There is a doctrine very like this in the Book of Mormon.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/9.25?lang=eng&clang=eng#p25
2 Nephi 9:25 “Wherefore, he has given a law; and where there is no law given there is no punishment; and where there is no punishment there is no condemnation; and where there is no condemnation the mercies of the Holy One of Israel have claim upon them, because of the atonement; for they are delivered by the power of him.
26 For the atonement satisfieth the demands of his justice upon all those who have not the law given to them,…”

If there is no law against something in the first place, then there is no “crime” in doing it, and it would be unjust to condemn or punish that action.

But, the situation with these riots is that there ARE laws in place that are being broken; lack of enforcement is NOT the same as lack of law, and the action is still a crime even if it goes unpunished.

2 Nephi 9:27 “But wo unto him that has the law given, yea, that has all the commandments of God, like unto us, and that transgresseth them, and that wasteth the days of his probation, for awful is his state!”

In April, when we didn’t open up for Easter (as it is now clear we could, and probably should, have done), I consoled myself and friends with the observation that, bad as things were for our economy and personal lives, at least we were not as bad off as places like the Middle East, because we didn’t have bombed out buildings and armies fighting in the streets.

This is all my fault.

Saint Skateboard of Kenosha may have a lot of company joining in his last pinhead dance.

See https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2020/08/29/antifa-rioting-in-kenosha-were-armed-and-spoiling-for-a-gunfight-and-they-found-one/

Today in Kenosha.

http://www.twitter.com/joshglancy/status/1299734436792197120

Truth and facts are meaningless this could be Anywhere USA.

I believe they have, but America is infested with thousands of police chiefs, sheriffs, mayors, prosecutors, governors, state and federal representatives and senators who owe their allegiance to George Soros and dozens of other billionaires who are funding the overthrow of our republic. Until they are stopped, the peoples’ wants are irrelevant.

https://www.redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/08/29/9th-circuit-appeals-court-rejects-oregon-judges-tro-protecting-press-from-federal-agents-in-portland/

This is political prosecution and it morally and objectively disqualifies any prosecutor from office who engages in it.

“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.” Thomas Paine

“There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.” Baron de Montesquieu

“When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.” Thomas Jefferson

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” Thomas Jefferson

“Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of “emergency”. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And “emergency” became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.” Herbert Hoover

What the jury will do is an entirely different matter.