Let's say that tonight a gangster heroin dealer named Abdi Banikwee (born here, and his parents thought that was cool because someone told them it was from some country without sanitation) starts waving an AK around in a local stop'n'rob's parking lot. He announces that he's gonna go inside and kill everyone. If a local metro cop cancels his ticket, that metro cop will have his name, picture and address in the paper the next day, but on TV faster.
Most of midtown would be behind plywood again. Some of the stores near me still haven't taken it down - they got tired of jacking around with it. Some stuff would be on fire. There would be people from suburbia lost, and asking for directions.
We still don't know the name of the cufflink-wearing "officer" who executed Babbitt.