Those who get their news primarily from the social media platform X were flooded over the weekend with posts about the killing of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska , a Ukrainian refugee stabbed to death on a Charlotte, N.C., light rail train. Surveillance footage released after delay by the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) shows Zarutska boarding the train after her shift at a pizzeria and taking a seat in front of a man later identified as 34-year-old Decarlos Brown, who is Black. Just four minutes later, Brown pulled out a pocket knife and stabbed her three times, including once in the neck.

Iryna Zarutska died on the train, having escaped from Vladimir Putin 's war machine only to be murdered in a random act of American violence.

The footage — which pauses in the moment before the br

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