Murder on the Charlotte light rail
The first topic I’ll be tackling in this post is: why did Decarlos Brown so seldom have to answer to the court? Here’s a handy timeline, although it certainly doesn’t answer all my questions on the subject. But some of the highlights (or rather, lowlights) of his sorry career:
The night of the Aug. 22 stabbing, Brown was free on a written promise to appear in a nonviolent misdemeanor case and was facing no other pending court cases. He had previously served time, however, for two violent felonies.
Note that the case was nonnviolent and not a felony but a misdemeanor. His felony history probably wasn’t considered relevant for those reasons. And as we know from other sources, he was supposed to have a psych eval that never happened. I don’t know why, or whether it was even scheduled to happen.
More:
Brown was charged three times for misdemeanors between 2007 and 2009. Those charges included simple assault, disorderly conduct, and resisting a public officer.
According to court records, all of the cases were dismissed.
Assault would be a violent misdemeanor. Why the dismissals? By my calculations, Brown would have been an adult for most or all of these misdemeanors.
Then, from 2011 to 2013 there was a series of arrests for threats, shoplifting, and injury to property. After a while, he pled guilty to shoplifting and the other charges were dismissed. And then:
Court records show Brown was convicted of the felony breaking and entering on April 11, 2014. He was assigned to 30 days in jail and 24 months supervised probation with the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office.
That seems a very light sentence for felony breaking and entering, but perhaps it was considered a first offense because of the previous lack of accountability?
Next:
On Aug. 21, 2014, Brown assaulted a Honduran man and stole a Samsung Galaxy and about $750 in U.S. and Honduran currency using a handgun, according to court documents. All of those items were reportedly later found in Brown’s apartment.
Brown was arrested and charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm by a felon. A judge set two secured bonds totaling $110,000 in that case, and Brown was not released.
Brown was ultimately convicted and served just over five years in state prison.
On Sept. 20, 2020, he was released and placed on parole for one year.
What I’d like to know is what his original sentence was and whether the five years he ultimately served represented a shortened prison term, and if so why it was shortened. Good behavior? Or perhaps – given the timing – it was part of the many mass prison releases due supposedly to fear of COVID in the prison populations?
More:
According to Mecklenburg County jail records, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police arrested Brown three times between 2022 and 2024. None of those arrests appear to have led to charges, or the cases were dismissed in a way that no longer appears in court records.
In September 2022, Brown was arrested for assault on a female and property injury, but court records do not reflect a corresponding charge.
It’s difficult to know for sure why all those dismissals occurred, considering he was already a convicted felon guilty of a violent crime. Lack of evidence? Lack of prosecutorial zeal? Soft judges? Some combination of those factors?
Later, there was the 911 call charge I already described in yesterday’s post, where his lawyer had claimed Brown needed an evaluation for competence to stand trial and the evaluation never occurred.
So we have a violent schizophrenic with a record, who was known to be actively hallucinating and acting out, and he was free to roam the streets – and, in Charlotte, free to ride public transportation for free. He was an obvious ticking time bomb, but he had fallen through many cracks in the system before and he fell again. As a result, an innocent young woman is dead.
The second topic for this post: I’ve read comments about the fact that no one on the train stopped him and no one helped her. But I think that’s an unreasonable criticism, for many reasons. Brown acted so quickly that I doubt anyone could have anticipated his move; unlike Jordan Neely (in the Daniel Penny case), Brown seems to have made no verbal threats or telegraphed what he was about to do. I think most of the people on the train didn’t even know it had happened, and those who did were in a state of stunned shock. Riders are prohibited from carrying guns on the rail line, and approaching a homicidal maniac wielding a knife – a knife he has already shown no reluctance to use – is practically suicidal.
Here’s some relevant information:
The video shows the suspect moving through the railcar after the stabbing, passing passengers who appear unaware of what has just happened, before pausing by the door to exit.
When fellow passengers realize the young woman has been attacked, bystanders rush to her aid. The victim was later pronounced dead at the scene.
The suspect got off at the next stop, and police said a folding knife was later recovered near the platform.
So some passengers did try to help her, probably after Brown had left the train – which happened fairly quickly as well, because he got off at the next stop.
I also read in this article that a man in a gray hoodie followed Brown out of the car; you can see some photos at the link. My guess is that this man may have called police and pointed out Brown’s whereabouts. Something must have clued them in, because the arrest was apparently made shortly after the murder.
[NOTE: This article says no one helped. But I don’t think the author follows the story long enough. No one helped immediately, but they apparently helped once they processed the information and once the murderer was gone. I think one needs to factor in shock, and time to understand what has just occurred. The article also says the other man (in the gray hoodie?) merely leaves, but the article I cited in my post says the gray hoodie guy followed the perp. Which is it? From the video at the PJ link, it certainly seems to me that gray hoodie guy follows the perp; if he was just trying to leave, he’d have gone the other way. As far as the woman in the red shirt is concerned, she also follows both men, but I don’t know what she ultimately did. Other passengers did tend to Zarutska, apparently right after that, but were unable to save her. According to the AI overview at Google: “Following the assault, horrified passengers rushed to help. At least one person removed their shirt to try and stop the bleeding while another performed CPR.”
And more here:
Heroic passengers tried to perform CPR on the victim, as one man took his shirt off to dress her wound, WSOCTV reported.
Another ran to tell the train operator what had happened and get them to stop the train, and Brown was arrested as he stepped off the train by officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.]
Yesterday we had the video up to the moment of strike. Today, as one would expect emerges the concluding minutes and it is as awful as could be surmised.
This poor girl got no comfort before she died, as all and any efforts made on her behalf came after she had already sunk into unconsciousness from bleeding out. No one could have saved her, I think. Someone could have said “you are loved” before she fell over into blackness.
sdferr:
We get a bird’s eye view from the camera. People on the train did not. What did they see or know, and how quickly?
She came here from Europe, where the media constantly report that black people are horribly treated by cops. Therefore one need have no real fear of a large black man wandering around the car muttering to himself.
What was the blood curdling scream they heard as the murderer walk away dripping his own blood from a hand cut?
All I have seen is the poor woman holding her neck while the black — excuse me, Black — passengers across the aisle did nothing, while the perp took off his hoodie and left the train. Are later attempts of other passengers to help her on video?
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1965493672537190818
Watch with caution, this is a murder
It’s horrific – and only the most recent of the most horrific violent events visited on innocent people by vicious freaks of color who have been indulged and excused over and over again.
I am thinking that it’s the straw that breaks the back of toleration for this kind of racial mayhem. We’re done with enduring it. and with the race-mongers and politicians who have been excusing and enabling savagery like this.
Just done.
I will admit that I have watched the complete video — several times, even though I normally consider it a kind of taboo to watch a video of anyone’s death. But I had to see how it could happen.
The people immediately around Iryna certainly couldn’t avoid seeing that she had been assaulted, although it wasn’t obvious for about 30 seconds or a minute that he’d done more than hit her and knock her hat off. I agree that they certainly couldn’t have prevented it. The lady across the aisle from her did ignore it and her body language tells me when she left, she just left. The gray hoodie guy does get up as Brown assaults her — he was at least reactive. He left his stuff on the seat, so if reports are he followed Brown, that’s a relief.The two or three other people in her section may have seen the assault, certainly saw Brown dripping blood (he cut himself while killing her) but stayed seated, didn’t look agitated, and didn’t check on Iryna. There’s one stretch of video showing people seeming calmly walking around the blood he left in the aisle.
Iryna looks upset but not serious injured at first — she is crying, and covering her mouth, clinging to her phone. You can’t really see blood (except Brown’s) but about 45 seconds? later she collapses onto the floor in front of her seat. It all seems eerily calmly. No one is rushing about. After a couple minutes, when blood starts pouring down from her seat into the doorway, some passengers do come and try to save Iryna — two black guys and a white women, but if they “rushed” we don’t see it. It is a little strange to see a guy pulling Iryna out from between the seat and a panel, and obviously look at his cell phone for what to do with a bleeding victim.
The reports that Brown was saying something like “I got that white girl” I am unsure about — I think it was other passengers talking to each other.Brown himself is walking away from the camera/mic at a distance at the time. I could be wrong.
I watched the full video today. It’s surprisingly difficult to see at first that she was badly hurt. She remains upright and frozen for quite some time, then topples over as (apparently) the blood loss causes her abruptly to lose consciousness. I can understand why onlookers might have been too shocked and confused to react quickly.
I haven’t seen the unedited version yet, as I don’t have the required X account. I have seen a version with video immediately after the strike. It’s surprisingly ordinary looking. Like he knocked her hat off, maybe slapping her head in the process.
I recall having seen video of a stabbing in an NYC subway long ago. That one was incredibly quick. Stabbed twice, it was all over in about 1/2 second. I’m not sure if it was fatal, but my vague recollection was that it was.
Imagine that the killer was a white man and the victim was a young black lady.
The MSM would be broadcasting this incident 24/7, democrat politicians would be calling for an uprising and urging that people (i.e., blacks) take to the streets to protest, burn buildings and attack whites .
The rioting would last about one full week and there would be a billion $$$ of damage.
But, you see, the victim was white and the killer is black, which means this horrible horrible incident is not news worthy and implied by this, a crime was not really committed.
I’ve read he was diagnosed schizophrenic. Probably the family doesn’t have the resources to institutionalize him, and likely deither the state nor city wanted to spend the money.
I don’t mind paying taxes to keep such dangerous people off the streets.
I asked Grok: Please tell me what equipment and training bystanders would have needed to keep her alive until first responders could arrive.
Approximately two minutes after the stabbing, at least one bystander ran to Zarutska to render aid, while others alerted authorities or moved away from the threat. However, without specialized training or equipment, their efforts were ineffective against the life-threatening arterial bleeding from the neck wound, which can cause unconsciousness and death within 3–5 minutes if uncontrolled.
To have kept her alive long enough for paramedics to arrive and provide advanced care (e.g., IV fluids, intubation, surgical intervention), bystanders would have needed focused training and basic trauma-response equipment tailored to penetrating neck trauma. Below, I outline the key requirements based on standard protocols from organizations like the American Red Cross, Stop the Bleed campaign (a national initiative for civilian hemorrhage control), and trauma medicine guidelines. These are not guarantees of survival—neck wounds in “Zone I” (upper neck, near the skull) or “Zone II” (mid-neck, where major vessels are) have high mortality rates even with professional care—but they could have bought critical time by stemming the blood loss.
### Required Training
Bystanders would need hands-on training in immediate life-saving techniques for severe trauma, ideally 1–2 hours of instruction (e.g., via free or low-cost Stop the Bleed classes offered by many fire departments or hospitals). Key skills include:
– **Recognition and prioritization**: Quickly identifying life-threatening bleeding (spurting or pooling blood) and activating the emergency response system (calling 911 and providing exact location on the train/platform). For Zarutska, this would mean shouting for help and directing someone to call while others assist.
– **Direct pressure and wound packing**: Applying firm, unrelenting pressure to the wound site with both hands or a barrier (to avoid infection). For a neck wound, this involves positioning the victim supine (flat on back) if possible, using one hand on the front and another on the back of the neck to compress the area without obstructing the airway. If pressure alone fails, packing the wound with gauze to tamponade (plug) the bleeding vessel.
– **Airway and breathing management**: Monitoring for airway compromise (neck wounds can cause swelling or blood aspiration). Basic maneuvers like the head-tilt/chin-lift (avoided if spinal injury suspected) or jaw thrust, plus starting CPR if she stopped breathing or had no pulse—chest compressions at 100–120 per minute, with rescue breaths if trained.
– **Tourniquet application basics**: While not ideal for the neck (risk of nerve damage or airway block), a modified tourniquet or pressure wrap could be a last-resort option around the neck above the wound if limb bleeding was also present (reports don’t indicate this). Training emphasizes when *not* to use it on the neck.
– **Psychological readiness**: Overcoming hesitation in high-stress scenarios, as bystander effect (diffusion of responsibility) was evident here—training builds confidence through simulations.
Without this, attempts like basic pressure with clothing might slow but not stop arterial flow, leading to hypovolemic shock.
### Required Equipment
Transit systems like CATS often have limited onboard first aid (e.g., basic kits with bandages), but bystanders typically carry nothing. A portable bleeding control kit (available for $20–50 online or via community programs) would have been essential. Core items:
– **Gloves (nitrile, non-latex)**: To protect helpers from bloodborne pathogens while applying pressure.
– **Gauze pads or rolls (sterile, absorbent)**: For direct pressure and packing the wound—fold into a thick pad and hold for 5–10 minutes without peeking, or stuff into the wound if it’s gaping.
– **Hemostatic agent (e.g., QuikClot or Celox gauze)**: A clotting powder or impregnated bandage that accelerates blood coagulation in severe bleeds; critical for vascular neck injuries where standard gauze fails.
– **Pressure bandage or trauma dressing (e.g., Israeli bandage)**: An elastic wrap with a built-in pressure applicator to secure gauze and maintain compression hands-free, allowing monitoring of vitals.
– **Tourniquet (e.g., CAT or SOFTT model)**: Primarily for limbs, but could adapt for upper arm if bleeding extended there; not for direct neck use.
– **Shears or trauma scissors**: To cut clothing for wound access without moving her excessively.
– **Optional advanced items**: Chest seal (if the wound caused a sucking chest injury, though not reported here) or nasopharyngeal airway for breathing support.
If carried in a small “trauma pouch” (common for hikers or security personnel), this kit weighs under a pound and fits in a bag. On a train, pulling the emergency cord or using onboard communication could expedite responders, who arrive with full ALS (advanced life support) gear.
In summary, with Stop the Bleed-level training and a basic kit, trained bystanders could have potentially stabilized Zarutska by controlling the bleed within the first 2–3 minutes, maintaining her blood pressure until paramedics intubated and transported her to a Level I trauma center like Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center (about 10 minutes away). The incident highlights the value of widespread civilian trauma preparedness, as emphasized in post-event discussions about public safety on transit. However, even optimal bystander intervention might not overcome such a rapid, vascular injury without immediate surgical access.
Note: I think an intermediate to advanced kit would be better, costing about $100.
I also read in this article that a man in a gray hoodie followed Brown out of the car; you can see some photos at the link. My guess is that this man may have called police and pointed out Brown’s whereabouts.
Bullshit, neo.
I see nothing in his demeanor, body language, lack of haste, and clear indifference to the girl’s condition to indicate that he was doing anything other than trying to get his sorry ass out of the car.
That’s “my guess.”
As for the diagnosis of schizophrenia by mental health professionals: that and three bucks will get you a cup of coffee from Starbucks.
Evil is the only certain diagnosis.
Sgt. Mom: Good on ya, woman.
IrishOtter49:
You seem awfully certain about things you can’t be certain about at this point.
If you read to the end of my post, someone apparently went and told the train operator and the police were right there as the perp stepped off the train. So it was either the hoodie guy that I mention, or someone else in the car.
Also, according to the Justice Department, there was a caller or multiple callers to the police. I don’t know who they were – nor do you – but almost certainly they were passengers on that light rail car, or the train operator who had been told by a passenger what had happened:
Perhaps you would stick around a knife-wielding homicidal maniac and not haul your “sorry ass” out of there. I, for one, am pretty sure I wouldn’t be so heroic.
I haven’t been able to locate footage of the people who helped – but, for example, the report is that a man took off his shirt to try to staunch the bleeding, and someone gave CPR. I read in one article that the helpers were two black men and a white woman – but again, I haven’t seen any footage posted. Perhaps it hasn’t been released, in order to protect their identities. Or perhaps the report is incorrect. But at the moment, that’s what’s being said.
Apparently you don’t believe people can be schizophrenic, and that some of those people become homicidal? Schizophrenia is, unfortunately, not all that unusual. Nor is it so very hard to diagnose. Brown had received the diagnosis a while ago, not just since the stabbing. And “evil” and “schizophrenic” are not mutually exclusive diagnoses. The murder is certainly evil; I think that’s obvious.
Do we remember the woman lit on fire in the subway? It was just a few months ago.
People don’t react to drowning or stabbing or being on fire in the way that we expect. I don’t know where our expectations come from, movies? TV? But that’s something to remember when you watch videos of terrible things happening to people.
Everything AppleBetty posted is true, but this was likely a lethal injury no matter what anyone did.
The primary structures at risk in the attack were 2 very large blood vessels- jugular vein and carotid artery, and the trachea (airway). If the carotid artery is transected, there is torrential high pressure bleeding. The jugular vein is large and carries a lot of blood but is low pressure, especially in an upright person. Very likely the major damage was to the airway/trachea. That would have left her unable to breathe; possibly blood from a damaged vessel flowed into the trachea. In any event, either from blood loss or lack of oxygen (or both), there would have been brain damage after a few minutes. The poor woman was doomed at the instant that Mr Brown stood up behind her.
Niketas:
Agreed.
Sgt Mom – “Just done.”
Please understand that I am right there with you in your “doneness.”
But what, for you, does that mean? I suspect you probably “carry” & are well-equipped to defend yourself & your family. I’m never unarmed except in a damn airplane…and even then I can figure something out.
But writ large, for society as a whole…what does “done” mean?
Do we institute summary executions for illegal aliens who commit murder like the guys who killed Laken Riley & Jocelyn Nungaray?
Do we take John Derbyshire & to a lesser extent Scott Adams literally & separate white people from black people because we can never know which black person is in the percentage that wants to do white people harm…like this guy seemingly did?
We all agree…this should never happen & those who’ve aided & abetted the urban criminal class to run roughshod over the rest of us should also pay…Pay what?
What does “done” look like in real life…in ways that we can all get on board?
Thanks…
@ JohnTyler on September 9, 2025 at 7:39 pm
That’s the point I’d emphasize — that if the racial roles had been reversed, there’d still be shrieking about the case decades later (e.g. Emmitt Till’s 1955 murder). But in a black-on-white barbarity, it’s crickets all the way down.
There are two antecedents that are, I think, still not widely known (although those who read American Renaissance knew about them promptly). Wikipedia’s just-the-facts reports on the two are blood-curdling enough:
2000, the Wichita Massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_Massacre
2007, the Knoxville Horror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom
This link may provide some answers to the above questions….
LOOK FOR THE HELPERS”—
https://instapundit.com/743457/
As mentioned in the comments to Glenn Reynolds’ post at Instapundit, fear of a similar outcome to this story is ONE reason why people don’t intervene in attacks, even when it might save the victim’s life.
At least Daniel Penny had a trial, not a trip to the ER.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/migrants-in-dresden-harass-women
“Migrants in Dresden harass women on the tram, then slash an American man’s face open as he tries to intervene”
The attacker in Germany was one of their coddled invader demographic, not a home-grown one, but the responses of the government agencies is the same as in America when the perp belongs to one of the left’s designated favorites.
“Close Trump confidante Richard Grenell responded to [the American’s] statement by calling on Chancellor Friedrich Merz to “understand that the German people are sick and tired of” our [Germany] nation’s “weak and woke response” to migrant violence.”
The German AfD political party is trying to respond more forcefully (anti-immigration policies), but the Establishment there is working hard to eliminate them from the scene. I think most of us have probably noticed the reports about that
NOTE: Eugyppius is an academic, formerly working in the US before returning to his native country about 5 years ago, per information from Alex Berenson in one of his posts.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/free-speech-no-longer-exists-in-germany
The idiocy of laws concerning weapons is immense. Criminals and the insane will not respect the law leaving the rest of us helpless. Which is what governments want. A responsible citizen with a weapon may have stopped this. Maybe. Since being a citizen has no value, and, since we have no nationwide culture that governs conduct, we have what we have.
The MSM is now trying to say that the right has been searching for years to find a white George Floyd and now they are trying to elevate Iryna to George’s sainted level. It’s all that white systemic racism you know…
The vileness of the MSM continues to shock though it shouldn’t.
Will this change by the slightest the treatment of career criminals or repeat arrested in blue cities?
Will this change by the slightest the treatment of career criminals or repeat arrested in blue cities?
West Texas, you’re right. Grok says her real-world chances were 20-30% to make it to arrival of first responders. I’m buying the kit and getting the training anyway. Bet you are too.
neo:
I’m thinking about what you wrote. I’m thinking.
John Tyler
“But, you see, the victim was white and the killer is black, which means this horrible horrible incident is not news worthy and implied by this, a crime was not really committed.”
Maybe less that it wasn’t a crime but not, as you said, a news worthy crime. Dog bites man vs. man bites dog. One happens all the time the other is an interesting anomaly.
That Democrats feel this way about it makes it worse. It is the bigotry of low expectations writ large.
the whole sale butchery of this woman, by this thug, who much like the Subway incendiary in Gotham, should never have been out on the streets, almost leaves me without words,
he has been taught to hate, it didn’t matter she came from
Odessa or Omaha, he absorbed by osmosis,
the vaporous platitudes of Kendi and Coates, and Fanon, even if he didn’t know their names,
but the likes of Zampolit Teresa Oates, the Mayor and that odious Governor
Stein, are as much as fault,
I will say this: mental health professionals generally do not, in the clinical sense, think in terms of good and evil when dealing with violent people. They think in terms of mental conditions and diseases and suchlike. They think in terms of mind and body — not in terms of the soul. Which is quite understandable. But also, I believe, a mistake. And it is a mistake with vast, and vastly negative, ramifications.
Also, I have been in situations not too dissimilar from the one under discussion. Not quite as dire, but dire enough, i.e. violent and life-threatening. A sad fact of life of attending mixed race schools (high school and college) located in inner city neighborhoods. In those situations the only response was fight or flight. I’ve done both. I’ve seen and experienced evil up close, and kinetically. Sometimes, looking back on those situations, I’m amazed I survived. Heroism had nothing to do with my survival. I find it a meaningless concept.
whatever happened to three strikes,
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1965504111589093875
IrishOtter49:
There is a world of difference between “not quite as dire” and “exactly as dire.” This was a knife-wielding homicidal maniac, up close and personal, who had just murdered someone. That is the exact situation.
IrishOtter49:
Mental health professionals are doing their job (or not, as the case may be). Their job is to diagnose and treat people. Forensic psychiatrists are well aware that murder is evil, for the most part. But “evil” is not a diagnosis.
In this case, one of the big problems is that – at least as far as I can tell – Brown wasn’t treated and certainly wasn’t treated effectively – and by “treated,” I mean a range that can include being locked up in a mental hospital. That’s in addition to the fact that he fell through the legal cracks and wasn’t in prison.
many of these characters i noted above, are like Harry Lime from the 3rd man, they have little concern for the average folk who are victims of their social experiment,
neo:
You said: There is a world of difference between “not quite as dire” and “exactly as dire.” This was a knife-wielding homicidal maniac, up close and personal, who had just murdered someone. That is the exact situation.
Read what I said again. I said that the situation was “dire enough, i.e. violent and life-threatening.” In fact a knife was involved. The person with the knife was not a maniac, just a violent thug who was threatening me with the knife, presumable with intent to harm or kill me. That was the exact situation for me.
You said: Mental health professionals are doing their job (or not, as the case may be). Their job is to diagnose and treat people. Forensic psychiatrists are well aware that murder is evil, for the most part. But “evil” is not a diagnosis.
Yes. And therein lies the problem. Actually, it constitutes a whole constellation of problems. Was I not clear on this?
You said “Brown wasn’t treated and certainly wasn’t treated effectively” and I agree with that. But the reason his treatment was not effect stems from a failure to properly factor in the role that evil plays. Here I’m suggesting the necessity for a paradigm change, if you well. Schizophrenia did cause him to do evil; rather the evil within this man used his schizophrenia as the means for its manifestation. Maybe he indeed mentally ill maybe not: maybe or maybe not the diagnosis of schizophrenia was correct — or wrong, because it was masking, or distracting from, the true cause of his behavior. He may well have been sick in the head; but he was unquestionably sick in his soul, i.e. evil.
I’m thinking about what you wrote. I’m thinking.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYtfejT4QgM
correction: “Schizophrenia did cause him to do evil” should read as Schizophrenia did NOT cause him to do evil. . . .”
Apologies for this and other typos.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics:
Violent Crimes 2012-2015
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white-on-black: 92,728
black-on-white: 540,873
When one adjusts for ~5x as many whites as blacks in the US, this means that blacks are ~25x more likely to commit violent crimes against whites than visa-versa.
It’s not biased reporting or personal prejudice that it seems there is a disproportionate amount of black-on-white violence.
I can’t help but think the constant fueling of black rage against whites with Democrat and media complicity is part of the story here.
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–“BJS Criminal Victimization by Race and Ethnicity, 2012–2015”
https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/rhovo1215.pdf
IrishOtter49:
Threatening you with a knife is very very different. First of all, you were already the target, not someone else – and more importantly, the knife had not yet been used. This is a very different situation than what faced the people on the train.
Schizophrenia actually CAN cause people who’ve never hurt anyone before in their lives to do evil. That happens, although I don’t see that it applies to Brown. In Brown’s case, we don’t know when his schizophrenia began, but I believe he got the diagnosis after many of his crimes and so I come to the conclusions that he had demonstrated a propensity for evil prior to his schizophrenia. But he had never murdered anyone, nor had he ever hurt anyone severely as far as I can tell, and I’ve read a lot about his criminal history and his mental history. Therefore, the schizophrenia does seem to have been at least a factor in the recent crime. I have written a new post on the subject and I published it a short while ago, one I suggest you read. See this.
huxley:
I don’t think there’s any doubt that it’s part of the story.