In my press conference, I did say that there were exceptional circumstances.
One of the lessons learned here is to explore other tools. If public safety is at risk, explore other tools in order to disrupt.
This is exactly what we did in reaching out to the NSIA, as well as GAC, to look at options, considering that the threshold for laying charges against a diplomat is fairly high and the chance of prosecution sometimes is challenging.
Considering that there was an immediate public safety threat, we stepped outside and used the disruption method, which is not commonly used in the RCMP but has proved to work very well based on the results we've seen.