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Originally Posted by RainMaker
I have never heard of a situation where a shooter's name was withheld for so long.
I understand the other details for the witness stuff, but there is no reason the name should still be withheld from the public.
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I would just have released the name right away. Now that they haven't, they've risked an uptick in hostility in the protests once everyone has a name, and a face, and a background to comb through.
I can see how the error in judgment happens though. The courts have given them the power to temporarily hold back names, as long as its not a blanket rule, but when there's a particularized showing of some kind of threat. They do have that showing here with the threats online, so it's easy to leap too quickly from "we can" to "we will". I wonder what the union's role in all this is too (assuming these guys are unionized).