Charlotte, NC (AP) civil servants in Charlotte criticize keen criticism of the deadly stabbing of a adolescent Ukrainian refugee in a commuter train last month, which has blamed the attention of President Donald Trump and Maga allies, who quickly blamed the Democrats for what they say.
Critics say that Iryna Zarutska’s death, 23, could have been prevented, and they accuse civil servants, not to keep a man from the streets with mental illnesses, arrests and unpredictable behavior before killing them. Trump wrote on Monday on his social media platform that “criminals like this have to be locked up”.
The suspect, Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, had served time in prison, was briefly signed for schizophrenia and was arrested at the beginning of this year after she had repeatedly called 911 from a hospital.
Zarutska had come to the United States to escape the war in Ukraine, wrote relatives in a Gofundme post and described them as determined to build a safer life.
The newly published video of August 22 is the youngest Flashpoint in the debate about whether cities like Charlotte are adequately received by violent crimes, mental illnesses and transit security. It added an ongoing political debate when Trump used the National Guard in Washington and threatened in other democratic cities such as Chicago and Baltimore. This is even when the data show that violent crimes have decreased nationwide.
No obvious interaction before stinging
Video publishes on Friday shows that Zarutska entered the sloppy trees and sat in front of Brown, who was sitting behind her. Minutes later, he pulls out a pocket knife without any obvious interaction, stands and hits her throat, the investigators said. Skin passengers and sprinkle as they collapse.
Brown was arrested at the crime scene and charged with the first degree murder. Court files show that he had driven through the criminal justice system for more than a decade. 14 earlier cases in Mecklenburg County, including five years because of robbery with a unsafe weapon. His mother told local television that at the beginning of this year she applied for an involuntary psychiatric commitment after he had become violent at home. Doctors diagnosed him with schizophrenia.
A message that was looking for a comment was left with the lawyer on Monday, who represented him under the murder suspicion.
Brown was arrested in January after repeating 911 from a hospital and claimed people tried to control him. A judge left him free without a deposit.
Court files also show that Brown was charged with threats and shoplifting to theft of crimes until 2011, although some of these charges have been released.
Trump and Maga aim on Democrats
In his make America, the jump -off triggered anger among the allies of Trump and figures in his make America Great. They say that the attack shows how substantial cities and governors their residents do not protect, and justifies the federal takeover of Washington by the president and his plans to repeat these efforts in other places.
In a speech in the Museum of the Bible in Washington on Monday, Trump sent his love for Zarutska’s family and said that the video of the attack was “not really observable because it is so terrible”.
“They are evil people. We have to be able to deal with it. If we don’t handle it, we don’t have a country,” said Trump.
Elon Musk has several times on social media, as well as the popular conservative activist Charlie Kirk and the deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.
Other Republicans also operate the murder to criticize democratic initiatives that aim to combat discrimination within the law enforcement and law enforcement systems. The former governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, a Democrat, signed an executive regulation in 2020 to study solutions in order to take into account “racist inequality”.
“Cooper creates direct responsibility for this hideous act and has to answer the public why he prioritizes criminals before public security,” said Michael Whatley, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee. Whatley will probably be against Cooper for a seat in the USA in the Senate in 2026 in one of the most competitive races in the country.
The Democratic Mayor of Charlotte, VI Lyles, also raised criticism from the law for her reaction, and some said that she was too subtle for the attacker because she relegated mental health problems.
Lyles, who is looking for re -election and runs in the democratic primary service, called Zarutska’s killing “a senseless and tragic loss”.
“Like so many of them, I am broken with a broken heart – and I thought in our city exactly what security really looks like,” she posted on X after the authorities published film material of the attack.
The transport secretary Sean Duffy, who talked about Fox News, referred to Trump’s comment on “bad people” and added: “He is right, but they are also evil politicians.”
“This monster had a success record that is longer than a CVS receipt, including prison period for robbery with a dangerous weapon, breaking and entering exchanges and theft,” Duffy wrote on Sunday on X. “By not punishing him correctly, he failed Iryna Zarutska and North Carolinian.”
Most of the violent crimes are below
Random attacks and violence in the US cities have taken up the importance of the importance this year and came together with the policy of crime and immigration, since the Trump administration plans to raise a larger federal role in the city’s streets.
This is even when the data show that most violent crimes have decreased in democratically guided cities in recent years, in which Trump threatens to operate the national guard and across the country.
The same trends in Charlotte, where the murders, robberies, solemn bodily harm and burglary between 2020 and 2024, are largely true, but according to AH Datalytics, which pursues crime based on the local law enforcement data for the real-time criminal index, the murders, robberies, severe assault and burglary.
In 2024, however, the murders in Charlotte rose by almost 20% in the previous year, but this number fell again in the first six months of this year, according to the data. ___
Brumfield reported from Cockeysville, Maryland. Reporter of Associated Press John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio; Christopher L. Keller in Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Adriana Gomez Licon in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; contributed.
