[brad]

'Exactly why the road wasn't blocked will likely remain a mystery as this is one of the most basic tenets of refugee control. You don't let anybody get free run of your position especially when it's along a longitudinal terrain feature like a road. '

thats what i thought.

it looks like they got unqualified people out there and/or the road/intersection had just been begun to be secured literally moments before (probably with an ad hoc force/command).

in any case it just doesnt look good, especially if its any predictor of what will happen when this kind of stuff heats up to a large scale.