The suspected killer of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska should not have been free to walk the streets
Iryna Zarutska was stabbed in the neck on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina on Aug 22
09 September 2025
A picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words. You could replace this article with the photograph of Iryna Zarutska and her alleged killer: a Ukrainian refugee still in her work uniform reading her phone on the bus, and a hooded man rising from his seat on a train to swing a knife into her neck. You would get the essential dynamics: American cities are unsafe, with a criminal class left to run riot at the expense of the innocent people around them.
Then again, much of polite society across the West has dedicated itself to not noticing the patterns that keep unfolding across these horror stories. The “compassionate” thing to do is turn a blind eye, look elsewhere until the news cycle moves on, then continue to make the same mistakes until the next slaughter.
In a sane world, the suspect in the killing, Decarlos Brown Jr, would not have been free to walk the streets. Reports suggest Brown was homeless, had a long criminal record, including a prison sentence for robbery with a dangerous weapon, and a history of schizophrenia that had seen his own mother seek an involuntary commitment for him earlier this year. He had been arrested in January after calling 911 to tell the operator that people were trying to control him.
Regrettably, at this point, the “compassion” of the legal system raised its head. Confronted with a man whose criminal behaviour and evident mental illness made him a clear threat to those around him, who – according to police records – believed “man made” substances within his body were controlling his actions, a judge released him with only a “written promise to appear” at his next hearing.
While it may not have fed into this decision, Republicans have also seized on the actions of North Carolina’s “Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice” set up in the wake of George Floyd’s death. A report released last year set out progress against a laundry list of aims, many concerned with lowering arrests, incarceration, and the use of cash bail. “Compassion” apparently requires that disparities within the criminal justice system be eliminated regardless of the wider impact.
Even after watching a woman killed on video, with the suspect then walking away in a trail of blood, the values of liberal America were on full display. The mayor of Charlotte, Vi Lyles, called for “compassion” to be shown to the suspected killer on the grounds of mental ill health; Zarutska wasn’t mentioned by name in the statement. Meanwhile, a fundraiser was immediately opened for Brown, who was “failed categorically” by the “judicial system and the mental health services” of the state; another attempted to crowdfund for his legal fees, to “fight against the racism and bias against our people”.
If this sounds familiar, it’s because you’ve heard every element of it before. A criminal released after multiple incidents; judges who don’t want to be responsible for putting him or her away; a mental health system that thinks the kindest way to treat those failing to manage is to put them onto the street; the defensiveness of the Left who maintains overrepresentation of particular groups in the criminal justice system is the result of pure racism; a political system which panders to this belief.
Together, these “compassionate” behaviours have wreaked havoc on American communities. Studies around the world have shown that criminal behaviour is hugely concentrated among a small group of hardened offenders. In Sweden, for instance, a group consisting of just 1pc of the total population racked up 63pc of all convictions for violence. The last time I ran the numbers, the rough implication was that fractionally harsher sentencing in a handful of US cities would prevent dozens of murders and thousands of assaults each year.
If lawmakers had genuine empathy for society and for those forced to live near dangerous people, they would do the sensible thing: they would remove them from the streets, ending their ability to terrorise new victims. If they were genuinely concerned about people with severe mental health problems, they would institutionalise them rather than leave them homeless.
A society where a man can be accused of shooting another person in the head, be found incompetent to stand trial, be released, and then be charged with committing the exact same crime a second time is one which has abandoned all sense of reason. Being unable to understand your actions or restrain them is if anything a reason for a sentencing enhancement rather than release.
And if lawmakers are worried about racial disparities, they should look at the victims of crimes as well as the perpetrators. In cases where the race of an offender is known, African Americans made up roughly 58pc of homicide offenders in the last five years, but also around 56pc of victims. Turning a blind eye to these figures, to claim that is racist to arrest dangerous criminals, is an abrogation of duty that leaves communities to rot.
There is nothing compassionate about this inaction, or its consequences. Jordan Neely was also homeless with mental health issues, and a long criminal record: he had been arrested 42 times, including three times for unprovoked assaults on women on the New York subway. When he threatened passengers on a journey in 2023, he was restrained by Daniel Penny, a former marine, and died in a chokehold. The same set-up, with a different outcome.
Neither incident should have happened. Neither needed to. Donald Trump is completely correct when he says the people who “refuse to put bad people in jail” have blood on their hands. Until America abandons “compassion” for common sense, however, the death toll will continue to rise.
We’ve also got fucking savages like Brown roaming the streets of Britain. They come from every primitive shithole you can imagine.
Like orcs, they have no right to be consuming oxygen.
Comment from :
John Rayner
Iryna Zarutska was slaughtered on August 22. It has taken the Western world and its supine, progressive media, including the entire British press, almost three weeks to even acknowledge her horrific death or ask why her murderer was at large after having committed a string of violent offenses.
Apparently woke and leftwing journalists at all the major news networks and newspapers across the States (and doubtless in the UK too) have been arguing against showing footage of the incident as it only “reinforces stereotypes”, ie. merely confirms what the stats already show, namely that blacks are disproportionately implicated in all forms of violent crime and, for example, 8 times more likely to commit homicide than their hated white counterparts.
Just imagine the reaction of the Left had a young sympathetic black woman been butchered by a white male as she traveled home from work.
There would be the same outraged headlines, riots and demonstrations worldwide which greeted the death of George Floyd, a hardened criminal and junkie, who held a gun to the belly of the pregnant woman he robbed, and whom our effete, ineffectual and ideologically comprised police force grovelled on the ground to pay tribute to.
Besides initiating our immediate withdrawal from the EHCR on his first day in office, Farage needs to rein in our out-of-control judges too, whose lenient sentencing of immigrants particularly for heinous crimes is also endangering the British people.
mark cooper
The only racism is from Decarlos Brown Jr who said just after murdering Iryna, and with blood dripping from the knife – ‘I got that white girl’.
The video and audio is on X/Twitter.
The left are heinous race baiters, who are colour blind to the carnage that many citizens cause.
R.I.P Iryna Zarutska.
The go fund me pages were removed for the murderer after only $5 were contributed. This case further exposes the major flaws in mental healthcare for military and civilian as well as the huge failure in our judicial system.
My deepest condolences to Iryna’s family and friends. Brown should never have been released to commit this horrendous atrocity against this sweet innocent young lady.