There could be an excess use of force, sure. It really depends how far he chose to not be compliant with requests.
I just dislike how they took the approach of this incident. If they wanted to be genuine, talk about excess use of force, not how you ran a node over a decade ago.
What kind of sentence is "he ran some of the fastest relays and exit nodes in the world" anyways? Why would an onion routing network user care about that? It feels so plastic.