US EditionProgressive Policies Let Criminals Slip Through the Cracks
North Carolina lawmakers plan legislation to address bail reform and magistrate procedures following the murder of Iryna Zarutska by a repeat offender out on cashless bail.
- On Aug. 22, 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was fatally stabbed aboard a Charlotte light-rail train, drawing national attention.
- Authorities say a magistrate released DeCarlos Brown Jr., with a long violent rap sheet and mental-health issues, on a written promise rather than secured bond despite at least 14 prior arrests.
- Publicly released footage and a Sept. 9 White House photo showed the attack, and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called it preventable during a briefing.
- The North Carolina General Assembly plans a Sept. 22 crime package targeting cashless bail and discussing harsher penalties, including reviving the death penalty.
- Civil-Rights groups warned the federal crackdown risks overreach, with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund saying `these actions amount to a police state` as President Trump promotes 'Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement'.
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American opinion: Progressive policies let criminals slip through the cracks
Before Iryna Zarutska, there were other victims on Decarlos Brown Jr.’s rap sheet. The man charged with stabbing the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee to death on a Charlotte train last month had already been arrested at least 14 times in North Carolina for crimes ranging from assault and firearms possession to felony robbery and larceny dating back to 2007, the New York Post reported. And yet he was out on the streets. We’ve written about the progr…
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Community Honors Iryna Zarutska With Vigil & Memorial at Light Rail Station
Source: Anadolu / Getty A growing memorial continues to build at Charlotte’s East-West Boulevard station, where 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska was fatally stabbed in August. Flowers, candles, and personal messages now cover the platform where she was tragically killed. On Friday, community members gathered at Marshall Park to remember Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who came to Charlotte to flee from Ukrainian violence. Supporters described her as har…
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Progressive policies let criminals slip through the cracks
Before Iryna Zarutska, other victims were on Decarlos Brown Jr.’s rap sheet.
Stop private foundations from ‘partnering’ to fund deadly government criminal-justice policies
Why was Decarlos Brown Jr. — with a long and violent rap sheet, not to mention severe mental illness — free to stab Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light-rail train last month? Soft-on-crime judges, district attorneys and politicians are part of the problem — but not all of it. Private foundations have encouraged and funded dangerous policies, working hand in hand with government.
The story of the murder of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, has now reached Donald Trump, and with it the battle for America's big cities has taken a new turn. Only in the background of the American debate is the other perspective about Zarutska's Ukrainian background rumbling.
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