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The head of the Michigan health department was charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter, the highest-ranking member of Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration to be snagged in a criminal investigation of Flint’s lead-contaminated water.

Nick Lyon is accused of failing to alert the public about an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the Flint area, which has been linked by some experts to poor water quality in 2014-15.

Charges were read in court by a member of the state attorney general’s team. Lyon was not in court. A message seeking comment was left for his attorneys.

Flint began using water from the Flint River in 2014 but didn’t treat it to reduce corrosion. Lead from old plumbing leached into the water system.

Some experts also have linked the water to Legionnaires’ disease, a type of pneumonia caused by bacteria that thrive in warm water and infect the lungs. People can get sick if they inhale mist or vapor, typically from cooling systems.

There were nearly 100 cases in the Flint area, including 12 deaths, in 2014 and 2015.

Source: https://apnews.com/fa6ea0b57c2f41a4...utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=APCentralRegion

https://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP/status/874968353995182082

 

[99Luffy]

He should be hanged.

 

[Master Yoshi]

He should be hanged.

Or made to drink that water for the rest of his life.

 

[SocksAndShoes]

Good.

 

[liquidtmd]

Or made to drink that water for the rest of his life.

Quite a short sentence then

 

[WedgeX]

Good. Utterly ridiculous they swept that under the rug while people died.

 

[Plinko]

The order not to warn people had to come from somewhere.

Snyder is undoubtedly the one who told them not to.

 

[n00bsauce87]

I'm shocked it took this long, but someone was needed to be made an example of this (at best) gross negligence of the citizens

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Isn't the water crisis still going on now, or is it resolved?

 

[Stinkles]

Isn't the water crisis still going on now, or is it resolved?

Still going on.

 

[RS4-]

He should be hanged.

Or made to drink that water for the rest of his life.

Lock him up under a leaky pipe that slowly drips his only source of water, from Michigan.

Disgusting how this has been going on for a very very long time and nothing was done.

 

[Cosmo Clock 21]

The order not to warn people had to come from somewhere.

Snyder is undoubtedly the one who told them not to.

As long as Snyder walks as a free man, Flint will be unable to heal. It's absurd that Flint still does not have clean drinking water three years later (and the situation looks like it's getting worse in some ways).

 

[ShyMel]

It's sad to know how long it has taken to get this amount of "progress". The residents of Flint I feel will unfortunately never get the reparations they are truly owed.

 

[0ptimusPayne]

Water crisis is still going on don't get it twisted peeps. Glad they're making progress, its disgusting that this has been going on for so long but thats MI government for you...

 

[PillarEN]

Boom. Here is the news from the Detroit Free Press

http://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...-water-crisis-manslaughter-charges/396075001/