something unusual. i thought some machinery working on the street. because there s this construction constant and unending. sometimes they re jackhammering in the ground. this isn t one of those days that they probably wouldn t be working out in this weather. they thought machinery was working on the street. and phones started flashing alerts. there s an emergency alert system. you probably have one in your city, too, if something big happens, it will affect people outside of those immediately affected by it. in other words, helicopter crashes on the building and they re not sure everybody will be safe. your phone starts flashing alerts. quoting as soon as people learned it was a plane, they rushed out. the first alert is a plane crashed into a building midtown. right around times square. i don t know, three or four
even in just the last few years. a lot of that due to social media. how much has that impacted the way that these cases do play out? normally, i would have to sit here and say to you, well, erica, we don t know and we can t speculate and be super careful. this isn t one of those days. because we just heard from a prosecutor today that her timing was affected by the public release of the video. some will give her points for candor. others will say, as a prosecutor, you have to be willing to withstand public criticism and stick to your timeline. she admitted to it, my hand is being forced by the public release. and we heard mayor emanuel and other public officials reference that as well. so we know in this case at least, it was a huge pressure. any prosecutor will tell you, prosecution is not about crime. it s about evidence. there s a lot of crime out there and you can t catch all of it. when you have enough evidence to charge and meet your duties, you do that. so this video is the ev