Who's Afraid of a Little Lawless Brutality?

"As public outrage about the brutal murder of Iryna Zarutska spread like wildfire throughout the country, President Donald Trump was greeted by protesters as he sat down to dinner at a restaurant not far from the White House. "Free DC, free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler of our time!" they shouted. Let's focus on just the first third of this chant for a moment: Free DC from what?"

"Zarutska's murder has finally gotten national media attention with the now-public full footage of her grisly slaying by Decarlos Brown Jr. Perhaps unsure of how to make a month-old crime in Charlotte seem new again, outlets have covered it as a "Republicans pounce" or MAGA nightmare-fuel story. But there's a pretty good argument that it is progressives and liberal-dominated media that is shoehorning this particular tragedy and crime in general into the paradigm of race and Trump."

"It is that Penny was vilified for attempting to prevent something like what happened to Zarutska while Brown stabbed this poor young Ukrainian woman to death. The context in which Penny and Brown ended up taking a human life was starkly different for reasons other than the " racial dynamics." The footage out of North Carolina makes it plain that she could have used a Daniel Penny."

Protesters outside a Washington restaurant chanted 'Free DC' to protest federal crime enforcement in the federal district. Washington, D.C. falls under federal jurisdiction, which enables federal crackdowns on crime. Full footage of Iryna Zarutska’s killing by Decarlos Brown Jr. brought renewed national attention to the case. Many outlets framed coverage as politically motivated 'Republicans pounce' or MAGA-focused narratives. Progressives and liberal media often interpret violent crimes through the prisms of race and opposition to President Trump. Coverage disparities between Zarutska’s killing and the Daniel Penny case stem from different contexts of the killings rather than solely racial dynamics.

Read at The American Conservative