There's a story about a delusional man who believes himself to be the prophet, who may or may not been hoarding illegal weapons, but to that point other than possible weapons charges, and for some stupid reason that is still unknown, there's absolutely zero attempt to negotiate or discuss with Mr. Koresh a peaceful solution, there was no knocking, no pronouncement of entrance, just ridiculous attempts at entrapment, wild assumptions and insane speculation with no merit whatsoever.
This was allowed to happen and we all sat and watched FOR 51 DAYS as our federal government allowed this nonsense to carry on and on. These feds sitting there on screen acting like some kind of heroes, when these people were just trying to get by, and believed the government was trying to kill them. Then the government came in and made Koresh look like a modern day prophetic savior.
Given what we know now of our three letter agencies and the depths of corruption afoot, it's not much of a stretch to imagine it was already running rampant back then. Clinton and his completely inept AG in Janet Reno decided to literally die on this hill, and this nonsense coming from Lee Hancock who is only basing her words on the word of federal agents only proves the truth of disinformation from media, as well.
There's proof that the ATF did, in fact, open fire first, and the feds completely underestimated what their actions would be met with, the sway Koresh held and how prepared the group was. They assumed these people were stupid and ignorant hillbillies who'd hide cowering in the corner. The followers never felt like hostages and being viewed as such was insulting.
Watching this unfold in real time was horrifying, and listening to our government trying to rationalize it all was maddening. Watching it with the perspective of 30 years is even more so. These people attempting to manipulate the people inside as well as in the real world is gross and disgusting. Cutting the power, blasting music, shining huge lights in, among other things was such poor management and there was and is very clear evidence that this was a SNAFU of the highest order.
There's new footage but still the same old spin just shined up for a new audience.