whats the bridge all about then.....she's not there....but what is? i don't know, if they know its a body they are looking for its hardly fair on the public to send them out to search
Maybe by the time of the search, if they have found something, they would call it off.
But it kind of looks like that might have been a false alarm? No more live feed that I can find.
He mispronounced Mariah's name at the last two press conferences. Yesterday laughed at a reporter's question saying he "doesn't know where her parents are." Today he calls a press conference and then chastises the reporters he invited to the press conference for doing their jobs and asking questions. Contrast this with the FBI agents who politely declined to give more information than they wanted to give out. It's a two way street for LE and most understand this. You want the media attention when you want it, but chastising reporters for asking questions during a Q and A period is unprofessional.
So he mispronounced her name and corrected himself twice and that's a problem? He knows who she is better than all of us. And he feels the weight of her disappearance more profoundly and personally than any of us ever could. This is his county, his citizen and his investigation.
And I didn't hear him laugh. I watched that video and specifically looked for some rude, dismissive or unprofessional utterance when people described that. But I didn't find anything like that. It was a very slight, subtle chuckle which appeared to be a mannerism of his in reaction to an uncomfortable question he didn't want to answer. Or as if to say, "Of course you are all going to hone in on the parents and want that info but you know we aren't going to give you much."
As to "chastising" the media, man. Have we become that soft as a nation? He wasn't condescending and he didn't tell them they were being jerks. He politely and patiently explained that he couldn't give out too much info otherwise he would compromise the investigation.
Maybe some prefer a curt "no comment" (although when that's all we get there's a lot of howling on here in these cases about what a waste the presser was), but he has a concerned public he's trying to address. I thought it was wise and good PR to actually explain why certain info couldn't be given out and asking that everyone respect the reason for that.
I have nothing but mad respect for these people doing one of the most intense and horrible jobs on earth. Every single case people bash LE for something but this seems like a very thorough and well run, cooperative and collaborative investigation.
IMO it's easy to be an armchair quarterback.