Charlotte, NC Mayor Vi Lyles says she’s dissatisfied that the video of the surprising homicide of Iryna Zarutska “is now public” and thanked media shops for not “sharing” the brutal footage.
Appalling: Whereas Lyles now pretends the blackout was to indicate “respect for Iryna’s household,” her assertion two weeks again to a neighborhood information reporter makes it plain her concern was for the vagrant arrested for the lethal stabbing.
Bull: Lyles needed the video out of sight not as a result of she cares for the way the household feels, however as a result of it exposes the corruption and menace that lurks proper below the floor in our crime-ridden cities.
Iryna — a Ukrainian refugee who labored in a neighborhood pizza parlor — had solely been seated on the Lynx Blue Line for 4 minutes earlier than the lethal, completely unprovoked stabbing.
The tape leaves little doubt that deranged ex-con Decarlos Brown Jr. did it; Lyles lamely claims he “seems to have suffered a disaster” and blames “issues with society security nets” as she insists, “We’ll by no means arrest our means out [of] points similar to homelessness and psychological well being.”
May we perhaps arrest our means out of lunatics killing random victims on public transit?
Certain, get them assist after you’ve introduced them in; don’t substitute jails and prisons for extra compassionate confinement — however don’t fake leaving them working unfastened makes any sense in any respect.
Brown’s lengthy arrest document describes a violent, severe mentally ailing man who posed a transparent menace to law-abiding innocents.
He served 5 years in jail for armed theft beginning in 2014, was identified with schizophrenia, and has been repeatedly arrested since then.
Well-known to the native social service and group policing authorities, he was detained earlier in 2025 for repeatedly calling 911 from the psychological hospital to complain that his mind was managed by another person.
A Justice of the Peace launched him to the streets after he made a “written promise” to look.
Brown’s personal mom says her son is a hazard to the group and will by no means have been left to roam free. His lawyer made the identical plea to the courts final month, however the courts let him go anyway.
Mayor Lyles claims she’s “been considering arduous about what security actually appears to be like like in our metropolis” within the wake of Iryna’s homicide.
Hmm: She claims the Charlotte Space Transit System is “by and huge a protected transit system,” but it makes no effort to snag farebeaters, as Brown in fact was.
When leftist officers in blue cities discuss “actual security” and making individuals “really feel protected,” it’s time to triple-lock your doorways, as a result of what they imply is extra social spending, fewer arrests and fewer incarceration.
Lyles’ response to Iryna’s horrific homicide is precisely that form of feckless musing about security.
But the true reply is clear: Put criminals in jail, institutionalize the severely mentally ailing and fireplace the judges and elected officers who put the general public in danger.
