Bystanders Stab Alleged Rapist to Death in Las Vegas

What I can see from this video is a tent in a vacant lot, next to a smoke shop.   The surrounding walls are broken and covered with graffiti.  This isn't the best area of Las Vegas.

Apparently people came to the aid of a woman screaming.  They believed she was being sexually assaulted.  So they stabbed the man to death, then fled the area. 

Police are reviewing the cameras and looking for witnesses.  The YouTube comments are pretty much unilateral:  "Do not come forward.  The police will only arrest you for doing the right thing."

I'm a socially marginalized person because of my unpopular opinions.

Stabbing him to death was not the right thing to do.  Sorry, it wasn't.

I know that our criminal justice system sucks.  And it especially sucks for rape survivors.  Rape is all but legal in America.  It's really, really hard to get as rape conviction and make it stick.  And "justice" is so uneven in this country that it could either be probation only, nothing at all, or you could get 50 years.  Or you might not be able to even get him charged, even if there's videotaped.  Or you could get him convicted, and the judge decides to just toss it out anyway.  It's a total crap shoot.

The thing is I only want to live in a society of laws.  I don't want to devolve to living in Afghanistan.  I'm not a believer in the death penalty even with "due process."  There are no take-backs once you've killed somebody.  We must let cooler heads prevail.  I'm not in favor of throwing people into dungeons no matter how horrible they are.  We must retain our humanity even when other people allow theirs to fail.