At the Randy Weaver standoff snipers were given an order that any armed male can and should be shot on sight, regardless of his activity. Imagine a local department doing that. The same FBI would prosecute them.
Imagine the irony that reporters were calling Randy Weaver paranoid because he feared the Federal government was going to try to kill him and his family.
All while the Federal government was doing its very best to kill Randy Weaver and his family.