A Michigan judge dismissed felony charges Tuesday against seven people in the Flint water scandal, including two former state health officials blamed for deaths from Legionnaires' disease.
The judge's dismissal was significant but not a complete surprise after the Michigan Supreme Courta different judge acting as a one-person grand jury had no authority to issue indictments.
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission said it was the result of systemic racism, doubting that the water switch and the brush-off of complaints in the majority-Black city would have occurred in a white, prosperous community. "This misuse of the criminal justice system has to stop," Chip Chamberlain and Ron DeWaard said."Misleading statements about what Director Lyon did or didn't do contribute nothing to a constructive public dialogue and do not represent justice for anyone.
Gov. Rick Snyder looks at papers during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing about the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, on Capitol Hill on March 17, 2016 in Washington, D.C. But the state Supreme Court said Michigan law is clear: A one-judge grand jury can't issue indictments. The process apparently had never been challenged.
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