Did Iryna Zarutska’s life matter? Judging by the delayed, sheepish media coverage of her killing in North Carolina last month, it seems not. Apparently the violent death of this young, beautiful refugee to the United States was a non-event, undeserving of the liberal rage and tsunami of pained thinkpieces that tend to follow other senseless killings in the US. For two weeks her tragedy was disregarded, her suffering ignored.
The suspect is one Decarlos Brown Jr, a mentally ill, African-American vagrant. He has been charged with first-degree murder
We need answers on the cold indifference of the activist class and the media establishment to this abominable slaying of an innocent. Zarutska was 23 years old. She was born in Kyiv. She fled Ukraine with her family in 2022 to escape Russia’s i