Unless I got it wrong, this sounds weird to me. Dispatching a team to remove the vehicles from the area it's definitely a solution but I would expect some sort

Unless I got it wrong, this sounds weird to me. Dispatching a team to remove the vehicles from the area it's definitely a solution but I would expect some sort of teleop to be used first. Maybe the conditions were not right for teleop folks to operate or maybe it failed? The article does not mention anything about that (too many details?). However I already had the same questions when the firefighters had to smash a car the window to stop it driving over a hose or when the police tried to pull it over for operating without the headlights. Those kind of events should trigger remote operators to dial in and take over or at least to try to communicate with police/firefighters on the spot. Instead, the only resolution for those three instances (of course there might have been many more where teleop worked and did not make it to the news) required to operate on (yeah, I guess smashing is technically a procedure) the vehicle itself.