FLINT, MI – Less than 24 hours after the closure of the city’s last four water distribution sites, more than 50 Flint-area residents filled two buses to protest at the state capitol in Lansing.
"It is unacceptable that people are still unaware that the water is not safe despite what the MDEQ says," said LaShaya Darisaw, Flint organizing director with Michigan United.
"If you saw some of the water PODS, people were afraid.
We’re in fear.
They went into instant survival mode, and that’s not OK. "We’re living in America and people were desperately trying to get bottles of water.
This is not a third world country.
It’s 2018, and nobody should be feeling like that, especially not caused by our own government."
State officials say water testing in the city has shown a decrease of lead for nearly two years.
Flint’s supply of bottled water has been an issue since Gov.
Rick Snyder recognized lead contamination in the city’s water system in January 2016.