I strongly agree. Apparently, the point was that the owner turned down offers of help. Blanco did the same thing when the Pres. offered and she turned him down.
I'm not a lawyer, but as a jurist, I'd have a fairly hard time believing/convicting someone of turning down busses during a mandatory evacuation unless the busses went there to get the people and were fought off at gunpoint.
Granted I do not know the whole story that will hopefully come out during the trial.