It’s become perfectly predictable at this point.

Let’s say there’s a violent incident in which a black person and a white person get into conflict. Let’s say it’s the white person who ends up killing the black person. Even in a situation where the black person was actually performing an aggressive act and the white person was acting in defense of self or others in the situation, we get months of discussions about white on black violence.

If it’s Michael Brown, months and years of talk about white on black police and crime. Derek Chauvin, George Floyd. This is just the way it goes.

If, however, the crime is reversed, if it is a black perpetrator and a white victim, then, of course, it just disappears into the ether and we never hear about it again. The latest case of this happens to be this horrifying video out of North Carolina.

According to the New York Post:

Haunting new video revealed the terrifying moment a homeless ex-con allegedly fatally stabbed a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee in what police said was a random attack on a North Carolina light rail train. Iryna Zarutska, who fled war-torn Ukraine for a safer life in America, was on the Lynx Blue Line in Charlotte just before 10 p.m. Aug. 22 when she was ambushed, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.

The surveillance footage, released Friday by the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS), shows Zarutska boarding the train in her pizzeria uniform at 9:46 p.m. and sitting, looking at her phone, unaware of the danger behind her.

Just four minutes later, 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr. allegedly whips out a folding knife and lunges forward, stabbing her three times, at least once in the neck, police said.

The chilling video then appears to show Brown walking through the rail car, stripping off his sweatshirt and waiting by the doors — as passengers began to notice blood dripping from him.

Zarutska, collapsed in her seat and was pronounced dead on the light rail train. Brown apparently got off at the next stop. A folding knife was later recovered near the platform.

There are a couple of issues here.

This particular perpetrator had multiple arrests dating back to 2011. His record included larceny, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and communicating threats.

The first issue has nothing to do with race. It has to do with our criminal justice system not keeping criminals in prison long enough. I know this cuts against the left-wing view that we are an “over-incarcerated” society.

Wrong. We’re a radically under-incarcerated society.

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My point is not that we need more random misdemeanor defendants in jail — my point is that if someone is arrested for armed robbery, that person should be in jail for the rest of his or her life. They should not be let back out on the streets. It’s wrong to stick someone like that in jail for only three or four years, especially if they’re a homeless, mentally ill person, which is what this person was.

What we end up with is crime on the street. This idiocy where we arrest career criminals, take them off the streets for five minutes, and put them back on the streets is insane. It’s totally ridiculous and insane at every possible level. It gets human beings murdered.

There are judges who give light sentences that allow for this catch-and-release nonsense. This process needs to be ended immediately.

Evil people need to go to jail forever. Forever. They should not be out. There’s a very, very high recidivism rate with regard to violent crime.

The second issue is the racial angle, which is less about race and more about media coverage of race. There are some people who will attempt to turn this into some sort of salient point about the difference between races.

Let’s be very clear. Crime is a result of individual evil human action. It is not inborn into any race. What you have in a lot of areas are different cultural orientations toward crime. This is just a reality. If you don’t have fathers in the home with high crime areas, if you have people who see other criminals around them acting like criminals, they act like criminals.

The media coverage is always radically disparate. If a white person commits a crime against a black person, it is a national news story. If a black person murders a white Ukrainian girl on the train in Charlotte, it gets zero mainstream media coverage.

Zero.

As of Sunday, The New York Times had not covered the story at all.

Liz Wheeler pointed out that The New York Times dedicated some 6,000 articles to George Floyd, roughly 1,200 articles to Trayvon Martin, 56 to Kilmer Abrego Garcia, roughly 100 to Daniel Penny, and ZERO to Iryna Zarutska.

George Floyd—5,897

Trayvon Martin—1,190

Kilmar Abrego Garcia—56

Daniel Penny—100

Iryna Zarutska—0

New York Times is propaganda. pic.twitter.com/042SZW0g3G

— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) September 8, 2025

It is not out of line to point out the radical disparity in attention to these headlines. If you ask people who work in legacy media why they have their biases, they will say they don’t want to “reinforce stereotypes.”

The only stereotype that’s being reinforced when they don’t report the news is that the legacy media are trash, and they’re not giving you the full information.

Donald Trump Jr. noted, “Strangely, all the clowns with Ukraine flags in their bio are also all silent on this one.”

What he means by that is that many of the people who have the Ukraine flags in their bio are people who are leftists, people who are oriented against the Trump administration. But when a Ukrainian woman gets killed on a subway by a black man, it turns out that the intersectional hierarchy has been upended.

And so they have to ignore the murder.

The bottom line here is, as always, legacy media are perfectly willing to overlook stories that do not match their narrative.

The death of this young woman will not become a national issue. It will not spur a national conversation about crime rates, about policing, or about people getting out too early on bail.

It won’t do any of those things because it doesn’t match up with the corrupt legacy media and what they wish the world were really all about.