No, a similar set of events happened repeatedly. A group of protesters assembled at a mall, just the last time, the judge got arrested.
Prior to that the exact same judge would make some statement, as would other people. People searching for the story about the arrest would get a story about a previous protest without an arrest and find that everything, except the arrest itself, was pretty much the same.
If we want to take a considerate interpretation- they wrote about the "news" before the "real news" decided it was "news".