Whitewashed as fuck.

Literally the only reason why there were no deaths in this situation was because the Marshalls made a calculated decision to attempt to negotiate a peaceful arrest, decided against storming the place after seeing reports of IEDs and poor cover, and ended up arresting the couple by sneaking in undercover. This is all greatly to their credit, probably the best possible outcome to this scenario that nobody ended up getting my killed.

Gerhard did absolutely fuck all to make it peaceful. He built pipe bombs for the Browns. He was arrested with parts, there were dozens of IEDs on the property, to the point where it took years for the property to be deemed safe to auction afterwards. He repeatedly made statements that he personally would use deadly force to defend the Browns. He did bring food for them, but that was far from the limit of his activities.