GRAND BLANC TWP, MI - When ambulances began pulling into Henry Ford Genesys Hospital on Sunday morning, Kim Rau didn’t hesitate.

The nurse of 25 years was standing outside the facility on the picket line, like she had been for weeks, when she saw the first wave of victims from the mass shooting at a nearby church arrive .

Rau and a group of about eight striking nurses rushed to the hospital’s back entrance to help.

“Security and management allowed us in,” she said. “Then they were contacted by administration and they asked us to leave.”

Ten minutes after entering, Rau said she and her colleagues were turned away.

“My biggest issue is they call for backup resources even though this is a code black,” she said. “In any other code black situation, they would call us, but Henry Ford on t

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