Posted on 12/10/2025 8:43:19 AM PST by Twotone
The Charlotte City Council is being slammed for approving $3.4 million to hire a PR company to clean up the reputation of their public transportation after a string of recent stabbings.
The city’s latest action comes after two widely-publicized stabbings, including one that ended fatally on Charlotte’s train system and sparked a national conversation on rising crime and lax prosecution in urban areas of the country. On Tuesday, Republican North Carolina Rep. Mark Harris called out the “pro-crime Democrats in Charlotte” for spending the cash on “misleading ads” rather than choosing to “invest in REAL safety to prevent another tragedy like Iryna Zarutska’s brutal murder.”
“No amount of marketing will cause us to forget Iryna,” Harris wrote.
Local radio host Nick Craig called out local leaders on X Tuesday for using the funds “on ads telling you everything is fine” rather than “fixing safety.”
Honduran illegal immigrant Oscar Gerardo Solorzano-Garcia allegedly stabbed a man using a “large fixed-blade knife” on a Charlotte train Friday, according to The Charlotte Observer.
Solorzano-Garcia was deported on two separate occasions before the attack and had a lengthy rap sheet for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, destroying evidence, resisting arrest, using a false ID, along with convictions for robbery and illegal re-entry.
It came just four months after the unprovoked murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, 23, in Charlotte by a man with at least 14 prior arrests for offenses such as armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon.
Decarlos Brown Jr. served five years for the robbery, but got off on time served, probation, or community service in most of his other cases.
He allegedly stabbed Zarutska repeatedly in the neck as she was commuting from her job at a local pizzeria.
The Trump administration responded to Charlotte’s crime surge and sanctuary policies by deploying federal immigration agents to carry out what they dubbed “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” which resulted in hundreds of arrests of illegal immigrants.
Why not spend it.
It’s not their money.
Charlotte city leaders invest $3.4 million in marketing to improve public transit image
Invest...
SNORT.
And the company hired is named at the link above. Wonder just how it got the gig...
“ He allegedly stabbed Zarutska repeatedly in the neck…”
I assume there’s legal reasons for using ‘allegedly’ but watching the video leaves no doubt. The perp is a sick sadistic murderer. Death penalty is required, but slow and painful torture would help properly serve justice.
It’s amazing how much liberals virtue signal.
I wonder how long that 3.4 million would have kept that turd in prison. And, we’d have a live woman to boot.
$100,000.00 for salary only per year, and, yes - Eqpt and city overhead is more.
3.4 millions would pay for 34 cops. Or one (racist) democrat PR agency kicking half of it back to the city council campaigns and famies.
$3.4 million…. Wonder how much police protection that would pay for……… just asking for a friend.
No argument.
Maybe they can hire Dylan Mulvaney to be spokesman.
“It’s safe for all the girls. Now with QuickClot trauma kits under every seat.”
Honduran illegal Oscar Gerardo Solorzano-Garcia allegedly stabbed a man
using a “large fixed-blade knife”, according to The Charlotte Observer.
<><>Solorzano-Garcia was deported on two separate occasions before the attack
<><>he had a lengthy rap sheet
<><>for aggravated battery w/ a deadly weapon, destroying evidence, resisting arrest, using a false ID,
<><>along w/ convictions for robbery and illegal re-entry.
It came just four months after the unprovoked murder
of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, 23, in Charlotte
<><>he had at least 14 prior arrests for armed robbery and assault w/ a deadly weapon, etc.
<><>Decarlos Brown Jr. served five years for robbery,
<><>but got off on time served, probation, or community service in other cases.
<><>He allegedly stabbed Zarutska repeatedly in the neck; she was commuting from her pizzeria job.
People say incarceration and death penalty are too expensive.
We could make them more efficient.
Regardless, it is crime that is too expensive.
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