Posted on 09/10/2025 9:35:23 AM PDT by packagingguy
It began with a train ride that should have been ordinary. Instead, it became the final moments of a young woman’s life, captured on viral footage that is as haunting as it is devastating.
Last month in Charlotte, North Carolina, 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska boarded a light rail train seeking nothing more than safe passage. What she found was violence so senseless and brutal that it has ignited a national outcry.
The attacker, later identified as 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr., lunged at Zarutska with a pocket knife. In the footage, she is seen in shock, staggering, before collapsing as life slips away. She never stood a chance. Brown was arrested shortly after. His record, riddled with charges of robbery, felony larceny, and threats, paints a portrait of a man long known to the justice system, yet still free...
Even in grief, voices of compassion are rising. Eoghan McCabe, CEO of Intercom, stunned many when he announced a $500,000 fund dedicated to murals of Zarutska’s face in major U.S. cities.
“I am offering $500k in $10k grants to paint murals of the face of Iryna Zarutska in prominent US city locations,” McCabe wrote on X.
The post went viral, attracting support from high-profile figures including Elon Musk, who reportedly pledged an additional $1 million toward the initiative. Whether his contribution has been finalized remains unclear, but the symbolic gesture amplified the campaign’s visibility.
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I adore this guy. Trump is opening the door to their reconciliation. I want my two favorite men to be friends again!
The left must be confused.
Ukraine vs Russia = Support Ukraine
Ukraine white vs thug black = “What to do? What to do?”
(Elon Musk Pledges $1 Million for Nationwide Murals Honoring Slain Ukrainian Refugee Iryna Zarutska)
GOOD
This story shows exactly what is
wrong with the Lying Leftist Media
They will destroy them...........
Say her name!
Something else! You Republicans put all the blame on Democrats.. with good reason, BUT you have to remember that Ronald Reagan is the president who ended locking up LOONS like the one who murdered this innocent young woman!
AI
his administration was instrumental in repealing much of the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 (MHSA) and funding cuts that contributed to the broader deinstitutionalization movement, which shifted care from large state hospitals to community-based services for all mental health patients, not just those who were criminal.
Reagan’s Role: Reagan’s political efforts, particularly the repeal of the MHSA, were significant in dismantling the federal support for state-funded mental health services.
https://capitolweekly.net/the-republican-who-emptied-the-asylums/
We have to clean out our own house first! Sorry!
Maybe if we import more Boers then we will learn how to handle these black savages.
I tend to think of this kind of stuff as virtue signaling, but $1M for him is nothing so its a nice gesture. At least Elon is using the right side of his brain today.
I certainly agree with you. Musk + Trump is a powerful combination.
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Musk just needs to understand that while he’s the boss at Tesla, he’s just a staff member on the Trump team.
If he’s a true patriot, Musk should understand and agree to that.
Iryna Zarutska is a microcosm and a picture in miniature of what woke western liberals, with their globalist dreams, have done to Ukraine and Ukrainians.
I imagine we’ll see a lot of Ukraine flags removed from homes now. They’ll keep the “this home has no hate” sign up however!
This will sure trigger some, at the street level there will probably be graffiti and damage, at the media/political/activist level it will be interesting to see who it triggers and what their reactions are.
Will big city mayors be arresting vandals like they do for gay power street paintings?
While we’re at it we should remove all the murals, statues and other memorials of George Floyd/BLM that are still polluting the landscape.
It was JFK that started the emptying of the mental hospitals with his 1963 law to take control and funding from the states and shift it to the federal government while emptying the big state hospitals and send them into the communities.
And Reagan tripled federal spending during 8 years adding to national debt. Acting as a superpower with borrowed money is path to long term demise.
When will GOP nominate a fiscal conservative? Democrat Clinton had the only balanced budget for a year if I recall correctly. But it was mostly due to speaker Newt.
The Uniparty has two wings, and neither will willingly change the status quo.
Voters don’t want fiscal conservatives. Sure they want to cut spending, but not their pet programs.
Then some outside the box thinking needs to be done. Make the murals inaccessible but visible or have them guarded by something that would make would be vandals think twice.
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