In her response to the murder of Iryna Zaruska on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, the city’s mayor demonstrated the mindset that allowed the heinous act to happen in the first place.

The mayor, Vi Lyles, called the murder of the young Ukraine refugee woman, “a tragic situation that sheds light on problems with society safety nets related to mental health care.”

This is euphemistic prattle. What Lyles calls “a tragic situation” was a gruesome crime, and lack of “society safety nets” must be her way of admitting that Charlotte serially failed to confine a deranged repeat offender so he couldn’t continue to menace the public.

The alleged killer, Decarlos Brown , was schizophrenic. His mother reports that, after he gained release in 2020 from a five-year sentence for

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