I doubt if those bystanders cared much about helping the officer. Instead they had a serious personal beef against the perp.
That was my first thought as well. Though I love a happy ending as much as the next guy, we're not given any background or able to see what exactly led up to this beat-down.
*Or* they didn’t want “BLM” coming to their town and burning it down.
I don’t even think it was personal. Most just saw an opportunity to beat on a guy who couldn’t fight back.
But it’s still a positive in the end. A suspect who was under arrest got arrested (and a slew of other felony charges for assaulting the officer). And the big guy in the white t-shirt I DO think was trying to help the police. He restrained the suspect without beating on him, protected him from opportunists looking to get a free beat-down on the guy, and assisted in getting the suspect handcuffed.
And when that other officer showed up and was about to go after the guy in the white t-shirt, he backed off, hands up, didn’t fight, resist, or run. Just disengaged.
Yep.