A Michigan sheriff joined protesters in Flint Township on Saturday, putting down his weapon and saying, 'I want to make this a parade, not a protest.'
A Michigan sheriff joined protesters in Flint Township on Saturday, putting down his weapon and saying, "I want to make this a parade, not a protest."
"The only reason we're here is to make sure that you got a voice -- that's it," Swanson said in video clips shown on Twitter.He was speaking to the crowd protesting police brutality and the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.So, he did. Flint has drawn national attention for its water crisis, which began in 2014, when city and state officials switched the city's water supply to save money. It exposed residents to dangerously high levels of lead and resulted in more than a dozen lawsuits.
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