How so ? If YOU got kidnapped by a lunatic metahuman , who tortured and almost murdered you , before getting punched out by the guy you thought was there to save you , and then your new sorta friendshitty work colleague came in an begged you no to turn his crazy friend into the cops even though that ' s the responsible , lawful thing , what would YOU do ? I ' d probably tell him to go screw himself , and turn her in , because clearly she ' s unstable and dangerous , if she can just turn like that . The fact that the guy chose NOT to , but told his shitty colleague that he wasn ' t cut out for a life in law enforcement if he was going to make exceptions for the people HE cared about . well , that ' s going easy on Barry . This is assuming that Julian isn ' t aware that he ' s Alchemy , of course .