Pakistan, March 15 -- Deputy Inspector General Faisal Kamran's vow that "no one is above the law" gained fleeting credibility last week when Lahore Police invoked the Anti-Terrorism Act to arrest four suspects in the Dharampura Underpass shooting. Yet the grainy cellphone footage of the incident-armed men in a black SUV firing indiscriminately, a guard assaulting a motorcyclist before fleeing-lingers as a damning testament to Pakistan's culture of weaponized privilege. The video, viral not for its novelty but its symbolism, exposes a grotesque truth: here, power wears a uniform, and impunity is its license.

The suspects, allegedly shielded by "protocol," operated with the swagger of those long accustomed to immunity. Their actions are no...