North Carolina Senate Republicans passed a bill called Iryna’s Law in honor of the Ukrainian refugee brutally murdered on a Charlotte light rail train last month , which proposes removing cashless bail for violent offenders among other changes to the state’s criminal justice system.

Iryna Zarutska, 23, was stabbed to death Aug. 22 as she took the city’s Blue Lynx Line train home from her job at a local pizza shop. Cops arrested Decarlos Brown Jr. , a deranged homeless man with a lengthy rap sheet, on a nearby station platform and have charged him with murder.

Brown, 34, a schizophrenic who was arrested at least 14 times prior to Zarutska’s killing, was free to roam the streets following a January arrest for a bogus 911 call on a “written promise” he would return for his next court da

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