White guilt? Liberal friends of murdered girl lobby for the RELEASE of her murderer in the name of 'restorative justice'

It’s a natural feeling to want justice when you’ve been wronged.

Unless you’re the liberal friends of Jen Angel, a 48-year-old baker who was brutally murdered back in February by a 19-year-old named Ishmael Burch during an attempted robbery.

Instead of good, old-fashioned justice, they would prefer Burch be released from prison in the name of “restorative justice.”

For those who don’t know, restorative justice is the woke way to handle crime. Instead of putting criminals behind bars, advocates of restorative justice propose intervention that involves helping criminals form positive self-identities and understand the harm they’ve caused, giving them a second chance.

That all sounds well and good, except for the part where they don’t have to serve their sentences.

But that’s exactly what Angel’s friends are hoping to accomplish.

They want Ishmael Burch to be released from prison. And they swear this is what Angel herself would have wanted.

“Angel strongly disagreed with the criminal justice system and would not want her alleged killer to go to prison,” says one friend of Angel, who is leading the charge of “[pursuing] an alternative to traditional prosecution.”

“They have a dead friend,” Rubin says, “and their concern is that the perpetrator of this murder somehow not be treated poorly.”

This is “further proof that progressivism is a mental disorder,” says Peter Lloyd, a British journalist joining Rubin on the show.

It’s also “pathological altruism,” which is when “you have so much good intention that it goes beyond the realm of what’s beneficial and becomes negative,” he continues.

Douglas Murray, author of "The War on the West," says that Angel’s friend clearly “cares about her own narcissistic self-presentation more than she does about her friend's murder.”

“The criminal justice system is not in place in order to heal,” Murray says in response to another friend’s comment that “restorative justice is really about healing.”

“The primary purpose of imprisonment ... is punishment for crime,” he concludes.

Watch the full clip here.

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