I had a chance to chat a bit with the owner of the crane that I went up in to take the pictures.
He told me (I made him swear to God) that earlier he was standing by the KCRA News Reporter and heard him talking to his camera-man. I am Paraphrasing.... “Lets go find some crazy, mad tea party people.”
He said that he was in shock.
Unfortunate... but it’s what we’ve come to expect from our US version of Pravda.