Glenn Greenwald

Or is there something about this case and like the university environment and academia and all the values that we know prevail there that are causing impediments in the investigation that's making this incompetence worse?

Here's the thing.

So there's been a lot of speculation online about what happened at Brown and also what happened with the killing that some people think might be related of this nuclear physicist who was also killed.

At MIT.

At MIT, exactly.

And a lot of the speculation, some of it turned out to be false.

Others of it turned out to be very unfounded.

And a lot of people are...

not unreasonably, that one of the problems with this kind of online sleuth thing is that it often leads to politically motivated speculation or things.

Okay, I agree with that.

I do think that's an issue.

The reason that happens, though, is because of the inability or refusal of people in power and in authorities to answer the most basic questions, to give us the most basic information about a crime that, of course, is a great concern to huge numbers of people and ought to be.

And it's in that vacuum of like this evasive kind of answer, this refusal to give any kind of, to be accountable in any way that citizens start thinking, we can't trust the police.

We can't trust investigators.

They lied to us.

They're incompetent.

They cover things up.

And this is why you see so much of this kind of doubting, like with the Charlie Kirk shooting or with any kind of crime, any kind of major event where people no longer trust institutions of authority.

And I think in that exchange,

You see the reason, like if that's the reason they turned off the cameras, say so.