"This isn’t about one incident. It’s about a system that allows state violence to be justified through careful wording, where constitutional rights and basic human reactions are treated as provocation, and compliance is defined as instant, unwavering, total and silent submission: even in the middle of being assaulted by an armed federal agent acting outside of constitutional authority. When internal reviews adopt this language, they aren’t clarifying events. They’re pre-emptively defending force. That should alarm anyone who still believes rights are something you exercise: not something you’re punished for invoking."