"The decision about how to proceed forward after the recusal is just as important as Alvarez's decision to recuse," Bowman told reporters later in the lobby of the Leighton Criminal Court Building. "This prosecution needs to be handled superbly, it needs to be handled with fairness, it needs to be handled with a view not just to doing justice with respect to Mr. Van Dyke but also with respect to other officers who were involved in the cover-up."