Don't go where you aren't wanted or except the consequences of doing so. Kind of like showing up at a black panthers meeting wearing a swastika and complaining because they weren't nice to you. Strickland knew what he was getting into. They knew him and he knew them. This is my opinion.
I thought he made his living doing such things? Sure he should have known the dangers, but isn't that a risk all media types take? Just like cops hob knobbing with the finest scumbags America produces,,,