The legacy media is attempting to deflect the backlash over its failure to report the murder of a Ukrainian refugee in North Carolina on Iryna Zarutska, the girl who died, instead of the black man who stabbed her to death.
CNN's Brian Stelter (pictured above) felt the urge to lecture about racism:
"Some of the comments around this story are baldly racist, stoking fear of African Americans because this man attacked a white woman," he said. "The open racism on sites like X today, it's eye popping."
He suggested the story only made national news because pro-Trump activists "succeeded in making this senseless death a symbol of big city crime" in MAGA's push for harsher punishments and more incarcerations.
Justine Brooke Murray, a media analyst with the Media Research Center, says people are understandably outraged that suspect DeCarlos Brown Jr was allowed to be on the streets after 14 previous arrests.
"The perpetrator even was caught on camera saying, 'I just killed the little white girl,' or something along the sorts," she notes. "It's only a hate crime when it is a black individual being killed, whether it's by a police officer or whether it's just someone defending themselves and other subway passengers on the subway like Daniel Penny was doing."
Murray is convinced the left-wing media believes white people deserve this.
"Legacy media outlets, including Brian Stelter, deep down really truly believe that any time a white woman is murdered by a black criminal or a minority criminal, that they asked for it because it's – quote, unquote – 'restorative justice' to them," she says.
Fox News reports Brown's many arrests included convictions for felony larceny and felony breaking and entering in 2013, and a 2015 conviction for robbery with a dangerous weapon that sent him to prison for more than six years. He was released in 2020 but remained on parole until 2021. Subsequent charges against him included communicating threats and misuse of the 911 system earlier this year.
In this case, Brown has been charged with first-degree murder and faces a federal charge of causing death on a mass transportation system, which carries up to life in prison or the death penalty.
