Crime

The View Decries Attention Given to Charlotte Stabbing, Blame Trump
It took ABC’s The View till Wednesday, September 10 to finally address what many other liberal media shows had: the stabbing murder of Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail. The liberal ladies huffed about the attention the case was getting and how it highlighted how dangerous their Democratic crime policies were. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg even shouted a demand to “stop trying to…

VOX: Right's Vicious React to Kirk a Call for Authoritarian Repression
In a pathetic example of blame-shifting, Eric Levitz of Vox on Thursday afternoon used the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk to condemn the right for imperiling democracy in “The right’s vicious, ironic response to Charlie Kirk’s death -- They’re calling him a martyr for free speech as they demand a violent crackdown on progressive dissent.”

MSNBC Fuels Delegitimizing of National Guard, Refugee Murder Attention
The left-wing media continued to Trumpwash the horrific murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on Tuesday’s edition of The 11th Hour. MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle hosted a panel, including a segment on state-federal law enforcement cooperation and the recent stabbing in Charlotte with former Senator Doug Jones (D-AL), and the two of them griped about the kind of attention…

Ex-NBC Analyst: Trump Makes Lowering 'Insane Rhetoric' Harder
After conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot but before he was pronounced dead on Wednesday, former NBC and MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner declared on The Jim Acosta Show that we all have to tone down the “insane rhetoric,” but claimed that is hard to do because of President Trump’s crime crackdown in Washington, D.C.

ABC Slowly Backs Away From Horrific Charlotte Train Murder
The horrendous murder of Ukrainian refugee Irina Zarutska aboard a Charlotte, North Carolina light rail has taken a significant turn for the worse, with the release of video showing Zarutzka’s heartbreaking final moments. But the legacy media appear to be already running away from an inconvenient story.

WHAT?! CBS Analysts Pity NC Murder Suspect, Insist He Needed More Help
Tuesday’s CBS Morning Plus may have clinched the single dumbest and most tone-deaf segment on last month’s brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina by declaring the murder was proof of a “mental health crisis...within this country” and that America has failed to properly “invest in” and “rehabilitate” people like the alleged killer, DeCarlos Brown…

Legacy Newscasts Fret Over SCOTUS Ruling Allowing ICE Crackdown
In what has become a predictable and boring exercise, the legacy news media freak out over a Supreme Court action that puts a stop to activist obstruction of President Trump’s agenda. This time, on immigration, with the added bonus of a freakout over the president’s "Chipocalypse Now” meme.

Ghoulish: Media Make Charlotte Stabbing a ‘Republicans Pounce’ Story
The corporate media have finally been shamed into covering the brutal stabbing of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zaruska by a mentally ill black man in Charlotte, and predictably, they’ve turned it into a “Republicans pounce!” story. In between gasps of horror that the Trump administration has “seized on” the story, print outlets and TV talking heads have been hard at work identifying the…

Rep. Crockett: ‘Law Enforcement Isn’t to Prevent Crime‘
It’s not the job of law enforcement to prevent crimes from being committed, Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett declared in an interview.

Back to Omission: ABC, CBS Wave Goodbye to Covering Charlotte Murder
Despite having only each covered it once Monday, ABC and CBS were back Tuesday to ignoring video released in the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, omitting it from their flagship morning shows, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings. This return to a bias by omission came after Monday’s CBS Mornings broke the…

CNN’s Miller, Stelter Invoke Racism, Spending in NC Murder Coverage
On Monday afternoon’s CNN News Central, chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller and chief media analyst Brian Stelter offered two ridiculous reactions to last month’s brutal murder in Charlotte, North Carolina of a Ukrainian refugee allegedly at the hands of a thug with 14 prior arrests. For the latter, it was a lack of government-funded mental health care while the…

NewsBusters Podcast: Why Is 'News Judgment' Clouded by Racial Angst?
Horror bubbled up on social media over the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was randomly stabbed to death while riding the light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina, by a homeless man with an extensive criminal and mental health record. A young woman fled war in Ukraine only to find death in an American city. The liberal networks struggled to locate it.

NBC Trumpwashes Their Coverage of Brutal Charlotte Stabbing
And on the 17th day, the legacy media finally got around to reporting the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on board a Charlotte light rail. Rather than simply reporting the inconvenient story straight up, though, NBC saw fit to engage in a little Trumpwashing.

‘Chicago Braces’: PBS Sees City Afraid of Trump’s ‘Crackdown on Crime'
Sunday’s edition of PBS News Weekend led with the anchor and his guest blaming President Trump for using social media to lead to “heightened tensions” in Chicago before his promised crackdown on crime and illegal immigration in that high-crime city (as if the high murder rate and crime rate in general wasn’t stoking tensions before).