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America / Articles / Crime Ignored by media, enabled by Dems: how soft-on-crime policies unleashed murder of Ukrainian refugee The murder of Iryna Zarutska and its treatment by Democrats and mainstream media highlight the interplay between systemic issues in the justice system, a leftist ideology on policing and criminal justice, and a media complicit in hiding those issues from the public. By: According to most legacy mainstream news outfits, the horrific murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was not worthy of a headline. The attention from “MAGA influencers seeking to elevate the issue of violent urban crime and accuse mainstream media of under-covering” is instead the focal point of reporting by outlets like Axios. On August 22, Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who escaped war to start anew in the U.S., was viciously stabbed to death with a pocket knife in what appeared to be a random attack on a Charlotte, North Carolina light rail train. The suspect, 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr., a homeless black man with a long history of evading serious charges due to mental health claims, was apprehended and charged with first-degree murder, fueling public outrage over lax crime policies and judicial failures. The media blackout was shocking to many in the independent news sphere. The murder took place two and a half weeks ago, on August 22. CNN, Reuters, The New York Times, Associated Press, NBC News, ABC News and The Washington Post took 17 days to report on it. It took North Carolina’s Democrat Mayor Josh Stein the same amount of time to comment on the murder. Leftists try to flush Zarutska’s murder down the memory-hole Wikipedia is under fire for trying to remove a page about the murder. Editors at the site are feuding internally after attempts to suppress the story by proposing the newly created page about Zarutska’s killing be deleted, arguing it lacked sufficient notability for inclusion. Critics, including Elon Musk, who called the murder a “hate crime,” and Piers Morgan, who condemned the “senseless, unprovoked” murder, have slammed Wikipedia’s deletion attempt as censorship, pointing to minimal mainstream media attention. The radio-silence from traditional media up until Monday reflects a broader attempt to ignore crime when the victim is white and the alleged perpetrator is black. In another instance over the weekend, beloved Auburn University veterinary sciences professor Dr. Julie Gard Schnuelle was hacked to death with a machete while walking her dog in Kiesel Park, Alabama—a location she frequented daily. The 59-year-old retired professor’s red Ford F-150 truck was stolen by the attacker. The following day, a black male, 28-year-old Harold Rashad Dabney III from Montgomery, was arrested and charged with capital murder after police located the stolen vehicle nearby and linked him to the homicide. Nothing to see here, move along Schnuelle, who was white, was found murdered on Saturday, September 6. Although the killing was covered by local media the next day, a Google search shows that no national mainstream news outlets reported the story for two days until Monday, when ABC News published an online slideshow of images culled from local television coverage with no original reporting. The first legacy media outfit to publish any original reporting appears to be Newsweek, which published their own story on Monday afternoon. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt held a press conference Tuesday afternoon, dressing down the mainstream media for not reporting on Zarutska’s murder in a timely manner. Commentators like Professor Glenn Reynolds of the University of Tennessee School of Law similarly criticized the legacy media. He compared in his Substack column the enveloping coverage of the deaths of young blacks like George Floyd with the vacuum of coverage about Zarutska’s killing. Reynolds wrote, “while rabble-rousing is the most obvious exercise of press power, rabble-snoozing — the power to keep a news story dormant and out of the general public’s notice — is undoubtedly a bigger one.” Social media took notice. X influencer “Cynical Publius” took media reporter Brian Stelter to task for calling the people who were outraged by the media blackout “racist filth.” Publius wrote: “The only ‘racist filth’ I am aware of in this story are the countless ‘journalists’ who deliberately suppressed this story because the races of the murderer and the murdered do not align with the preferred narrative of the Democrat/Media Complex.” The media blackout helps hide the soft-on-crime policies of Democrats President Donald Trump posted a video to his Truth Social account criticizing the policies he believes contributed to the issue: “For far too long, Americans have been forced to put up with Democrat-run cities that set loose savage, bloodthirsty criminals to prey on innocent people. In every place they control radical left judges, politicians and activists have adopted a policy of catch-and-release for thugs and killers.” Charlotte is one of the most dangerous cities in America, yet does not receive as many mentions in crime conversations as cities like Chicago and San Francisco. Charlotte’s total crime index is 45.99 incidents per 1,000 residents. Violent crimes, including assault and robbery, occur at a rate of 7.46 incidents per 1,000 residents, which equates to a 1 in 134 chance of victimization. Charlotte, where Iryna Zarutska was murdered, is led by Democrat Mayor Vi Lyles. The last Republican mayor of Charlotte was Pat McCrory, who served from 1995 to 2009. Lyles initially downplayed the murder, and showed deep compassion for the killer, who had been arrested and released 14 times before the killing. “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.” Her initial comments never mentioned Iryna Zarutska. While Charlotte is not a no-cash-bail city, the judicial system certainly played a role in enabling Brown to recommit. Brown was arrested and released back into the public at least 14 documented times for crimes ranging from robbery with a dangerous weapon and criminal theft to felony larceny, breaking and entering and assault. He served a five-year sentence for robbery with a deadly weapon in 2014, and upon release, was arrested for assaulting his own

America / Articles / Crime Illinois State House Minority Leader: Chicagoans are crying for help Chicago’s crime problem and Trump’s planned federal response, could curb ongoing violence as city officials deny the problem exists, blame other states when they do acknowledge the murders, and regularly disregard citizens’ plea for help. By: In the wake of a miraculous change in the nation’s capital, residents of one of America’s most notoriously dangerous cities are crying out for help, according to Illinois State House Minority Leader Tony McCombie, a Republican in a deep Blue state. “We hear it. You see it all the time, whether it’s through Tiktok, whether it’s through [Instagram and Facebook] reels, the media is paying attention. Yes, people are asking for help,” she said. Ignoring a murderous weekend Over the Labor Day weekend in Chicago, 58 people were shot in 37 separate shootings, including eight fatalities. Instead of addressing the problems, Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton, a Democrat, laughed off the numbers as a “manufactured crisis.” Multiple videos of Chicago residents have gone viral on social and traditional media in which they decry the state of their city and openly advocate for President Donald Trump to assist Chicago in the same manner that he cracked down on crime in Washington, D.C., by providing National Guard and policing support. It’s not just the residents who McCombie believes would be supportive of the extra manpower and resources. McCombie spoke to Just The News and predicted, “I would think that the majority of the law enforcement officers wouldn’t care where the help came from, whether it was from President Trump or a neighboring Democrat state. They need the help.” Since Trump announced his administration’s efforts to reduce crime in Washington, D.C., he’s received support from the president of the DC Police Union, Gregg Pemberton, who came out immediately praising the idea. In the top ten most dangerous cities per capita On the FBI’s list of most dangerous cities, which features lesser-known and less publicized cities like Evansville, Indiana, and Akron, Ohio, Chicago is down the list at number 16. McCombie challenged the argument that Chicago is not a top-ten dangerous city, explaining that “If you’re looking at raw numbers, you can do a lot of things with stats and polls, but you’re looking at raw numbers, and Chicago is by far, unfortunately, one of the most violent cities in America per capita. The smaller cities obviously look worse, and they’re the ones that are ranked in the top 10 of the most dangerous cities because of that. And this isn’t anything for us to be celebrating.” Further complicating the FBI’s crime data is the fact that many policing agencies, often in the highest crime areas, don’t report their local crime statistics to the federal agency. Notwithstanding data reporting issues, digging in on the statistics surrounding crime in Chicago, McCombie explained that “while violent crime is down from last year, it’s still higher than the five-year average. That’s aggravated assaults, aggravated batteries and robberies, but it excludes carjackings, which you heard a lot about in D.C. And although there may be fewer shootings, there are more deaths because of those shootings. So they’re more lethal since 2010.” Mayor refuses to acknowledge the benefit of additional policing Chicago’s mayor, Brandon Johnson, also a Democrat, has had a difficult time explaining why his city does not need help to reduce violent crime. On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough became increasingly exasperated as he attempted several times over the nearly three-minute clip to get an answer from Johnson on whether additional uniformed law enforcement would help. Scarborough asks multiple times before telling Johnson, “I just need a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ and then this will be the last time I ask.” Currently, Johnson has a jarring 79.9% unfavorable rating. Even with policing help, however, the blue city’s criminal-friendly policies are a large part of the problem. This year, the city has already suffered 275 homicides. Chicago has not had a Republican mayor since 1931, when William “Big Bill” Thompson’s final term ended. According to McCombie, the policies include declassification of crimes, raising the threshold of crimes, and no-cash-bail instituted in 2023, and he blames those policies as drivers of criminal activity in Chicago. 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America / Articles / Crime Trump signals he may designate organizers, financial backers of violent ICE protests as terrorists Officially designating an organization as a terrorist organization has significant legal, political, and social consequences. By: President Donald Trump says that if the violent Immigration and Customs Enforcement riots happening across the country are discovered to have central organizers or professional backing he would designate them foreign or domestic terror organizations, similar to what he did with Mexican cartels in February. “I would do that, and in a minute,” Trump told Just the News, No Noise television show Wednesday.  I would do that.” Officially designating an organization as a terrorist group in the U.S. criminalizes providing material support, freezes assets, and restricts travel for members and supporters under laws such as the PATRIOT Act. The designation also allows for enhanced law enforcement surveillance, investigations, and federal resource deployment while signaling a security threat domestically and internationally. However, it can also polarize public opinion and, for foreign groups, may lead to global sanctions, though domestic designations are rare due to free speech concerns. In June, Just The News reported that the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), a self-described Communist revolutionary group with ties to a China-linked Marxist funding network, has been leading nationwide protests against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdowns on illegal immigration, including demonstrations in Los Angeles that escalated into riots. The PSL, which openly advocates for the overthrow of the American system and supports Communist regimes, has organized anti-ICE protests in such U.S. cities as Chicago, San Francisco and Austin, Texas, while also promoting a “Don’t Open for ICE” campaign. Trump deployed the Marines and California National Guard from Camp Pendleton to help local law enforcement to restore order earlier this summer in Los Angeles, where PSL-organized protests turned chaotic. The group condemned the Guard presence as an attempt to suppress First Amendment rights, urging continued protests against what it calls Trump’s “war on immigrants.” Trump, who often speaks about his support for law and order, signaled that he was affected by the violence happening against ICE officers trying to do their jobs and carry out lawful deportation orders. “I watched last week as they were throwing rocks at brand-new cars – Border Patrol. And I saw that, and I gave them total authorization to stop their car and do whatever is necessary to arrest those people. Use whatever you have to use to arrest them,” he recently said. PSL’s activities are reportedly financially supported by Neville Roy Singham, a Marxist businessman who funds far-left groups like the People’s Forum, which shares close ties with PSL. The group has been linked to pro-Communist causes, celebrating regimes like those in China and Cuba while defending Palestinian-affiliated Hamas’ October 2023 attacks on Israel. PSL’s “Liberation School” promotes Marxist ideology, and its merchandise glorifies Communist figures and revolutions. Despite denying ties to a recent Washington, D.C., shooting by a former associate, PSL’s revolutionary rhetoric and Singham’s funding network have drawn scrutiny for their connections to global Marxist movements. In another instance of communist connections, Just The News reported that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, a former leader of the Venceremos Brigade (VB), a pro-Communist Cuba group tied to Cuban intelligence and linked to violent groups like the Weather Underground, has deep historical ties to far-left activism, having traveled to Cuba multiple times in the 1970s as part of the brigade. U.S. intelligence agencies have described the VB as a Cuban intelligence operation aimed at recruiting politically oriented Americans to influence U.S. government positions. The VB, which Bass described as an “educational project” to foster ties with Cuban society, is now fiscally sponsored by Singham’s The People’s Forum. 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