In either case even if you believe either man did wrong you cant escape the fact that either man could have been peaceably picked up off site which would have resulted in avoiding both bloodbaths... The fact that both went down the way they did lays at the feet of the gov.

"State a moral case to a ploughman & a professor. The former will decide it as well, & often better than the latter,
because he has not been led astray by artificial rules."