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\MURDER OF IRYNA ZARUTSKA

• KILLER: Decarlos Brown Jr. Independent,
  • Black male
  • 14 Prior Arrests STATE.NC CharlotteObserver
    • Armed Robbery
    • Assault
    • Communicating Threats
  • Career family criminals NYPost
    • BROTHER: Doing 27-36 years for killing 65-YO Robert Heym during a robbery.
    • FATHER: Had arrests for:
      • breaking and entering
      • felony conspiracy
      • larceny
      • possession of a weapon
  • Audio showed Brown bragging about killing a white girl.
• RESPONSE: Iryna’s cold blooded murder at the hands of a 15x arrested black man inspired a reaction from white Americans that has quite frankly been kept suppressed for as long as it could. X STATE CharlotteObserver
  • For years many of us have held our tongues, even in the face of statistical realities that we all inherently understood to be true. FBI CDISPATCH
  • We are now seeing a generation of young white Americans start to be radicalized, and while this is the last thing that we want, the reaction does make sense when they are being vilified at every opportunity. CLIP_REPARATIONS
• MEDIA: After video of stabbing released almost ZERO media coverage X, Google, CNN
  • AP, PBS, NYT, WSJ, BBC, WaPo, Reuters, MSNBC: 0
  • NPR: Only 1 audio blurb on Aug 26
  • CNN: 1 (article)
• COMPLICIT JUDGES: JAN 19, 2025: Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes released Decarlos with ZERO bail and a NC, NC
  • “Written promise to appear”
• MAYOR: Democrat Vi Lyles, made excuses for the killer: WCNC
  • “what I have come to understand is that he has long struggled with mental health and appears to have suffered a crisis.”
  • “We will never arrest our way out issues such homelessness and mental health.”
  • Mayor also praised the media for suppressing video X
    • “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.”
• CITY COUNCIL: Charlotte Councilwoman, Dimple Ajmera, 2017 Trump supporters have no place in Charlotte politics. CLIP_FLASHPOINT
• NGOs
  • 2017: MacArthur Foundation gave $100M in grants to local governments to reduce prison population MeckNC
    • Included $2M to Mecklenburg County
  • MacArthur Foundation EXCLUSIVELY funded the Left for last 20 years: OpenSecrets, InfluenceWatch
    • Only Democrat politicians
    • Planned Parenthood
    • Population Council
    • Union of Concerned Scientists
• WRONG TIMING: Zarutska’s murder comes as anti-Trumpers are freaking out over his approach to crime.
  • FROM AXIOS: “Stabbing video fuels MAGA's crime message
    • “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.”

FACTS, STATS & DATA

• Murder: USAFACTS UCR
  • White Americans:
    • Population: 58%
    • Murders: 30%
  • Black Americans:
    • Population 12%
    • Murders: 44%
  • Whites 12X more likely to be killed by blacks than vice-versa. UCR.FBI CDispatch
• Police Shootings: Harvard, WaPo
  • Study found officers 3X less likely to shoot unarmed blacks than unarmed whites
    • CONVERSELY: Police 18.5X more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer. MI
  • Harvard study found NO racial differences in police shootings, when looking at both
    • Raw data and contextual factors taken into account
    • RECALL: Black professor cancelled for publishing study NYPost, FSU
      • He had to get armed security after publishing study
• Giuliani’s Broken Windows / Stop&Frisk NBER, UCSB
  • Arrests rose, Crime dropped
    • Murder: -66%
    • Robbery: -67%
    • Rape: -46%
    • Agg Assault: -40%
    • //DeBlasio reformed//
  • 1994: California’s 3-strikes rule ABA
    • 3 felonies = life sentence
    • 27% drop in overall crime rate
    • 31% drop in six major crime categories
      • Murder, Rape, Robbery, Assault, Burglary, Auto Theft
    • //2012: Reformed and Softened//
• Fatherlessness
  • 2022: 45.6% of black youth live only with their mother DOJ
    • 2.7X rate of white youth
    • 1.8x rate of hispanic youth
  • Nearly 70% of black children born to unwed mothers AmericaFirstPolicy
• Misc
  • Race relations have gotten worse WashingtonTimes Reddit
  • Recent events had pushed white Americans to a point they weren’t familiar with, but still, for the most part the response was restrained. GoFundMe X
  • Asian kids do 3x the homework of black kids Brookings
  • 94% of jobs from Fortune 500 companies during COVID went to minorities Bloomberg