Let me see: What would happen to either one of us if we “interfered with a police investigation”, hmmm?
I see a beat-down, cuffs and a holding cell in the immediate future for anyone brave/dumb enough to get involved with the gang with badges when they are “occupied with the detention of a possible felon”. (That is how they would phrase it in the arrest report.)
That they are out of control is beside the point. According to them, anyway...
Ed