It's unlikely that no one knew these cops were being heavy handed and that was an opportunity to stop them before someone died. It usually turns out that there were complaints about them before, people badly injured by them.
I can confirm there were warning signs for these cops. https://nypost.com/2020/05/29/...
"I have tracked turtles through some storms in the past and never saw any sort of movement that suggested they were trying to get away from the storm (or that the storms shifted their paths). The turtles I tracked were larger juveniles -- at that size they can dive 100s of meters deep."
Why did this bring up images of the sea turtles from Finding Nemo? Oh, man. Hey, no hurling on the shell, dude, ok? Just waxed it.
Heisenberg may have slept here...