You are second person who is suggesting that flogging was meant for different time, if this punishment was for a time-specific then we might have some context or hint in other verses. How do you suggest that it was for different times?
I agree with you completely that the justice we saw in the video is a complete mockery of justice system. This is more like a jirga system using Islamic punishments without proper trial.
Quran is a like a history book telling us tales of the past to use as examples for the present. That's how.