But why go out seeking people to protect against themselves?
My guess is, the big shots got together sometime before this call and decided to put on a raid like this at the first opportunity. They were just waiting for an “appropriate” situation to occur. If this particular call hadn’t come in, it would have been some pot smoker or some drunk yelling at his wife. Someone was gonna get raided.
I think it’s somewhere between the subconscious need to grand stand and the misguided desire to do something even If it’s wrong.