Agreed, and I'm not advocating to start worrying about the "law" in the heat of things when you are being attacked, I'm just curious as to what would happen next. Personally, I think once an individual takes it upon themselves to break the law, attacking an individual, then that perp should have no rights in the eyes of the law. Unfortunately, they still do.

There was a case back when I was growing up where two guys robbed a jewelry store, and while one of the robbers was making a break for it he tripped over a display and crashed through a glass window. Believe it or not, the robber, though convicted, was able to file a liability lawsuit against the store and won a good amount of money from it.

Personally, I think in this case the crew should have removed themselves from the situation, and just had law enforcement handle it.