Ok, Luke, you have a choice to make.
Let me present it to you.
Those people were right, in their minds, to do what they did.
It appears that you want to persist in your 'those people are bad', 'they should be prosecuted', and 'we should say bad things about them on the internet' position.
How could they be wrong in defending themselves from you when you call for state violence to be used on them?
I can't speak for all of them.
I can elucidate their purview, I have studied it extensively.
Have you?
Will you go forward from today and continue to speak from ignorance?
I'd suggest that that may not be the 'neutral reporting' you purport yourself as doing.
I hope you make the right choice.
I would like to help you see why they think they were right in doing what they did, perhaps you will agree once you have the data, too.
So, Luke, your character is on the line.
Do you seek to understand their purview, or do you pass judgement based on being ignorant of the facts at hand?
Will you seek those facts, or will you justify for them what they did?