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Manslaughter charges possible in Flint water crisis, says top investigator
Since the city switched suppliers in April of 2014, corrosive tap water has caused the level of lead in kids’ blood to soar and sparked fears of permanent neurological damage. In some cases, the water has been so poisoned by lead that it qualified as “toxic waste.”
Flood said that the severest possible charge, manslaughter, was “not far-fetched.” He compared charging officials with manslaughter over the water crisis to charging construction workers with the same crime for leaving open manholes unattended, resulting in death.
“The state is making clear they are not practicing ethical public health practice,” Tamara Brickey, the Genesee County Health Department’s public health division director, wrote in a Dec. 5, 2015 email to colleagues. “Now evidence is clearly pointing to a deliberate cover-up … In my opinion, if we don’t act soon, we are going to become guilty by association.”
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Republicans are immune to the law, to morals and to values. Iraq proved that.
Since the city switched suppliers in April of 2014, corrosive tap water has caused the level of lead in kids’ blood to soar and sparked fears of permanent neurological damage. In some cases, the water has been so poisoned by lead that it qualified as “toxic waste.”
Flood said that the severest possible charge, manslaughter, was “not far-fetched.” He compared charging officials with manslaughter over the water crisis to charging construction workers with the same crime for leaving open manholes unattended, resulting in death.
“The state is making clear they are not practicing ethical public health practice,” Tamara Brickey, the Genesee County Health Department’s public health division director, wrote in a Dec. 5, 2015 email to colleagues. “Now evidence is clearly pointing to a deliberate cover-up … In my opinion, if we don’t act soon, we are going to become guilty by association.”
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Republicans are immune to the law, to morals and to values. Iraq proved that.