An innocent man is about to be railroaded into prison.
They should do the announcement at 7 am. Criminal thugs are never awake at that hour.
Maybe what they are doing is announcing it late because they know the worst of the worst are out there late. The more family types come out in the daytime.
This way the bad element will do their rioting, burning, and looting and they can scoop a lot of them up tonight and get them off the streets.
Could be?