Another:
The family of one of the slain bikers say they don’t fault the police. The say that the police actions probably saved lives.
One always has to ask “in comparison to what.” And also “in what light” i.e. are they just swallowing police declarations whole or are they looking for all the possible data.
Calling off the meeting at which they had advance warning of brawl conditions would have meant zero deaths.
I guess that was too good huh.
What do you expect them to say? They want to keep living. Bad mouthing those cops is a good way to meet with an “accident”, or get shot while “resisting arrest”. In their place, I would have said the same thing.