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.
“Bad mouthing those cops is a good way to meet with an accident, “
I am sure that the Cossacks badmouthing the Bandidos would on net be worse than badmouthing the cops.