The Savage Crime The Media Doesn’t Want You To Know About

Just a few hours after a career felon named George Floyd overdosed on the streets of Minneapolis, just outside of the store he was attempting to rob, while being restrained by the officers he had physically resisted, a lengthy video of Floyd’s death appeared on every mainstream cable news station. The footage was “disturbing,” viewers were warned. But we were instructed to watch it anyway, because it supposedly amounted to clear and convincing evidence that America is unsafe for black people due to the scourge of systemic racism. Never mind the lethal level of fentanyl in Floyd’s system (which prosecutors later lied about during Derek Chauvin’s trial). Never mind the lack of any physical injury to his neck whatsoever. Focus, they told us, on the footage. It wasn’t exactly a rational argument, but it didn’t need to be. Even alleged conservatives, like Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett, explained that they had “wept” after seeing the video. That’s how powerful the video was. Or at least, that’s the way things seemed at the time to a lot of people.

What’s become very evident, in the aftermath of the Floyd hagiography, is that the footage of his overdose wasn’t actually that important to the narrative. Far more important was the footage that we weren’t allowed to see, under any circumstances. And I’m not just talking about the footage of Floyd telling the officers that he couldn’t breathe, long before he was on the ground. I’m talking about all of the videos of black career felons — violent thugs who should’ve been executed a very long time ago — murdering white people in public places for no apparent reason whatsoever. These are videos that are rarely shown to the public. When these videos are released, they’re usually edited to the point that you don’t actually see the crime itself. And mainstream media outlets ignore them entirely.

The aggregate effect of this censorship is that, to many Americans, blacks are seen as the victims of systemic racial injustice, while whites are cast as their oppressors. That’s the kind of pre-existing narrative you need, in order to sell a BLM martyr to the public.

Shortly after a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee by the name of Iryna Zarutska was murdered on the light rail system in Charlotte, North Carolina, back on August 22nd, the same campaign of censorship remained in effect. In early reports about the murder, news outlets omitted some key details from the story. Here’s one example. See if you can tell what’s missing from this report:

Credit: WCNC Charlotte/YouTube.com

That report aired nearly a week after the murder. Authorities knew the identity of the suspect within hours of the attack. As you just heard, the mayor clearly knows who he is. She even knows his medical record, apparently. But they still don’t tell you anything specific. No photos are provided, so the audience has no idea what “the man” looked like. His name wasn’t provided, either. And they certainly didn’t air any video of the attack, edited or otherwise.

And there’s a reason for that. Democrats in Charlotte wanted to cover up their role in this murder, as well as the broader pattern of black felons targeting white people. That’s why no major media outlet in the entire country, except for Fox, has even mentioned this story. It’s a complete media blackout pretty much everywhere, on all the networks and all the newspapers. You can search the Washington Post, NBC News, CBS News, ABC News, the AP, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, the BBC, and CNN. None of them are talking about it. No national Democrats have weighed in, either. For its part, Wikipedia is now in the process of deleting its article on the murder.

Screenshot: Wikipedia

For all their stated concern about Ukraine and refugees, this is one Ukrainian refugee these people definitely don’t want to talk about. They’ll run a million articles about the plight of Ukrainians, and how we should accept them with open arms. But when one of these Ukrainians is murdered on public transport, they don’t even pretend to care. We hear all the time about refugees who come to America for a better life. Well this is one who came here for a better life and ended up getting butchered on the light rail instead. That’s the kind of tragic story that you’d think people with Ukraine flags in their bios would immediately rally around. But none of them can even pretend to care about this. 

They all feel the need to destroy the evidence of this homicide because they know it’s proof of a larger trend — one that they have absolutely no answer for. The statistics on this disparity are not remotely close: A white person is more than 30 times more likely to be violently attacked by a black person, than the other way around. In 2019, roughly 85% of the 560,000 violent interracial incidents involving whites and blacks were black-on-white. 

These are statistics that are hard for most people to comprehend. They don’t just destroy the narrative about “white supremacy,” or about a “mental health crisis,” or whatever. They also demonstrate very clearly that white people are being hunted and killed by an extraordinarily dangerous demographic, which is an urgent problem that rises to the level of a national emergency. You often hear it said that 13% of the population accounts for 50% of the homicides, but it’s actually far worse than that. Most of the murders are being committed, more specifically, by young black males — between the ages of about 15 and 40. That’s more like 3 or 4% of the population. 

But at the end of the day, these are just numbers. Without graphic videos airing 24/7 on every cable news network, showing the reality of this racial violence in everyday life, these statistics are hard for people to hear about, or to understand. That’s why, over the weekend, Charlotte’s political leaders were very quickly thrown into a state of panic and horror. The city’s public transit system, upon the request of journalists invoking the state’s public records law, released footage showing the moments before (and after) the murder of that Ukrainian woman in Charlotte. Several weeks after the fact — after the authorities initially refused to release this video — it became public.

This is a moment that Charlotte’s mayor clearly didn’t want to see, nor was she prepared for it. **Warning, the video contains graphic content.**

Credit: WBTV News – Charlotte/YouTube.com

As you can see, the footage shows the victim entering the light rail car. She has her AirPods in. She sits down in front of a large black man, without interacting with him in any way. There are people sitting nearby in other seats on the train. The woman is wearing the uniform of a pizza restaurant, so presumably she’s just getting off work. And then after a few minutes (which is condensed in the video into a few seconds), the black man stabs the woman several times. The footage pauses, so it doesn’t show the actual stabbing. Then the attacker walks throughout the train — with no one responding, in any way — as blood drips from the knife. The attacker was later admitted to the hospital with a wound to his hand, so it’s possible the knife also cut him as he was murdering his victim.

So again, compared to the Floyd footage, it’s sanitized. It doesn’t actually show anyone dying. And it’s not airing, constantly, on every single news channel. Or almost any news channel, in fact. But although it’s censored, it’s still extremely damaging for the city of Charlotte and the narrative of the Democrat Party, which exists to protect criminals who attack white people at this point. That’s why, when the transit system released this footage, the Democrat mayor of Charlotte, a black woman named Vi Lyles, did not issue a statement condemning the killer.

Credit: City of Charlotte

She didn’t provide any background information about the man, including any previous arrests and convictions he might have. She didn’t explain how the city could’ve easily prevented this murder from occurring. Nor did she say a word about black-on-white violence in general. Instead, in a post on social media, Vi Lyles denounced everyone who shared this footage. Here’s what she wrote.

“The video of the heartbreaking attack that took Iryna Zarutska’s life is now public. I want to thank our media partners and community members who have chosen not to repost or share the footage out of respect for Iryna’s family.”

That’s an actual message, from the mayor of Charlotte. According to Vi Lyles, if you shared the footage that the city transit system provided, then you’re not demonstrating “respect” for the victim’s family. The “respectful” thing to do, in the mayor’s eyes, is to bury all evidence of this murder. And if you don’t see that, then you’re just not as altruistic as Vi Lyles. You have no decency.

Of course, the reason that the mayor wants to memory-hole this footage is that the killer, someone named “Decarlos Brown Jr,” has an extensive criminal record. Specifically, he has at least 14 prior arrests, for crimes like armed robbery, assault on a female, felony larceny, breaking and entering, and shoplifting.

Credit: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

He has mugshots like students have yearbook photos. There’s a new one every year, at a minimum. One of his more recent arrests came after he “misused the 9-1-1 system,” reportedly by claiming that “man-made material” was inside his body and controlling his mind. When he was brought to court on that charge, a judge named Teresa Stokes was reportedly assigned to the case.

BREAKING – It’s been revealed that the same judge who last released DeCarlos Brown Jr., Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes, is also the director of operations at a treatment facility in Charlotte.

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Now, let’s think about this for a second. Put yourself in the judge’s position. You have a violent felon with a history of attacking people. According to the police, he’s now experiencing psychosis, in addition to committing even more crimes. He’s certainly demonstrating  anti-social behavior that’s clearly incompatible with life in a civilized society. And yet, despite that track record, the judge — a black woman who reposts pro-DEI content on LinkedIn, and who just happens to run a “treatment facility” that treats “mental health” disorders in her spare time — allowed Decarlos Brown to go free with no cash bail. She didn’t lock him in a prison or commit him to a mental hospital. She allowed him to board a light rail car and murder an innocent white woman. Given every opportunity to imprison a repeat offender — a clear danger to everyone around him — the justice system turned him loose. They didn’t even make him pay bail money.

This is a point that can’t be overstated: our society is held hostage by a tiny minority of violent, anti-social degenerates like Decarlos Brown. What makes it all the more infuriating is that it doesn’t have to be like this. We could have all of these criminals off the street permanently in the span of a few months if we had the will. Here’s a statistic you almost never hear about.

Chart: Department of Justice, April 2023. Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Corrections Reporting Program, 2014.

If we rounded up every criminal with three or more prior arrests, crime would drop by roughly 80%. Yes, 80%. You can make this determination by looking at the percentage of new inmates in prison systems who have a prior arrest. Virtually all of them do.

This is exactly the result you’d expect. And the lesson is obvious: The single best way to predict future criminal behavior is to look at past criminal behavior. And the single best way to prevent future criminal behavior is to begin implementing ruthless punishments for serious offenders, including public execution for violent criminals and habitual offenders. There is, again, a very, very small percentage of barbarically violent sociopaths causing almost all of the problems. Our communities are unsafe and unlivable — you can’t even sit on a train with headphones on — because of a tiny fraction of the population. If not for this fraction, nearly every city in America would be a utopia compared to what it is today. We could easily deal with this problem, again, simply by punishing criminals.

At a minimum: long prison sentences, as well as hard labor. “Decarlos Brown” should have already been serving 30 years in a labor camp, around his 5th arrest, at the latest. This is the only way, as our ancestors knew. We’ve tried compassion and “restorative justice” and this is the result. It was inevitable.

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So here’s a question: why exactly don’t we give capital punishment to armed robbers? Why shouldn’t anyone who would use violence to rob another person be permanently removed from society? Until it’s safe to ride public transit or walk your dog in the park, what exactly is the argument for showing any amount of leniency to career criminals whatsoever? Our current system only gives capital punishment — and then only rarely — to someone who actually kills another person. But what about someone who, through their criminal behavior, has shown a willingness to kill another person? What about someone who is willing to murder another human being just to steal their wallet or their shoes or their car? What is the argument — what is the actual argument — for waiting until that already violent offender actually kills someone before giving them the maximum punishment? I want someone to explain this to me. If a guy walks up to a woman on the street, points a gun at her head and takes her purse, why shouldn’t that guy be hanging from a rope 24 hours after he’s convicted in a court of law? Don’t give me some platitude. Don’t just shout the word “compassion” at me. Give me an actual argument. It would certainly make our communities much safer if we started executing armed robbers. If we responded with that kind of brutal decisiveness to violent criminals. There’s no question about that. So why shouldn’t we do it? Here’s the question: if the COST of having much more dangerous communities worth the BENEFIT of keeping guys like Decarlos Brown alive? Does anyone think the answer is yes to that question?

Look, I’ve been making this point for a long time. As a society, we have two choices. Only two. Either we are going to inflict severe, merciless suffering on the criminals — the violent degenerates, the sociopathic predators, the dysfunctional and the barbaric — or we are going to allow severe, merciless suffering to be inflicted on the innocent — the women sitting on the train after work, the pedestrians walking their dogs in the park, the Uber drivers, the gas station clerks, and so on. One group of the other is going to be made to feel immense suffering. One group or the other is going to be met with brutality and violence. There is no third option. At least not for us.

Other countries may be able to find a middle path. Japan is one of the safest countries in the world. It’s also completely homogenous. 98% of Japanese citizens are ethnically Japanese. They are a small, homogenous country, where everyone shares the same culture, the same values, the same priorities, the same fear of public shame and embarrassment. And yet even in Japan, the death penalty is mandated in their penal code. They don’t use it often, but when they do use it, the accused finds out their execution date on the day of the execution. Then they are taken off to be hanged without any further appeal. Japan’s secret sauce is homogeneity, with severe and lethal punishment dispensed on the rare occasion when it’s necessary.

That is not our situation. We are a very big country, and very diverse. So we are left with the two options I just outlined. Severe, brutal, ugly punishment of the guilty, or severe, brutal, ugly punishment of the innocent. Either the former or the latter. To choose neither, to refuse to choose, is to choose the latter. It is to say that it is worth it for the innocent to suffer so that the guilty don’t have to. And that’s the answer that our system has decided on. It has decided that it’s better for a million innocent women on the train to be butchered in broad daylight than for one violent criminal to be severely punished. And even worse, the people who give this answer have the nerve to call it compassion. It is not compassion. It is callousness in the extreme. It is monstrous cruelty.

And that is why the outrages continue every day.

At the same time, there are a lot of people, even on the right, who don’t want to talk about the racial element of crimes like these. But here’s the truth: if I told you that a person was randomly butchered on a train and then I asked you to guess the race of the assailant, you would guess black and be correct nearly every time. That’s just the simple reality. We all know it. There is a very obvious pattern here, well established over the course of many decades. The dividing line is not between those who recognize it and those who don’t. We all recognize it. The line is between those who are willing to say it out loud and those who aren’t.

In response, the only argument you’ll hear from Democrats like Vi Lyles is that we need to show “compassion” for these killers, because their “mental health” is supposedly to blame. That’s what she said about the guy with 14 arrests who stabbed the woman to death on the light rail car. Here’s the key part of her statement.

“We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health…” Lyles said. “Mental health disease is just that — a disease like any other that needs to be treated with the same compassion, diligence and commitment as cancer or heart disease.”

This mentality is the root of so many of our problems. In our society we don’t talk about sin, evil, vice, or bad choices anymore. It has all been subsumed under the banner of “mental health.” Every evil action is a symptom of a disease. A guy randomly murdering an innocent woman on the train is merely showing signs of a medical illness. Savage killers are morally indistinguishable from cancer patients. That’s explicitly what she’s saying. The reason that black people are overwhelmingly more likely to assault white people, apparently, is that there’s some unknown pathogen that’s lurking in the water supply, driving millions of black people insane. Mental illness supposedly explains why this particular black man lied in wait for a white woman to sit down in front of him, for several minutes, before ambushing her, taking off his shirt and fleeing. He can’t simply be evil and unfit to live in civilization. He’s “sick,” and maybe one day, he’ll get “better.”

Americans have been fed some variation of this excuse for many generations now. The violence is only accelerating. We’re now at the point where, for some women, you’re safer in a warzone in Ukraine than you are in a Democrat-controlled urban environment with a large black population. That isn’t bigotry. It’s not spin. It’s a factual statement.

The execution of this Ukrainian woman is infinitely more horrifying and disturbing than the deaths of every BLM martyr combined, times a thousand. She was not resisting arrest. She was not high on lethal levels of fentanyl. She was not charging at a police officer and trying to steal his firearm. Instead, she was trying to go home after her shift at a pizza place. She was attempting to live a normal and productive life when she was slaughtered without any hesitation by someone who has never done anything productive, and who has never been capable of doing anything productive, in his entire life. The video footage erases all doubt about this. That’s why they don’t want you to see it.

The press, entertainment companies like Netflix, Democrats and their aligned nonprofits and NGOs — all of them would prefer that you continue to live under the illusion that white people are tormenting black victims, and making them feel chronically unsafe as they go about their day in a society that’s systemically racist. The opposite is true. Black criminals are more brazen and emboldened than they’ve ever been, precisely because they know that they won’t face punishment for their crimes. In fact, if anyone tries to stop them, they’ll be the one who’s arrested.

Last night, the president indicated to a reporter that he had just heard of the case, and that some action would be forthcoming. Presumably, that means the arrival of more troops and federal resources in places like Charlotte. Optimistically, it could also mean the removal of judges who allow repeat offenders like “Decarlos Brown Jr” to avoid prison time as they rack up felonies. If there’s ever been grounds for impeachment, it’s using your office to endanger the lives of millions of innocent victims.

The reality is that no one in this country can feel safe on public transit, or in public parks, or in any other public space in any major American city. That is as great a civil rights crisis as this country has ever faced. We’re told that it’s a civil right to ride the bus and use public accommodations. That’s what the Rosa Parks story was all about. I agree. It is a civil right. So what happens when normal, law abiding people can’t use these accommodations anymore because violent criminals might stab them in the neck? Is that a civil rights issue? Undoubtedly it is. But unlike the 1960s, mainstream news outlets aren’t talking about it. There are no marches or protests on behalf of women who are being slaughtered on light rail cars. So maybe that’s the first thing that needs to change. If we could pass a series of laws in the 1960s that reorient all of American life on the back of a massive social movement, then we can do the same thing today. And before more people are slaughtered, that’s exactly what needs to happen.