I don’t think it’s really as confused as some are making it out to be.
You won’t find any mention of a bank robbery or anything other than a nutjob entering PP and lighting it up. It appears to me that law enforcement caught him very early, thus focusing his attention and his fire on police. There are multiple witness statements on video both on the Gazette website and on CNN that make it pretty clear what happened. An older white guy with a ponytail and a younger black woman who was in PP when the shooting started and who’s boyfriend may be one of the unidentified dead. Have you seen them?
The problem with your liberal narrative is that the police scanner told a different tale and FReepers heard it. So did others. I’d be careful about pushing a lefty narrative on FR.