Why has the president chosen to commute the sentence of a violent Chicago crime lord, particularly when he has consistently expressed an anathema for violent crime?

It was a jarring act of violence that again put Chicago in an unwanted spotlight and left River North on edge. A drive-by shooting into a crowd of people waiting outside a lounge on Chicago Avenue ...

It was a jarring act of violence that again put Chicago in an unwanted spotlight and left River North on edge. A drive-by shooting into a crowd of people waiting outside a lounge on Chicago Avenue ...