Human beings have an attraction towards criminality. The people who buck the system. Always have. Always will.
They literally threw parties for Gotti when he got acquitted one of the four times he was acquitted.
This isn’t surprising or new. Who gives a fuck? Some people will celebrate him and some won’t.
Yeah criminals are celebrated and glorified in just about any culture you can think of. It's weird, but it's been a pretty consistent theme throughout history in general