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‘Arrested Again’ – HotAir

April 17, 2026
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I have been obsessing a bit lately about the number of horrific crimes I read about that involve repeat offenders. 

I am not, in general, that interested in crime stories. I have no fascination with serial killers, and am generally aware of famous cases only because they are famous and unavoidable. When someone brings up some crime or another in the news, I often have to ask for the background because, well, I don’t generally care that much.





But there is one category of crime that does catch my attention: perfectly predictable horrors that could have been prevented by putting criminals in jail for prior offenses, treating them like criminals. 

Public policy will not prevent crimes of passion, nor those of seemingly decent people, until they snap. Serial killers? Neighbors will tell you they never suspected. And so on. To many people, those crimes stand out because they are unexpected; to me, they are background noise, because they are not preventable. They are a sad part of life. 

It’s the “arrested again” category of crime that haunts me because everyone who could have prevented it failed, and failed spectacularly. And those failures are not accidental, but a product of conscious choices and horrific policies. 

A Chicago criminal notorious for livestreaming the racist torture of a disabled white teenager has been arrested again. 

Tesfaye Cooper, 30, who served a seven-year prison sentence for the 2017 on-camera incident, was arrested on April 8 after allegedly chasing down and mugging a cyclist near a train station in the city. 

He was taken into custody alongside Mazi Pearson, 33, who also had active warrants for failing to appear in court on four pending felony court cases, reports CWB Chicago. 

The two men allegedly chased and robbed the white cyclist when the victim waved at them, which led them to shout that they are ‘GDs’, or ‘Gangster Disciples’, police said. 

Cooper and Pearson allegedly chased the man into the train station, punched and spat at him, before stealing his bike and fleeing. 

Police captured the two men soon after, and Pearson was allegedly found with ten bags of heroin and four bags of cocaine. Pearson was charged with robbery and possession of a controlled substance, and Cooper was charged with robbery. 

The incident comes just two years after Cooper finished serving his seven-year prison stretch for the torture of the disabled 18-year-old. 

Cooper and three others brutally tortured and racially abused the teenager while livestreaming it on Facebook Live. The violent incident generated such outrage that then-President Barack Obama even expressed his horror at it.  





So many of the horrific crimes we read about are the result of prosecutors and judges deciding to go light on felons in the vain hope that they will go straight, or in some misguided sense of guilt that somebody’s hard life justifies their willingness to commit horrific crimes. Or the belief that somebody who is too mentally deranged to stand trial is simultaneously fit to go back out into the public. 

I read a steady stream of stories about criminals with rap sheets a mile long who eventually escalate their criminality and violence to the point of murder. They have been arrested, usually for already violent crimes, and get little to no punishment. Little or no bail is required to get out, plea bargains are made, and promises of good behavior are believed. 

🚨 Peak liberal brain rot caught on camera.

Man: “This petition is to stop deporting Jose Medina, who was charged with shooting and killing an 18-year-old girl.”

Woman in white: “Yes… I’ll sign.”

She then doubles down, saying we shouldn’t deport him just because “he wanted to kill somebody” and that we need to understand “why he did that.”

When asked if the victim did anything to deserve it, she replies: “I can’t judge any of them.”

Unbelievable. 

She’s actively defending a murderer over an innocent 18-year-old girl.

We can’t even get liberals to agree that the very worst illegal immigrants should be deported. I was amazed at how violently the liberals opposed deporting gang members, rapists, paedos, and other violent criminals. When CBS reported that only a tiny fraction of the people being arrested and deported were “violent criminals,” implying that your local roofer was first in line for expulsion, they narrowed the category so far that human traffickers and drug dealers were considered ordinary joes. 





🚨Y’all Need to See This🚨

Davy Spencer has been arrested for the stabbing of 21-year-old Marine Daniel Montano in Wilmington. Montano did not survive the attack.

What WECT fails to tell the public in their article is that Spencer was a habitual felon.

His criminal record stretches back to 1995 and includes:

👉🏼B&E

👉🏼Larceny

👉🏼Multiple charges of Assault on a Female

👉🏼Drug Trafficking and other drug related offenses

👉🏼Various types of driving violations

👉🏼Resisting arrest and assaulting officers

For decades, Spencer has terrorized New Hanover County. Police officers, magistrates, and judges have known that he was a danger to society.

So why was he walking the streets?

Hard truth? The whole idea of second chances has led to 10th, 11th, and 12th chances. And it’s the reason innocent people in North Carolina are being slaughtered.

What are our elected officials doing about it?

We all know the story of Iryna Zarutska, who was murdered by a man with a rap sheet that should have landed him in jail for life. Perhaps you missed this case in Seattle, in which a violent homeless man blinded a woman in one eye after he hit her with a stick with a nail in it. Apparently, whacking random strangers was his sport, and the police arrested him regularly, only to see him let out onto the street again. 





Liberals have mostly dropped the “defund the police” rhetoric, but not the underlying policy framework or the attitude. They now just talk in different terms. “Decarceration.” “Cashless bail.” “Racial equity.” 

Fairfax County, Virginia, has a Soros prosecutor. He has a habit of giving plea deals or allowing unchallenged insanity pleas for murderers, and ensuring that criminal illegal aliens are protected from deportation. 

There have been five murders in Fairfax this year. Three by illegal aliens, and one by the now-deceased former Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. Jay Jones, of course, won massively there as well. 

Murder rates in the United States have been dropping like a rock, at least partly because President Trump has sent the National Guard out into the streets of the worst cities. If you doubt policy has anything to do with crime, rather than “poverty” or some sociological reason, look at the murder rate in Washington, D.C.





Washington DC is on pace for roughly 42 murders this year — the lowest since at least 1930. Two years ago it had 274. Carjackings are also down (by 44%).

What changed:

1) New U.S. Attorney replaced a soft-on-crime predecessor and immediately started actually prosecuting, including seeking the death penalty for the worst offenders.

2) There’s more visible law enforcement presence now. Federal law enforcement and the National Guard deployed to cover a 50-year low in local police staffing — a hole created by city council budget cuts that some estimate will take a decade to fully close.

3) Ended policy of refusing to charge juveniles as an adult, signaling to the youth that there will be consequences for their crimes. The prior admin prosecuted exactly one juvenile for armed carjacking over a decade, so gangs recruited juveniles to steal cars. Arrest-to-offense ratio for carjacking went from 25% to 58% last year.

None of us wants to live in a police state, and I am not suggesting that we should form some sort of precrime bureau to incarcerate people who we worry MIGHT commit violent crimes. 

But 70% of violent crimes are committed by repeat offenders. And of the other 30%, how many will reoffend when they get out of jail or are released without punishment? 

By definition, criminals in jail are not out reoffending. Hence, the answer, at least in the short run, to violent crime is to jail the criminals we catch for as long as possible. 





Yes, that does not solve the “root causes” of the problem, but then again, we don’t treat a person’s lung cancer by merely telling them not to smoke. You treat the disease, and you try to address the “root causes” as much as you can. That may help someone in the future and is worthwhile, but the immediate problem is the cancer. Excise it. 

As for those root causes…they are not economic, but cultural. We all know that, whatever the left claims to believe. To the extent that the two variables overlap, it’s mostly because people who are immersed in a culture that breeds criminality are unlikely to behave in ways that help them climb the economic ladder. 

“Gangstas” are not employable. That’s why they are poor. Not the other way around. If you have a culture of people who prefer to hang out, commit petty crimes, live off EBT, live in Section 8 housing, and flash gang signs, you are not likely to find the next banker, doctor, or lawyer growing up there. 

There is no one solution to beating back crime, but harsh punishment sure would be a good start. Even if the criminal doesn’t learn his lesson, or others are not deterred, the offenders are in jail. 

More jail. Less crime. 


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