the meeting was arranged as a “private” meeting in the church with limited media (but not limited enough, so it seems!)
according to the detroit free press,
Lt. Devon Bernritter of the Flint Police Department, said the campaign was only allowing about 50 people into the church, along with a small pool of mostly national media.
Sharon C., a Flint resident who didn't want to give her last name, sat outside the church helping to hand out the cases of water that residents in Flint still have to depend on instead of drinking tap water that has been contaminated with lead.
..."We'll give him respect and let him come, but I don't follow the things that he's said," she said. "I don't think he's sincere coming here to the black neighborhood. He's just doing a photo op."
so far, this tantalizing story has not hit the news cycles yet — msnbc was airing the coverage and the anchor appeared genuinely flummoxed — there is NO way to make this appear anything other than a total disaster! so, the anchors are rushing to cover anything BUT this event… like, dr. oz.
riiight!