The US government has many times attacked or abandoned its own. Tuskegee syphilis experiment, MK Ultra, just about any EPA super fund project, the human radiation experiments and the biological warfare experiments (unsuspecting population), the Mandalay Bay shootings, many mass shootings where the FBI is alerted by multiple people to the person who ends up committing the shooting but somehow they just never get around to following up on their leads, the drug trade that has put hard drugs on the streets in many cities and ruined, killed, maimed many lives of the poor all to fund the CIA , the operations like Fast and Furious where we send guns to cartels across the border which end up shooting out own countrymen, and the more obvious ones like The Branch Davidians in Waco getting burned alive after the standoff which the government knew would happen and made sure it did happen that way (instead of grabbing the cult leader off the street when he went to town).

Now we have Lahaina and the devastation of a government hostile eminent domain operation. If you didn't sell to them willingly, they will kill you and burn everything you have to the ground because the government intends you to own nothing and be happy.

It's not surprising, just a more obvious in your face FU type statement to the population from the government.