This is Axios’ takeaway
From the article
MAGA influencers are drawing repeated attention to violent attacks to elevate the issue of urban crime — and accuse mainstream media of under-covering shocking cases.
Shocking video of the fatal Aug. 22 knife attack on 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail car in Charlotte, North Carolina, dominated weekend conversation on Trump-friendly social media.
The big picture: The rising number of surveillance cameras in public spaces, including on Charlotte’s light rail, has become a big accelerant in these cases.
The video is easily shared or leaked, and can instantly pollinate across social media — a visual counterpoint to statistics showing crime decreases.
How dare people share the grisly video! MAGA people! Really, people of all political stripes were commenting, especially from the Charlotte area. This is Axios’ big picture, that a video can be shared. Not that a career criminal brutally murdered a young woman from Ukraine for no reason.
Axios goes on to mention that Trump will comment when he knows more, and a whole bunch of other Republicans tweeted about it.
The suspect, Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, was charged with first-degree murder. His criminal record includes charges of armed robbery, felony larceny, breaking and entering, and shoplifting, according to jail records cited by WBTV.
Mecklenburg County District Attorney Spencer Merriweather, in an interview with Axios Charlotte last week, didn’t comment directly on the case but acknowledged the limitations and complexities of holding defendants with mental health issues accountable.
The guy is 34 with a rap sheet that includes all that: why is he not in jail?
(NY Post) He even served five years in prison for armed robbery, only to be arrested for assaulting his sister just months after he was released in September 2020, the Daily Mail reported.
In NC, the maximum jail sentence is 17 years for armed robbery. He was surely out on release in 2020, and should have been sent back to the slammer. The dude was nuts and homeless, being kicked out of his house by his mom because of his violent tendencies. Make asylums great again.
Between the lines: Influential conservative social media accounts accused major national news outlets of not covering the racial dynamics of the Charlotte killing — a white victim and a Black suspect — with the same intensity as they did in the case of Daniel Penny.
Um, Axios’ only mention before their Republicans Pounce article was “Mecklenburg’s DA acknowledges criminal justice system gaps following light rail killing.” It’s barely being mentioned in the local Charlotte or Raleigh news. It was barely mentioned in the nation news.
What’s next: Trump won’t just discuss this case once, his team says. He’s going to keep highlighting crime because it’s important to him — and he believes it moves voters as the GOP tries to keep control of Congress in next year’s midterms.
“Crime is not a data thing — it’s a feeling thing,” the Trump adviser said. “Politicians don’t understand that it’s about how you feel when you walk on the subway platform.”
Crime is still mostly above the pre-pandemic level, and people feel it. They’ve seen it. Is it down? Many cities, like Seattle and Portland, have a much worse crime ranking now then at the start of COVID and BLM. They were both in the mid to upper 20s. Now they are 1 and 2 (100 is best). And the media wants to downplay what we see for their political purposes.
Make Asylums Great Again.
Winning!
Iryna Zarutska, 23, was a “refugee” imported from Ukraine by Joe Biden. She was one of some 20,000 American residents who will be murdered this year. It’s sad. The US has by far the highest homicide rate of all advanced nations. Males are 3.5 times more likely to be murdered than are females. Blacks are 5 times more likely to be victims than whites. About 50% of murders are “solved”.
Most, but not all murderers are mentally ill. Clearly, our inadequate response to mental health treatment here is contributary.
There is a current firestorm of right-wing high dudgeon over this case – black male murderer and pretty white female victim. It’s good theater – note that “fear” is the cornerstone of MAGA politics. MAGAt politicians blame prosecutors, judges and lawmakers, failing to note that NC is a conservative red state. All politics, all the time. “Elect us, and we’ll fix it!”, but they never do. Republicans dominate the House, Senate, Supreme Court, White House and most states. Yet, they whine that America is a cesspool!
Rimjob claiming it’s our fault this girl was murdered.
Fuck you, asswipe.
But nowhere near the firestorm of left-wing high dudgeon over the George Floyd case, even after Keith Ellison admitted that “We don’t have any evidence that Derek Chauvin factored in George Floyd’s race as he did what he did.”
It was good theater — Black Lives Matter and their Antifa brownshirts caused over $2 billion in damages, over 2,000 officer injuries, and about three dozen dead — many of whom were black. Note that, despite being the party of slavery, “racism” is the cornerstone of leftist Democrat politics (well, the acquisition of power is the cornerstone, but we’ll roll with “racism” for now). Leftist politicians blame police and systemic racism for the few white on black incidents that occur, failing to note the manumission of slaves as an outcome of the Civil War, over 60 years of civil rights legislation and that this incident happened in a Democrat-run city. All politics, all the time. Now, Democrats openly tell us, “Elect us, and we’ll ensure crime escalates!” and they always do. Democrats dominate every major city in the US, yet they whine that there’s nothing they can do about it when blacks kill whites at a far higher rate than whites kill blacks and How Dare You for Noticing.
Of course, all this will trigger Ellie. The truth usually does. His reactionary, incoherent diatribe is usually good for a laugh.
The Foppish Fop is always good for a laugh, usually via his incessant whataboutisms! LOL.
Your Lard and Savior is now whining that DC officials are saying He only cut crime by 87%. His central complaint is that they consider domestic violence a crime!! Before you know it they’ll consider sex with 12 year olds a crime!!
Like drug prices He’ll cut crime by 100%, 750% even 1000%!!
The Fop misses the point that when the state kills citizens without a trial it’s fascism. The US averages 3 police killings of residents a DAY. England averages 2 a YEAR! Black and Native Americans are killed by police at a rate 2 to 3 times greater than white Americans. Of course, many American crooks are armed compared to crooks around the world.
The Fop talks about “the truth”, LOL. Good one.
When Republicans screw up, that’s the story. When Democrats screw up, the Republicans reaction is the story
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Just like George Floyd, right …?