'Democrat run cities, America’s killing fields' by Vincent

 
I have one question for the progressive left; please explain to the rest of us what it is you actually stand for?  If there’s anyone out there hoping for a coherent response, set on principles that reflect American values, you will be sorely disappointed.  Instead, you’ll find a political movement hell-bent on supporting a radical agenda filled with crime, and the promotion of violence in America’s communities.    
 
First and foremost, let’s focus on violent crime.  In Democrat run cities, we’ve seen a terrifying increase of these types of crimes in major U.S. cities.  They’ve traded order for chaos, and responsibility for radicalism, all the while cloaking themselves in a façade of progressive enlightenment.  One thing is certain, they’ve made it abundantly clear; they stand with the criminals, and they’ve declared war on civility.
 
On Friday, August 22^nd, 2025, Iryna Zarutska boarded a Charlotte, North Carolina metro train after a long day’s work.  Just minutes after sitting down, surveillance video captured 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr., a violent felon with numerous convictions, sadistically slashing the throat of the Ukrainian refugee.  Brown had a rap sheet longer than a yardstick and was on probation for robbery with a dangerous weapon and assault.  Just weeks earlier, Brown was released back onto the streets without bail by Judge Teresa Stokes, despite knowing his full criminal history.  Stokes is another radical progressive Democrat judge; and she’s the one responsible for unleashing Brown to prey on the innocent. 
       
Decarlos Brown is the progressive poster child for the Democrats criminal justice reform and cashless bail catastrophe.  Both he and Judge Stokes are complicit in killing the young vibrant Ukrainian refugee, who was able to escape the clutches of Vladimir Putin and the red army, but not the progressive Democrat policies that violently took her life.
 
These policies have wreaked havoc on civility across the country and forced the American people to fend for themselves both in the streets and on public transportation.  And just to be crystal clear, this heinous murder is not an isolated case; it’s part of a dangerous pattern emerging from every blue city that has embraced cashless bail policies and watered-down sentencing guidelines in the name of criminal justice reform. 
 
My heart breaks every time I think of this poor girl, arriving in America for a better life, fleeing persecution from communism, only to be viciously snuffed out by the blue city legal system that prioritizes criminals over victims.  It’s simply infuriating when you consider her tragic demise, simply because a judge decided to virtue signal, and release a violent criminal monster on an unsuspecting public tethered to public transportation.
 
However, we need to dig a little deeper though; it would be easy to pin the blame solely on a radical judge, her hands are certainly bloody.  But let’s not forget the role of the elected body and the voting public in these war zones.  Those that voted for these calamitous policies bear much of the blame, choosing ideology over accountably and public safety.  Their misguided compassion allowed another young lady to be publicly executed on a commuter train during rush hour. 
 
This career criminal had a history riddled with offenses that should have raised every red flag.  Yet, in the dominion of progressive ideals, those red flags are ignored as judges like this one, swayed only by ideology rather than public safety, wield their gavel like a magic wand, absolving criminals like Brown of their violent past.   
 
My hope is your starting to see a pattern emerging across America, because it’s coming to a Democrat-run city near you.  We are living in an era where progressive politicians tout their criminal justice reform as a victory for social equity, while conveniently ignoring the consequences of their policies, as the death toll continues to mount.  The grave reality is that lives are being lost, families shattered, and dreams brutally snuffed out.  When will someone hold these politicians and judges that championed these reckless policies responsible for the carnage they’ve created?
 
The evidence now shows, if Democrats stand for anything, it’s for the dismantling of the very fabric that holds America together.  Going forward, if Democrats ever hope to regain a modicum of humanity, they must disprove this assessment, because the body of evidence of their complicity lay bleeding on a dirty subway car floor.     

Editorial comments expressed in this column are the sole opinion of the writer.