September 8, 2025 | Rapid Response | Kiersten Pels

Roy Cooper & Josh Stein’s Soft-On-Crime Agenda Led To Brutal Murder

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Thanks to Democrat governance in North Carolina, 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska was murdered in a brutal stabbing on a light rail train in Charlotte.

In 2020, North Carolina's then-Attorney General Josh Stein as well as then-Governor Roy Cooper instituted a "Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice" which allowed this Charlotte attacker to be let out on the streets despite the fact that he had 13 prior arrests, including for armed robbery.

Thanks to these radical Democrats who wanted to “reimagine” safety, this innocent woman was violently killed by a criminal who should have been behind bars.
 


 

Democrat elected officials are creating unsafe “disaster” zones and sanctuaries for criminals as part of a dangerous, soft-on-crime agenda that includes:

Democrats are rejecting President Trump’s offer of help to end crime. Why are Democrats rooting against America?