Yes. You’re assertion is true. Won’t say it isn’t. BUT. Given the fact this man did say as reported to “not go alive”, it seems to me the feds had the option of the time and place well staked out and prepared. They had a long range Drone on hand (just look at the blacked out telemetry on the video - that isn’t an Amazon drone). They had trailing armed feds pushing them forwards (what caused the actual high speed bolt, BTW?) They had waiting forces behind a curve and hunters on foot - ARMED to the hilt. They had no back up medical help save a bag from the back of a truck - so hastily deployed 15 minutes after the shooting.....all that. Yes, dangerous and forewarned. But only dangerous to a man getting out of a snowbound SUV with his hands up. Don’t even tell me they didn’t plan to take him or anyone else down with deadly force, regardless.
They wanted to be taken seriously. They were.
The cops, especially the Feds, wargame this sh!t all the time. Once you cross the line between “peaceful” and “capable of deadly force” it changes things. The Feds got the bejezus shot out of them on the first day of Waco; they were not going to let that happen again. The FBI knew that one or more of the group leaders would be on the road to a known destination. They were going to be stopped, and it was foolish for anyone to think otherwise. The only variable was whether they went down easy or hard.