Posted on 09/09/2025 5:43:10 PM PDT by MtnClimber
The cold-blooded murder of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte public transit system has finally gotten the mainstream media aroused, but not because a heinous crime was committed.
It's because "Republicans pounced."
Here's CNN's take:
Gruesome video shows a man stabbing a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee to death on a Charlotte light rail train — a case that has turned into a flashpoint as the Trump administration vows to crack down on crime in large, predominantly Democratic cities.
It's as though they're trying say that a 'gruesome video' is unrelated to a gruesome act, and that the video is the problem, not our pretty natural reaction to the crime itself. In their world, we're supposed to accept gruesome crime as ordinary and normal. But we're an excitable lot, you see.
Axios was just as bad on the "Republicans pounced" front:
MAGA influencers are drawing repeated attention to violent attacks to elevate the issue of urban crime — and accuse mainstream media of under-covering shocking cases.
- Shocking video of the fatal Aug. 22 knife attack on 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail car in Charlotte, North Carolina, dominated weekend conversation on Trump-friendly social media.
The big picture: 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. Those wacky MAGA influencers, you see. It's all about their 'messaging' rather than the evil act itself. Being sheep and all, we wouldn't be bothered by the video of the crime itself until we had MAGA "influencers" tell us.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
They better be careful of counter attacks. White people have unhinged folks too. Media heads might become their "health insurance CEO. It may be wiser to push for civility and unity. Which is exactly why they won't do it.
Q: What are the difference in the odds of back and white races murdering each other according to FBI statistics?
Grok:
The rate of black offenders murdering white victims was about 1.28 per 100,000 black population.
The rate of white offenders murdering black victims was about 0.098 per 100,000 white population.
This means black individuals were roughly 13 times more likely to murder a white individual than white individuals were to murder a black individual, on a per capita basis.
Yup. I think it’s Black History Month fir ghe third time this year...or ghat’s the impression that I get from watching PBSI heard Zimmerman referred to as a Trayvon’s murderer on a non-political ( I know) show. American blacks live in an alternate world.
The Legacy media would not have covered this at all if President Trump had not posted about it.
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