Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community

Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community

Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply A police department in Texas that arrested a local resident for complaining on social media about their city’s contaminated water supply has been ordered closed after failing to prove it provided any benefit to the community.

State officials stepped in to investigate after Jennifer Combs spent a night in jail in May after a post appeared on her Facebook page suggesting people were hospitalized by bacteria in the water pipes of Trinidad, a municipality in Henderson county about 75 miles south-east of Dallas.

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