Free ??

If a robbery did indeed happen, Lochte, Feigen, Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger are the victims. They are the ones who were "liberated" of their wallets and, in Lochte’s version, had a gun held to his forehead.

Yet the 12-time Olympic medalist and his teammates are being treated as if they stood atop Christ the Redeemer and flipped off all of Brazil.

A judge ordered the swimmers’ passports seized and said they should not leave Brazil. Judge Keyla Blank's order said investigators need more time to determine whether the Americans filed a false police report, a "crime" punishable by up to six months detention or a fine, mind you.

And on Wed. night, Bentz and Conger were pulled off their flight to the U.S. Because escalating this to the level of a capital crime is seen as appropriate in Brazil. Now we know what really happened.

This is shameful indeed.