Darrell Castle talks about the brutal and horrifying video taped murder of a young woman named Iryna Zarutska who escaped from the national graveyard that is Ukraine only to be murdered in the urban graveyard that is today’s American cities.

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LIFE AND DEATH IN CHARLOTTE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 12th day of September in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about the brutal and horrifying video taped murder of a young woman named Iryna Zarutska who escaped from the national graveyard that is Ukraine only to be murdered in the urban graveyard that is today’s American cities. We have no shortage of murder to talk about today but Charlie Kirk’s assassination happened too late for this Report and anyway everything has been said but in light of the subject of today the milk of human kindness is running a little low right now.

Yes, Iryna finished her shift at the pizzeria in Charlotte where she worked. Still in her work uniform with her hair up under the company’s ball cap she boarded the light rail train for the ride home and immediately started concentrating on her phone just like every other person her age would do.

She was just doing what any person navigating America’s inner-city jungle would do and that is just sit down, mind your own business, don’t talk to anyone and don’t look anyone in the eye. You have to be very careful in today’s cities because the person nearest you could be a psychotic murderer. There was such a man in the seat behind Iryna that day. The man had 14 prior arrests and charges pending including assault, robbery, and other violent felonies and yet as is the custom of our George Soros funded District Attorneys the man roamed Charlotte freely.

The interesting thing about Iryna’s horrible murder is that it is not unusual. According to the Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Police Union her murder was just another day at the office in Charlotte. So, she escaped from war-torn Ukraine but not from the urban war against humanity that is being waged in our cities each day. The man lounged across two seats behind her as can be clearly seen on the video.

 His attack on this tiny woman was so savage as to make description difficult. I will just say that he leaned over her and stabbed her three times in her neck which produced a look of horror on her face that is hard to forget. Blood gushed from her neck and covered her seat and the floor. DeCarlos Brown jr., career criminal, said I got that white girl as he walked away with blood dripping from his knife.

Perhaps the most horrifying part of the video murder was the utter apathy and lack of empathy of the other passengers to what amounts to a public execution. One man at least tried to help her but all the others were completely unmoved by the scene. All faith in humanity, if there was any left, is now gone but worse all faith in this country’s ability to survive what has happened to it in the last 12 years or so is gone.

This is unfortunately not new. When I was in college more than 50 years ago we studied what was then called the bystander effect. Onlookers fail to intervene or even assist a young woman as she is dying on the floor of a Charlotte light rail train car. Undeterred by the horror all around them, prosecutors, funded by the George Soros Open Society Foundation, choose the righteous political narrative of their own beliefs rather than the rule of law or even the relief of human suffering.

In Charlotte, the mayor is Vi Lyles who has been in office since 2017 so she has been repeatedly reelected which should cause the voters of that city to live in shame. Thia attack, not a one off, nor an isolated incident but just life in Charlotte as it is thanks to mayor Lyles and the Charlotte City Council. This is an elected public official who has referred to the police as terrorists and has spent her time in office making life for the city’s residents unsafe and a daily struggle for survival.

The mayor is apparently so intent on being a political idealogue in the mold of the LA and Chicago murder capitals that she could not even bring herself to say Iryna’s name. Her insensitivity to this horrible murder was almost as horrifying as the indifference of those present at the scene. She was quick to urge compassion for Decarlos Brown a man who jammed a knife into the neck of an innocent woman three times and then said I got that white girl as he walked away. Well, mayor it seems that all my compassion has been expended for Iryna and I don’t have much left for Decarlos.

The mayor made no public announcement of the changes she would be making to the Charlotte transit system with additional security measures because there aren’t any. She just encouraged others not to demonize the homeless. Cases like Iryna’s are difficult for Democrat mayors because despite all efforts by them and national media to not report the story the story does get out and it reveals to the whole world what they are doing.

For example, we didn’t learn of the murder for several days after the attack because apparently the mayor worked very hard to prevent release of the tape out of “sensitivity for the victim’s family.” I suggest the real motive for secrecy was out of sensitivity for the mayor’s reelection campaign. The mayor’s primary was last Tuesday the 9th and the mayor came through in fine fashion. She prevailed easily over four other Democrat opponents and will vanquish some hapless Republican in the general election.

With all precincts reporting their results showed the mayor with 70.8% of the vote. If she prevails in the general election, normally just a formality, she would be the city’s second longest serving mayor. So, she gave a quote to the Charlotte Observer.

“I’m very, very humbled by the idea that we can continue to work together for this community and this city to be a place that people choose to live and have the opportunity to thrive.”

So, the murders will continue in Charlotte just as they do in Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, Memphis, and many other Democrat run cities. The people who sit on the city councils and who occupy the mayor’s offices in these cities don’t seem to mind the carnage very much as long as it is just their black constituents killing each other. Nobody notices the hundreds of murders every year in these cities because it is the children of their voters killing each other. When some politician comes along and suggests that perhaps things could be better he is immediately called a racist. Why the people who routinely allow the release of criminals to rob, rape, and kill again and again, aren’t called racist is a mystery to me.

Sometimes district attorneys will run for office on a pledge to not prosecute criminals. I have actually seen such a campaign and I have seen it become successful. When you see one you don’t have to look very far for George Soros money because it is there. Elon Musk was right about that man because he is an enemy of humanity. The Democrat candidate tells potential voters who are almost exclusively black, that if elected he will stop prosecuting black criminals.

 The people become convinced that it will correct some of the racism they perceive to be the cause of their suffering. Once the new district attorney is elected and the old policy of putting criminals in jail so they can’t prey on innocent people has ended the people quickly learn that they are the victims of this new savior. The city is quickly overrun with criminals because of the DA’s catch and release policy. The police catch them and bring them in and the system releases them to continue criminality.

When this system happens as it has been happening in cities across the country things start to deteriorate in the city.  There is an element of fear about the city and people start to view it as dangerous. Sporting events like professional football and basketball along with college sports start to suffer in attendance. People conclude that it might be better to watch the game on TV rather than risk murder on public transportation.

There is a ripple effect outward from the city center as the criminals venture out where people live, work, and eat at restaurants. Shopping malls deteriorate and close and any new shopping has to be built far out of the city. Once there is an example of public crime in a shopping area whether street robberies or mob violence, that mall is doomed. The result of all this is public perception, whether admitted by the local newspapers or not, that the city is crime-ridden and dangerous and so as soon as anyone is able they leave and only come back to the city reluctantly for work.

In the case of Charlotte and the murder of Iryna there is a new cause for panic among Charlotte’s public officials. The murder caused some federal oversite because of the very national, very horrifying nature of it and the indifference of Charlotte’s mayor. Perhaps the case will have implications beyond Charlotte since FBI Director Kash Patel and the Secretary of Transportation are looking into it.

Secretary Duffy said, “If mayors can’t keep their trains and buses safe, they don’t deserve the taxpayers ‘money.” He went on to say that federal funding of transportation is at risk for cities that don’t work hard to curb violence on public transport.

The DOJ charged DeCarlos Brown with a federal indictment that could make him eligible for the death penalty. Pam Bondi said, “We will seek the maximum penalty for this unforgivable act of violence—he will never again see the light of day as a free man.” Well Pam, that’s fine and I guess it’s all you can do but Iryna is still just as dead.

Perhaps Mayor Lyles, the district attorney, the city council and the judges who signed off on all 14 releases should have to respond in damages to Iryna’s family. Maybe they could leave war torn Ukraine and come to safe America.

Finally, folks, it is very hard not to be filled with hate toward those who hate us which has been so clearly proven this week. It’s hard but I’m trying because I don’t want to be like them.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.