Charlotte, NC Mayor Vi Lyles says she’s disillusioned that the video of the surprising homicide of Iryna Zarutska “is now public” and thanked media retailers for not “sharing” the brutal footage.
Appalling: Whereas Lyles now pretends the blackout was to point out “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 a way the household feels, however as a result of it exposes the corruption and menace that lurks proper underneath 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 are going to by no means arrest our method out [of] points resembling homelessness and psychological well being.”
Might we perhaps arrest our method out of lunatics killing random victims on public transit?
Positive, get them assist after you’ve introduced them in; don’t substitute jails and prisons for extra compassionate confinement — however don’t faux leaving them operating unfastened makes any sense in any respect.
Brown’s lengthy arrest report describes a violent, severe mentally unwell man who posed a transparent risk to law-abiding innocents.
He served 5 years in jail for armed theft beginning in 2014, was recognized with schizophrenia, and has been repeatedly arrested since then.
Well-known to the native social service and neighborhood 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 seem.
Brown’s personal mom says her son is a hazard to the neighborhood and may 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 pondering arduous about what security actually seems to be like in our metropolis” within the wake of Iryna’s homicide.
Hmm: She claims the Charlotte Space Transit System is “by and enormous a protected transit system,” but it makes no effort to snag farebeaters, as Brown in fact was.
When leftist officers in blue cities speak about “actual security” and making folks “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 type of feckless musing about security.
But the true reply is apparent: Put criminals in jail, institutionalize the critically mentally unwell and fireplace the judges and elected officers who put the general public in danger.
