Actually this does make some sense. This is how it’s looking to me:
The bad guys (Banditos, Cossacks) were there to, um, rumble, and the other people were just there at a meeting. The cops were there, expecting trouble. When a fist-fight broke out, the cops (overreacted and) fired into the crowd.
After the firing stopped, the “’splaining” and justifying began, first with arrest of everybody, ridiculously high bonds and low charges,and then the stonewalling and obfuscation.
What a mess.
1. The bad guys were probably restricted to Bandidos, who have established reputations and are on an LEO list of dangerous criminal clubs. The Cossacks are NOT included on that list, and in my own personal searching, I discovered that the Cossacks were only deemed "criminal" by LEO after Waco. Also, I discovered that local to Waco, asshat bad-dud Bandidos had several times harassed/attacked Cossacks just for being Cossacks, but of course in the eyes of law enforcement who responded, that then makes Cossacks "equal" to Bandidos.
2. These supposed bad guys who were "there to rumble" were made up of Bandidos on motorcycles who had just ridden past about half a dozen marked police cars before said rumble, and Cossacks who could plainly see the same massive number of cop cars IN VIEW.
I don't know what this was, but I know what it wasn't. It wasn't a bunch of bad asses so incredibly stewwwwwpid as to pull-down in the clear presence of half a dozen marked cop cars.