Does the edit make it make more sense?

For everyone: While risking putting my head in the politics bear trap, that it was a cop or that it is an election season makes it more likely for what should be a local matter into a national one. That it is both makes it a given that this will grabbed by the national media.
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-IronRaven

When a man dare not speak without malice for fear of giving insult, that is when truth starts to die. Truth is the truest freedom.