They’ve just normalized shutting down an entire city and searching every house without a warrant on the pretext of finding one person, along with killing citizens without trial and without apology. ...all directed by a political party which decried exactly such behavior imputed upon (not actually done by) their opposition in prior years.
Methinks key questions have been answered.
That was my first thought as well. No matter how one justifies it, the whole scene was eerie.