[Henrietta]

"but it's a sorry commentary on our society that she didn't break the van window herself, but waited for the professionals to come and do it. "

Oh, come on, you really blame her for waiting, when the constant refrain from the police-types is to call them instead of taking the law into our own hands? She can't win, can she?

[Badray]

The report that I saw said that she was just about to break the window when the police got there. What probably stopped her from breaking it sooner was the fear of being sued.