CEO says the action was against policy and they didn't know, so the blame passes down until you get to a scapegoat that can't defend themselves.

The underlying problem is that we have companies with more power than sovereign states, before you even include the power over the state the companies have.

At some point in the next few decades of continued transfer of wealth from workers to owners more and more workers will snap and bypass the courts. The is what happened with the original fall of feudalism and warlords. This wasn't guaranteed though -- if the company owners keep themselves and their allies rich enough they will be untouchable, same as drug lords.