Chicago’s leniency for murderers ends as well as you’d think it would: “if you are kind to the cruel, you will be cruel to the kind.”

American Thinker ^ | 09/09/2020 | Andrea Widburg

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I’m a big believer in remorse, repentance, and redemption. This means that people who are genuinely contrite – and who have paid for whatever wrongdoing they did – can be forgiven. The left, which always likes shortcuts for those it characterizes as oppressed, prefers instantly to forgive these downtrodden anti-heroes, no matter how heinous their conduct, without expecting anything from them.

That attitude may explain why Chicago’s Cook County prosecutors gave a pass to Steven Davis in 2019 when he was charged with murder. It was a surprise only to leftists that Davis later murdered another person in cold blood this July, a story that’s now getting reported.

The report illustrates perfectly the wisdom behind Dennis Prager having said over the years, “If you are kind to the cruel, you will be cruel to the kind.” The Chicago Sun-Times tells the tragic tale of the pointless death of Be-Rasheet Mitchell, 21, an up-and-coming architect who wanted to make the world a better place:

Cook County prosecutors allege 18-year-old Steven Davis fatally shot Be’Rasheet Mitchell, 21, in the 200 block of East 107th Street on July 16. Authorities say Mitchell was trying to defend his sister — Davis’ girlfriend — during a domestic incident when the shooting happened.

Mitchell, who was pursuing a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was shot once in the abdomen and died the next day at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. On his LinkedIn profile, he said his “passion in life” was “to invest my skills back into the community in order to improve quality of life for people struggling in my community as well as others like it.”

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