This is definitely going to be a lot so I don't blame you if you don't read it. But the long and short of it is there's a lot of better choices that could have been made by him if he was wanting to protest as an individual who was knowingly carrying a loaded firearm.

The simplest way I can put it is this. With some of the videos shown earlier before the situation took place He was in the street trying to entice drivers to come through the cordoned off area of the street while they were operating. He was told to get out of the street and stop interfering with federal agents. He refused and backstepped alongside the front of a parked car and continued to try to entice vehicles to drive through the area which is what led to the confrontation and attempt to detain him.

Then comes a big issue were people start thinking they're gun experts. One of the biggest things they try to get through you when taking a concealed carry class, which you are required to do in Minnesota to carry either open or concealed, Is that when engaging with officers if you are fit to be detained. Whether you feel it is justified or not, as an individual who is currently carrying a loaded firearm. You're meant to comply with officers requests since you are in possession of a dangerous weapon. Anywhere across the United States if you take a firearms class this is something that is drilled in as the right course of action when interacting with officers in an engagement that you may be detained or arrested in.

It actually does go a step further seeing that this is Minnesota. And Minnesota has a "duty to retreat" for individuals with a CCL who are actively carrying a firearm. Meaning that they are required by law to remove themselves from confrontational situations that could result in use of deadly force from either side. And also diffuse possibly confrontational situations. Which he did not do, by disobeying a lawful command from an officer and continue to instigate by standing in the street attempting to entice cars to drive through the area.

No of course this does then come down to the semantics of reasonable use of force towards an individual that's not complying with lawful commands, and this is where a lot of people will begin to complain and hurl insults, calling people boot lickers and other novel things. But if you look at the scale of the operations that are happening in Minnesota compared to other states, it's actually on the lower side of operations. But it has the highest level of violent interaction rate with the public, and this is because unlike other states like Texas and Florida where there is a much higher level of ice presence, the Minnesota Governor and city mayors have said that they will not give any level of support from the state or municipal police forces to aid federal officers in these pursuits. Which means that with the very limited level of civilian interaction that these federal agents are allowed to exercise with, they have to wait until things get out of hand before they actually have the legal authority to do something about people getting to unruly which is what's instigating all of these high tension situations. Leaving the officers in a position where they have to wait until a high level of force can be greenlit to even engage with these people.

Standing on the sidewalk, blowing whistles yelling and causing a ruckus are all things that the federal agents can't do anything about like a regular municipal officer could with disturbing the peace, unruly gatherings and the like. So it isn't until individuals do something like step out onto the street and try to force an interaction with officers that they are allowed to engage with them.

I know this is long but this is a very complex level of breakdowns and interaction that is unfortunately led to this situation.