New information, that there is a highly authoritarian (often described as Orwellian) FAA authorization that is expiring on 12/20/24, and that a bill is pending before Congress to approve simply re-authorizing this law. It is most likely, therefore, that the US government is abusing it's drones to spark outrage and is pretending not to be the perpetrator of the invasive use of these drones in order to retain it's undue power to restrict civilian drones.
HB 8610 is the FAA re-authorization act at issue.