Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
Have to agree. Regardless of your views on the blockade, the choice to board, the location of the interception, etc., this will NOT go down in the annals of tactical brilliance -- though I suspect it will be a teachable moment for all involved in that line of work.
It gets better, appearently the first boarding attempt from boats was stopped by the crowd with water hoses, stun granades, boxes of plates and with the bars showing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6sAEYpHF24

After the crowd is showing clear signs of being riot level hostile, you decide that airdropping one and one into the hostile crowd is a good idea. Someone really messed up there, but then they messed up from the start as well.

There's also eyewitness reports of shooting live rounds before the airdrop, several of the killed was killed by headshots and several of the dead being journalists.