I mean even from a purely transactional perspective, they did the best thing they could have done in that moment.

If they let him die, a brownshirt might have taken out their frustration on them.

If they shot an ICE agent and ran, they wouldn’t have gotten that far and would have gotten the attention of the top Trump ghouls.

Whereas, by saving his life, they got better treatment, convinced a few brownshirts of the value of humanity, and a PR win for the anti-ICE coalition.