If Luhan’s stunt was a trial balloon for the use of emergency powers to suspend civil liberties, it blew up in her fat face. Everyone could see how absurd and futile the gambit was. Moreover it highlighted how Democrat soft on crime and hard on cops policies are the real cause of the crime wave.
It was a trial balloon. It may have blown up for her, but be assured those like her are working on 'how do we do this the next time with plausibilty for the rubes'. Like an enemy testing perimeter defenses.