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Observer reporting a Honduran man accused. Wait whoa wait a minute,
a Honduran man. Wouldn't he just be a charlotteman? The
guy who was in the country illegally twice deported. Yes,
he was from Honduras, But as I understand, you don't
identify him as a Honduran man. You identify him by
the place he he is currently residing, which is on
the streets of the Queen City. So wouldn't he just
be a Charlotte man. I mean, that's the standard with
like the Maryland man a Branko Garcia, remember that guy,
human trafficker MS thirteen member allegedly right, he was a
Maryland man, a Maryland dad. So Why are we calling
this guy a Honduran man. I'm just asking questions. A
Honduran man accused of stabbing another man on Charlotte's light
rail on Friday had previously been officially banned from using
the train. That's according to the prosecutor in court yesterday.
He had been officially banned. And we had a caller
at the end of the last hour, Jeff who raised
a really important question here, which is how did that happen?
Who did he interact with to get himself banned? Was
that a cat's thing? Was that one of these private
security guards that put him on the ban list? Was
there any interaction with cmpd if so? Would not we
have discovered that this guy had been deported twice before
and was a convicted felon violent crime record. Shouldn't he
have been taken into custody at that point? No, no, no,
because that's a federal thing. We don't do that kind
of federal law enforcement. You see, we are different. We
are better than the Orange Hitler's shock troops. We're not
customs in border patrol. We are not ice. We are
your friendly neighborhood law enforcement, building bridges with the illegal
alien community. Right, So we're not to be engaged in
any of this stuff. So when you had the interaction,
shouldn't you have alerted somebody to the fact that this
guy is twice deported middle illegal alien riding the trains
causing problems. But no, I guess he just gets put
on the official ban list and that's it. And you
know he's obviously gonna honor that ban, what with him,
you know, crossing into the country three times illegally, so
you know he does recognize boundaries as he crosses them. Now,
I did get a message here from Anthony on the
text line, who says a ban from CATS with no
security is like having a sign that says weapons are
only allowed by law enforcement, Like a possible criminal is
really going to care or abide by it. Yeah, I
mean that's the that's the concealed carry angle on this story,
because CATS does not allow conceal carry permit holders to
carry concealed on the trains. Here's a message from Eric.
When somebody is banned from a property, the police department
makes a note of it on an official trespass log
that they keep in the dispatch computer and it's taed
to that individual person. So if any officer encounters them later,
the fact they have been trespassed is tied to their
name in the system. It's the same process for a
government property like cats or a private property like when
they ban somebody from target or something when they get
caught shoplifting, then the police can automatically charge you with
trespassing if you are found on the property. Again, Okay,
so that's good to note. So there's a there's a database,
criminal database that CMPD has access to, but it doesn't
tell me how that how this guy Oscars Solarzano, how
he ended up getting into that database as an officially
banned and individual who put them in there? I'm assuming
it was CATS personnel. But see, this is the problem
when you attempt to nullify immigration law, which is what
our local politicians have been doing, our local city council,
county commissioners, sheriff. They keep making all of these statements.
And I've documented this before with the Welcoming America nonprofit,
the NGO that funds a bunch of these checklists that
cities have to comply with in order to be certified
as a welcoming city. And Charlotte checked enough boxes to
win this certification. And one of the things that Welcoming
America requires is this kind of nullification approach that you're
not going to work with immigration officials, right, and that
you're going to make public statements to that effect, and
you're going to make public statements against anybody that's critics
anything like this. That's how you That's one of the things.
One of the boxes on the Welcoming America checklist. I
went over this last week or two weeks ago. So
during Oscar Solarzano's first appearance, a Mecklenburg prosecutor said that
the thirty three year old drank a beat box wine cooler. Okay,
I am already drawing a whole bunch of conclusions here,
but I okay, I've never heard of beat box wine coolers.
I have heard of wine coolers, and let's just say
there is a certain stigma attached to the wine cooler
imbibing if you're a dude. Okay, Anyway, he was chugging
down the beat box wine coolers before yelling at and
stabbing his victim with an extremely large fixed knife blade
aboard Charlotte Area Transit System's blue line. The non fatal stabbing,
I mean barely non fatal. The guy who he stabbed,
Kenyon Dobe, He's still in the hospital. He's got tubes
draining blood out of his lungs. He did post on
to social media though, thanking people for the support. He's
also got to go fund me to try to raise
money to pay for his medical bills. He's trying to
raise twenty five thousand dollars. He posted up on to
go fund me. I'm the second victim of the Blue
Line stabbing. Luckily I survived, but my body has taken
plenty of damage. I have a tube running from my
chest to a machine pumping blood out of my lungs.
Please pray and help me with a better recovery. He's
raised somewhere around sixty five hundred dollars. As of the
last time I checked the GoFundMe, he's at about sixty
five hundred of twenty five thousand. You know who should
probably make a donation here? How about our local elected
officials and not from the taxpayer funds. I'm not saying that.
I'm saying all of you people who have been in
charge of policy, all you people that have been, you know,
trying to obstruct immigration enforcement. Maybe you guys could throw
some cash towards this dude. Call it a form of penance,
personal attrition, a contrition, you know, not attrition, but contrition.
Maybe just a small indication that, you know what, I
recognize that there is a nexus here between my rhetoric
and my policies, and my support or opposition to various
policies that may have put you in the danger that
you faced aboard the light rail line when this maniac
was screaming at elderly people, and the twenty four year
old Kenyon Dobe stepped in to do what I think
most people would want a young, healthy, strong dude to
do when there's some maniac threatening the elderly on a train.
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city council approving a three point two million dollars budget
for four or advertising for the transit system, that happened
last night, Yeah, big pr campaign to make people feel
safe when they're writing. Randy says, that's great news for
the stabbed individual on the train. There's a billboard coming
near you that you can look at, so you won't
worry about any of this happening. Again, it's about the
perception of safety. Seven oh four number says, what if
they put up a sign that said safe space on
every single car of the light rail and then everything
would be fine, seems easy. That's right, there's no room
for violence on this train, and then that'll do it,
you know. I think the concern also, and people suggest
allowing concealed carry permit holders to conceal carry, the fear
there is that then criminals will also conceal carry. If
you allow law abiding citizens to conceal carry, that means
that criminals will start bringing guns onto the trains and
maybe nins because they wouldn't do so otherwise. I think
that's the logical concern. As I mentioned, the Mecklenberg County
Sheriff Gary not my fault McFadden held a news conference
yesterday where he once again reiterated his complaints about Arena's law.
Here's the headline from the Charlotte Observer. After another train stabbing,
Mecklenburg sheriff says Arena's law won't help. He says, it's
just going to put more strain on his jail staff. Now,
I went over some of this dumbassary in the first hour,
but I did watch the news conference and I did
pull some audio clips, so I'm going to share some
of the dumassery with you. So he held the news
conference years that we started.
Speaker 1: This is a tragedy in our city, but it is
one of the tragedies that has been highlighted all over
the US. But it's hard to have those conversations with
the other parents who've lost their children just to the
same violence that Arena lost her life.
Speaker 2: What the hell are you talking about that this is
harder to talk with other parents of victims because of
Arena's murder. Arena Zarotzka's murder. I get a sense I
know where he's going with this, Like he's trying to
say that this story is getting a disproportionate amount of
coverage for reasons. I'm not really sure which reasons, but
let's let him finish.
Speaker 1: And we believe that the only reason that this caught
national attention is because it was caught on video and
it was displayed across the United States, and our local
politicians at that time saw it was a political agenda
or they could highlight her as a refugee and not
an immigrant, and this is why they created IRENA's Law.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm still not clear on what the hell he's
trying to say there now. To be sure, the story
went viral when the video of the murder was released,
and it was released because media outlets like the Charlotte
Observer went to court to try to get them to
release the video and they were forced to release it.
It's public information. And then once that video clip was
released and people saw the interaction that this girl had
no interaction with her attacker. She got on the train,
she sat down, and the guy just stands up and
murders her for no reason. It was horrific, it was shocking,
and yes, publication of the video did give the story
the reach that it got, and the shocking nature of
it coupled with a very important part here, coupled with
the catch and release turnstile court system. That's what gave
the story more power to prompt a change in the law.
It didn't have anything to do with her being an
immigrant from Ukraine, a refugee and not an immigrant. See
again the conflation. She was a legal immigrant. She was
here legally she was, and yes, that was part of
the story. Was the fact that she fled a literal
war zone, literally fled a war only to be murdered
in a city that does a catch and release turnstile
form of quote justice. That's what made all the more egregious.
But note he's conflating refugee and immigrant, not illegal, right,
he doesn't say illegal immigrant, because that's what this story
is now about. This story, coming three and a half
months after Arena Zarutzka's murder, this story now features an
illegal alien with a long criminal history who was deported
two previous times and who committed this act on the
same train in the same city. Also a mere what
two weeks after Customs and Border Patrol did its big
operation in Charlotte, prompting leftists to act like children throwing
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this yesterday, but do you think that maybe alerting all
of the criminal illegal aliens that CBP was operating and
where they were operating and taking pictures and videos of
them during their operations, do you think that maybe this alien,
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Donna says, Oh my lord, I cannot believe what this
jerk McFadden just said. A political move, that's where he
goes with this. Many of us have been outraged over
the murders of innocent people, regardless of their nationality, race,
or gender. This guy McFadden is completely out of touch
with the way normal, caring, concerned people think. Yeah, yeah,
some of us have been talking about the catch and
release turnstile court system that Mecklenburg County has been running
for decades. We've been talking about this for decades. I
covered it when I was a reporter twenty five years ago,
So this is this is not new. The passage of
Arena's law took effect on December first. At the press
conference yesterday at the Sheriff's office, Major Robert Abbey, who
oversees the arrest processing center, said he expects to see
an increase in delays in the processing center. He said,
the overcrowding then is going to make it more dangerous
for people that are brought in and they're told to
wait there. They have to wait for processing. So that's
going to be more dangerous because you've got people in
there that have beefs with each other or whatever. You
got a bunch of criminals going to criminal each other,
you know. But also for staff as well.
Speaker 3: We've actually noticed the increase since September after the event.
Looking at the trend lines of how many people will
we call booked is when they come through the entire
process and they actually get dressed in and taken upstairs
to the detention center. That's called being booked. A lot
of them before would get released by the magistrate. We
expect the mattresses not to release a lot of people
due to the law changes. Right, We're not gonna this
was before the law change. But six since the incident
of September, we've noticed about compared to last year, about
a ten percent increase every single month since September of
more people actually being booked and sent upstairs. So we're
already seeing that that trend increasing since September and the
law has only been in place for about a week.
Speaker 2: Well, now let's apply some logic to this situation, shall we.
I know, I know, but it's I kind of like
to do this, all right, So after the incident, he
keeps calling it the incident, it is the murder of
Arena Zarutzka. After that murder and then the you know,
international coverage that the story got, he said they started
seeing an uptick in the number of people being held.
Why he attributes it to the magistrates because the magistrates
now are worried. They're worried that because he and he
says in that clip, he says, where they would have
just turned people loose immediately, now they weren't doing that
so much. So that was even before Arena's law went
into effect. They started seeing the impact the public pressure,
the outrage influenced the way magistrates were ruling. So logic
would dictate then that this was in their discretion and
now they're taking a bit of a harder line on crime. Right.
But it raises the obvious question that I think this
is David Hodges. I couldn't I couldn't tell, but I
think it sounds like him from WBTV who asks the
obvious question. Since the mental health aspect of the law
hasn't taken effect, it won't take effect until next year,
and my usual of essentially what would cause somebody to
stay booked as opposed to where they were before.
Speaker 1: Is what's causing the biggest jail inflo infuts of people
simply magistrates afraid of releasing.
Speaker 2: The wrong people. Is it magistrates afraid of releasing the
wrong people? That's the obvious question. Is that what you're
seeing the increase due to? That's what Robert Abbey just said.
Major Abby just said.
Speaker 1: And someone just tell me if that's the case, I
don't think that we can Well, I'm going to say,
I don't think we can just put it on the mat.
And we're not going to just put it on the mats.
It's a system. It's a system. It's a system that
they are here. We have people in crisis. We don't
understand that. We have people been waiting to go to
trial for a number of reasons. Mental health is a
part of it. Poverty is a part of it. People
don't have the resources to actually bond their loved ones
out and places don't have to go. People are released
from Mecenburg. People are released from prison every week and
brought Tomcinburgh County. A couple of days ago, I met
a gentleman on the sidewalk and he needed a place
to go being out of prison after one year, we
set him to our resource center that give him all
the things that we could possibly give. But he is
still homeless inside of Macinburg County. Is he going to
commit a crime that likelihood? Yes? Why? Poverty, food, nutrition,
and housing, so he may do things just to feel comfortable,
and he will come inside our detention center and then
again it becomes a poverty issue where nobody can bond
him out and he remains here. Those are the things
that data may not show all the time.
Speaker 2: What the hell are you talking about? The question was
about whether or not the increase in the arrest processing
center that you have seen that Major Abby just said
was increasing like ten percent each month since the murder
of Arena Zarutzka. And the question is is that because
magistrates are now taking a harder line, are they afraid
of releasing a violent criminal and having something like this
happen again. And the obvious answer is, of course yes,
obviously yes, magistrates are worried that if they release the
people as they have been doing, they're going to end
up being tied to a case of another violent crime.
And McFadden then steps in, well, we don't want to
throw it all on the magistrates. It has to do
with poverty. And then he starts waxing about this story
about a prisoner who got released and now he's homeless whatever,
like that's got nothing to do with the increase of
ten percent at arrest processing. But it's a window into
his mindset. He's talking about poverty, that's the cause of incarceration.
It's poverty, when in fact, it's crime that drives up poverty.
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Mecklinburg County Sheriff Gary not my fault, McFadden, because nothing
is ever his fault. He's held a news conference yesterday
to further trash Arena's Law, named after Arena Zarutska, the
Ukrainian refugee murdered on the Charlotte light rail line about
almost four months ago. Another stabbing occurred Friday, but McFadden
last week went before the County Commissioners. We played that audio.
He was talking about all the unfunded mandates and all
of this, and we've been pointing out there is actually
another jail that's mothball in Mecklinburg County, and he's complaining
that he doesn't have the bedspace, he doesn't have enough
jail space for all of the people now that they're
going to have to hold for a longer period of time.
Yet they're you know, these are decisions that the Mecklenburg
Border County Commissioners, completely Democrat controlled, and the Democrat sheriff.
These are decisions they made to close the jail North,
to scrap the plans for the jail annex construction. Right,
these are their choices. It's also the choice of Mecklenburg
voters that keep putting not my fault McFadden back into office.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Voters will have an opportunity to vote him out this
coming election twenty twenty six. Don't know if they will.
I will attempt to vote in the Democrat primary again
to specifically vote against him, because the people who have
left his employee over the last seven years or eight
years almost they have described somebody who is completely unfit
to run that office. And every time I play these
audio clips that I've been doing it now for five years,
it just reinforces that he's unfit for the office. Constantly deflecting,
blaming other people, other systems, politicians, everybody is to blame
for whatever failures that exist at the Sheriff's office. The
lack of bedspace is a direct result of intentional decisions
that were made by McFadden and county officials. That's who
is to blame. Okay, Now, the guy who stabbed this
fella on the light rail on Friday does not appear
to have ever been in the Mecklamerg jail, so there's
no finger McFadden's fingerprints are not on this case. But
and he scheduled this news conference, I'm sure before the
guy was stabbed, and he did a and so I
think the purpose was to show local media through the
arrest processing center. But this is obviously a media campaign
that McFadden is waging in order to cry poor so
he can try to get funding out of the state
to beef up his staffing and to commit more resources
to Mecklinburg County Jail, even though Mecklinberg County Commissioners have
not funded it even to the point of government facilities
or parks and rec budgets. It's a lower priority for
Mecklinberg County commissioners and it has been for probably close
to twenty years. McFadden went on to say at this
press conference that the longer people stay in the jail,
the more inmates and families will be in crisis.
Speaker 1: People are going to stay longer. And when people stay longer,
they become agitated, and we become agitated, their families become agitated,
and then they call us with more demands, and then
that call has to be received by one of my
staff in the middle of another crisis. And so you
have to think about this. This is a facility that
have sixteen hundred people who have been in a crisis,
and they're probably going to remain in that crisis because
they are here and their family into a crisis. Holidays
bring crisis.
Speaker 2: Also, note the way he thinks of his residence at
the jail. It's not their fault. They're in crisis. That's
why they murdered that person allegedly. Right, this is a mindset.
This hooks into the suicidal empathy. Right, I feel so
much for you, And people wonder sometimes, like when I
say suicidal empathy, what am I talking about? It's a term.
I think it was coined by Gad Sad. That's his name.
He's a he's from Lebanon. He's a what is it
something hmmmm, anthropological psychologist or something like that. And he
equates it to for example, when you have a when
a culture elevates a certain principle or characteristic above all others.
And the example he used was honor in specifically the
Japanese culture. Right, and if you did something that brought
dishonor or shame to your cell or your family, then
you would kill yourself, right, people would commit hari kari.
And that's what happens when you elevate a certain principle
or trait above all others in a society that you
are literally willing to die for that trait, for that principle.
And the same then would apply here to empathy. And
when you elevate empathy to such a high level, then
you are willing to die commit suicide for that trait.
And he argues that's what we're seeing at a societal
level in the West. And I would submit this is
another example of it what McFadden is articulating. I'llbe it
very poorly, but that's the same thing. It's that these
people aren't really to blame. They were in crisis, so
we need to feel bad for them, even if it
means we get stabbed on the train. All right, that'll
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