I give them a pass on some beat downs.
I know it's not a popular opinion and I don't care. My bar/tolerance for a criminal getting a beat down is higher or lower than most ....
The guy was a criminal and deserved to be beaten. Of course, when the cops started beating him,
they became criminals who deserved to be beaten. And whoever justly beat them would also deserve to be beaten, and so on, until every single person on earth has had is butt kicked by every other person an infinite number of times.
That's way more exciting than getting judges involved in the process.