Hi everyone
On August 22, Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was brutally stabbed to death by 34-year-old career criminal Decarlos Brown on a Charlotte light rail train. Video showing the stabbing was released over the weekend and the gruesome attack is shocking to watch.
Brown was sitting behind her on the train, and surveillance video shows him taking out a knife, unfolding it, and stabbing her in the neck. "The train travels for approximately four and a half minutes before the suspect pulls a knife from his pocket, unfolds the knife, pauses, then stands up, and strikes at the victim three times," police said.
She had no idea it was coming, there was no warning, nothing. She was heading home from work when her neck was sliced open, and she lost her life. Her family said that she had moved to America to find "safety from the war" and that she was "hoping for a new beginning."
"Blood visibly drips on the floor as the defendant walks away from the victim. The victim goes unresponsive shortly after the attack. The defendant is the assailant in the video. There appears to be no interaction between the victim and defendant," said police.
Brown then walked around covered in her blood as other riders got out of his way. He tracked blood on the floor, took off his sweatshirt, and the other North Carolina straphangers moved around him, avoiding him, as Zarutska bled out. She fled a war zone in Ukraine only to be murdered pointlessly by a man who'd racked up multiple felony charges and should never have been on the street at all.
Over the years, Brown was arrested for felony larceny, robbery with a dangerous weapon, communicating threats—most of these charges, from 2007-14, were dropped. He was convicted of armed robbery in 2014, serving 5 years, before being arrested upon his release in 2020 for assaulting his sister, property damage, and trespassing. In 2022, he was arrested for disorderly conduct. He was arrested just this year for abusing the 911 system by calling in and claiming there was "man-made material" in his body and he was released without bond. A psych evaluation was ordered but not carried out.
Charlotte's mayor, who kneeled with all the rest of the blue city mayors in 2020 after a video of George Floyd's Minneapolis arrest went viral, praised media outlets for not showing the video of Zarutska's violent murder. "We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health," Mayor Vi Lyles said. "Mental health disease is just that — a disease like any other that needs to be treated with the same compassion, diligence and commitment as cancer or heart disease."
Brown wasn't suffering from cancer, he was suffering from lax crime policies that allowed him to run wild in his community and kill people. He should have been kept off the streets and undergone a psych evaluation behind bars. Because Lyles was lying: we CAN arrest our way out of this.
"The video," said Lyles, addressing her real concern, "is now public. I want to thank our media partners and community members who have chosen not to repost or share the footage of out of respect for Iryna's family."
But it wasn't out of respect for the family that legacy media outlets didn't share the video, it was because they didn't like the narrative of a black man stabbing a white woman to death. When it's a white cop who gets the blame, like with George Floyd, they're happy to make a religion out of it. But when a black man, a criminal who should have been locked up under psychiatric care, is let free to roam and kill, leftist mayors and their lackeys do not want you to see it.