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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAll Criminal Charges Dropped in Flint Water Crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/us/flint-water-crisis-charges-dropped.htmlFlint Water Prosecutors Drop Criminal Charges, With Plans to Keep Investigating
By Mitch Smith
June 13, 2019
CHICAGO Prosecutors stunned the city of Flint, Mich., on Thursday by dropping all pending charges against officials accused of ruining the communitys drinking water and ignoring signs of a crisis, casting doubt on what some residents had seen as a small but tangible step toward justice.
Fifteen state and local officials, including emergency managers who ran the city and a member of the governors cabinet, had been accused by state prosecutors of crimes as serious as involuntary manslaughter. Seven had already taken plea deals. Eight more, including most of the highest-ranking officials, were awaiting trial.
On Thursday, more than three years after the first charges were filed, the Michigan attorney generals office, which earlier this year passed from Republican to Democratic hands, abruptly dropped the eight remaining cases. Prosecutors left open the possibility of recharging some of those same people, and perhaps others, too.
But in Flint, a city where faith in government was already low and where many residents still refuse to drink the tap water, the news was seen by some as a sign that they had been wronged once again.
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All Criminal Charges Dropped in Flint Water Crisis (Original Post)
dalton99a
Jun 2019
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)1. They are the wrong color, if this happened to white people , OH MY
sandensea
(21,635 posts)6. +1
And if anyone's conscience was still bothering them a little - why, it's nothing a juicy bribe can't fix.
malaise
(269,004 posts)2. Shame shame shame
lostnfound
(16,179 posts)7. Per Rachel, may be good -- that tons of evidence had been suppressed,
On the 23rd they will be talking to people of Flint about why and what next.
Dropped without prejudice means they can restart prosecution anew.
Wednesdays
(17,376 posts)3. Some money changed hands?
Rhiannon12866
(205,405 posts)4. How and why?!!
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)5. Doesn't State why the charges were dropped