Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers raided Glasshouse Farms, a large marijuana cultivation site in Carpinteria, California, Thursday morning, leading to a tense standoff with protesters and a deployment of the National Guard. The raid occurred around 10:20 a.m. at the farm’s location on Casitas Pass Road. An undisclosed number of employees were detained. A … Continue reading
For that to work, you need enough firepower to actually win. Anything short, and it will be a bloodbath, on your side.
By approaching while very obviously not being a threat, it jamms their training, and forces them to think. Once they are thinking, they likely REALLY don’t want to be the ones to start shooting at American protesters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre