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by Pierre Rehov • October 24, 2025 at 5:00 am
* The attack, lightning-fast and captured on surveillance video, shocked many, not merely because it was yet another terrible homicide, but because it has forced Americans to confront the failure of institutions meant to protect them -- the innocent -- as well as the cultural paralysis that prevents ordinary people from intervening, and the ideological narratives that try to erase both motive and responsibility.
* Multiple reports relate that as he exited the train after the murder, he said, "I got that white girl." These words, if confirmed by law enforcement, speak to a motive. At a minimum, they reflect the lens through which many now see such events -- not only as homicidal acts by dangerously unstable people, but as anti-white racist attacks that our culture will bend over backwards not to name.
* [A] responsible system would never have put him back among commuters in the first place.
* Zarutska's murder -- and the murders of Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin, Kayla Hamilton, and, most recently, Logan Federico, among others -- were preventable. They happened because a constellation of decisions — judicial, bureaucratic, cultural — favored the ideology of leniency and the comfort of excuses over the duty to protect the innocent.
* "Bang! Dead. Gone. Why? Because Alexander Devante Dickey — who was arrested 39 Goddamn times, 25 felonies — was on the street," Stephen Federico, Logan Federico's father, testified before the US House Judiciary Committee.
* These youngsters are ignored by the political class to a degree that is almost criminal itself – after all youngsters do not vote. There never seem to be sufficient funds seriously to address problems of mental health. What our leaders, sadly, appear to be building are conveyor belts from probation to homicide.
* It is not cruel to confine a dangerous, mentally ill man to a secure hospital. It is cruel to return him to a city train with a knife in his pocket and a world of demons in his head.
* One can care about mental health while also insisting that dangerous people be confined. One can care about civil liberties while also admitting that leniency can kill.
* In elite discourse, naming or even speaking of anti-white hatred is now the ultimate taboo. It violates the moral arithmetic of a worldview that assigns all blame in a single direction.
* [T]he public are entitled to request that, when in doubt regarding to whom to afford compassion -- the suspect or the public -- in an ideal world it would be both, but in the real world, there is a case to be made for protecting the public.
* If compassion for the accused is not balanced by protection for the public, it is complicity.
* This double standard is not, regrettably, a figment of partisan imagination. It is a feature of a media ecosystem in which narrative precedes fact. The victims who count are those who confirm the story that powerful institutions already want to tell. Everyone else is an inconvenience. In the case of Zarutska, the media's hedging confirmed a suspicion deeply rooted in the American mind: that in the newsroom's moral calculus, and in a reverse-racism, some lives are still more equal than others.
* These reforms are not revolutionary. They are restorative. They assume what America once took for granted: that the state's first duty is for the "common defense;" that rights are matched by responsibilities, and that the innocent come first.
* Zarutska's murder has helped the country to remember what it had been taught to forget: that civilization is earned, every day, by people who make themselves responsible for one another.
* If and when Brown said, "I got that white girl," he did more than admit hatred. He exposed the obscene double standard at the heart of elite discourse. For years, we were told that speech could be violence, that silence could be violence, that thoughts could be violence — unless one could "relativize" the crimes away. This lie should now be at an end.

The murder in August of Iryna Zarutska has forced Americans to confront the failure of institutions meant to protect them -- the innocent -- as well as the cultural paralysis that prevents ordinary people from intervening, and the ideological narratives that try to erase both motive and responsibility. Pictured: Zarutska (at right in black baseball cap), seconds before she was murdered by Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., who is seated directly behind her. (Screenshot from Charlotte Area Transit System surveillance video)

On the evening of August 22, 2025, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, boarded the light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina, on her way home from work.

She had fled a war to find safety. She believed America would be a haven where a young woman could rebuild her life, learn English, and contribute honestly. Minutes later, she lay dying on the floor of that car, stabbed multiple times, bleeding out. The attack, lightning-fast and captured on surveillance video, shocked many, not merely because it was yet another terrible homicide, but because it forced Americans to confront the failure of institutions meant to protect them -- the innocent -- as well as the cultural paralysis that prevents ordinary people from intervening, and the ideological narratives that try to erase both motive and responsibility.

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