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North Carolina governor signs 'Iryna's Law' after Ukrainian refugee's brutal train murder
Fox News ^ | October 3, 2025 10:33pm EDT | Brie Stimson

Posted on 10/04/2025 2:12:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Friday signed “Iryna’s Law,” which increases checks on criminals getting out on bail and prohibits cashless bail for some violent crimes and most repeat offenders following the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte light-rail train in August.

Stein, a Democrat, has said he doesn’t like every part of the bill that was passed by the Republican-controlled state Legislature, which also looks to restart executions in North Carolina, but he signed it because it “alerts the judiciary to take a special look at people who may pose unusual risks of violence before determining their bail. That’s a good thing.”

Iryna Zarutska, 23, was killed on Aug. 22, and Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., who had been arrested more than a dozen times, including an armed robbery charge for which he served five years in prison before the fatal train stabbing, has been charged with first-degree murder. He was most recently released in January on a misdemeanor charge. […]

… (H)e (Stein) said he had criticisms of the law, including that it focuses more on a defendant’s ability to post bail rather than the threat they pose, and “more alarming,” he added that a last-minute amendment to the bill that “aims to bring about execution by firing squad in North Carolina. It’s barbaric.” …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: North Carolina; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: cashlessbail; charlotte; deathpenalty; dejuanbrown; firingsquad; irynaslaw; irynazarutska; stein; zarutska
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1 posted on 10/04/2025 2:12:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I am pleasantly surprised. I suppose he calculated he should sign it as a hedge for his re-election, rather than veto it and be over-ridden.
Either way it becomes law.
Its a start.


2 posted on 10/04/2025 2:17:01 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Olog-hai; Fury
Leftwing racists like this governor & freeper "Fury" refuse to accept reality that Black-on-White racism faaar exceeds the reverse because it doesn't fit their racist agenda.


3 posted on 10/04/2025 2:24:00 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Adder

He was backed into a corner.
In the words of the Oscar Winning Rabbit - “What a maroon.”


4 posted on 10/04/2025 2:40:29 AM PDT by MMusson ( )
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To: MMusson

What a tra la la la boob de ay.


5 posted on 10/04/2025 2:46:44 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: Olog-hai

Brown Jr. should be tried and publicly executed.

Make it a celebration.

This murder is the most vile racist murder America has ever seen.

” I killed the white girl!”

Wow.

And we are to live with THAT?


6 posted on 10/04/2025 3:10:23 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: newfreep

Politically incorrect but true.

Same goes with homos and pedophilia.

Islam and certain forms of crimes such as honor killings or the threat of terrorism.

There are some things that are truths and these are even verifiable if one were to look truthfully, but we are at a point where we want to be blind to these realities.


7 posted on 10/04/2025 3:11:13 AM PDT by Red6
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To: Candor7

Black men have been killing white women for decades in this country...this one just happened to be caught on camera. ‘Around blacks...’ well, you know the rest.


8 posted on 10/04/2025 3:21:59 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: Red6

And as I learned, sexual perversions and pedophiles. You would be shocked at how many times we see grooming at youth conventions by instructors. The Toronto Star report on Break the Floor has been in the news locally because I have a strong sense a major missing persons case here involved someone who was molested at a Break the Floor event.


9 posted on 10/04/2025 3:24:33 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: Olog-hai

Cooper approved this because he’s running for Senate.


10 posted on 10/04/2025 3:28:39 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Olog-hai

Why is there bail for violent crimes?


11 posted on 10/04/2025 3:40:06 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: newfreep

“Leftwing racists like this governor & freeper “Fury” refuse to accept reality that Black-on-White racism faaar exceeds the reverse because it doesn’t fit their racist agenda.”

White on black crime is like 94% of the media is leftwing and they wanted to ban Rush’s show on Voice of America.


12 posted on 10/04/2025 3:44:28 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Gary Gilmore the POS who murdered Charlie Kirk!)
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To: Olog-hai

Hey, Josh...still quite the mess around western North Carolina from Helene...people still living in tents and trailers. Any word on getting that resolved?


13 posted on 10/04/2025 4:03:27 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: newfreep

data from the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which tracks violent victimizations (including rape/sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated/simple assault) based on victim reports, regardless of whether they were reported to police.

For the period 2008–2021, there were approximately 1.83 million black-on-white violent incidents compared to about 372,000 white-on-black incidents.

https://bjs.ojp.gov/violent-victimization-race-or-hispanic-origin-2008-2021

It’s important to note that the vast majority of violent crimes in the U.S. are intraracial (same race for victim and offender), with white-on-white incidents far outnumbering all interracial ones (about 7 million from 2008–2021, per NCVS), and black-on-black also more common than interracial (about 1.88 million in the same period).

I think, while there are poverty, broken family etc issues, the main one is that it is forgiven in the wider community and perhaps within the black community. Until we start prosecuting people the same way irrespective of the color of their skin we will have the evils of segregqtion still alive


14 posted on 10/04/2025 4:07:15 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Olog-hai


"prohibits cashless bail for some violent crimes"


What is wrong with this picture...
15 posted on 10/04/2025 4:12:09 AM PDT by Bikkuri (We are all Charlie now. I am Charlie!)
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To: Olog-hai

Is there a Rockwell painting with a chicken in every pot and a criminal hung on every lamppost?


16 posted on 10/04/2025 4:19:43 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Olog-hai

Rest In Peace
Young Lady.


17 posted on 10/04/2025 4:49:45 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: who knows what evil?

Ol Josh doesn’t care about Western North Carolina. He’s got Charlotte and Raleigh liberal cretins to worry about.


18 posted on 10/04/2025 4:52:12 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: Candor7

Society needs to make a decision. Either lock up a person like this without parole for natural life and carry that burden, or eliminate them. Freedom of any kind should not be an option.


19 posted on 10/04/2025 4:57:46 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, it is near the end of the day)
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To: Candor7

when politicians are held responsible for thier decisions and are dragged into court for a trial then we will see some action


20 posted on 10/04/2025 4:58:12 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (i)
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