“It is imperative, ” she said, “that any individuals or entities responsible for atrocities, including non-state actors and vigilantes, be held accountable”.
Vigilantes are groups of people who act together to take on duties that the police normally perform, because they think the police are not performing them.
Both President Museveni and Otto, the vigilante, said some members of the Ugandan military make extra money by protecting the charcoal trucks as they drive into the cities.
Watchmen demonstrates this by juxtaposing its vigilantes with Dr. Manhattan, the only being in that universe who possesses that freedom, who has a literal claim to absolute power.
Hooded Justice is an effective example how beneath their masks, vigilantes are not the transcendental symbols of justice they imagine themselves to be; but are in fact deeply troubled and emotionally damaged individuals.
In HBO's Watchmen, which is a sequel to the original comic, we are presented with the old vigilante Hooded Justice, who is revealed to be a black man named Will Reeves who lost his family during the Tulsa massacre.