As for me, (too) I will take the word of one of our Olympians (yes, even the flakiest of them all, Ryan Lochte) over an inherently corrupt, 3rd world Banana Republic trying to make their disorganized and crime-ridden sports festival look like the poster-child for American bad behavior.
Ryan said he over-exaggerated
From the reports, it has always looked like police armed robbery to me.
Also, after being nabbed by hostile, racist justice system and interrogated, I did not believe the reports claiming the captured swimmers were telling the truth when they claimed the robbery did not happen. They had to say that to get out of that third world cesspool.
A lot of freepers jumped right on the third world hate bandwagon. That was disappointing.