BREAKING - The Rhode Island Attorney General is now apologizing for the false detention of Benjamin Erickson, stating it was “unfortunate” that his name was allowed to be leaked to the public. It’s “unfortunate” any of these people have jobs.

That's an "unfortunate" blessing to the man. He can now sue for an arm and a leg, and live happily ever after.

bro.....

They literally had a press conference to say “we do not know what we’re doing”🤦‍♂️

Benjamin should sue them out of existence! That is horrible!!

Shining example here, folks. One of the only openly conservative students is murdered. They torch the life of some random kid named Benjamin. Actually, two random kids named Benjamin. And they still have no clue…. Even with 800+ cameras. Slow 👏

Buffoon. Prosecute the leaker of the false information. Any “journalist” who reported it without independent verification should be fired.

Calling it “unfortunate” is the most spineless, bureaucratic cop-out imaginable, like oops our bad we only ruined a guy’s life for 48 hours, sorry about that champ, these people treat careers and reputations like collateral damage in their little power LARP, leak a name, slap cuffs on the wrong guy, let the media run wild, then issue a lukewarm apology like it’s a typo in a memo, this isn’t an oopsie it’s gross incompetence mixed with zero accountability, and yeah you’re right, the real misfortune is that the same clowns who screwed this up still collect paychecks, still hold power, still get to do it again tomorrow, if a normal person performed this badly at their job they’d be fired before lunch, but in government you fail upward, apologize downward, and expect everyone else to just swallow it, absolute circus, no consequences, no credibility, just vibes and excuses.

So, they smeared a white guy and the actual shooter is still on the loose Why am I not surprised

Brown has 800 cameras and not a single image of what happened. This is the most left-wing state in the country, and it reeks of a cover-up. They don’t need another shooting landing on their party.

Nothing is ever leaked is it? it's released intentionally for political purposes.

At least they have the interpreter there so even deaf people know how incompetent they are

You mean Kash Patel right?

How do you explain finding him in a hotel room with a gun?

They are trying to discredit the FBI. They are trying to make the public lose trust in the FBI. My thought, the FBI and the Trump administration is about to release mass evidence that will implicate hundreds of politicians from both parties. This is a propaganda game.

These were the same idiots who told @WhiteHouse and @realDonaldTrump the suspect was in custody.

Only purpose of having a crazy face sign language interpreter in the camera shot is to give a visual distraction to what is being said to the vast majority of the public watching. Its a tactic a lot of government comms people use to distract from embarrassing media events.

This is beginning to be a regular thing…

The attorney General of Rhode Island should be ashamed and embarrassed at the level of incompetence his office has. It's shocking law enforcement and State attorney's employees have had such a lack of communication between themselves and the public on every single level.

It sure sounds like they wasted a vital day on a bad tip. Where did that tip come from and why did the cops put all resources into tracking it down?

The sign language interpreter

Let me get this straight. Rhode Island PD gets the tip called into there command center that leads to the POI and they hand it off to the FBI to run with it. hummmm did they set up FBI - why didn’t they run with the tip or do a joint operation. I smell psy ops to either throw off or intentional to make FBI fall guy. Now that I think about it, the press conferences were very suspicious. There were too many inconsistencies, flubs and confusions. Seeing the AG ear whispering live to the Police Chief was so 👀 Still very surprised about clarity into the cameras, and bit concerning that the poi was leaked. Body language of persons at today’s press conference was also suspect.

Prosecute the leaker

What’s with the facial expressions of the sign language lady? Once you notice it, you can’t see anything else.

Sue them blue!!

It's unfortunate that these people still have a career

"Sorry for ruining your life! How 'bout a Starbuck's gift card? No? Amazon maybe?"

Why do the sign language people have to be so dramatic, can't they tone it down a bit?

What a shit show!

The idiots leaked his name on purpose to smear him in the public and now this innocent young man is in danger because lunatics won’t see this lame correction or believe it. EVERYONE involved needs to be fired. SHAME on these pathetic losers.

someone high level needs to take accountability and resign immediately this was sloppy bullshit, pure and simple

Well in fairness, we didn't believe it was him anyways