I misspoke a bit, so to clarify further: Janet Reno was the Attorney General during the Clinton administration, and Louis Freeh headed the FBI. William Barr, not Sessions, was Reno's predecessor in the Bush administration.
Because of its proximity to the 1992 presidential election, Ruby Ridge along with Waco contributed to the negative reputation of the Clinton-era FBI, even though Clinton had nothing to do with Ruby Ridge.
In both incidents, the criminals held to an apocalyptic worldview in which the government was persecuting them, which led to isolationism and criminal acts involving weapons. This got them on the radar of the FBI, who started putting them under surveillance, and this, in the accused's mind, justified their paranoia--which in turn intensified the Feds' concerns and led to poor operational decision-making and escalating mutual suspicion.
The same kind of feedback loop is forming around the anti-ICE protests.