David Boree

An employee reports them to the police because they're wearing body armor and other tactical gear, and at least one of them is openly carrying a pistol.

Something is very weird here because they're approached not just by Virginia State Police, but by a Homeland Security Investigations officer.

And there's evidence that Homeland Security is surveilling them for like a week before the shootout that happens.

I don't know what Homeland Security thought was happening.

They may have just seen we're on the border.

Obviously, shit's escalated there.

This is a foreign citizen with an American citizen.

They're wrapping their electronics in tinfoil.

They've got guns.

They're driving around being very suspicious in tactical gear.

Maybe they just thought it was like some run-of-the-mill terrorism bullshit.

It's worth checking out.

Right.

So they are surveilling these people.

And I think Youngblood and Bockholt realize they're being surveilled, right?

And that starts that escalatory loop in their head of Zizian logic where, well, if the police confront me, there's only one way to respond, right?

Fuck, yeah.

Two days later, prosecutors in California ask the judge in the Curtis Lind case to speed up the process of going to trial.

He's in his 80s.

He's got a bad memory, and he's the only witness of the attacks.