I’m not making any claims of having “legal credentials” but no-one needs special credentials to sense when something is not right. In the absence of facts; go with your intuition.
As for something that “may or may not” have occurred, that is one’s opinion. Again, we do not need special privileges to give an opinion. Anyhow, what first caught my attention about this event was the $1,000,000 bail (8th amendment) set for the arrestees.
The $1,000,000 was WAY overreaching, but legally defensible.
If the State argued they were considering pursuing felony murder charges against a large number of these guys under a “murder by felonious conduct in consort with other’ theory, then even a No Bail status would be LEGALLY justified.