Too Little Too Late: X Crushes Leftist Charlotte Mayor For Half-Hearted Response To Brutal Murder

Posted • September 7, 2025: The statist mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, is heartbroken over what she describes as a 'Tragedy' that occurred on her city's light rail system, known as 'CATS Rail.' The 'Tragedy,' as the mayor says, occurred over two weeks ago when a man by the name of Decarlos Brown brutally murdered Iryna Zarutska, attacking her from behind and stabbing her multiple times. The 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant was heading home from work and sat in front of Brown on the CAT train. The now viral video shows Brown pull a knife from his pocket and callously take the young woman's life, then calmly walk away, a trail of blood dripping from his hand. Brown, who has a rap sheet of violent crime as long as his arm, was later taken into custody. He had been arrested fourteen times before taking Iryna's life, re-offending each time he was released and being released each time he offended. There has been no national media coverage of the story.

A violent black offender killing an innocent immigrant woman who came to America seeking safety doesn't fit the left-wing media narrative. Especially in a city run by Democrats. 0 AP stories on this deadly attack. 0 PBS stories on this deadly attack. 0 NYT stories on this deadly attack. 0 NPR stories on this deadly attack. 0 WSJ stories on this deadly attack. 0 BBC stories on this deadly attack. 0 CNN stories on this deadly attack. 0 WAPO stories on this deadly attack. 0 Reuters stories on this deadly attack. 0 MSNBC stories on this deadIy attack. Virtually 0 national outrage over a woman getting stabbed to death by a violent repeat offender on the NC train. Unsurprisingly, Mayor Vi Lyles seemed more than content to let the senseless act of deadly violence go unnoticed. She didn't even acknowledge the murder until after the video went viral. Her initial statement doesn't name the victim nor condemn her killer.

Instead, she defends her soft-on-crime stance, saying 'We can not arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health,' completely ignoring the fact that if Brown had remained in custody, Iryna Zarutska would still be alive. Like most progressives (read ultra-left-wing statists), she has plenty of empathy for the killer. As for the victim, she is just a statistic, a line item on a spreadsheet in another crime report to be filed and forgotten. Just incredible. Democrats are now the pro-criminals who-stab-women-in-the-neck party. We'd be willing to bet a staffer had to tell her what Iryna's name was when public outrage compelled her to publicly express her faux heartbreak. —— Mayor Vi Lyles @CLTMayor https://x.com/CLTMayor/status/1964305729378275588 —— So heartbroken that for two weeks after the vicious killing, she didn't utter Iryna's name once. So heartbroken that she thanks the media for their attempt to bury the story for her before she expresses sympathy for the victim. (…)

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