16-year-old Qi-Xuan 

“Justin” Tang, an Ann Arbor 
high school student, was struck 
by a car and killed Tuesday 
morning around 7:20 a.m. 
He was struck by a car while 
crossing Fuller Road near 
Huron High School, according 
to Ann Arbor Police and Ann 
Arbor Public Schools.

Tang was transported to the 

University of Michigan Hospital 
after the accident, where he 
passed away, according to the 
Detroit Free Press.

Ann Arbor Police Lt. 

Renee Bush said the driver 
stopped after the crash and 
is fully cooperating with the 
investigation. 

Tang was a student at 

Community High School in 
Ann Arbor, according to an 
email to AAPS parents from 
Superintendent Jeanice Swift.

“Our hearts and our 

thoughts are with his family 
and friends at this tragic time,” 
Swift said in the email. “Justin 
was a highly engaged student 

at Community High School, 
an academic high-performer 
and was very involved in 
Community Ensemble Theater.”

Swift also said grief support 

teams will be available to 
students at Community High 
and Huron High.

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“We’re 
talking 
about 
a 

dark side of science and 
engineering 
in 
academia,” 

he said. “I’m going to tell 
you 
today 
that 
we 
have 

failed miserably in terms of 
honoring that public trust.”

In the first part of his 

lecture, Edwards described 
the 
efforts 
of 
several 

government agencies in D.C. 
to cover up the effects of the 
lead outbreak in the water 
supply, calling whistleblowing 
efforts partially a way to 
uphold the duty of scientists 
to the public good.

“This 
crime 
was 

perpetrated by government 
scientists 
and 
engineers,” 

he said. “It was an EPA 
regulation that inadvertently 
caused lead to fall into the 
water.”

In particular, he cited the 

Centers for Disease Control’s 
response 
to 
the 
outbreak 

as 
deficient, 
noting 
the 

government agency falsified 
a report denying any effects 
from the water crisis.

“The 
U.S. 
Centers 
for 

Disease Control came into 
town and derailed any hope 
of holding the perpetrators 
of this crime accountable,” 
he said. “In defiance of 2,000 
years 
of 
human 
history, 

dozens 
of 
peer-reviewed 

papers, the CDC found that 
there is no evidence that kids 
in D.C. drinking all this water 
with high levels of lead were 
harmed.”

Edwards 
compared 
the 

mishandling of the D.C. water 
crisis to the current crisis in 
Flint, which has had elevated 
levels of lead in its water for 
at least the past two years 
after a switch in the source of 
their water caused lead from 
the pipes to leach into the 
water.

“Governments do not do a 

good job of fixing problems 
that they create,” he said. 
“The lead pipes are there 
because of a bad law that 
required them. The consumer 
had no choice.” Edwards also 
emphasized that the series of 
steps required to prove to the 
government 
and 
American 

public that the crisis in Flint 
was real and had negative 

health 
impacts 
aimed 
to 

be 
both 
comprehensible 

and 
understandable.“We 

sent sampling kits to Flint 
residents to sample the water 
for lead,” Edwards said. “We 
also did simple experiments 
that anyone, even a reporter, 
can understand.”

After Edwards conducted 

several 
more 
public 

experiments 
following 
the 

state government’s refusal to 
repeat his previous tests, he 
received the media coverage 
that attracted the attention of 
the country to the crisis.

“By early October (2014), 

it was front cover of The 
New York Times,” he said. 
“It wasn’t long before all of 
America and much of the 
world 
learned 
that 
what 

happened in Flint, Michigan 
was 
an 
environmental 

crime perpetrated by our 
government against one of our 
most vulnerable populations 
in this country.”

LSA freshman Alec Kefgen, 

who attended the event, said 
he was surprised to hear that 
nobody in the Washington 
D.C. water crisis was held 
accountable. He said he was 

glad several perpetrators 
in the Flint crisis are 
being prosecuted.

“I 
heard 
that 
the 

government wasn’t really 
helping 
or 
supporting 

(the Flint community),” 
he said. “I was happy to 
see people got indicted. In 
the future, people can see 
what has happened, see 
the work that (Edwards) 
did, and be more open to 
the effects.”

Chemical Engineering 

Prof. Suljo Linic said he 
thought 
the 
audience 

would 
benefit 
from 

hearing more about the 
crises directly from those 
affected.

“We hope that many 

students, 
faculty 
and 

colleagues 
have 
an 

opportunity 
to 
hear 

first hand what really 
happened, 
what 
went 

wrong and what can be 
done differently so that 
these kinds of things do 
not happen in the future,” 
he said. 

WATER
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