Well, lets admit it's quite another example of getting dumb, if i may say so, considering i've only got a title and some short editorial to refer to.
The presence of weapons would most likely constitute an agravating factor, at least in the eye of armed "peace-keeping" forces and hence some fair portion of society behind them IMO.
Is 247 plants really this much for a talented gardener trying to produce seeds of his own genetic selection, adapted to his own needs? And if there's indeed CBD involved as i suggested previously, then what's all the fuss relatively to something which the joint mid-December 2017 declaration of the WHO & UN stated CBD as "safe" as salad, for all practical purposes. Yet it's not selling in grocery stores (for a failure of removing it from "the schedule") and the only "legal" CBD i've noticed on SQdC's web site recently happened to be even 3 $/g more than THC-centric mari-caca already, euh... So if you're poor it's no excuse but no surprise neither to be tempted by electricity stealing, while perfects strangers on the net bragg around explaining it's safe as long as you pay your bills, neglecting to highlight a simple consequence of data mining: the records stay.
All i know is i got no certainties as other people may have and i'll bet mass-mediatic editorialists invest/speculate/gamble on that. Years will pass before we get the whole complete facts anyway!
What i also know is that i'll rather plead in favour of a person's sacred right to indignation than that of those trying to silence it...
If this is a real victim described as a criminal i want to be sure sure before i start clapping my hands in admiration. If he's actually the crook you both seem to describe, euh... Hard to defend the absurd, just lets wait for the proofs to add up, then i shall feel convinced. In the meantime nothing wrong with exploring multiple scenarios, though i keep a marking memory of Radio-Canada re-using one imported photograph of Halloween juxtaposed in a different context as if its own, for example. That's not even a 1st with our public/private medias; failure to explain who exactly was Hilary Geller and the role she played at UNGASS 2016 is a blatant sample of information formating if you ask me, etc. So my trust in such compromised public institutions ain't automatic, far from it. But i get your points relative to the "entourage effect", aHummm... Not too bright indeed.
And that's shaming the rest of us day after day via international "yellow papers" thriving on anti-cannabic bigotry, just try "France Cannabis" on Google or YT if you dare!!
Idem for "pen" format consumption methods flooding the market while politicians & friends "fear" for children, using them as a taboo-shield again. In view of all the oddities occuring lately i'd be most surprized if selfie-boy ain't tempted to tweak our self-expression freedom soon, once more...
Stay tuned!