Press briefing on Tuesday in Lansing
Criminal charges or civil actions could result from the Flint water crisis, says Todd Flood, special counsel for the state attorney general’s office investigation, The Detroit News reports.
“We’re here to investigate what possible crimes there are, . . . [including] involuntary manslaughter or death that may have happened to some young person or old person because of this poisoning, to misconduct in office,” he says. “We take this very seriously.”
Flood, Attorney General Bill Schuette and chief investigator Andrew Arena and deputy chief investigator Ellis Stafford, both from the Detroit Crime Commission, briefed the media on the probe Tuesday in Lansing.
“It’s not far-fetched” to imagine involuntary manslaughter charges in the case, Flood told reporters, if the investigation links “gross negligence” or a “breach of duty” to a death in Flint, where at least nine people have died of Legionnaires’ disease after the city switched to Flint River water in April 2014, Jonathan Oosting of the Detroit News writes.
Flood, Attorney General Bill Schuette and chief investigator Andrew Arena and deputy chief investigator Ellis Stafford, both from the Detroit Crime Commission, briefed the media Tuesday in Lansing on the probe.
