Whoa. they didn’t “think about it”?
So their first thought was, “Hey, let’s spend about $2M arming a bunch of thugs and use a bunch of helicopter hours so we can show how disgusting we are.....in order to get $1M in fines” ???
And, no one at BLM, had a different - and less expensive and confrontational - idea?
Shut it down. Just shut it down.
Shoot first, ask questions later sort of mentality. Kind of like your average third-world dictatorship way of doing things.