I think in most states the officers would be told to keep the “Free Palestine” stuff totally quiet to the media.
Worst case I remember offhand was the police in this case covering up the evidence and the black spokesman for the police saying this was a troubled young man and they had no idea of his motives. Much later the truth came out:
“On January 5, 2002, Charles J. Bishop, a high-school student of East Lake High School in Tarpon Springs, Florida, United States, stole a Cessna 172 light aircraft and crashed it into the side of the Bank of America Tower in downtown Tampa, Florida. The impact killed the teenager and damaged an office room, but there were no other injuries.
Bishop had been inspired by the September 11 attacks; he had left a suicide note crediting Osama bin Laden for the attacks and praising it as a justified response to actions against the Palestinians and Iraqis and said he (Bishop) was acting on behalf of Al Qaeda, from whom he had turned down help. “ From Wikipedia.
Oh my! I’ve not thought of this for many years. I was in Tampa at work on the 4th floor of my office. We heard about the plane crash and immediately assumed another terror attack. We could see the smoke rising from the building it struck. As on 9/11, we were again evacuated for safety’s sake.
That January day, my daughter was attending Blake High School downtown in close proximity to the building which was struck. Of course school was closed and kids loaded onto the busses to take home. So...my daughter tells me that the route her bus always took went past the building struck. As they passed it the kids were all freaking out because as they looked out the windows they could see THE PLANE HANGING OUT OF THE BUILDING RIGHT OVER THEIR HEADS a number of stories up! Dang, right? Let’s keep our children safe by driving them under a plane half in half out of high rise.