The more the police explain, the more it stinks.
Actually this does make some sense. This is how it’s looking to me:
The bad guys (Banditos, Cossacks) were there to, um, rumble, and the other people were just there at a meeting. The cops were there, expecting trouble. When a fist-fight broke out, the cops (overreacted and) fired into the crowd.
After the firing stopped, the “’splaining” and justifying began, first with arrest of everybody, ridiculously high bonds and low charges,and then the stonewalling and obfuscation.
What a mess.