Gov. Josh Shapiro Asked Point Blank If He Will Attend The Trial For The Alleged Arson Suspect

Forbes Breaking News

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) held a press briefing on Tuesday, where he was asked if he will attend the trial for the alleged arson suspect at the Governor's Mansion.

Transcript

00:00I want to ask a specific security question.

00:02Just one of them, too.

00:03Okay, I'll come back to you in one second.

00:04If there's a trial, will I be there?

00:08Look, I'm going to leave all of that up to the prosecutors.

00:12As I've said multiple times, I've got tremendous confidence in District Attorney Franchardo,

00:18and I've got confidence in the Department of Justice, should they choose to bring charges.

00:23If my presence is needed by the prosecutors, I'll be there.

00:27If my presence is not needed, I don't need to be there.

00:31They've asked me for a statement, an impact statement, as a victim of what occurred.

00:36I provided that to law enforcement last week.

00:39And whatever is needed from me, from Lori, from our kids, we're going to make sure we provide to the prosecutors.

00:45I've been asked specifics about security, because I know you're not talking about that.

00:49But state police has a very good team that assesses, does threat assessments, and builds at university.

00:54Yep.

00:54Last, I've told over the last several years, they've done assessments of this, and it passed

00:58off to DGS, but they obviously didn't get acted on.

01:02Now, are you aware of that, and what's your reaction?

01:04I'm not aware of an assessment that they made that DGS did not act upon.

01:09I'm not saying that didn't happen.

01:10I'm not saying it did.

01:11But that's a question I would defer to PSP and DGS.

01:15That specialized unit has been on the ground here over the last week, making recommendations.

01:22I'm sure presenting those recommendations, not just to Colonel Paris, but former Colonel Miller,

01:27who's acting as the independent reviewer.

01:29They'll work together with all the different experts that are brought to bear to make sure

01:34that they present to us a final set of recommendations for both the infrastructure and for the systems.

01:40I can tell you from an infrastructure perspective, they've already made some changes, and a number

01:45more will be made.

Category

Transcript

Recommended