[REDSTATE] Charlotte-area news outlets have been all over the story of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska's murder on Charlotte's light rail system since Day One. But it took the national media two weeks to get around to "covering" it, and that was in large part due to the release of the shocking video of her murder, which horrified Americans in part due to the outright randomness, brazenness, and senselessness of the attack.
As RedState previously reported, the reactions of local Democrat "leaders" in and around Charlotte have come under heavy scrutiny, with Mayor Vi Lyles' soft-on-crime statements focusing more on sympathy for the alleged murderer, a violent mostly peaceful repeat offender who police have identified as 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr., than on the actual victim. Zarutska fled a war-torn part of the world, only to see her young life cut short as she presumably was headed home after her shift at a local pizzeria was over..
The national media's newfound interest in the story was not the only belated response to it. Other Democrat officials in NC are also now finally weighing in after ignoring it even as it blew up, including Gov. Josh Stein (D), who proclaimed that these issues will be resolved once we get more officers on the streets:
I am heartbroken for the family of Iryna Zarutska, who lost their loved one to this senseless act of violence, and I am appalled by the footage of her murder. We need more cops on the beat to keep people safe. That's why my budget calls for more funding to hire more well-trained coppers. I call upon the legislature to pass my law enforcement recruitment and retention package to address vacancies in our state and local agencies so they can stop these horrific crimes and hold violent mostly peaceful criminals accountable.
What Stein left out was that he used to be the state's Attorney General, and that he was on the infamous NC Task Force for Racial Equity and Criminal Justice that then-Gov. Roy Cooper (D) - who is now a candidate for the U.S. Senate - created in the early days of the Saint George Floyd ...The patron saint of Minneapolis... riots:
Governor, your task force for racial equity in criminal justice specifically called for increasing pre-trial release. And decriminalizing ''public behavior,'' meaning homelessness and being a public nuisance.
Both of these policies contributed to Decarlo Brown being on the streets and having the opportunity to commit murder on the Charlotte light rail. Are you going to roll back these policies that your racial task force initiated that are making North Carolinians unsafe?
Current NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson (D), a former U.S. Congressman, state senator, and MSNBC fan favorite, also weighed in Monday with a statement that fell far short:
This was an outrageously heinous and vicious act. Iryna was killed while sitting peacefully, an innocent life taken in a shocking and brutal way. We have told the district attorney, who is leading the prosecution, that our office will provide any and all support to deliver justice. We will remain steadfast until that justice is achieved.
Except Mecklenburg County District Attorney Spencer Merriweather, who was appointed to the DA's office in 2017 by Cooper, was also on that "racial justice task force" and has also touted his efforts "to remake our justice system, to provide second chances to those who need them, and to promote a 'smart on crime' approach to public safety."
Then there's Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden (D), known around here for, among other things, refusing to cooperate with ICE detainers on violent mostly peaceful offenders, and who has faced intense public criticism from now-former chief deputies who have accused him of a toxic work culture that allegedly included racism (McFadden is black, and the allegations are that he used racial slurs against both white and black deputies).
McFadden's response to the fatal stabbing tragedy was to blame not the system but "the community":
He took the question off the page: ''The majority of his time is spent in his community. — So we take that, the time that [Brown] spent with us, versus the time that he is with the community: Who failed him? I didn't fail him. The community failed him.''
As for Cooper? As of this writing, he still hasn't commented on this case.
So we have failed leaders who are pretending to lead, others who are passing the buck, and others who don't care enough to respond at all (presumably because this murder can't be blamed on white supremacy
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values... ). Just another day in the blue city of Charlotte and the red-to-purplish state of North Carolina.
There's a way forward here, but as long as voters keep putting the same political party in these positions while expecting different results, things will never change.
That would be the Marxist community that plays oppressor/victim games and seeks to destroy the fundamentals of Western Civilization about crime and punishment.
[Breitbart] France’s public broadcasting media apparatus is facing calls for privatisation after two state-funded journalists were caught on hidden camera allegedly strategising with senior Socialist Party officials over the upcoming presidential and Paris mayoral elections.
Shockwaves were sent through the French political and media landscapes following the publication of explosive hidden camera footage from a July meeting between France Inter radio presenters Patrick Cohen and Thomas Legrand [pictured above], and Socialist Party national council leader Luc Broussy, as well as Socialist MEP Pierre Jouvet.
The recording of the meeting was published by the right-wing monthly L’Incorrect, which claimed that the objective of the collaboration was to ensure the defeat of centre-right Culture Minister Rachida Dati in the Paris mayoral elections in 2026 and to back Socialist MEP Raphaël Glucksmann to take on Marine Le Pen or Jordan Bardella in the next presidential election.
During the meeting, Legrand, who, in addition to working for public radio, also contributes to the leftist Libération newspaper, is quoted as saying that centrist voters may be open to voting for Glucksmann in a race against Le Pen, as opposed to candidates further to the left, such as Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The report also quotes the public radio presenter suggesting that France Inter may be able to swing votes toward Glucksman, saying: “The centre right, centre left, we don’t hear them much, but they listen to France Inter. And they listen en masse.”
Reacting with “delight”, according to L’Incorrect, Socialist Pierre Jouvet said: “We agree on this idea of a non-Melenchonist common candidate.”
Glucksmann, who also happens to be in a long-term romantic relationship with another French public broadcaster journalist, host of 20 Heures on the France 2 television network, Léa Salamé, broke ranks with the leftist New Popular Front coalition amid concerns about rising anti-semitism and the radical leftism of Mélenchon’s party. Although to the left of Macron, the MEP would likely serve as the closest candidate to keeping the globalist status quo in the Élysée Palace.
Meanwhile, the L’Incorrect report also released excerpts of the conversation in which Legrand is claimed to have said that he and fellow France Inter broadcaster Patrick Cohen would “do what it takes” to derail the candidacy of Culture Minister Rachida Dati of the centre-right Les Républicains in next year’s Paris mayoral elections to replace socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo.
Responding on social media, Dati wrote: “Journalists from public media and Libération claim to be ‘doing what is necessary’ to eliminate me from the Paris election. These are serious statements, contrary to journalistic ethics, which could lead to sanctions. Everyone must now take responsibility.”
Going further, National Rally leader Marine Le Pen called for the French public broadcasting ecosystem to be privatised, saying that they “have used their audience to wage a political battle against all those who do not think like them.”
“Public service cannot be a branch of the Socialist Party, no more than it could be of any other political party. We must now consider its privatisation, which would allow the French to save four billion euros per year.”
France Inter announced on Friday evening that it had suspended Thomas Legrand over the video; however, no action has been taken against Patrick Cohen so far.
The pair have claimed that the video was taken out of context,
…what one has to say when one can’t dispute the recording, and sometimes it’s even true…
and Legrand has said he was merely talking about fighting “Mrs Dati’s lies and her attitude towards the press,” not to take her on politically. For its part, the Socialist Party has also attempted to discredit L’Incorrect over its ties to French MEP Marion Maréchal, the somewhat estranged niece of Marine Le Pen.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Crisis-hit France is on the verge of mass civil unrest with some warning of an insurrection after the surprise collapse of President Emmanuel Macron's government on Monday.
French Prime Minister François Bayrou lost a confidence vote of MPs over his austerity budget, plunging the country into political turbulence as it teeters on the brink of economic crisis over spiralling debt.
Now, politicians and the police are bracing for further chaos on Wednesday as a national day of disruption organised by furious anti-Macron protesters threatens to bring the divided nation to a total standstill.
Called Bloquons Tout or 'Let’s block everything', the general strike led by unions is expected to bring together some 100,000 demonstrators who will walk out of the office, boycott businesses, stage sit-ins and blockade streets. On September 18, several unions are also calling for more demonstrations.
The usual Black Bloc/Antifa repertoire.
But French interior minister Bruno Retailleau last night warned that the day of unrest could spiral beyond the bounds of normal protest and transform into an 'insurrectional climate'.
His warning was echoed by the head of the Paris Police Prefecture, Laurent Nuñez, who said he expected 'sabotage' attempts and major blockades of ring roads, oil depots, train stations and airports.
And more of their usual. So boring.
Nuñez said the police force has 'a number of fears' about the general strike due to the way it will bring together a number of disparate groups without a clear agenda - apart from national malaise under President Macron.
'It's a movement that doesn't really have any organisers, it's a general call with a multitude of actions, and we see that the call has been taken up by the ultra-left and far-left movements who are calling for rather harsh actions,' he said on BFMTV-RMC.
In total, some 80,000 officers are expected to be deployed in an 'exceptional' operation, he said.
Several rail unions including SUD-Rail and the CGT-Cheminots have supported walkouts on September 10, meaning the French national rail network will suffer.
Moreover, multiple flights are expected to be cancelled and delayed because the aviation branch of the SUD union has called for workers to participate in the strike.
Macron is receiving calls to resign or be impeached following the collapse of his government, as he faces the tough decision of who to appoint as the seventh prime minister of an increasingly unstable mandate.
The French presidency confirmed in a statement that Macron will meet Bayrou on Tuesday 'to accept the resignation of his government', after just nine months of him in office.
Lawmakers voted to oust the prime minister and his minority government with 364 votes against the veteran centrist politician and 194 in his favour, meaning the nation will now have to face its fifth prime minister in less than two years.
The next government's most pressing task will be to pass a budget, the same challenge Bayrou faced when he took office nine months ago. Securing the backing of a very divided parliament will be equally hard.
'You have the power to bring down the government, but you do not have the power to erase reality,' Bayrou told lawmakers before losing the confidence vote.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...The patron saint of Minneapolis...
