Posted on 09/09/2025 10:36:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Former North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s record on criminal justice is being scrutinized by Republicans seeking to derail his campaign to claim a Senate seat.
Cooper, a popular two-term governor, launched a bid in July to replace outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC). Days later, then-Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley announced a campaign challenging the former governor as the GOP fights to keep the Senate seat red.
In the wake of a violent crime against a Ukrainian refugee captured on video that has shaken the state, Whatley and other Republicans are seeking to use the gruesome incident to argue that the eight years his rival spent sitting in the state’s highest office were spent crafting policies that favored criminals instead of protecting residents.
“It’s pretty simple. A vote for Roy Cooper is a vote for more crime, more violence, more criminals. Cooper and his cohorts in the radical left simply value criminals more than victims, full stop,” Whatley said Monday in response to surveillance footage showing the young woman being stabbed to death on a light rail train car on her way home from work at a pizza shop.
Decarlos Brown Jr., a homeless man, is accused of stabbing Iryna Zarutska, who fled Ukraine in 2022, with a pocket knife multiple times as fellow passengers looked on. The suspect has more than a dozen convictions dating back to 2014, including an armed robbery with a dangerous weapon, which earned him a five-year prison sentence before his release in 2020. Brown remained on parole until 2021, and subsequent charges against him included being arrested on charges of assaulting his sister at her home in Charlotte and later misusing the 911 system earlier this year, when he appeared to be mentally unstable during an encounter with the police...
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His Attorney General is a white RAT, and Mecklenburg’s District Attorney is a black RAT.
True.
Charlotte train slaughter suspect should never have been free to kill Ukrainian refugee, his brother says: ‘They could have prevented it’
Prior to Cooper’s becoming governor, he was the state’s attorney general for 16 years. When did the justice system become so weak and cashless bail become the norm?
Cooper was an abject failure in the aftermath of Helene as well. He sat on his hands as people suffered.
Meanwhile, the white perp who murdered those college students in Utah gets exponentially more attention from the enemedia than the black perps who murdered the young woman from Ukraine and the elderly couple in NYC...
And the perp in NYC is still on the loose.
Some on this board insist Cooper is oh so popular. That is definitely not the impression I get. What do I know though? I’ve only lived in Charlotte for the last 15 years......
Doing what democrats, rinos and lamestream media perps do best …. support criminals. Following taxpayers’ money to pocket taxpayers’ money through supporting criminals.
DataRepublican (small r) on X has just hello’d Gov. Cooper...
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1965589477956727087
For those who don’t follow DataRepublican, if you get a hello greeting from her on X, prepare for incoming.
See my reply #12. :-)
Cooper destroyed a sh*tload of small businesses during ‘COVID’...he’s an assh*le’s assh*le.
Deep State doesn’t hire any other kind.
You speak Gospel Truth.
I live in NYS.
Nuff said, eh?
He is STILL failing Helene victims...people STILL living in campers, tents and trailers as of three weeks ago...saw it with my own eyes. Don’t even get me started on Chimney Rock.
:-)
I’ve only lived in Charlotte for the last 15 years......
My sympathies...
I think Royboy is immensely popular or at least will do well in the blue cities like Charlotte, Raleigh, Greenville, etc. NC has a recent history of splitting their Senators. Remember Kay Hagen? Yeah...who does? But she was a reliable dumblecrat vote.
Tillis was ridiculously RINO...I am only sorry I cannot vote against him one more time.
Whatley is going to have to run a hugely successful campaign to get the large rural areas out to vote. I pray he can.
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