Play with feral creatures they will turn on you.
I think his attempt to live feed out of there, reveals his mindset. Those there had no right to do what they did, even if he was clandestinely doing a live feed. Simply kick him out.
The leadership should have stopped the violence. That they didn’t reveals what kind of group we’re talking about.
I’m not convinced he was merely playing their game.
It may be stupid, but it takes a certain amount of guts to take a risk like that for the story.
“Play with feral creatures they will turn on you.”
Alligator whisperer gets eaten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES40_8Eoy6g