User blog comment:Blackjack22/Typhon`s defeat/@comment-4445568-20111206153052/@comment-4640327-20111206175702

Cause they were making a last stand! Their last shot of holding Typhon, was there, right before he could enter Manhattan. I really believe that in order to save themselves they wouldn't bother killing a few civilians. Also cause if they'd lost, everybody would get killed the same way.