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It would be easy with nothing more than a good propaganda and brainwashing technique.

I'm gonna go ahead and Star Wars nerd here, because I still have a soft spot for the trilogy (and some of the spawned fiction) despite the awful jew poison the name eventually became.

The AT-ST was designed with "raider" style armor: all front and back protection and minimal armor on the sides. This is because it was designed as a rough terrain APC for recon assault operations, as well as a sort of elevated SPG for dealing with entrenched infantry. Considering its armor and many of its components are plasteel, the logs probably outweigh it, and hit in the the side soft spots. Similarly, while the computer-aided locomotion giving up on a pile of logs might seem silly, it weighs much less than you'd think comparing it to an iron based steel tank, and therefore wouldn't just crush the logs, and it's established in canon that an expert driver was needed on unstable ground, because the computer systems just couldn't keep up. This makes sense when you consider that a current generation bipedal robot can barely handle stairs, and even a human with our millisecond neural network feedback can be tripped up by a literal bag of marbles. Thus why a pile of logs could drop even an expert pilot, though I do find it a bit silly that the cabin crumpled and then exploded. Chalk that up to what passed for Hollywood drama at the time: fireballs. Also conquering a planet with a single AT-ST makes no sense because they don't have an onboard power generator. They're battery operated and need frequent charging.


Anyway, in a real world sense, I don't doubt we'd see these things constantly jammed, their onboard "AI" tricked, and subsequently reprogrammed to ignore the activities of people with the means to pay the people doing the capturing and reprogramming. The more law enforcement leans on technology like a crutch, the harder they'll fall when people smarter than them start trying to manipulate it.