Today is the one-year anniversary of Iryna Zarutska’s tragic stabbing at the hands of Roy Cooper’s career criminal, DeCarlos Brown, on the Charlotte Light Rail. Brown was one of at least 3,500 hardened criminals on Cooper’s early release list. At least half went on to reoffend after being released.
“Iryna Zarutska would still be here today if it wasn’t for Roy Cooper’s soft-on-crime policies that allowed career criminals like Brown to walk free. Cooper is too weak and too radical for North Carolina,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia.
But Cooper has refused to apologize for his soft-on-crime policies leading to Zarutska’s death. Don’t forget that it took Cooper weeks to say anything about Iryna’s stabbing.
Instead of protecting innocent people like Iryna, Cooper protects himself with armed private security.
Cooper’s soft-on-crime policies have made North Carolina less safe:
- Agreed to release thousands of criminals into North Carolina, including drug dealers, rapists, murderers, and child predators.
- Wants to implement the soft-on-crime policies his “Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice” championed like eliminating cash bail, a policy that helped secure the release of DeCarlos Brown, and wants to “reimagine public safety” (defund the police).
- Commuted the sentences of 15 convicted killers.
- Appointed soft-on-crime judges that let violent criminals roam free.
- Marched with defund the police radicals.
Reminder: Cooper’s soft-on-crime record continues to haunt his Senate bid, with new polling showing the race within the margin of error.