swanson and is one of those people who vowed to change things, but somehow that changed my personal opinion it was influenced by I'm sure some kind of money. Just my opinion I don't want to get in trouble because clearly they can do whatever they want even if it's not the law.
Thank you Frontline/PBS! My dad worked for PBS for 26 years so I’ve seen how much time and effort each of these investigations get. You’re researches are some of the best out there. Love the way you present these stories.
Yes Myles. And thanks to this investigation some heads are gonna roll. Finally some justice will be served. These bastards are identified and what they have done is exposed and it will only be a matter of time before the full extent of the law will hold them accountable. Right? Right?
@David Rodgers my god would you stop commenting this stupid shit - you’ve somehow come up with a justification blaming the people there for not being a significant enough tax base. There’s enough stupid shit that the government pays for, stuff that really isn’t the government responsibility to take care of, whereas this is totally the responsibility of the government to deal with
@David Rodgers I understand the point your making. I think the BASIC problem with Flint is not the tax base. It's the fact that drinking clean water should not be based on taxes. Ain't that kinda the reason we live in America? Hell, them mothasukas didn't want to be taxed for tea. They were the poorest of the poor but at least they had clean water. IJS, the taxes are not the problem. A capitalistic society is the problem. Not enough social or community.
Yep, but didnt bother testing...everybody knows the Flint River is a sewage dump of chemicals n industrial pollutants! For no reason would any sane official switch from Detroit water to the Flint River!!! Deliberate poisoning of a population, worse than COVID...somebody was trying to cause mass death...period...not incompetence...conspiracy to mass murder a whole region n a city's residents...for some nefarious agenda* I say to get control over every fresh water source for commercial purposes...that is, to be able to pick winners n losers in the free market of independent Bulk Water buyers n sellers * God help US if they succeed in giving Govmt control over fresh water buying n selling! *
That's government for ya. Wasting our tax dollars. If they did more problem solving and less unnecessary/unproductive policies, we'd get somewhere. Guess it's easy to waste money that isn't yours. :(
Bad tasting, water that smells and is any color but clean, just common sense that they covered up many problems. On so many levels all around the world even with COVID-19 (created viruses) aimed to kill millions.
A little light heartedness in this complete horror of a situation - my family was watching a news special about Flint's water.. when. They spoke about how X, Y, and Z amounts of people were being diagnosed with Legionnaires Disease in such abnormally high numbers and in a very small area, my 92 year old Grandmother (who has Parkinson's and is in the mid//latter stages of Alzheimer's) suddenly chimes in out of NOWHERE: "Ohhhh boy, oh no, that doesn't sound good. . Must be something in the water, huh!"
I wanna know the story behind this tbh like I want to know how your grandmother even knows that in the first place it's not a well known disease hell I didn't even know about it until this doc your grandma sounds awesome thou not gonna lie
@@alexandriarennie5992 well her grandma was in her 90s. Legionnaires isn't well known nowadays because our water is so well treated but in the 1920s 30s 40s even 50s and 60s we didn't have the technology to sanitize the water and all of this stuff that we have now. It was a lot more common back then. Im surprised no one got Cholera from the water!!
The plant was always in operational condition for Emergency use. They saved $114 per day not using the corrosion prevention chemicals. By order of the Emergency Manager.
@@hunterbidenscrackdealer3753 The Flint, Michigan budget was being controlled by a State finance team appointed by the governor's office. A republican team. That republican team decided to use the Flint river as a temporary water source and force a dilapidated water treatment plant to reopen despite being told it wasn't ready because that was the cheap option. A classic decision making trope of the GOP. Did you watch the documentary? Did you absorb any of the info? Judging by your previous Frontline comment history, it seems like your goal here is blindly promote the republican party
ONly RIGHTEOUS RETRIBUTION will ever do that... the system of SATANISTS TERRORIST OLIGARCHY has been sending the massage that they will never give that to the SHEEPLES
They've been getting away for 6 years, they just want the spotlight off themselves and not giving the media a reason to speak about them on a consistent basis is the most tried and true way to accomplish that.
Yet if nothing's done to them legally or financially, what does it matter if they 'look guilty'? Do you think they honestly care about their imagined perception by the same public they poisoned? I don't.
@@POPJack1717 and for 4 years under the trump administration. Actually it lasted longer under the Trump administration, in case you were curious. Funny though you tried to blame the federal government for a state caused issue
@@POPJack1717 im a conservative but i have to say greed, responsibility n pay offs are bipartisan issues. To Trumps credit he did try to stay out of the states business. Warp Speed n bump stocks all i have to complain about, but both were national issues- with tremendous pressure from the left.
@@zexnynex777 What Lead Water said was that it was a state caused issue, which is correct. If it had had proper federal oversight and accountability, maybe the result would have been different, but they were able to sweep it under the rug as a minor issue precisely because of the lack of any real regulatory accountability. Because conservatives like Trump are insistent upon stripping the government of any real power. Greed irresponsibility and pay offs are the result of an entirely flawed political system. It is bipartisan in that it happens on both sides, but it happens far more commonly and began with Republicans. However, it doesn't matter, as the deeply entrenched duopoly are what led to it becoming the basic route of politics. You "conservative" dimwits don't have a fucking clue.
The older I get, the more I've come to firmly believe that the phrase "capitalism is the problem" applies to, and accurately summarizes, the vast majority of atrocities like this. So often, if you boil it down, these kind of things stem from someone thinking they will save their organization money by lowering the relative priority of human welfare. Instead of doing the job they were paid to do, while simply following the numerous OSHA, ICE, and EPA (etc.) rules and procedures we already have in place, hurting people is put aside to some degree, in order to focus on the real goal in life, dying with the biggest savings account you can. Now, don't misread me here - my decrying capitalism is not a veiled proclamation of the superiority of another economic system. We need to take the good attributes of successful societies and economies, and, like martial arts were refined into what we see in the UFC, drop the bad and keep what makes us most successful.
My dad tested positive for Encephalitis three times... he lived in Grand Blanc. Then he overdosed and died after being clean for years. He was in so much pain... he didn't know the water was from Flint. He already had liver disease and couldn't take it. I blame Michigan. Not just flint is affected. He received a warning letter years too late.
I hope a GIANT lawsuit comes forward for every single person who has been affected by this, which is usually family members of those who have passed, since the victims are no longer alive to fight this.
@@a.walters123 and what about all the children? Doesn't lead poisoning cause severe emotional issues and physical issues? Even a relatively low amount of lead poisoning from just being around lead paint can completely ruin the kids life and turn them into a psychopath! What about all those poor children?
Did your dad vote? Did he vote for the people who did this? Should he take responsibility for those votes? Does he realize the consequences of his choices? Finally did your dad vote the same way again, expecting different results?
@@benfordcameron7619Your line of questioning insinuates a desired outcome in the responses. What if he didn’t vote for the people who did this? Then the remainder of your questions are baseless and your point is not proven.
I am so sorry for your loss I was hoping that she would pull through but God knows that she's at peace now and she's resting this is awful that the people that did this are getting away with it doggy dog you cover my back I cover yours . It seems like no one is going to be held responsible five years 5 years people unable to take a shower brush their teeth from the water that's running from pipes they have to use bottled water this is insane!!! And what is really hurtful the officials don't give a damn!!
When the city is responsible and they pay compensation it is their own city taxpayers footing the bill. Nothing changes because those personally responsible are not 🙃. Same with everything else on this upside-down back-ward Capitalist System
daisy well, actually that is a fact. It applies to everything. But with the Covid testing, there are tens of thousands of false positives and deaths from Covid have been falsely inflated to fit the political agenda of the Dems. It’s all politics👿👿
@@702thomas Not unless you have elite athletic skills, impressive musical or acting abilities, or a master’s degree in deception. Then you can be as vile a person as you’d like as long as you stay in line.
They didn't drop the charges for the interest of the people and that fadwah lady doesn't belong serving a community she does not reside in nor seem the damage first hand. Don't trust people who show their teeth that look like they are smiling with a str8 face.
Trust the Health Department. They said the water is safe. It's safe. Don't question the officials. Here: we have this vaxx we want you to take. It's totally safe.
It was the Governor who did this. His administration forced them to use river water and an old water plant that was broken down. The pipes were bad and the resulting bacteria is what produced Legionnaires disease. The governors office knew - the city told them over and over. Aides were pushing him to switch the supply back to Detroit. He ignored them.
Yep I’m from flint and if the citizens knew we would have never agreed to that because we know the history of the Flint River!!! that’s why it haven’t been used in 5 decades!! They make me sooo mad to put our lives at risk and feel no empathy about human life and the after effects that a whole city would be faced to deal with! But what they don’t know is GOD will have the last say no matter what that’s devils try to do to us!!
THATS AN UNDERSTATEMENT! THIS CV PLANDEMIC ;SARS VAX ETC PROVES THIS FLINT SHIT IS DELIBERATELY DIABOLICAL TERRORISM AGAINST THE SHEEPLES. THIS IS SATANISTS CULT SHIT!! COPS; JUDGES; DAs; lawyers ETC THAT DO THEIR DEVILISH SHIT GETS PROMOTED &/or TRANSFERRED &/OR RETIRED WITH MONSTER PENSIONS !!
But we cannot afford to become immune to their callousness. It is clear that we must stand up for ourselves, shout from the rooftops on behalf of our neighbors. No one in leadership is going to help unless we make them. They are too busy sweeping their malfeasance under the rug to help anyone.
It's Always something!! our GOVERMENT IS .A JOKE..n ITS MORE OBVIOUS QD!! Their Fn DEVIOUS n Downright Heartless n they JUST CANT .. STOP LYING..???? Ugghhhh👿😈
@@deshaunjackson8188 So in other words, there are no affluent areas near Flint at all? Besides, I never said anything about Flint but we can all imagine how cleaner the water is in areas of Michigan where people with money and influence reside. Where to the lawmakers live? Mayor? Governor? How's the water there?
It was incredibly heartbreaking to see Jassmine McBride go through that. May she rest in peace. Lyon and Wells should be in jail. Makes you really wonder how this crisis would have been handled had not been mainly poor black folks who were affected.
With all that has happened, all the lives lost, all the water being handed out, all of the legal fees, all of the (obvious) payoffs that kept so much of this out of public knowledge, I hope other states and municipalities learn something from this heartbreaking lesson: It is much, much less expensive to just do it correctly from the beginning. And no one should die if it is done right.
You better say it! Same I’m from here and it makes me sooo mad because I’ve stayed down South and it’s everywhere in the country parts and all urban and low poverty areas! Plus the country infrastructure needs to be maintained and they have failed!! 😞 it could definitely be anyone’s city and people kill me saying why y’all don’t just move! It ain’t that simple!! Only time will tell... to see how others will soon be effected due to all the changes we endured as a country since 20/20. It’s only gone get worse sadly....
I live in Boise, Idaho (U.S.) Our mayor just took out a $272 million loan from EPA to upgrade our water treatment plants. Our water is still good, so I'm impressed with the Mayor's actions to keep it that way.
They are working to replace pipes and infrastructure and supplying bottled water until it’s safe. Estimates are they’ll need to spend about a billion every year till 2030 to get it fixed completely.
Proper water treatment could clean even that water. But they couldn't be bothered to do that apparently. Guess someone in the Governor's office seen that Flint voted for the other party regularly.
I was born and raised in Flint, I was probably drinking that tainted water for a long time before I found out it was not safe, Thankfully I've moved away from there,Crime is another huge problem in Flint, and you're lucky if a cop shows up within 3 hours after calling them, if they even show up at all😒
Flint Mi Here!!❤️ sending love , Thanks for “some” the exposure it’s so much more ! Crazy how they’ve developed a vaccine in just 1 year and we still have a water crisis😩
@Dr. Bone lil man o? Give that grown man respect like I assume you want people to support your old president 🤷🏽♀️. Obama was here on many occasions unlike these people .
The US does not allocate tax dollars to other countries. We do spend it via our military programs, and a few nutter politicians push through Christianity indoctrination programs. In the past we gave away surplus agricultural goods we use to dump in the landfill. All the programs are American interests and American profits.
Who would ever consider a river flowing through a former major industrial area as a viable drinking water supply? Beyond Legionnaires every river in America that flows through a city is contaminated. PCBs and heavy metals are the rule not the exception. What the hell are people thinking?
@Win From Within She’s the pediatrician who brought attention to the rising levels of lead in children. The book explores how every level of bureaucratic indifference put the city at risk.
I lived there during the beginning of this. When they announced the Flint River would be the source, My wife and I drove to the river, right next to the old water treatment plant, We looked at the water and what we saw was appalling pollution, filth, slime. Disgusting. Then we heard a warning to boil water. Right then, we stopped using the water to cook, drink, and what ever we could. We moved away soon after. It is egregious, the lack of care for the public health. Everyone involved with keeping the CDC away should be prosecuted.
Excellent documentary and heartbreaking too. Its been over 5 years and still no solution for clean water. While skyscrapers, houses and apartments going up, the town of Flint is being ignored. Someone needs to answer for this man made crisis.
No solution for clean water. How about, it's been five years... and no one has been thrown in jail and the key lost. Michigan has the most clean fresh water than anywhere else in the country... just can't seem to get it to the residents. Sounds like government at its finest.
I am shocked and mortified by this documentary! I live out west and I never had any idea what the people of Flint went through. And are still going through.
You know damn well that man made that comment about everybody dying of something because the look on that scientist face,and he looked like he was holding back tears. That was truth
There are literally no consequences for mass murderers when they are corporations or govt officials; Opioids, COVID, faulty products, public lynchings (cops), etc. So things just keep getting worse.
Never heard of Legionnaires Disease a day in my life. This is absolutely heartbreaking! The corruption runs deep. How do you not test the water before it’s rolled out to the public?! 💔
There have been outbreaks else where but we quickly contained & remedied. Supermarkets in the U.S. used to have water misters in the produce sections so your lettuce & what not wouldn't dry out until an outbreak, then they stopped using those.
Yeah, before this all I knew about were the high levels of lead in the water and frogs becoming hermaphroditic. I didn't know it was actually killing people because of bacteria. Am I surprised? Of course not. Am I angry? Of course.
I was dismayed to hear the final note about Jasmine. that poor woman went through hell and no reprise. May her family rest in the knowledge that Jasmine is no longer suffering. RIP Jasmine, very sad story, and unnecessary to have happened.
Being a type 1 diabetic for 36 years and having been on dialysis then transplanted, I empathized with Jazmine. My heart sank seeing her in that hospital bed trying hard for a breath of air. My heart sank when I saw those wounds on her feet and legs. I was not prepared to hear of her death at the end of the film. What a shame. Pure shame.
15:00 How can you watch this beautiful young woman and everybody else affected suffering and call the US the greatest country in the world? How? I‘m literally crying, this is heartbreaking to watch.
@@victorforeman2864 Switzerland? All of Great Britain? Most of Europe ... like France? Germany? Italy? Norway? Denmark? Sweden? Also, Japan? South Korea? Canada? Austria? The Netherlands? Taiwan? Australia?
Being a retired Environmental Health Specialist, I worked for the EPA in the drinking water department. Then worked for several years as a county water specialist . I cannot fathom how this incident even occurred. The state I worked in had monthly testing requirements for bacteria content and yearly testing for chemical analysis. I appears to me the If the State of Michigan had some such regulations this incident should have never occurred. And once started getting sick residents it would have been prudent to notify EPA and asked for help The whole thing now seems like a giant FUBAR ,
Speaking of water...a doctor told me the Rule of 3. You can live 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, and 3 minutes without oxygen. Many people have food storage, but don't think about water. I buy bottled water EVERY time I go to the store. It's a good idea to always have water storage. Suggest not buying the gallon containers unless you rotate it--they are heavy and will eventually leak. I know from experience. Also, for the same reason, don't stack water bottle packs on top of each other. I buy 24 ounce bottles and rotate them through part of my daily water.
I was born and raised in Flint and I find it hard to believe anyone in the last 30yrs thought the water was safe to begin with after all the shops and chemical plants
February, 2023, this is the FIRST time I have heard Legionnaire's Disease connected to the Flint, Michigan Lead in the Water Story! I listen to or Watch News every single Day.
You are watching the wrong news channels. Epoch news is a good one to pay to read, via the Internet. The truth news. Those other regular channels are what the corporation wants Americans to hear. The line that soothed my soul was, "Justice will be served." From what I have experienced in my life, I can honestly say, that is the absolute truth. "Justice WILL be served." Maybe not in our time, but it will come around. It makes me tow the line.❤❤❤❤ I liked your comment. I think I was possessed with this story because I never watched any other news, until this story hit the news and I started researching on the Internet and was crushed to find it was totally preventable. Peace to you.
It's going to get worse. Water futures were allowed to be traded on Wall Street for the first time ever just a few days ago. This means water will be treated like a commodity, just like oil or gold. We are sprinting towards a dystopian future.
Omg, RIP Jasmine, I commented before the end of the video so I didn't know Jasmine passed away. May the Lord give her mom and family peace. God Bless Jasmine. She doesn't seem to be bitter as someone would imagine she would be, and I wouldn't blame her if she really is after all she has and is still going through. My heart goes out for her. This should have never happened and could have been easily prevented. This shit just reinforces my belief that there are really no Government all around the US that aren't corrupt and self serving. They really don't give af about the people they should be serving. It's disgusting. I know that there are a small percent (very small) that are trying to do right by the people, but if any corruption is happening it should be the opposite, a small percent of corruption and more doing the right thing, though it shouldn't happen at all but that isn't the world we live is so....I'm completely disgusted.
I was crying for Jassmine all the way through. She handled her horrible medical situation with patience and grace, but maybe she was just too exhausted and beaten down by the system to have screamed the way many would have. What Legionnaires disease did to her body was heartbreaking. The fact that these smug politicians are apparently getting away with literal murder - not even checking the water!!! - makes me wonder if our government will ever put the health and wellbeing of the citizens above money and their own hold on power.
I'm saddened and angry for Jasmine and her surviving loved ones. All I can think of is this situation with the deadly water would NOT have occurred in Beverly Hills, Wall Street, or an Ivy League campus. I've never been to Flint, Michigan, but I've heard it is a fairly impoverished area. I would really like to know when regular, everyday people are going to count?
Not the vast majority of the US. Just clustered areas which don’t pay taxes. Industrial suburbs like Flint aren’t the vast majority. You’re being silly.
Devastated! I watched this getting to know Jazzman and she passed😭 fighting for her life! We need to learn that because the Black person running for a political position doesn’t mean they are representing black people. The 1st order of business that the new black democratic prosecutor did was drop charges against the harm doers and used a raggedy excuse to do it!
Emory University Hospital are my heroes. Not for this first. They saved my mother's life when a more popular hospital gave up on her and agreed to let her be air lifted from Marietta to their medical center. She is alive and thriving today because those people actually do care about other people.
Its such a crime that all who were involved in the decision making that caused the contamination of Flints water supply, which caused so much sickness and death, are so far, not being held accountable! I pray that these people receive justice! If they don't, this will be just another example of how differently less fortunate people are treated! If this was Grosse Point or Rochester Hills or any wealthy Michigan city, you can be sure that the outcome would be totally different!! I'm outraged!!
We’re watching this currently in environmental science. November 14th, 2022. or 11 - 14 - 2022 It’s insane how this is still a problem so many years later. This is not okay for this to keep happening. These “government officials” SHOULD NOT be running the place, they’re dangerous people.
This is exactly what goverment corruption looks like. The water in northern Michigan is much better. I was living in northern Michigan when this crisis started. The state of Michigan is completely bankrupt. Its very good to see PBS covering this important issue. Thank you.
One thing to consider, especially in cities that are shrinking and with decay is that the possibility of "dead legs" in a water supply increase exponentially. These are legs that may feed neighborhoods that are now gone or abandoned, etc. The water will stagnate and bacteria will grow. Fluctuations in water pressure and other disturbances can release this stagnated water into the municipal supply. Failed backflow preventers exasperate this. When renovating old buildings it's important to look for these instances. However, in municipalities that are broke and have no money to decommission these parts of the supply system, you are looking at a ticking time bomb. Water simply has to flow in all of a functioning and safe water system.
This is horrible and I am so sad. My family was born in Flint and lived in Mt..Morris Township for 14 years. We moved to So.California in 1960. My husband and our grandson visited in 1998 and camped near the Flint River. This breaks my heart to hear how horrible the the people have been treated.God bless them now. Thank you for sharing this story.
God bless you and your family, I moved after highschool to San Diego for the USN from 1994-2004 and after the Service I moved my family to the PacificNorthwest where we have deep free flowing artesian wells we drink from. Cheers
1. The government is inept. 2. People are too busy fighting one another (right vs left, rich vs poor, race vs race) to come together and actually pressure those in power. 3. People in flint are generally really poor. They have no power.
@George Dent "The poor need to fight the rich" That is a general statement that is the problem because there are plenty of rich people who have morals and even help the poor rise up. They are hard working, honest people who are successful. Why blame them? Your rhetoric is the problem. That will get you nowhere. The focus should be that people, as Americans, need to come together to fix problems like this rather than point fingers back and forth. United we stand, divided we fall.
ask the libs in charge and owebama that said this was fixed--all trump could do is read the false nonsense the libs in charge fed into the govt--corrupt soulless liberals did thiLook at detroit politics--the corruption alone in the last decade could have fixed this 10 times over.
I remember my African-American Psychology teacher discussing the Flint Water Crisis and one of my classmates blatantly stood up and told the class that the crisis is linked to systemic racism. Then, Steve Harvey turns around and tells a caller on his morning radio show to “enjoy his nasty brown tap water” made things so much worse. I feel bad for the residents of Flint. The city government needs to take accountability for this.
2:37 that guy's voice is incredible! what a deep baritone.. damn, he's got a voice for radio if i've ever heard one. he could be a movie star with that kind of voice.. he reminds me of Michael Clarke Duncan mixed with James Earl Jones. what do you guys think?
I have watched all the senate hearings I could find on this tragedy. It’s a absolute failure by Federal, State and local officials at every turn. I only have information on what has been reported, but what offended me most was Ex- Governor Snyder asked the Michigan state legislature to approve over one million dollars to support his legal fund to defend himself from any criminal charges! What a disgrace! I wish Mr. Snyder would do some jail time for this tragedy!
SERIAL KILLERS IN SUITS RUNNING TOWNS,CITIES,STATES,COUNTRIES
They imagine themselves as “civilized.” 🤦🏽♀️
You don’t need a degree for that. Education is worthless without wisdom.
Educate yourself and VOTE the bastards out of office!
@@rebeccaLV voting exists only to make people like you do it.
Not to change anything
AGREED.
This was very hard to watch. It is absolutely unbelievable that they got away with this! My heart goes out to the families who lost loved ones unnecessarily because of this.
THEY GOT BY.. THEY DIDN'T GET AWAY FROM THE MOST HIGH!
Yes that's very true.
These people doesn't care about you and me.
We should follow these people and make sure every single thing they put their hands in, we must make sure they are expose and don't succeed in whatever their are doing.
the black majority commissioners of Flint hired this black unqualified utility director. This white governor did not hire the unqualified black utility director who had ZERO training or experience with water treatment. I followed this from the beginning as I have 500 hours in water treatment training from University of Florida and Cal State university Sacramento and 10 years of experience with water utilities. Blame the black Flint commission for this mess they were the ones who made the choices, not the governor.
@@ChaplainBobWalkerBTh your loud and wrong! So what about our governor being notified about it a year prior to him telling the public about ppl dying of legionnaires? Or the DIRECTOR of the DHS that knew how tainted the water was and that no corrosion protection was being used but instead told workers to stay quiet. Everyone was wrong at different levels I live here and we know the truth.
@@ComptonMarsh the white governor did not hire the black unqualified utility director named Howard Croft. Tell us about the BLACK water utilities director who was in charge of this mess named HOWARD CROFT. He installed SOLAR PANELS and HAD NO WATER TREATMENT TRAINING OF EXPERIENCE who was hired by the MAJORITY BLACK CITY COUNCIL, not the white Governor. They were responsible for this mess, not the white governor. Your black council who voted for this made this mess, not the whites.
I have hundreds of hours of water treatment training and over 15 years of experience in the field. this was an easily preventable and no expensive fix. but you want to blame the white governor who had nothing to do with creating this mess. then you cry and expect whites to fix things you mess up.
Being from Saginaw and watching my neighbors go through this is heartbreaking. So many state officials should be in prison they don't care at all even with all this blood on their hands
I'm from Saginaw also... this is extremely sad..
Yes
I have family in Saginaw and was very concerned (and still am) that this could happen in Flint.
If this can happen (and be handled like this) in Flint; it can happen anywhere else in America as well.
Everyone should be outraged.
I’m from flint and I have lived in other states and they don’t get exposure either, but yes this can definitely be anybody’s city because America infrastructure needs to be rebuilt as a whole. So others need to be woke and know that no ones city is safe! Dame shame I never thought my city would be dealing with this amongst the many other issues our city has.. plus in general the other surrounding cities like flint have problems in Michigan too, and it’s really a bigger issue frfr
And don't forget Chris Swanson and is one of those people who vowed to change things, but somehow that changed my personal opinion it was influenced by I'm sure some kind of money. Just my opinion I don't want to get in trouble because clearly they can do whatever they want even if it's not the law.
Thank you Frontline/PBS! My dad worked for PBS for 26 years so I’ve seen how much time and effort each of these investigations get. You’re researches are some of the best out there.
Love the way you present these stories.
Yes Myles.
And thanks to this investigation some heads are gonna roll. Finally some justice will be served.
These bastards are identified and what they have done is exposed and it will only be a matter of time before the full extent of the law will hold them accountable.
Right? Right?
Too bad they are only democrat shills
I *ADORE* PBS
PBS, commie owned and operated.
Your dads a propagandist
We're all just sheeps to these politicians, and not just in Flint.
@David Rodgers my god would you stop commenting this stupid shit - you’ve somehow come up with a justification blaming the people there for not being a significant enough tax base. There’s enough stupid shit that the government pays for, stuff that really isn’t the government responsibility to take care of, whereas this is totally the responsibility of the government to deal with
@@trubin5619 He's pointing out the truth, if their was more money to be made there this shit would have been fixed by now.
Cattle
Most people are sheep...they believe whatever the media tells them no matter how insane
@David Rodgers I understand the point your making. I think the BASIC problem with Flint is not the tax base. It's the fact that drinking clean water should not be based on taxes. Ain't that kinda the reason we live in America? Hell, them mothasukas didn't want to be taxed for tea. They were the poorest of the poor but at least they had clean water. IJS, the taxes are not the problem. A capitalistic society is the problem. Not enough social or community.
I love how they spent millions to investigate instead of millions in replacing the infrastructure.
They want us dead do ya get it yet ???
It's like they needed a 1080p version of the same exact documentary they did like 6 years ago.
Yep, but didnt bother testing...everybody knows the Flint River is a sewage dump of chemicals n industrial pollutants! For no reason would any sane official switch from Detroit water to the Flint River!!! Deliberate poisoning of a population, worse than COVID...somebody was trying to cause mass death...period...not incompetence...conspiracy to mass murder a whole region n a city's residents...for some nefarious agenda* I say to get control over every fresh water source for commercial purposes...that is, to be able to pick winners n losers in the free market of independent Bulk Water buyers n sellers * God help US if they succeed in giving Govmt control over fresh water buying n selling! *
That's government for ya. Wasting our tax dollars. If they did more problem solving and less unnecessary/unproductive policies, we'd get somewhere. Guess it's easy to waste money that isn't yours. :(
right!
"the water was never tested". That was the first question on my mind. Seems like the common sense thing to do.
I worked in water before. That water should have been tested and flushed and tested and flushed till it was right. That was negligence for money.
@@todd4335 The people who deployed those dilapidated pipes were not going to admit their mistake and that they ignored warnings beforehand.
Tested water is evidence. They already know what the results will be.
Sounds like the v a x thats about to be forced on us . SAME folks
Bad tasting, water that smells and is any color but clean, just common sense that they covered up many problems. On so many levels all around the world even with COVID-19 (created viruses) aimed to kill millions.
A little light heartedness in this complete horror of a situation - my family was watching a news special about Flint's water.. when. They spoke about how X, Y, and Z amounts of people were being diagnosed with Legionnaires Disease in such abnormally high numbers and in a very small area, my 92 year old Grandmother (who has Parkinson's and is in the mid//latter stages of Alzheimer's) suddenly chimes in out of NOWHERE: "Ohhhh boy, oh no, that doesn't sound good. . Must be something in the water, huh!"
Isn't that extraordinary?! Sense! Sense. Just amazing...but then, sensible.
I wanna know the story behind this tbh like I want to know how your grandmother even knows that in the first place it's not a well known disease hell I didn't even know about it until this doc your grandma sounds awesome thou not gonna lie
Bless her heart
@@alexandriarennie5992 well her grandma was in her 90s. Legionnaires isn't well known nowadays because our water is so well treated but in the 1920s 30s 40s even 50s and 60s we didn't have the technology to sanitize the water and all of this stuff that we have now. It was a lot more common back then. Im surprised no one got Cholera from the water!!
@@WhitneyDahlin yeah well your grandmother is still a legend
That councilman’s voice is so deep, I thought they were modulating his voice at first to protect his identity.
Same. Honestly public service is commendable but he should consider side gig doing voice over.
Same 😆😆😆😆
Soo did I
KN Byam gonna
Dude same 😂
How can you use a plant that hasn’t been in operation for almost 50 years and not test it, not test the systems, not test THE WATER? Smh.
Just dumb it’s all about money damn the people and that’s how they plot and think
The plant was always in operational condition for Emergency use. They saved $114 per day not using the corrosion prevention chemicals. By order of the Emergency Manager.
It baffles me how incompetent and downright idiotic people in power are.
True
@K Maxx that was said in the doc?
This is why I love PBS. They tell what is really going on.
Poor lady. 30 is not enough time to live. This is so sad.
True.... but how well do you sleep after hearing the truth? It's frightening!
@@wagonstation3709 I don't think it is always so simple.
@Happy Dog What about PBS made you say that? Any specific videos that seemed off?
They are definitely politically biased.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Real journalism is a breath of fresh air
PBS is a gem... Best journalist publication in the country
Matt McFarland said they weren't ready, he expressed his concerns and somehow he died. Red Flag!!
Damn right 🚩 🚩
I have never been one for Conspiracy theories, but I definitely agree.
And no one goes to jail. No one is officially held accountable. Shocker...
Wonder what party runs Flint?? Democrats!!
@@hunterbidenscrackdealer3753 Governor Rick Snyder and all of the other government officials involved in the cover up were Republicans though...
@@Lone_Logan which party controls Flint.... Snyder is a scumbag also but who controls the money in Flint? Democrats. That’s who
@@hunterbidenscrackdealer3753 The Flint, Michigan budget was being controlled by a State finance team appointed by the governor's office. A republican team. That republican team decided to use the Flint river as a temporary water source and force a dilapidated water treatment plant to reopen despite being told it wasn't ready because that was the cheap option. A classic decision making trope of the GOP. Did you watch the documentary? Did you absorb any of the info? Judging by your previous Frontline comment history, it seems like your goal here is blindly promote the republican party
@@Lone_Logan search “ Flint city council meetings” and get back to me...
WE DESERVE CLEAN WATER STOP KILLING US!!!!!!
Pale Jc?
I hope you didn't vote for biden hes just more of this type of government.
Well said 👍
Dont trust these creeps. I would suggest looking up building a well or a water tower on Google. If you do it right it should be fine.
@Camel toe in chief i voted for biden and i wish everyone good health and peace of mind
My heart goes out to the families of the people who passed away.
Nick is clearly involved. He's a murderer and should be held accountable
ONly RIGHTEOUS RETRIBUTION will ever do that... the system of SATANISTS TERRORIST OLIGARCHY has been sending the massage that they will never give that to the SHEEPLES
@David Rodgers yeah, nice try
@David Rodgers So... "ignorant... shitty... stupid... Salt Lake City," got it.
@David Rodgers you are exactly right on!
You can tell he's sleezy.
I'm seeing a pattern of "declining to comment" here by all officials. Its not a good look, guys, its a guilty look.
They've been getting away for 6 years, they just want the spotlight off themselves and not giving the media a reason to speak about them on a consistent basis is the most tried and true way to accomplish that.
Yet if nothing's done to them legally or financially, what does it matter if they 'look guilty'? Do you think they honestly care about their imagined perception by the same public they poisoned? I don't.
Obama water
Heartbreaking. They been in a pandemic for YEARS. IT IS NOT FAIR.
Under the obama administration
@@POPJack1717 and for 4 years under the trump administration. Actually it lasted longer under the Trump administration, in case you were curious. Funny though you tried to blame the federal government for a state caused issue
@@POPJack1717 im a conservative but i have to say greed, responsibility n pay offs are bipartisan issues. To Trumps credit he did try to stay out of the states business. Warp Speed n bump stocks all i have to complain about, but both were national issues- with tremendous pressure from the left.
@@zexnynex777
What Lead Water said was that it was a state caused issue, which is correct. If it had had proper federal oversight and accountability, maybe the result would have been different, but they were able to sweep it under the rug as a minor issue precisely because of the lack of any real regulatory accountability. Because conservatives like Trump are insistent upon stripping the government of any real power.
Greed irresponsibility and pay offs are the result of an entirely flawed political system. It is bipartisan in that it happens on both sides, but it happens far more commonly and began with Republicans. However, it doesn't matter, as the deeply entrenched duopoly are what led to it becoming the basic route of politics. You "conservative" dimwits don't have a fucking clue.
The older I get, the more I've come to firmly believe that the phrase "capitalism is the problem" applies to, and accurately summarizes, the vast majority of atrocities like this. So often, if you boil it down, these kind of things stem from someone thinking they will save their organization money by lowering the relative priority of human welfare. Instead of doing the job they were paid to do, while simply following the numerous OSHA, ICE, and EPA (etc.) rules and procedures we already have in place, hurting people is put aside to some degree, in order to focus on the real goal in life, dying with the biggest savings account you can. Now, don't misread me here - my decrying capitalism is not a veiled proclamation of the superiority of another economic system. We need to take the good attributes of successful societies and economies, and, like martial arts were refined into what we see in the UFC, drop the bad and keep what makes us most successful.
My dad tested positive for Encephalitis three times... he lived in Grand Blanc. Then he overdosed and died after being clean for years. He was in so much pain... he didn't know the water was from Flint. He already had liver disease and couldn't take it. I blame Michigan. Not just flint is affected.
He received a warning letter years too late.
I hope a GIANT lawsuit comes forward for every single person who has been affected by this, which is usually family members of those who have passed, since the victims are no longer alive to fight this.
@@a.walters123 and what about all the children? Doesn't lead poisoning cause severe emotional issues and physical issues? Even a relatively low amount of lead poisoning from just being around lead paint can completely ruin the kids life and turn them into a psychopath! What about all those poor children?
Did your dad vote? Did he vote for the people who did this? Should he take responsibility for those votes? Does he realize the consequences of his choices? Finally did your dad vote the same way again, expecting different results?
This is horrible
@@benfordcameron7619Your line of questioning insinuates a desired outcome in the responses. What if he didn’t vote for the people who did this? Then the remainder of your questions are baseless and your point is not proven.
Poor Jasmine and her family needs to be heavily compensated by the city.
I am so sorry for your loss I was hoping that she would pull through but God knows that she's at peace now and she's resting this is awful that the people that did this are getting away with it doggy dog you cover my back I cover yours . It seems like no one is going to be held responsible five years 5 years people unable to take a shower brush their teeth from the water that's running from pipes they have to use bottled water this is insane!!! And what is really hurtful the officials don't give a damn!!
Why?
When the city is responsible and they pay compensation it is their own city taxpayers footing the bill. Nothing changes because those personally responsible are not 🙃.
Same with everything else on this upside-down back-ward Capitalist System
@@richbright540 still better than socialism and communism
@@cschneider9657 absolutely brother!!!!
The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie!
Obama Water
I heard him howling as he passed me by
Wasnt his name rick snyder
And an incredibly shitty (yet still very expensive) hair piece
And calls himself a republican.
"Pro tip. If you never test the water no one can say it's bad" ~~ Flint Government.
“If we test for covid we’ll have more cases, we need to slow the testing” words of trump, how funny they all think like idiots.
@@aileencanoisafraud You mean the PCR tests that are 50% accurate?
daisy well, actually that is a fact. It applies to everything. But with the Covid testing, there are tens of thousands of false positives and deaths from Covid have been falsely inflated to fit the political agenda of the Dems. It’s all politics👿👿
@Alysia Williams the false positives and inflated deaths have been for known MONTHS.
Good one.
PBS frontline is a brilliant series. Worth every penny to create. Love these stories. I have been bingeing frontlines all week!
America has the money to fix this...it’s just a matter of priorities
@@702thomas Not unless you have elite athletic skills, impressive musical or acting abilities, or a master’s degree in deception. Then you can be as vile a person as you’d like as long as you stay in line.
@@duffytgay3353 social programs? What do you thin those are and please provide tsngabke evidence of what you think you're describing.
And War and killing innocent children abroad seems to be their main priorities
no money in helping the poor. america is money first, humans last.
Exterminate all the brutes.
Why did they drop the charges? New prosecuters taking payoffs? That should be investigated!
I think we have to think out of the box ,that is exactly what I think happened.
Absolutely, but when???
They didn't drop the charges for the interest of the people and that fadwah lady doesn't belong serving a community she does not reside in nor seem the damage first hand. Don't trust people who show their teeth that look like they are smiling with a str8 face.
This water is tainted with virtually every chemical known.
And they still haven't killed their target, so they got something else a vaccine.
change it back! how the f is this STILL going on
How many rich white people died?
I think it is rust and bacteria. I didn't see reporting of anything else.
@@TruthBTold-op9kv bologna
Doctor: This is a disease that only exists in water
Health Department: Well, we didn’t test the water, so you can’t prove it came from there
Totally! And at 2:15 ts mayor says, "I just cant imagine the government would let us down at every level" dream on !
Trust the Health Department.
They said the water is safe.
It's safe.
Don't question the officials.
Here: we have this vaxx we want you to take.
It's totally safe.
@@Mrs.Robinsons Need to Broaden imagination.
"Well they died in some way or another" - shocking comment.
@@leonardleonunupure psychopathy
Frontline is one the few good journalist channels out there. Blows thing like vox out of the water.
I've been binge watching plus subbed to this channel. Excellent content.
No mention of the political party that lead Flint
Both are good. Vox gets into more edgy topics.
Dont be fooled, Frontline was bought out by Amazon, this is politically motivated.
What about election integrity?
So sad the poor always pay the ultimate price 💔😢 flint should be ashamed and held liable. 🙏🏻
It was the Governor who did this. His administration forced them to use river water and an old water plant that was broken down. The pipes were bad and the resulting bacteria is what produced Legionnaires disease.
The governors office knew - the city told them over and over. Aides were pushing him to switch the supply back to Detroit. He ignored them.
Straight “Robinhood” mentality... 😞
Yep I’m from flint and if the citizens knew we would have never agreed to that because we know the history of the Flint River!!! that’s why it haven’t been used in 5 decades!! They make me sooo mad to put our lives at risk and feel no empathy about human life and the after effects that a whole city would be faced to deal with! But what they don’t know is GOD will have the last say no matter what that’s devils try to do to us!!
This is just another case of the government not caring about the people
That's EXTREMELY accurate.
THATS AN UNDERSTATEMENT! THIS CV PLANDEMIC ;SARS VAX ETC PROVES THIS FLINT SHIT IS DELIBERATELY DIABOLICAL TERRORISM AGAINST THE SHEEPLES. THIS IS SATANISTS CULT SHIT!! COPS; JUDGES; DAs; lawyers ETC THAT DO THEIR DEVILISH SHIT GETS PROMOTED &/or TRANSFERRED &/OR RETIRED WITH MONSTER PENSIONS !!
There's no profit in caring for people. Love of money is the root of all evil.
But we cannot afford to become immune to their callousness. It is clear that we must stand up for ourselves, shout from the rooftops on behalf of our neighbors. No one in leadership is going to help unless we make them. They are too busy sweeping their malfeasance under the rug to help anyone.
It's Always something!!
our GOVERMENT IS .A JOKE..n ITS MORE OBVIOUS QD!!
Their Fn DEVIOUS n Downright Heartless n they JUST CANT ..
STOP LYING..????
Ugghhhh👿😈
It amazes me that a Karen can get in the news in a matter of hours, and this took years! Insane!!!!
These reporters are heroes! Please continue to fight on for justice! Thank you for your support.
Amazing how this type of thing never affects affluent areas...hmmmm
Affluent areas in Flint? Sounds like an oxymoron.
@@deshaunjackson8188 So in other words, there are no affluent areas near Flint at all? Besides, I never said anything about Flint but we can all imagine how cleaner the water is in areas of Michigan where people with money and influence reside. Where to the lawmakers live? Mayor? Governor? How's the water there?
Not amazing, better areas just pay more into the system.
Figure that out all by yourself?
Yet people still vote for Dems.
It was incredibly heartbreaking to see Jassmine McBride go through that. May she rest in peace. Lyon and Wells should be in jail. Makes you really wonder how this crisis would have been handled had not been mainly poor black folks who were affected.
Every Flint citizen was or could’ve been affected not only blacks.
@@victorforeman2864 100%. They knew the residents of Flint wouldn’t have the resources to put up a fight. Devastating
Don’t worry .They treat everybody the same . They think American citizens are trash
With all that has happened, all the lives lost, all the water being handed out, all of the legal fees, all of the (obvious) payoffs that kept so much of this out of public knowledge, I hope other states and municipalities learn something from this heartbreaking lesson: It is much, much less expensive to just do it correctly from the beginning. And no one should die if it is done right.
They don't care if they die, they want them to die. In a few years gentrification will be taking place
I work in water and you wouldn't believe how often this is used as example of regulatory importance.
People turned up dead behind this too.
I remember how people laughed about my hometown, and then it started happening all over. Please understand it can happen anywhere.
Its communist. Famine.
If you have a working poor population and you have millionaires and billionaires deciding our lives this will keep happening....
Obama Water
You better say it! Same I’m from here and it makes me sooo mad because I’ve stayed down South and it’s everywhere in the country parts and all urban and low poverty areas! Plus the country infrastructure needs to be maintained and they have failed!! 😞 it could definitely be anyone’s city and people kill me saying why y’all don’t just move! It ain’t that simple!! Only time will tell... to see how others will soon be effected due to all the changes we endured as a country since 20/20. It’s only gone get worse sadly....
I live in Boise, Idaho (U.S.) Our mayor just took out a $272 million loan from EPA to upgrade our water treatment plants. Our water is still good, so I'm impressed with the Mayor's actions to keep it that way.
Your telling me this is not fixed!!! How in hell are those people not in prison??!!!
They are working to replace pipes and infrastructure and supplying bottled water until it’s safe. Estimates are they’ll need to spend about a billion every year till 2030 to get it fixed completely.
@@tori2dles they need to just build a fucking aqueduct at this point.
Because....this is America
they are demoncrats they run the system
they are demoncrats they run the system
Those rivers are FILTHY. How in earth do these people sleep at night?!
In huge expensive beds they bought with money from fucking people over like this.
It didn't even pass the eye test
I think it's wherever stagnant water is can breed legionnaire. Even inside central air conditioning systems.
Proper water treatment could clean even that water. But they couldn't be bothered to do that apparently. Guess someone in the Governor's office seen that Flint voted for the other party regularly.
capitalism! allowing industries to pollute air and water equals freedom!
One thing I’ve learned, if government officials say “don’t panic” you should absolutely panic
This is why I love documentaries. I thought the water crisis had been resolved 🙁
Nah
I was born and raised in Flint, I was probably drinking that tainted water for a long time before I found out it was not safe, Thankfully I've moved away from there,Crime is another huge problem in Flint, and you're lucky if a cop shows up within 3 hours after calling them, if they even show up at all😒
@@shawndouglass2939 1
NOPE!
Resolved by telling people that poverty kills
Flint Mi Here!!❤️ sending love , Thanks for “some” the exposure it’s so much more ! Crazy how they’ve developed a vaccine in just 1 year and we still have a water crisis😩
Obama Water
@@dive5674 you make no sense.
people in south texas haven't used tap water to drink for decades. luckily it tastes terrible so nobody drinks it and gets poisoned.
@Dr. Bone Obama wasn’t in charge of our states water supply system 🤦🏽♀️😂
@Dr. Bone lil man o? Give that grown man respect like I assume you want people to support your old president 🤷🏽♀️. Obama was here on many occasions unlike these people .
This is sad af!! And the Congress got some nerve allocating American Tax dollars to other countries.
Every single Israeli citizen gets >$23,000/yr in U.S. taxpayer dollars AND they have Single payer healthcare as a human right, unlike us!
2.3 billion for Israel each year. For weapons to kill Palestinian children
@@craigjensen6853 President Trump requested that foreign aid for US military interests and religious indoctrination.
The US does not allocate tax dollars to other countries. We do spend it via our military programs, and a few nutter politicians push through Christianity indoctrination programs. In the past we gave away surplus agricultural goods we use to dump in the landfill. All the programs are American interests and American profits.
@@Pravda_Z Its crazy
"Hey, there's this guy knowing what he's talking about, warning us about a potential danger to the public. We should ignore him."
I'm from Flint and everyone knows you don't even go into the Flint river let alone fish from it or drink it.
That’s is definitely the talk of the town when I was a kid and I 34 sooo you know we would have never agreed to the change in water systems smh...
Who would ever consider a river flowing through a former major industrial area as a viable drinking water supply? Beyond Legionnaires every river in America that flows through a city is contaminated. PCBs and heavy metals are the rule not the exception. What the hell are people thinking?
If you guys have the opportunity to read “What the Eyes Don’t See” by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha who brought this case to light, I highly recommend it.
@Win From Within She’s the pediatrician who brought attention to the rising levels of lead in children. The book explores how every level of bureaucratic indifference put the city at risk.
Just started it last week! Great informative book.
Someone have that book in pdf? I would read it.
These people just sat by and said nothing also. Unbelievable.
They did this on purpose so why would they say anything.
@@Deenique16 Agreed! I live here and we have been going through hell!
Which people are you referring to ?
I lived there during the beginning of this. When they announced the Flint River would be the source, My wife and I drove to the river, right next to the old water treatment plant, We looked at the water and what we saw was appalling pollution, filth, slime. Disgusting. Then we heard a warning to boil water. Right then, we stopped using the water to cook, drink, and what ever we could. We moved away soon after. It is egregious, the lack of care for the public health. Everyone involved with keeping the CDC away should be prosecuted.
Excellent documentary and heartbreaking too. Its been over 5 years and still no solution for clean water. While skyscrapers, houses and apartments going up, the town of Flint is being ignored. Someone needs to answer for this man made crisis.
No solution for clean water.
How about, it's been five years... and no one has been thrown in jail and the key lost.
Michigan has the most clean fresh water than anywhere else in the country... just can't seem to get it to the residents.
Sounds like government at its finest.
Wow, I didn't realize the extent of the outbreak. Thank you for the excellent reporting.
you don't see this on msm fake news because the demoncrats control the msm. you hear only what they want you to hear.
This is just the tip of the iceberg...
You are so right!!! The elite and alumni are trying to get rid of people, they think are beneath them👿👿👿👿🌑🖤🌑🖤🖤🌑🌑
@@sandeegoff6363 because you are....keep voting Democratic
@@rockystelone21 I AM NOT FOR THE DEMONCRAPS👎 🇺🇲TRUMP ALL THE WAY🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲2021
Living just outside of Detroit this absolutely continues to break my heart. And there's still plenty of issues today.
I am shocked and mortified by this documentary! I live out west and I never had any idea what the people of Flint went through. And are still going through.
To all who participated in this crime, know this: "Vengeance is mine saith the Lord".
Amen
They WILL pay but this should never happen.
Truth!
The bible is fairy tales
They REALLY need to put someone in jail over this!
No prison. But unfortunately they will get away with murder.
@@bicyclist2 they not getting away with it but they think they are
Jail is too easy for these sick psychopaths ! The citizens need to take justice into their own hands!
Death Row is much better
Dereliction of duty by a government official is not a crime? Isn't it fraud?
You know damn well that man made that comment about everybody dying of something because the look on that scientist face,and he looked like he was holding back tears. That was truth
There are literally no consequences for mass murderers when they are corporations or govt officials; Opioids, COVID, faulty products, public lynchings (cops), etc. So things just keep getting worse.
Its gotten to a peak now. Slavery is legal now. Any you and I are not in the club
Mobilegamer loves black men
@Sam Hain it happens on both sides, don't be fooled.
Never heard of Legionnaires Disease a day in my life. This is absolutely heartbreaking! The corruption runs deep. How do you not test the water before it’s rolled out to the public?! 💔
It’s a pretty new disease 🦠 it started in Philadelphia in the 70s I think
There have been outbreaks else where but we quickly contained & remedied.
Supermarkets in the U.S. used to have water misters in the produce sections so your lettuce & what not wouldn't dry out until an outbreak, then they stopped using those.
Yeah, before this all I knew about were the high levels of lead in the water and frogs becoming hermaphroditic. I didn't know it was actually killing people because of bacteria. Am I surprised? Of course not. Am I angry? Of course.
it was on house
@@toyajackson556 oh wow I didn’t know why they stop using that!!
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." Joseph Stalin
The defintion of VOTES DONT COUNT!!!
Which is why whatever happens in Georgia on Jan. 5th, I'll shrug my shoulders and intone, "Same old crap...damn!"
Yep. That's why Bernie didn't win in 2016 and why Trump became an illegitimate President (hint: he ran against illegitimate Hillary). I know...tragic.
Joseph Stalin is the last person you should be listening to if you actually care about democracy. The last person besides perhaps Satan.
People are slowly catching on. We are becoming a Third World Country.
I was dismayed to hear the final note about Jasmine. that poor woman went through hell and no reprise. May her family rest in the knowledge that Jasmine is no longer suffering. RIP Jasmine, very sad story, and unnecessary to have happened.
Nick and the governor always have a slight smile on theirs face what are they so happy about
Probably that they nearly got away with it
Happy as pigs in shitt 🐷🐷🐷💩💩💩 banking off of people's suffering and misery is their fav
Not Be Soooooooo Greedy Is What You Could Of Done😡
Exactly. Democrats used the money to fix the problem on socail programs. Specifically basketball courts.
Only things that I've learned from this, is the justice system is corrupted to its core.
You're damn right, exactly. 👏👏👍👍👍👍👍
You alto be a shame of yourself for telling the truth.👌🏿
Now line up for your rushed vaccine!
Being a type 1 diabetic for 36 years and having been on dialysis then transplanted, I empathized with Jazmine. My heart sank seeing her in that hospital bed trying hard for a breath of air. My heart sank when I saw those wounds on her feet and legs. I was not prepared to hear of her death at the end of the film. What a shame. Pure shame.
15:00 How can you watch this beautiful young woman and everybody else affected suffering and call the US the greatest country in the world? How? I‘m literally crying, this is heartbreaking to watch.
No our problem, name a country that’s better??????
@@victorforeman2864 Switzerland? All of Great Britain? Most of Europe ... like France? Germany? Italy? Norway? Denmark? Sweden? Also, Japan? South Korea? Canada? Austria? The Netherlands? Taiwan? Australia?
@@MFRUclips683 Don't forget New Zealand
@@hoogabooga290 of course! SORRY NZ! 💄💋
@@hoogabooga290 Lol, New Zealand??? New Zealand is one of the most racist countries in the world. smh
Being a retired Environmental Health Specialist, I worked for the EPA in the drinking water department. Then worked for several years as a county water specialist . I cannot fathom how this incident even occurred.
The state I worked in had monthly testing requirements for bacteria content and yearly testing for chemical
analysis. I appears to me the If the State of Michigan had some such regulations this incident should have never occurred. And once started getting sick residents it would have been prudent to notify EPA and asked for help
The whole thing now seems like a giant FUBAR ,
The EPA helped cover it up
it does have Monthly testing rules. Fed Gov EPA failure, the People Made Lots Of Phone calls and in person Visits to the EPA
Director of the Health Dept: “They’ll have to die of something”. How can folks in these positions say such things.
Hawk's Nest disaster official: "I knew it would kill those [black expletive], I just didn't think it would happen that fast".
Speaking of water...a doctor told me the Rule of 3. You can live 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, and 3 minutes without oxygen. Many people have food storage, but don't think about water. I buy bottled water EVERY time I go to the store. It's a good idea to always have water storage. Suggest not buying the gallon containers unless you rotate it--they are heavy and will eventually leak. I know from experience. Also, for the same reason, don't stack water bottle packs on top of each other. I buy 24 ounce bottles and rotate them through part of my daily water.
I wouldn't drink tap water if you paid me. Regardless of where I live I will not drink from the tap.
U will soon notice plastic toxicity!
I am very interested to know how Foreman Matt McFarland died...
Same
Probably "scuicide" or a "freak accident" 😒😒🤦🤦
Right
It was the water
I was born and raised in Flint and I find it hard to believe anyone in the last 30yrs thought the water was safe to begin with after all the shops and chemical plants
Give that man with the golden voice a job on radio!! Wow its beautiful! 😊
Type Eric Mayes in the search on RUclips. Hundreds of videos with his Golden voice.
@@Hanzyscure Was that the homeless gentleman that was discovered by chance and used his amazing voice to turn his entire life around?
Radio is a form of media as is this documentary. It would be redundant to "give him a job in "radio", when he already has a job in the media.🤦
February, 2023, this is the FIRST time I have heard Legionnaire's Disease connected to the Flint, Michigan Lead in the Water Story! I listen to or Watch News every single Day.
You are watching the wrong news channels. Epoch news is a good one to pay to read, via the Internet. The truth news. Those other regular channels are what the corporation wants Americans to hear.
The line that soothed my soul was,
"Justice will be served."
From what I have experienced in my life, I can honestly say, that is the absolute truth.
"Justice WILL be served."
Maybe not in our time, but it will come around. It makes me tow the line.❤❤❤❤
I liked your comment. I think I was possessed with this story because I never watched any other news, until this story hit the news and I started researching on the Internet and was crushed to find it was totally preventable.
Peace to you.
I find it morally wrong when people put a price tag on something that is essential for life. The state risk all of this for what? Just to save money.
It's going to get worse. Water futures were allowed to be traded on Wall Street for the first time ever just a few days ago. This means water will be treated like a commodity, just like oil or gold. We are sprinting towards a dystopian future.
It guarantees and props up jobs for people from the suburbs, so the system works well. The poor are mere fodder in the eyes of America.
Lol if there is no price tag on water where is the incentive for someone to bring you said water?
Don't you try to save money?
It wasn’t to save money but to privatize water
Good job Jacob! It’s great seeing you again. Thank you for all your hard work for Flint!!
“DOMESTIC CRIMINAL CLASS WARFARE, and DOMESTIC TERRORISM !” MILITARY TRIBUNAL ?
@@syntheticfuture1718 FOR THE EMPOWERRRRRRRRRR
Yes, please🙏😇 for the whole lot of them! Then a firing squad for dessert 🤗👏
Omg, RIP Jasmine,
I commented before the end of the video so I didn't know Jasmine passed away. May the Lord give her mom and family peace.
God Bless Jasmine. She doesn't seem to be bitter as someone would imagine she would be, and I wouldn't blame her if she really is after all she has and is still going through. My heart goes out for her. This should have never happened and could have been easily prevented. This shit just reinforces my belief that there are really no Government all around the US that aren't corrupt and self serving. They really don't give af about the people they should be serving. It's disgusting. I know that there are a small percent (very small) that are trying to do right by the people, but if any corruption is happening it should be the opposite, a small percent of corruption and more doing the right thing, though it shouldn't happen at all but that isn't the world we live is so....I'm completely disgusted.
I was crying for Jassmine all the way through. She handled her horrible medical situation with patience and grace, but maybe she was just too exhausted and beaten down by the system to have screamed the way many would have. What Legionnaires disease did to her body was heartbreaking. The fact that these smug politicians are apparently getting away with literal murder - not even checking the water!!! - makes me wonder if our government will ever put the health and wellbeing of the citizens above money and their own hold on power.
I'm saddened and angry for Jasmine and her surviving loved ones. All I can think of is this situation with the deadly water would NOT have occurred in Beverly Hills, Wall Street, or an Ivy League campus. I've never been to Flint, Michigan, but I've heard it is a fairly impoverished area. I would really like to know when regular, everyday people are going to count?
There's no denying that the standard of living in the vast majority of the US is practically at third world country levels.
Especially minority areas.
Not the vast majority of the US. Just clustered areas which don’t pay taxes. Industrial suburbs like Flint aren’t the vast majority. You’re being silly.
Devastated! I watched this getting to know Jazzman and she passed😭 fighting for her life! We need to learn that because the Black person running for a political position doesn’t mean they are representing black people. The 1st order of business that the new black democratic prosecutor did was drop charges against the harm doers and used a raggedy excuse to do it!
So true! People need to realize 'just because someone is the same race as as you', does NOT mean they have your best interests in mind!
Sure, the middle classes will sell out their working class brothers and sisters to their corporate masters every time.
@@gertrudewest4535 It seems to be more and more like that. So devastating, shame on all who cased this problem and have done nothing to fix it!
"All skinfolk ain't kinfolk."
They then hide behind the color of their skin when they get criticized or when someone tries to hold them accountable
You get what you vote for..
You can rest assure what Daniel 2:44 says, that "God will bring to ruin those ruining his earth".
When? We are still waiting on Jesus to come back and your God to punish people like this! Jesus is coming. That is the longest orgasm known to mankind
He will punish your people for their immorality.
Yeah but we'll ALL GO DOWN with those ruiners...even the saints among us.
It's a shame that no one was held accountable for this. This is nothing short of murder. RIP Councilman Eric Mays
This makes me sick.
Had I lived there, I would have sent a water sample to the CDC myself. LOCK ME UP!
If i worked there, as a medic resident in epidemiology, i would support you.
Emory University Hospital are my heroes. Not for this first.
They saved my mother's life when a more popular hospital gave up on her and agreed to let her be air lifted from Marietta to their medical center.
She is alive and thriving today because those people actually do care about other people.
Its such a crime that all who were involved in the decision making that caused the contamination of Flints water supply, which caused so much sickness and death, are so far, not being held accountable! I pray that these people receive justice! If they don't, this will be just another example of how differently less fortunate people are treated! If this was Grosse Point or Rochester Hills or any wealthy Michigan city, you can be sure that the outcome would be totally different!!
I'm outraged!!
You are right. The poor and the minorities mean nothing to these crooks.
flint did it to its self and so did the Fed Gov EPA
I live just outside of flint and Everytime I would go to flint my mom wouldn't not let me do anything with the water
GOOD👏👏👏👏I wouldn't let my son touch that damn water either!!!😳😳😳
Those are buitiful people in that Church bless their hearts 💜 ❤️ 💕 🥰
We’re watching this currently in environmental science.
November 14th, 2022.
or
11 - 14 - 2022
It’s insane how this is still a problem so many years later. This is not okay for this to keep happening. These “government officials” SHOULD NOT be running the place, they’re dangerous people.
How come the governor is not in prison this is one hell of a cover-up
because obama was in office
He got arrested last week.
@@KNByam you mean bruce jenner
This is exactly what goverment corruption looks like. The water in northern Michigan is much better. I was living in northern Michigan when this crisis started. The state of Michigan is completely bankrupt. Its very good to see PBS covering this important issue. Thank you.
Why has this not been fixed yet?
Corruption. Apathy. Same as always.
Have you asked Whitmer?
Because they dont care Sheila Anne
@Sam Hain - how Whitmer hasn’t fixed it then?
One thing to consider, especially in cities that are shrinking and with decay is that the possibility of "dead legs" in a water supply increase exponentially. These are legs that may feed neighborhoods that are now gone or abandoned, etc. The water will stagnate and bacteria will grow. Fluctuations in water pressure and other disturbances can release this stagnated water into the municipal supply. Failed backflow preventers exasperate this.
When renovating old buildings it's important to look for these instances. However, in municipalities that are broke and have no money to decommission these parts of the supply system, you are looking at a ticking time bomb. Water simply has to flow in all of a functioning and safe water system.
Eric Mays the councilman talking trash on the state and river water was one of the people that supported the switch! Hypocrite
This is horrible and I am so sad. My family was born in Flint and lived in Mt..Morris Township for 14 years. We moved to So.California in 1960. My husband and our grandson visited in 1998 and camped near the Flint River.
This breaks my heart to hear how horrible the the people have been treated.God bless them now. Thank you for sharing this story.
God bless you and your family, I moved after highschool to San Diego for the USN from 1994-2004 and after the Service I moved my family to the PacificNorthwest where we have deep free flowing artesian wells we drink from.
Cheers
Why is this still an issue and not being fixed by the government??
1. The government is inept.
2. People are too busy fighting one another (right vs left, rich vs poor, race vs race) to come together and actually pressure those in power.
3. People in flint are generally really poor. They have no power.
@George Dent "The poor need to fight the rich"
That is a general statement that is the problem because there are plenty of rich people who have morals and even help the poor rise up. They are hard working, honest people who are successful. Why blame them? Your rhetoric is the problem. That will get you nowhere. The focus should be that people, as Americans, need to come together to fix problems like this rather than point fingers back and forth. United we stand, divided we fall.
One word . MONEY 💰
$$$
ask the libs in charge and owebama that said this was fixed--all trump could do is read the false nonsense the libs in charge fed into the govt--corrupt soulless liberals did thiLook at detroit politics--the corruption alone in the last decade could have fixed this 10 times over.
25:12 "well they have to die of something"
People out there actually do hold that mentality towards preventable, fatal illnesses. It's upsetting.
I remember my African-American Psychology teacher discussing the Flint Water Crisis and one of my classmates blatantly stood up and told the class that the crisis is linked to systemic racism. Then, Steve Harvey turns around and tells a caller on his morning radio show to “enjoy his nasty brown tap water” made things so much worse. I feel bad for the residents of Flint. The city government needs to take accountability for this.
Racism is a part of it because that town is majority a black town.
Did you tell him that the first black president Obama told flint that the water were safe+
How its it Racism when the City of Flint is Run by dems and Black people
2:37 that guy's voice is incredible! what a deep baritone.. damn, he's got a voice for radio if i've ever heard one. he could be a movie star with that kind of voice.. he reminds me of Michael Clarke Duncan mixed with James Earl Jones. what do you guys think?
Lol that's Mays, Eric Mays.
Um? How did McFarland die!?!? That seems like something you should have covered!!!
I have watched all the senate hearings I could find on this tragedy. It’s a absolute failure by Federal, State and local officials at every turn. I only have information on what has been reported, but what offended me most was Ex- Governor Snyder asked the Michigan state legislature to approve over one million dollars to support his legal fund to defend himself from any criminal charges! What a disgrace! I wish Mr. Snyder would do some jail time for this tragedy!
Thank you Frontline. I'm sure the state's decision making would have been different if it was Bloomfield Hills. It is a crime against humanity :(
Exactly, they didn't give a shit because Flint is a poor community!