When a Quezon City court issued an arrest warrant against Vice President Sara Duterte for grave threats, the mechanics of its service became a second dispute layered atop the first. Police and the Vice President offered sharply divergent accounts of what transpired — one of institutional respect carefully extended, the other of fear and harassment endured. In the space between those two versions lies a familiar tension in democratic life: the question of whether the law's equal reach can coexist with the unequal weight of high office.