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On a warm Friday evening last August in Charlotte, North Carolina, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee named Iryna Zarutska boarded a train home after a long day working at a local pizzeria.
At the same time, a 34-year-old man named DeCarlos Brown Jr boarded the train behind her. Within minutes, he pulled a pocketknife from his hoodie and stabbed her three times, including once in the neck.
The video is gut-wrenching. You can see the moment she realized what was happening – her confusion turning to terror. And then she slid down into the seat and bled out in front of an entire train car full of people.
Surveillance footage then captured Brown pacing the train car afterward saying, “I got that white girl.”
Brown was a serial criminal with at least 14 prior arrests including armed robbery and felony larceny. He’d been arrested and released over and over and over again. This man was clearly a danger.
And yet he’d been released onto the streets to commit brutal murder.
It was an absolutely disgusting turn of events… and good-natured Americans were outraged.
Fortunately their outrage was heeded, because Brown was swiftly administered justice for his crime; he was quickly charged, tried, convicted, and sentenced, and he’s already serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Just kidding! Brown has yet to face any justice.
Brown was detained, and the wheels of justice began turning at approximately the speed of tectonic drift. Even in a case like this – caught on camera with multiple witnesses, i.e., a textbook open-and-shut – the system managed to produce a parade of procedural delays, continuances, and jurisdictional tangles between state and federal courts that dragged out for months.
But, hey, at least after all the delays, the trial is finally going to move forward.
Just kidding!
Last week Brown was declared unfit to stand trial. So a man with 14 arrests and a brazen murder on his hands is apparently not competent enough to answer for his own crimes.
But if Brown isn’t fit to stand trial, then at least the magistrate who released him onto the streets to commit murder has been arrested and charged for her complicity.
Just kidding! That didn’t happen either.
Teresa Stokes, the local magistrate who declined to incarcerate Brown after 14 arrests, never graduated from law school, nor passed the bar in any state. She wasn’t qualified to adjudicate a traffic ticket, let alone violent crime.
And yet she had broad discretion over whether people like Brown stayed locked up or were released into mental health and addiction treatment programs.
Oh, and by the way – Stokes was simultaneously director of operations at Second Chance Services, a mental health and addiction clinic right there in Charlotte.
So the person deciding whether people like Brown walk the streets had a direct financial interest in the very same types of facilities those people get funneled into.
But at least she’s being thoroughly investigated for this conflict of interest.
Just kidding! That’s not happening either.
But at least voters went to the ballot box and tossed out the politicians who appointed her and allowed these systems to rot.
Just kidding!
Well at least the media made a big stink about it, demanding accountability and calling for heads to roll.
Just kidding… the establishment closed ranks, the story faded from the news cycle, and everyone moved on.
And this is precisely why nothing ever really changes in America. There are virtually zero consequences for even the most egregious levels of incompetence. And whenever someone does try to fix things, they get blocked by the system at every turn.
This is the same dynamic that explains why the national debt has barreled past $39 trillion. Why Social Security is racing toward insolvency. Why the Federal Reserve destroyed 25 per cent of the dollar’s value in five years. And not a single person has answered for any of it.
It’s utterly exhausting.
This article was originally published by Sovereign Man.
