Considering the brain of the hunter & hunted

I'm from Pennsylvania too, and I've watched this whole thing unfold with horror. It was like a primitive war game, and it seems to me that once the first horrible ambush happened, the state troopers and officials all over were just sucked into playing "the game." I don't know what reflection was involved, but from the outside, it seemed to me that they just marched in step with the shooter, like it was a long rehearsed scene. In terms of psy-ops, Frein had them running for him. -- Right down to the using the dead trooper's hand-cuffs on him, the whole thing played out like a well worn script.

How easy is it to provoke the (mostly male) human animal to play these games? How easy would it be to set up this sort of thing as a major distraction to other things going on.

And to your point about comparing it with Ferguson. Amen! If Frein had not been white... well it would have been a different story, that's for sure!