Yep. The MBTA is a treaty between Canada, the US, and Mexico – not so easy to simply ignore.

I can see knife/blade in a sexual context but not for a political stunt. But as you suggest maybe that’s sexual too

I don’t get the cutting. For a stunt I think that’s super unhinged. All the other stuff is temporary. Though I suppose if she’d gotten away with it she’d have a story for life and the scars to “prove” it.

"Instead of physically jailing prisoners, Optimus could “follow you around and stop you from doing crime,” he said

This is going to last all of 30 seconds as that is the amount of time it’ll take for a criminal to hop a cyclone fence and take off never to be seen again. Or we can have the 10 minute scenario where criminal and friends take sledgehammers to the thing and sell it for scrap.