So I just read that Jimmy Fiegen agreed to an almost $11k charitable donation to Reaction Institute, a place where kids learn judo. His lawyers worked out the deal with "Brazilian officials" so that he could leave the country.
My question is, isn't that just robbery by a different definition? The guys filed a police report saying they were robbed at gunpoint, that is not necessarily untrue from what i've read. A small amount of damage was done and when approached by gas station employees $50 was offered as restitution. Thats when things get muddled and accusations of guns and americans being unruly comes in. They settled on $400 reluctantly and probably left feeling like they were "robbed" Idk. I don't think the swimmers are blameless in this but $11k donations seems like a robbery to me.
I briefly considered that Brazil might just be protecting its reputation by going after these guys for a false report but then I remembered that their reputation is already shot.