“When asked about the police’s timing of releasing the robbery video along with the name of Officer Wilson today, the police chief said he did so because ‘you asked for it’”
Seems to me that if the Chief had ‘offered’ this info to the press right away, then the ‘public’ would be claiming he only did it to prejudice the case against Mike.
They are claiming that that anyway. No matter what the Chief does, they are going to find something wrong with it.
Waiting until the ‘media’ asked seems the most intelligent choice.
The media never asked for it because they never knew about it.
So when the Chief said: “You asked for it”’ he means it in a different way — an offensive way.
It was a shot across the bow of the media to say “back off” and quit asking for things like the autopsy report, the number of bullets, the shell locations,...