The end goal here is what, inciting a perceived riot? To then apply pressure during midterms? That can’t be it. What am I missing here?
Let's repeat that: Masked adult men with deadly weapons that would not identify themselves rushed a school as children left with the explicit goal of kidnapping children.
Then, when teachers intervened to protect the children, they physically assaulted and sprayed/gassed them.
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That is to say, the point is to be cruel and unusual and, yes, incite panics and rioting.