The panic attack could very well be real, and I've no idea why the poster decided to put PTSD in the title. Panic attacks can happen to anyone at any time for any reason, especially when that person is under a lot of stress.
What I do have an issue with is people trying to use their position to claim that the law should somehow apply differently to them, and dropping names in order to wriggle out from beneath its consequences. That alone should render them unfit for the office they hold, be they other cops or elected officials, regardless of their political alignments.