The Rule of Law no longer exists for anyone. All we’re left with is the law of the Jungle; he who is willing to steal or even murder simply predicated on the risk of being killed or stolen from in retribution is all that we have left.
Down this road a mere foot from the fork in same lies utter madness no different than what Mexico is dealing with right now when it comes to drug lords and people being hung from freeway overpasses, or the sort of death-dealing gangs found in various third-world hellholes.
This is either stopped here and now, and those involved are brought to justice, all of them, or we descend into that pit from which there is little chance of recovery.