Feds "accidentally" drops the hogs leashes leading to the violently hilarious barnstorming of the Capital as a means of both redirecting popular opinion on gutting police budgets and giving the State a convenient escape route from actually having to tackle its internal contradictions by utilizing these dipshit maga lead paintsniffers as a perfect scapegoat to not just justify keeping the militarized policestate but also expanding it
Same reason why corporate media will coalesce around certain narratives, even in cases where there is no top-down direction to do so. It's an alignment of interests, and a filtering out of people who do not support those interests.