North Carolina workers confront social disaster

By Emily Fitzsimmons
October 4, 2018

Farmworkers at Riggs Brothers Farm in Kinston, North Carolina, called 911 Sept. 15 to ask for help when they woke up in water waist deep. Owner called authorities, said everything was fine, emergency officials cancelled rescue. It was hours before anyone came to get them out.

Farmworkers at Riggs Brothers Farm in Kinston, North Carolina, called 911 Sept. 15 to ask for help when they woke up in water waist deep. Owner called authorities, said everything was fine, emergency officials cancelled rescue. It was hours before anyone came to get them out.