If no offered money or protection, do you think he’d dare do that? He probably already has 4-5 bodyguards, so it wouldn’t be easy to take action and the cops can’t later claim they were unable to trace a single suspect for years.

If 3 SUVs suddenly approached, you wouldn’t follow them; you’d fight.

Usually, songlap goes hand in hand with abuse of power. Look at how your ai put his own people in key positions, most of them are there to produce the outcome he wants.