Dawn Jones sits down for an exclusive interview with prosecutors seeking justice in the case
FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - It was not the lack of evidence or guilt that led to no one being convicted in the Flint Water Crisis.
The water prosecution team said the evidence was there.
"If they knew what we know and what we wanted to present, there would not be any doubt about who was responsible and what they did," said Wayne County Prosecutor and member of the Flint Water Prosections Team, Kym Worthy.
The prosecutor and her team insist they have the evidence to prove that crimes were committed against the people of Flint in one of the worst man-made environmental crisis in US history.
The Flint water crisis began in 2014 with the flip of a switch to the Flint River as the city's main source of water. It forever changed the lives of the 80,000 people who call the vehicle city home.
Soon after the water switch, residents, including ABC12 News Anchor Dawn Jones, who lives in the city, knew something was wrong with the water. It was flowing discolored from the tap and in many instances, had a foul smell.
But, it would take several months before government officials confirmed those suspicions.
The damage had already been done as people were dying from Legionnaires disease, and the city's children were being exposed to high levels of lead.
Seven years after the first criminal investigations into the Flint water crisis were launched, all of the cases have been closed, and no one is being held criminally responsible for what happened to the people of Flint.
Dawn Jones sat down for an exclusive interview with Kym Worthy, Wayne County Prosecutor and Fadwa Hammoud, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Michigan, to discuss their efforts to get justice for the people of Flint.
Dawn Jones's full interview with Kym Worthy and Fadwa Hammoud from the Flint Water Prosecution Team regarding this week's decision by the Michigan Supreme Court that closes the door on the criminal prosecutions of the government officials.
