Flint officials may face jail for water crisis. That's bittersweet news | Douglas Williams

The water supply of an entire city was poisoned. None of this had to happen - and true justice is a long way off

The news that several state officials in Michigan have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection to a death in the Flint water crisis is bittersweet. The thought that there might be some measure of justice in one of the worst humanitarian crises in modern American history is only matched by the sense that none of this had to happen in the first place.

Rick Snyder, Michigan's Republican governor, was not among those listed in the indictments. That's a crime itself.