“They said, ‘They should just go to the Detroit River and get their water,'” said Baxter Jones, a wheelchair-bound Detroit resident, referring to statements made by city officials. “That’s just a mean-spirited thing to say to people.” Jones was among 19 people arrested for civil disobedience when they blocked crews from shutting off residential water connections in July 2014. Photo © J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue
