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FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Eric Mays, a Flint, Michigan, city council member known for activism during the city’s water crisis and for disruptive behavior at public meetings, has died.
The Scripps News investigative team has been digging into the aftermath of the water crisis in Flint in a series of reports over the last year and a half. Show comments Advertisement
In that time, Michigan started and then stopped providing free bottled water to Flint residents; criminal charges were brought and then dismissed against several officials for deaths suspected of ...
Charges included; perjury, misconduct, obstruction of justice, extortion, neglect, involuntary manslaughter. The Flint water crisis led to the death of twelve individuals, and left more than 90 people sick by various diseases, including legionnaires' disease. This was due to the water going untreated from the river.
Residents and activists say the way state prosecutors handled the Flint Water Crisis criminal cases is a disappointment to the community.
A court order and a Scripps News investigation found city failures in the aftermath of a water crisis that poisoned Flint children. Fed Judge finds City of Flint in contempt, citing Scripps News probe
#JusticeForFlint was a charity event held on February 28, 2016, addressing the ongoing Flint water crisis in the U.S. state of Michigan.With the victims of the lead poisoning being predominantly black, the political scandal has been regarded as an example of racial inequalities in the U.S., and the charity event has been associated with the Black Lives Matter campaign.
This is not the first time there have been mass mailings threatening liens in Flint’s post-water-crisis world. In 2017, the city sent 8,002 notices to customers in arrears. Back then ...