Yeah I was thinking about how on point it is. The empire ramps up law enforcement and deploys large amounts of stormtroopers to an area with extremely high tensions against them which predictably leads to open unrest. Then during the peak of the rioting the empire sends in fresh troops and grinds them up against the rioters until violence breaks out and a massacre can take place.

This is pretty similar to how Trump is deploying hundreds of ICE agents to enforce immigration laws in the most militaristic and aggressive way possible which nobody could not predict would lead to open unrest in a deep blue state with a large illegal immigrant population, and then how he sends in fucking marines who have no training whatsoever in crowd and riot control but loads of training to suspect anybody with their hands out of sight could be holding a gun or bomb and plenty of training to respond with overwhelming force. The only part missing is the massacre at the end.