I had very little trouble finding english language sources for information on this incident.

Secondly, yes, people in the US do care that much. Maybe not every US citizen, you're right, a lot of them won't even know that this happened or be paying attention. Yet....

Conservative groups, especially Evangelical Christian conservative groups, have a long history of dumping absolutely gobs of money into foreign countries to influence their politics.

Two recent examples would be the Canadian Trucker Protest,

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-american-right-wing-funding-for-canadian-trucker-protests-could-sway-u-s-politics

About 44 percent of the nearly $10 million in contributions to support the protesters originated from U.S. donors, according to an Associated Press analysis of leaked donor files.

and the Ugandan anti-gay law:

https://globalaffairs.org/commentary-and-analysis/blogs/unholy-relationship-between-ugandas-anti-lgbtq-law-and-us

from 2007 to 2020, over 20 US evangelical groups spent at least $54 million in Africa “to influence laws, policies, and public opinion against sexual and reproductive rights." Nearly half of that figure was spent in Uganda.

US conservatives absolutely are interested in being involved in supporting their brand of conservatism worldwide, and considering US conservatives are the sort who regularly sport stickers like "back the blue" or "the thin blue line" flags, it would be remiss to act like the quickly ascending money for the officer isn't politically motivated.