If the authorities refuse to do their job of protecting the public, or worse, sides with criminals, vigilantism results.
So if they are demanding a situation in which a person must be attacked, or their very life threatened before the authorities will even notice the attack, then alternative means should be planned.
In this case, using means to provide “plausible deniability”, the security people should have pre-arranged for “mob breakers”. Essentially brawlers hired to just stand around, unless they receive a signal, then without warning they attack given targets before quickly exiting.
For example, when the mob was converging around the vehicles, the toughs would sort of cluster with them. Then, if a hasty exit was needed, the signal would be given, and the toughs would have a limited number of seconds to punch and kick multiple members of the mob before they took off in different directions.
Observing this at a distance, the police would then converge, but the only people left on the scene would be nursing ringing heads and bloody noses. By the time the police tried to pursue, the attackers would be long gone, and departed the scene by vehicle.
Then, with disabled protesters, and police all over the scene, a quick and safe departure could be made. Since the “good guys” didn’t arrive on the scene until *after* the police had arrived, there would be no “cause and effect” for them to be detained.
Of course there would be much hubbub in the local news, but it would remain an unsolved mystery.
Interesting approach! I’m guessing that the magnitude of willful incompetence, political correctness, intentional dereliction of duty and the thinly-veiled interest and approval of causing personal, physical harm to Miss Coulter was all so utterly mind-boggling to the highly-trained and superbly-professional American security team that such an option may not have occurred to them....and such a tactic, if it goes wrong, would likely have disastrous consequences for their company and personal reputations as well.
I agree re the spectre of vigilantism, but it seems that Canadians have ‘largely’ disarmed themselves, and so when the authorities side with the thugs, the honest people have little recourse but to meekly cower in a corner.....