It’s been nearly six months since the brutal murder of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on the light rail system in Charlotte. The murder was committed by a violent, habitual felon named Decarlos Brown — a black man who, for an allegedly crazy person, chose his victim very carefully. Brown did not attack the first person he saw. He rode the light rail for several hours that day. He waited until a defenseless white woman sat in front of him. And then, after just a couple of minutes, he stabbed Zarutska several times, before walking off the train and bragging that he had just murdered a “white girl.”
In a serious country, every politician who allowed Brown to commit this murder would have immediately resigned in disgrace and gone into exile. And there were many, many elected officials who were responsible for what happened. For about a thousand reasons, Brown should not have been a free man at the time of the murder. He had a record that included arrests for felony larceny, assault, shoplifting, and other crimes. He had also pleaded guilty to committing a robbery with a dangerous weapon, which sent him to prison for several years. And then, after all of these arrests, in January of 2025 — just months before murdering Iryna Zarutska — Brown repeatedly called 911 to report that he was under the control of a mysterious “man-made material” that had entered his bloodstream. After enough of these calls, officers arrested him.
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