Charges Dropped Against Officials Over Flint Poisoning

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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel shocked the Flint community and the nation when she dropped criminal charges against former Gov. Snyder and Company in 2019, claiming charges needed a fresh start. Now in 2022, the state’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the one-man Grand Jury used to indict these culprits by the Attorney General was illegal! Since the decision allows prosecutors to send the cases back to the lower court, Snyder and Co. are poised to argue that the charges be dropped altogether. Justice for Flint, though not DEAD, is very much on life support. —Flint Correspondents, People’s Tribune

Excerpts from Democracy, Now! Interview with Flint residents who are activists:

“Eight years after the deadly Flint water crisis began, the state’s Supreme Court has thrown out charges against former Governor Rick Snyder and eight other former officials for their complicity in the public health emergency. [In a scheme to privatize Flint’s water] Snyder’s administration made the decision to switch the city’s water source from the Detroit system to the Flint River as a cost-saving measure and then failed to protect residents from the resulting lead and bacterial poisoning in the majority-Black city. “It really feels like justice is becoming an illusion for Flint residents,” says Nayyirah Shariff, director of Flint Rising. “No one is being held accountable, no one is seeing justice, no one is seeing reparations in Flint,” adds her fellow activist and Flint resident, Melissa Mays.”

Watch Democracy, Now! interview: https://www.democracynow.org/2022/6/30/michigan_drops_charges_flint_crisis_snyder

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