This appeared to be a legitimate citizen’s arrest. Their mistake was transporting the perps to the police instead of asking for the police to come to the location where they were detaining the perps.
In any case, if I were on the jury, I’d have to think about jury nullification.
I’d have a pretty deep problem with firing rounds into the car absent a direct threat. Pretty much everything after that strengthens the DA’s case; add in some nice stompin’ on the crooks to the shooting, yeah, I’d have a real problem nullifying that.
Legitimate minus the unlawful discharge of a firearm in city limits, into an occupied vehicle, assault, excessive force, etc...
If they just nabbed them and they were a little bruised up would be one thing, but they made a spectacle of it and they are probably going to get cornholed over it now.
Put me on the jury. Not guilty.