Acts 19:37

“For you have brought here these men, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.”

For they needed to recognise that there was no real excuse for holding this meeting. The men whom they had arraigned were not guilty of anything tangible. They had neither robbed Temples nor blasphemed their goddess (had such charges been brought they might at least have been seen as justifying an extraordinary city meeting). So the Roman authorities would not like it at all.

‘These men.' They were seemingly still stood there, a little battered but unharmed.