You are correct in that the animals that committed these crimes are responsible for committing them. The governor is responsible for refusing help from the military by not allowing the feds to take charge. She is responsible for that. This breakdown of authority falls on her shoulders.
Ultimately the entire liberal left and their social engineering has borne its ugly rotten fruit. They also bear some responsibility for enabling the environment to brew and fester simply to stay in power.
After watching some of the flood/hoodlum coverage yesterday my wife said 'now I'm glad we have firearms in the house'. When the press goes on to other miseries we can need to feed the blowback on the gun control democrats who would disarm us. The big message of this is when civil order collapses you can not rely on government...and civil order can collapse.