Have you ever run into a news story that makes you stand up and pace around the room for a minute? Because I can name some of the more recent moments. Iryna Zarutska, Jocelyn Nungaray, and now, a toddler named Cyler, a three-year-old boy who was abducted by a crazed woman with a knife who slashed his little face.
Luckily, police were there to actually stop the woman. Noemi Guzman, who abducted Cyler, was holding him at knifepoint when police showed up and began ordering her to drop the knife. Naturally, she failed to comply and began stabbing at the poor boy, and the police quickly gave her a few extra grams of lead for her trouble.
🚨 Omaha Walmart horror: 31-year-old Noemi Guzman stole a knife, abducted a 3-year-old boy at knifepoint, and slashed his face when cops arrived.
— Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) April 15, 2026
Officers ordered her to drop it but she refused and cut the child.
They opened fire, killing her on the spot.
Little Cyler is… pic.twitter.com/cZce3vtnQN
Luckily, Cyler is alive and recovering, but Julian Wood, a 3-year-old boy from Cleveland, is not. Bionca Ellis was successful in stabbing him to death.
Each of these victims was only such because our system failed them. Guzman, for instance, had a history of violence and was deemed to have schizophrenia. She tried to set her father on fire and began destroying a church while the priest barricaded himself somewhere safe from her. Yet, thanks to a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity, Guzman was back on the street.
Sound familiar? It should.
Decarlos Brown Jr., the man who stabbed Iryna Zarutska in the neck for no reason, had a long history of violence before that fateful day on the commuter train. He was consistently released. In fact, the day he stabbed Zarutska, he was out on cashless bail under a "written promise" that he'd show up to court after placing a bogus 9-1-1 call. As of this reporting, Brown has been found "incapable of proceeding" to trial on the state court charges because he's not mentally fit to do so.
He and Guzman are hardly the first. In November of 2025, Rickesha Denise Overton fatally shot Alisia Decoteau after marching her down the stairs, killing her in the alley before kicking her corpse and repeating "you dead." As KOMO News reported, Overton didn't go to trial either, and at this point, you can guess why:
However, on Nov. 13, 2025, after months of legal proceedings, the case was dismissed. The dismissal order, filed and signed in King County Superior Court, ends the prosecution. According to the order, Overton was found unable to stand trial due to incompetency, lacking the capacity to "understand the nature of the proceedings against themselves [and] assist in their own defense."
I watched the footage of this murder. I won't post it here. You can find it yourself, but I can say that Iryna was spared the horror of seeing the attack coming. Decoteau was not so lucky, and she had to look on in horror as her crazed killer led her to her death and shot her non-fatally before finally killing her.
These people continue to roam our streets when they shouldn't, and it's all because we have a system too willing to be lenient with them. Often, this happens for what we can safely assume are socio-political reasons. Judges who release these insane people back onto the street to cause more harm because, despite all evidence screaming at them that they're dangerous to society, they continue to adhere to some unreasonable standard of judgment.
This only stops when judges start suffering for their irresponsibility, and Republican Rep. Tim Moore (NC-14) has the solution. Back in 2025, he introduced the Judicial Accountability for Public Safety Act, which, according to Queen City News, would make judges think twice before they let their personal sensibilities override their common sense:
The legislation aims to hold judges civilly liable when criminals are released and subsequently harm others. Specifically, this act will allow for victims or their families to sue judges when they feel a bond or sentencing decision was made with gross negligence or intentional disregard for public safety.
“When judges let dangerous repeat offenders walk free despite knowing the risks, and someone gets hurt or killed, there has to be accountability,” Moore said. “We’ve seen too many cases, like the killings of Iryna Zarutska and Logan Federico, that were completely preventable if their murderers were behind bars where they belonged. The judicial systems in Democrat-run cities that favor criminals over victims are failing innocent Americans. This legislation is the first step to making sure judges do their jobs and put public safety first.”
Granted, Moore's proposal contemplates civil liability, not criminal, but giving victims and/or their families recourse for irresponsible rulings that defy all logic and result in harm to innocent life is something that would inevitably lead to more responsibility from judges who could very well face consequences for their actions. No one in our society should be free from consequences, and it's pretty clear that many judges enjoy their immunity a bit too much.
If we want to clean up our streets, just deporting criminals isn't enough. It's a great start, but the system needs a bit of restructuring. That means removing immunity from some of the people who abuse it.
