Mostly agree. The GIN took what seven people in two cars into custody. One was reportedly injured, and they killed the guy who drove off from the stop, tried to run a roadblock, nearly killed a cop while driving around the roadblock.(It’s not a good roadblock, but he looked like he was going to ram it, and the cop was scrambling to get away). At th point he got out out of the truck, from the camera footage, I can’t tell what’s going on, but the rhetoric, the guns, and running would have made the cops very worried about this turning violent, and the guy was not unambiguously surrendering. He was a big part of making this more dangerous than it needed to be. I wish he didn’t get killed, but I’m glad it wasn’t worse.
These guy took over a federal office, and used guns and violent rhetoric to try and scare the police away. That’s a dangerous game. I the Bundy Ranch incident is about the only case of that actually working. Governments have a monopoly on the legitimacy use of force in their boarders. You challenge them at your perill. I agree that people in our government could respect member of the public more, and vice versa, but these guys brought themselves a lot of trouble, and proof that the feds weren’t there to execute those protesters is that all the leaders in the first truck were taken into custody unharmed.
Yep.