Flint mother Ariana Hawk struggled to find words. Bittersweet came to mind, as did frustrated.
âI literally could have cried,â said Hawk, sitting in her car after learning that former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and others in his administration would be criminally charged in a water crisis blamed with causing learning disabilities in scores of children and other medical problems among adults in the majority Black city about 60 miles (95 kilometers) northwest of Detroit.
Snyder  and eight others were criminally charged last week with various crimes, including willful neglect, for a plan that contaminated the community with lead and contributed to a fatal outbreak of Legionnairesâ disease, authorities said Thursday.