"Yes it seems typical for anyone reveling in their depigmentation to have not much else in way of accomplishment. Whether anyone who doesn't find it ridiculous the police would allow so many genuine suspects to keep their hats, sunglasses and balaclavas on after being arrested and on the ground with zip ties around their wrists, is much brighter is questionable."
AND, they didn't empty their pockets, take the backpacks... Pretty poor work if you are detaining a large, organized group of people who were intent on beating gays and fighting the cops.
IF they got 30 guys out of the truck the odds are good that at least 3 of them were feds or informants. This group was prominent in the Virginia rally/protest/riot that Trump would not condemn. Of course some of those guys are feds or informants. It's a known group. Ever since the Klan blew up those little girls in a church in the 60s there has been constant infiltration of white supremicist - and black power - orgs.
Just in the last couple of years we have seen an FBI 'informant" actually inspire, ramrod and finance the plot to kidnap and kill the Michigan governor.
However, if the government was behind this adventure it seems it would have gotten further. Some actual bloodshed and a clear connection from the perps to Trumpism would be helpful to the gov.