I wonder if you would shrug it off so easily if it was YOU cooling YOU'RE heels in the can for better than two weeks on an unreasonable bond.
I don't shrug the detention off at all. It's a violation of the Eighth Amendment.
But that is a separate question from the one: "in a violent melee, should everybody be arrested?" Probably so if there's a public safety issue. What is the compelling reason now to continue holding them?
Sorry, but thefactor's "paperwork" excuse won't fly. Frankly, it sounds like something the hard-nosed cop in a bad movie would say to excuse his own criminality.