Seems to be some curlicue of the law in which he could end up liable, making for a figurative hot seat for him.
The only sensible thing would be to pass stewardship of the prosecution to someone who wasn’t in the thick of the action against the narsty bikers, but Abel keeps on wanting to be the hero here.
We know the bikers are bad. We don’t expect governments to be.
Abel isn’t after being a hero.
That ship sailed (actually, he sunk it in the harbor) long ago.