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Posted By: Hazymac, 9/7/2025 9:02:08 AM

I’m sure you’ve heard about that young Ukrainian refugee murdered by a thug on a Charlotte light rail train. And the only reason you heard of it is because a local Charlotte TV channel got ahold of the video. The incident happened two weeks ago. WBTV-3 reports,Light rail stabbing: Graphic video shows moments before, after woman killed in Charlotte. They report, WBTV on Friday, Sept. 5 obtained surveillance video of a deadly stabbing that happened two weeks earlier on the Lynx Blue Line light rail system in Charlotte, North Carolina. At around 9:50 p.m. on Aug. 22, a light rail passenger stabbed Iryna Zarutska, 23, several times.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: RuckusTom 9/7/2025 9:23:00 AM (No. 2000485)
For those of you wondering, since the doofus author didn't mention it - I had to look it up to be sure, the mayor of Charlotte is a black, female, democrat.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: cThree 9/7/2025 9:48:10 AM (No. 2000496)
I don't doubt that color was a motivating factor in this crime, and it's sad that media will use (hide) that to demean the visceral reaction to this murder. Worst of all is the mayor's classic, liberal response. The reporter here, Bill Glahn, cites a radio report (WFAE) that's worth reading. The mayor's response is almost a creepy parody of virtue signaling. "We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health," she says. Yeah, my gag reflex was triggered, too.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: spacer 9/7/2025 10:00:35 AM (No. 2000502)
The sickening responses from democrats like this leftist democrat mayor are thoroughly entrenched in democrat minds. From street democrat thug moms and pops to the highest level of their corrupt cabal.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 9/7/2025 10:06:26 AM (No. 2000505)
Yes, we ABSOLUTELY CAN ,"arrest our way out of this mental health problem". Arrest the violent insane and DO NOT ever release them. They will not 'get better' and expecting them to recover and releasing just gets some other innocent person killed.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: chagrined 9/7/2025 10:10:17 AM (No. 2000507)
Hopefully other legal immigrants will have their head on a swivel whenever they're out and about, especially when they have the absolute temerity to take public transportation. The audacity is astounding! No, not the idiot racist mayor, the legal immigrant for riding the evening train so brazenly!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: montwoodcliff 9/7/2025 10:33:53 AM (No. 2000513)
The real problem is electing black, female,Democrats in the first place and secondly, electing female Democrats. I guess men don’t run because they have families to support and you get bored women, supported by these men looking for something to do. We get these people who are totally unqualified, who run for any office from dog catcher to president who think the job is easy. They get elected because it becomes a popularity contest and sometimes it is— see John Kennedy and Obongo.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Encore 9/7/2025 10:34:12 AM (No. 2000514)
How about a commitment to the safety and well being of the citizens of Charlotte? Remove this monstrosity (diseased or otherwise), by any means necessary. The entirety of the city’s population shouldn’t have to bow to the insanity of this one person. Get your priorities straight.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: TurtleDove 9/7/2025 10:59:18 AM (No. 2000524)
I had not heard of this, my sincere condolences to her family. Who is the perpetrator? If he is in fact mentally deranged he belongs in a mental facility, never to be released regardless of treatment status.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 9/7/2025 11:14:16 AM (No. 2000531)
The media cherry picks what they report. Bet many things are swept under the rug. How many stories are never reported?
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Reply 10 - Posted by: mc squared 9/7/2025 11:17:08 AM (No. 2000532)
More, with pictures, at the International Business Times: ( yes, you're correct) https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/why-did-decarlos-brown-kill-iryna-zarutska-motive-mental-health-justice-questions-1743282
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Italiano 9/7/2025 11:17:37 AM (No. 2000533)
FTA: "“We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health,” Lyles said." OK, then just kill the violent ones. Problem solved either way.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Newtsche 9/7/2025 12:29:12 PM (No. 2000555)
So it was just one of those things, is that the deal?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: pensom2 9/7/2025 12:32:44 PM (No. 2000558)
This murderous thug was homeless. He was already a diagnosed schizophrenic. I have a world of regret for once having tried to help a person suffering from schizophrenia. They can turn on a dime and become irrationally hateful and ruthlessly violent. The standard treatment we may expect from the Charlotte authorities is to: (1) lock up this perp, (2) have him examined and further diagnosed, (3) move him to a secure treatment facility, (4) put him on a treatment plan with anti-schizophrenia medications, (5) declare him "recovered and no longer a threat to the public so long as he adheres to his medication regimen," (6) release him back into the public with housing assistance and periodic oversight, such as requiring him to show up weekly or more frequently to a public health clinic where he must take his pills and swallow them in front of a nurse-officer. Then, after a few months of this routine: (7) he will listen to the voices in his head telling him that his medications and their side effects are an attempt by the authorities to harm him, (8) he'll then go off his drugs, move away where he cannot be readily found, and (9) he will re-offend and/or commit suicide. Yes, he should be locked up for life and medicated (by force if necessary) and never released back into the public where he represents an imminent threat to the innocent who mistakenly believe that society protects them from dangerous, mentally ill felons.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: CactusStar 9/7/2025 1:07:36 PM (No. 2000575)
And murder is murder, plain and simple.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 9/7/2025 2:53:43 PM (No. 2000604)
Never let your guard down in such a situation. Mistakes Ms. Zarutska made that ended her life: 1) Wearing ear buds on public transportation, which nullified one of her five senses. 2) Focusing on her phone, which took away another (the number of women I've seen doing both on the NYC subway platforms is astounding). 3) Lack of situational awareness, evidenced by taking a seat in front of a restless-looking, dreadlocked, black guy in a hoodie rather than one against a window. I'm not blaming the victim, who sounds like she was a wonderful person with real goals here in America. Perhaps she hadn't yet learned that downtown Charlotte at 10 PM isn't as safe as was her pre-war hometown in Ukraine. But as a Wikipedia article states, she was "unaware as the suspect glance[d] at her, pull[ed] a pocketknife from his hoodie, and flipp[ed] it open." This was one of those situations when seconds counted - and she didn't have them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: crashnburn 9/7/2025 2:59:06 PM (No. 2000606)
Let's put the murderer and the mayor in the same cell and see how long love protects her.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Marzon 9/7/2025 11:25:29 PM (No. 2000724)
Re #1, The mayor, Vi Lynes is white...
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Reply 18 - Posted by: daisey 9/8/2025 12:23:14 AM (No. 2000728)
The liberal judges are responsible for countless murders and rapes and assaults. They need to be removed from the bench.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: vrb8m 9/8/2025 6:23:47 AM (No. 2000758)
No, #17, she is black.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: Strike3 9/8/2025 8:12:31 AM (No. 2000783)
Noticing the skin color of the "usual suspects" makes the crime even more serious.
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