A violent stabbing in Charlotte's transit system is getting a lot of attention — all the way up to the Oval Office.

In a video posted online by the White House, President Trump held up a photograph of Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old refugee from Ukraine, moments before she was attacked by a stranger on the light-rail system in Charlotte, N.C. last month.

"A beautiful young girl," Trump said, "with a magnificent future in this country. And now she's dead. She was slaughtered by a deranged monster who was roaming free after 14 prior arrests."

Politicians and commentators on the right have seized on the deadly assault as a symbol of what's wrong with public transit. The numbers say that trains and buses are still overwhelmingly safe, but the nature of crime on public transit may be chang

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