Democrats, Media Slammed After Stabbing of Ukrainian Refugee

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   Readmikenowposted 9 hours ago

   A refugee comes to the United States to avoid the horror of war in her home country.  She loves the United States.  A low-life mental case released by a incompetent judge caused her death.  The worst part is the cold, callous response by the democrat mayor and the legacy media.  Why?  If democrats aren't ashamed of this they should be.
   
   democrats and mainstream media are under fire for staying silent on the brutal killing of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on 22 August in Charlotte, North Carolina. The young woman, who had fled the war-torn country to the United States in search of a better life, was stabbed to death by 35-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr on a late-night train, as shown by recently released video footage.
   
   The surveillance video shows Brown pulling out a pocket knife and rising from his seat behind Zarutska before the footage cuts just as he prepares to plunge the blade into her. Zarutska, unaware of the killer behind her, is seen fiddling with her phone. After the attack, the suspect wandered through the Lynx Blue Line train, dripping blood across the floor while carrying the weapon. He removed his bloody hoodie and then calmly waited for the train to reach the station before exiting.
   
   Reacting to the video, Democrat Mayor of Charlotte Vi Lyles thanked ‘our media partners and community members’ who had chosen not to repost or share the footage—a statement that drew outrage from many, including Republican members of Congress.
   
   ‘The Mayor’s refusal to condemn senseless, horrific, and preventable violence is as telling as it is despicable. Violent criminals, regardless of who they are or what they look like, need to be in jail,’ Rep Brad Knott (R-NC) wrote.
   
   ‘The violence in Charlotte is a microcosm of a national epidemic. Americans deserve better than Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies,’ added Rep Mark Harris (R-NC) in a post on X.
   
   US billionaire and former Secretary of DOGE Elon Musk also criticized the lack of coverage by mainstream media, sharing a post tallying how many articles major outlets had written about the case, commenting simply: ‘Zero.’
   
   British political commentator Piers Morgan likewise demanded answers on why Zarutska’s killing drew so little national media attention. On X, he called the murder ‘disgusting, senseless, [and] unprovoked’ and asked why the story had not dominated headlines.
   
   Speaking to reporters on 7 September, US President Donald Trump promised to personally look into the case, calling the attack ‘horrible’. The incident comes as Trump is cracking down on rising crime rates in major US cities, such as Washington, DC—a move opposed by many Democrat lawmakers.
   
   The suspect, Decarlos Brown Jr, is charged with first-degree murder. According to court records, Brown has been arrested multiple times since 2011 on charges including felony larceny, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and making threats—yet almost all charges were dropped.
   
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      Ken Burgessposted 6 hours agoin reply to this

      Crime must have consequences.
      
      If you can take a life in such a horrendous way... and the entire nation sees it, as occurred on that train... and justice is not served, you do not live in a society/nation worth defending... nor one long for survival.
      
      I don't think anything shows the sickness of our society and media more than this incident.
      
      One other factor to add to that, a grown man stood their with his phone and recorded that murder.
      
      I really have little to say... it disgusts me... on so many levels... the West is terminally ill, not just America... Canada, the UK, France, Germany, etc.  this is becoming common daily cover-ups in all these countries.

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         Credence2posted 6 hours agoin reply to this

         I don't think anything shows the sickness of our society and media more than this incident.
         
         Oh really? I think the slaughter of school children attending a parochial school tops this by a large margin, but since you can’t show an image of a black man as being behind that, it becomes less significant?

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            Ken Burgessposted 5 hours agoin reply to this

            Equally sick... I assume you are referring to this:
            "Minneapolis school shooter ID’d as trans woman Robin Westman — as apparent manifesto included ‘kill Trump’"
            
            What is especially aggregious about the crime which started the discussion however, is that he was arrested dozens(?) of times prior... and was still free to prey on the innocent in our society.
            
            I have seen this at work, it is why I was quick to stop working at a Hospital, which had a mental ward... I saw the same people come in, over, and over, who were a threat to the police, the hospital staff... a burden on society, spreading harm and suffering to others... its a disgrace that we have a justice system and society that calls criminals victims allowing them to prey on the rest of us.

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            Sharlee01posted 4 hours agoin reply to this

            "Oh really? I think the slaughter of school children attending a parochial school tops this by a large margin, but since you can’t show an image of a black man as being behind that, it becomes less significant?" Cred
            
            Cred, This is not like a school shooting; the majority of school shooters were in no respect on the radar of our courts.  And the pictures of all the school shooters were always posted.  I have not witnessed this issue being covered differently from school shooters. The only difference I noted was that the left media only covered it lightly, and some talking heads made the killer the victim.

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               Credence2posted 3 hours agoin reply to this

               But, this all reminds me of something else. While the complaint seems to be focused on recidivism in our criminal justice system, we continue to put a black face upon it. Republicans certainly know their base and what buttons to push to stir it up. I am reminded of the Willie Horton thing promoted by  the late President George H.W. Bush used to attack Dukakis on crime in 1988. The tragedy associated with the murder of this young woman is duplicated across the country several times a day. Would a young black woman in the inner city who faced a similar fate get the attention of Trump? I doubt it. I recognize this sort of stuff for what it is as I have seen it over long periods of time.
               
               But if we are talking about the extent or heinousness of crimes, the massacres have to be first and foremost and the majority of those are committed by young white males, perhaps Trump needs to look into that along with the connection of easy access to firearms that make it all possible?

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                  Ken Burgessposted 42 minutes agoin reply to this

                  The media bias, the court bias... all this BS that has infiltrated society... the criminal is not a criminal, he/she is a victim of circumstance, of a unjust system... etc. etc.
                  
                  Put them in a striped uniform, force them to work for the benefit of society, IE: clean the highways, help rebuild our failing infrastructure... and for those who kill, publicly execute them.
                  
                  Our society today is sick, Caligula would fit right in... we not only normalize Trans we make them protected minorities... and right behind that they are trying to normalize, justify pedophilia... changing it to Minority Attracted Persons... so much BS... that is all the Progressive movement is, an onslaught of degenerative or civilizational deconstruction.

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   Sharlee01posted 4 hours ago

   Mike,  Mike,  You said it well. What makes this tragedy even more painful is that it was 100% preventable. Iryna fled a war zone for safety in America, only to be killed by someone who should have been behind bars long ago. His own mother testified to his mental illness, yet judge after judge still allowed him back on the streets. That’s not compassion, that’s negligence. And then Mayor Vi Lyles had the nerve to thank the media for hiding the footage instead of condemning the violence. The mayor’s cold response and the media blackout are shameful; it shows their priority is narrative control, not justice for victims. Every dropped charge against this man is another failure of a system that protects criminals more than innocent people. If Democrats and their media allies can’t even show outrage over a young refugee’s brutal death, it tells you everything about where their values truly lie.
   
   This is not like a school shooting; the majority of school shooters were in no respect on the radar of our courts.

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