Read my post again, the claim is silly.
This major national story on the attack of the Speaker’s house to kidnap her and hold her hostage and almost killing her husband was not some tiny backwoods town with a single sheriff and one local paper taking days to reach the big city reporters and the networks.
This was an attack of the Speaker’s House in Pacific Heights, San Francisco, everything hit the nation at once as a breaking story and everyone and anyone was saving all the videos and newscasts, so where are they?
I cannot address the poster’s original claim—but I do know that the political affiliation of the perp was scrubbed to make him appear a right wing nut instead of a left wing nut.