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Shannon Nobles of Lansing, Michigan, joined the crowd outside the Michigan State Capitol on Tuesday to stand in support with residents of Flint. "I believe our elected officials owe us answers and should be held accountable for poisoning a city in the name of saving money," she told CNN on Instagram. (184385)

Flint, Michigan: Did race and poverty factor into water crisis?

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The contamination of drinking water in Flint, Michigan, has so outraged community advocates that they now pose a powerful question: Was the city neglected because it is mostly black and about 40% poor?

Police try to control the crowd of demonstrators upset over the release of video showing the 2014 shooting death of Laquan McDonald by a Chicago police officer (175298)

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Protesters disrupt Chicago shopping corridor, ask feds to probe McDonald killing

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