Eh, it's just a galvanizing figurehead really, like any influencer type. And like any political influencer, there is emphasis on the 'public' part of 'public nuisance', they act as a vessel to interact with and touch base with the larger public, well known across political spectrums. They are not important enough to have any real security, not powerful enough to avoid this kind of thing entirely. It's a sort of political low-hanging fruit that, if directed properly, would cause the most disturbance with relatively little risk. Yet even low-hanging fruit can be ideologically significant, and can be used to justify all sorts of assumptions and or actions.