Immigration thugs tried to arrest someone in NYC and did not say they were official thugs. The victim tried to fight them off, and a relative helped. They shot the relative, fortunately not fatally.

There is a long history of prosecution of people who tried to defend themselves from unknown assailants, who later turn out to be official state thugs but did not reveal that at the time. Many of the people were convicted of various crimes for these acts of self-defense.

What were they supposed to do? Use telepathy?