Hindsight is not really needed. They KNEW they were looking for one guy and saw him drive away. They had thousands of cops looking for one skinny guy. Incredible overkill and overreach. If you are saying there was potential for other accomplices and unknowns etc. Of course. That is what police deal with every day and they do with far less than a thousand police army.
I agree to a considerable extent. Why does a terrorist manhunt require such vastly greater resources than a manhunt for anybody else?
There is, as I’ve said, the potential for an ambush, but the whole thing seems overblown. Three person multiple murders happen frequently, and this kind of reaction doesn’t routinely follow.
Though the number of injured is way out of the routine.