The US president has accused the Democrats of letting \u201ca mentally deranged lunatic\u201d roam the streets<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has condemned the fatal stabbing of a 23-year-old Ukrainian woman on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, describing the incident as a \u201chorrific\u201d act committed by a \u201cmentally deranged lunatic,\u201d according to a statement posted on Truth Social on Monday.
\nThe victim, Iryna Zarutskaya, left Ukraine after the escalation of the conflict in 2022 and was killed on August 22 while riding the city\u2019s Lynx Blue Line. Surveillance video released by the authorities over the weekend shows Zarutskaya being ambushed from behind and stabbed multiple times in the neck by a man later identified as Decarlos Brown, 34.
\nTrump referenced the footage in both his social media post and in a speech in Washington, DC, saying the suspect had been arrested and released 14 times on cashless bail and should not have been free at the time of the killing.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhat the hell was he doing riding the train, and walking the streets? Criminals like this need to be LOCKED UP,\u201d Trump wrote.
\n\u201cThe blood of this innocent woman can literally be seen dripping from the killer\u2019s knife, and now her blood is on the hands of the Democrats who refuse to put bad people in jail, including Former Disgraced Governor and \u2018Wannabe Senator\u2019 Roy Cooper,\u201d he added.
\nCharlotte-Mecklenburg police have charged Brown with first-degree murder. Officials say he has a long criminal history, including armed robbery, and previously served more than six years in prison. A judge ordered him to undergo psychiatric evaluation earlier this year, but the assessment was not completed.<\/p>\n
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Remember Iryna: When does murder get ignored? When the victim is white and the killer black<\/p>\n
Trump also criticized the media\u2019s response to the killing, asking, \u201cWhere is the outrage from the Mainstream Media on this horrible tragedy?\u201d
\nDuring his remarks at the Museum of the Bible, Trump said, \u201cWe\u2019re all people of religion, but there are evil people. We have to confront that. If we don\u2019t handle that, we don\u2019t have a country.\u201d
\nZarutskaya bled out and died at the scene. The suspect was taken into custody shortly after the attack and is currently being held at the Mecklenburg County Detention Center with no bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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