From the guidelines- “Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.”

What's the tech context? What's the relevance for this community?

If somebody has a point to make about the role of social media in this kind of thing, or close user groups fomenting outrage then I guess we have something but to date the links I see are plain reportage.

Probably because there's nothing very interesting to talk about on the subject, unless it was specifically about the tech and tactics used for protection. The comments are likely to turn into a monkey shit fight and the mods probably want to head that off.