I agree 100% with this.
My issue, not specifically with you but in general, is people seem far more likely to try and push the "don't jump to conclussions" suggestion in a stronger way when its being aimed at people suggesting someone is an islamic terrorist than when someone is suggested as being an christian extremist or KKK member or whatever else. It seems much more acceptable to openly talk about and discuss assumptions when the assumption isn't Islamic.
When it comes to law enforcement, I absolutely agree. They shouldn't say anything that isn't defintive fact, and I'd go one step further and say they shouldn't say initially more than is absolutely necessary not to cause excessive panic.
I think that if you review the census taker case in Tennessee, you will find that I responded in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY. And in that case, I was defending tea partiers from the aspersions being cast their way by the far left idiots. I would encourage you to look at that thread if you have any doubts, whatsoever.
I feel the same way about rushing to judgement in ANY criminal case, whether the issue is gangs, politics, race, or religion.
I was once involved in a gang-related shooting. The NAACP, with very few facts, decided immediately because one of the victims was ostensibly black, that a gang-shooting was a race-related homicide. They rushed to the media, calling it a hate crime.
Within hours, it was determined that the victim was Latino, the shooter was white, and both were gang-involved. The incident wasn't racial, it was gang-related. IN other words, it was no more a hate crime than any other homicide.
Direct experience with that case has made me extremely careful about spreading misinformation. Not because I did so, but because I saw the longterm effects of that misinformation in the community. People remembered it as a "hate crime," and it fed fears of white on black racial crime in our community. But, it never happened...not like it was spun.
And, at some point, later in my career, a member of the community accused me of "covering up" that hate crime. the hate crime that never was.
tres annoying.