The disgusting and unfathomable murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska has shocked American politics to its core and (rightfully) called into question the so-called "compassionate" efforts of Democrats to reimagine our justice system.
That “re-imagining” has mostly consisted of undermining law enforcement, coddling criminals, and having George Soros-backed prosecutors excusing horrific crimes as “understandable.”
But the highly disturbing case of Zarutska’s senseless and savage murder has many—even on the left, who ignored our repeated warnings about what is happening in our country—questioning what’s actually occurring in our nation. Maybe murderers aren’t “victims”; maybe some people need to be locked away for eternity, and maybe the safety of our wives and children is more important than bowing down to one person’s “mental illness.”
And maybe, just maybe, kowtowing to criminality and accepting it as a normal thing isn’t the way forward. You see, even as the disgusting, fatal stabbing of Zarutska took place, train riders who were there did nothing to intervene.
This is how society ends. The NY Post’s Kristen Fleming nailed it:
…it only got more heartbreaking when additional video emerged Tuesday.
What we saw was indifference from fellow passengers as Zarutska — randomly attacked by a mentally deranged career criminal — lay dying.
No one got off their asses to help the 23-year-old, not even once the perp, Decarlos Brown, had taken his pocket knife and left the train.
After Zarutska was viciously knifed in the throat by the psychotic ex-con, she looked around — incredulous and completely confused.
Her face, frozen with abject terror, should haunt us forever.
Suicidal empahy? There was practically no empathy towards Iryna Zarutska when she was murdered & all the bystanders chose to do NOTHING.
— Apex Imperialist (@ApexImperialist) September 9, 2025
Had anyone given her first aid or called an ambulance, she would have probably survived.https://t.co/fZKvdcL28x
But it’s happened before:
In the early hours of March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender, was raped and stabbed to death outside the apartment building where she lived in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City, United States.
Two weeks after the murder, The New York Times published an article claiming that thirty-seven witnesses saw or heard the attack, and that none of them called the police or came to her aid.
However, subsequent investigations revealed that the extent of public apathy was exaggerated. While some neighbors heard her cries, many did not realize the severity of the situation. The incident prompted inquiries into what became known as the bystander effect, or "Genovese syndrome," and the murder became a staple of U.S. psychology textbooks for the next four decades.
For those of you with no memory of the 1960s, as you contemplate the events on the train in Charlotte, and the non-intervention of the others on the train, read up on the rape and murder of Kitty Genovese in the mid-1960s in NYC while her own neighbors mostly stood by. pic.twitter.com/qWMH5vtnQv
— Majpalmer (@majpalmer) September 10, 2025
“Many did not realize the severity of the situation.” Right. You hear a woman screaming in the night, and you think, “Meh, it doesn’t concern me, not a big deal.”
It’s become a “textbook staple” because that explanation rang hollow. The reality is, most people didn’t want to “deal.”
And sadly, we saw the same thing, in the same city, play out here:
Within 21 seconds of the stabbing, Zarutska becomes almost lifeless in the video, slipping off her seat and crumpling to the floor like a human accordion. About ten seconds later, blood starts to pour from under her seat onto the step below.
You see some people milling around the gruesome scene. It’s difficult to know what they were saying or thinking, but it wasn’t until a full minute and 36 seconds later that a man finally comes to her aid.
He appears to phone for help while pulling her compressed body into the aisle. A few minutes later, two other people look to be administering CPR.
A society that burns neighbourhoods and calls for the defunding of the police for the guy on the left and largely ignores the public butchering of the woman on the right is one that is drowning in the infinity pool of Suicidal Empathy. pic.twitter.com/fB34uki06p
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) September 9, 2025
Would I have stepped up in the moment? I honestly don’t know if I would take on a knife-wielding psychopath half my age. Back in the day, hell yeah, I’d be ready to go. The left vilified Daniel Penny, but he was an American hero, the kind we used to celebrate.
I’m now an ageing father of four, not as nimble as I once was—would I be able to be anything but roadkill for a psychopath like this?
I can tell you one thing, though—regardless of where I’m at now, I wouldn’t have sat there playing on my phone and videotaping tragedy while refusing to lift a finger to help while this young soul bled out.
I hope and pray that I would have stepped up and tried to give aid to that poor dying angel.
Sadly, as we’ve seen in the past and now in the present, too many are turning the other way and letting whatever happens, happens.
The “progressive” Democrats can tell us all they want that rampant lawlessness is not happening, but it is happening, and we see it. It’s long past time that we see past their failed vision and put their failed rhetoric to rest.
You have consistently failed the people of America, Democrats, and it’s time to face the harsh reality of your disastrous vision. Kitty Genovese will never find justice, nor will Iryna Zarutska. Until we change our view on crime, and understand that it’s the criminals who are at fault—not ourselves—we will continue to see this nightmare unfold time and time again.
