You'd hope that you'd put the fear in the enforcers enough that they wouldn't bother. However, their own pride and their own anger at being bested, humiliated, struck out against can lead to aggravated retaliation. Tit for tat, until either one side gives or both are bloodied beyond recovery.

However, spooking the enforcers isn't a complete impossibility. Effective local organization plus the realization that an assault isn't worth the cost can lead to a favorable outcome for the defenders.

There are effective no-go zones in every Western country, enclaves of the ungovernable, for whom authority doesn't dare tread, except in the most egregious of scenarios. They're always united by a sense of community, and a sense that the greater authority doesn't apply to them.

We very well may be finding more people adhering to that philosophy as it becomes ever clearer how self-serving our representative class has become among the populace.