The morning news is still carrying this. It seems given a 140 supporters the captain was left with litle option. His worst case scenario was that this situation erupted further. Better to have cards in hand than be seeking a fast deal.
I am sure that the various support agencies welcomed the opportunity to live-time no-notice evaluate the new measures [police, airfield fire and rescue, SAR, media etc] on an incident like this [no loss of life or equipment] rather than find problems win an incident where it was more critical.
The wash up I should have thought will praise the crew.