EXACTLY! This is all a set up. They did not take anything. The Mayor and City Council were complicit in this. The hope is that as the city does nothing, Trump will go off and send the military in, thereby giving the left another hammer to swing at him in November.
Better to let them Rot and starve, and tell the Mayor and Governor it is their responsibility to do something about it.
This radical left squating tactic was used in the 1960’s here in the US and non stop in parts of Europe since.