(MPRN-Lansing) Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has announced his office will investigate the Flint water crisis.
The Republican attorney general issued a statement early Friday morning. He called the situation “a human tragedy” that does not belong in 21st Century America. Schuette says the purpose of the investigation is to determine whether any state laws were broken in the events leading up to the public health emergency.
Lead leached into the tap water of some city residents following the decision to temporarily switch to the Flint River for drinking water. That decision was made and carried out by a series of state-appointed emergency managers who were running Flint at the time.
Governor Rick Snyder has declared a state of emergency in the city.
