> the intense pressure for public immediate action led to the (firing or resignation) of multiple people who were actually needed for the investigation.
That just sounds like a management failure. You don’t actually have to cave.
That just sounds like a management failure. You don’t actually have to cave.
The only reason there would be to fire people immediately would be if it would have been done deliberately with malicious intent but in this case there is no evidence of that.
Scape goats work better when they can't defend themselves.