(VIDEO) Reporter Arrested; East Palestine Environmental and Chemical Disaster Hits the Heartland

Chemical disaster in the heartland. Officials claim air and water is safe for the people of East Palestine, Ohio.

While the Establishment Media yawns, well over one million pounds of cancer-causing chemicals have been released into the environment within the confines of the small town of East Palestine, on the Ohio side of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state line.

As each standard railway car can transport 250,000 pounds of liquid chemicals, CBS News cites that “Five of those cars were carrying vinyl chloride…”

The same CBS News article also notes that vinyl chloride is “linked to primary liver cancer, brain and lung cancers, lymphoma and leukemia.”

Not quite done yet, CBS also reports that of the many railway cars that derailed, many “contained several other hazardous materials, including butyl acrylate, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate and isobutylene. Two cars also had benzene residue.”

Nonetheless, officials ranging from the East Palestine Fire Chief Keith Drabick to James Justice of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the good people of East Palestine can all go home now, as reported by the Associated Press via Dayton 24/7 Now news service.

Apparently, both Drabick and Justice have deigned the air and drinking water just fine. Nothing to see here… just keep moving along.

But if the government, both on the local and federal level, lying to you and covering-up a major environmental disaster isn’t bad enough, then I would think that government goons arresting a reporter for… well, reporting should sufficiently piss you off.

As reported by Chelsea Simeon of WKBN of Youngstown, Ohio;

New video obtained by WKBN shows what led up to the reporter’s arrest during a press conference in East Palestine last Wednesday.
WKBN requested the video from the East Palestine City School District. Surveillance video from the elementary school’s gymnasium, where the press conference was being held, shows two angles of what led up to the arrest of reporter Evan Lambert.

Lambert had been reporting on the East Palestine train derailment as a correspondent for NewsNation. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine was speaking in the gymnasium during a press conference that started two hours later than initially scheduled.

Lambert was giving a live report during NewsNation’s “Rush Hour” when he was told by law enforcement personnel at the news conference to be quiet because DeWine had started speaking.

Lambert finished the live report but was then asked to leave by authorities, who tried to forcibly remove him from the event.

Evan Lambers in ‘cuffs.

An affidavit claims the man in charge of Ohio’s National Guard, Major Gen. John Harris, confronted Lambert over his “loud” reporting and that two Highway Patrol troopers, along with Harris, went back and advised them to stop that reporting.

The affidavit accuses Lambert of being involved in an altercation with Harris during the incident. A statement from Harris says Lambert was “aggressively lurching” at him and screaming that “you guys are the ones who strung this thing out!”

Video of the incident from the gymnasium appears to show Harris push Lambert in the chest, leading law enforcement to surround the men, separating Harris from Lambert.

The video then shows a heated conversation between Lambert and law enforcement before officers grab Lambert and escort him into the hallway, where video from other reporters at the scene shows them taking him to the ground in handcuffs.


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