December 4, 2025 • 13 mins
Buck breaks down the shocking broad-daylight attack on NYU student Amelia Lewis and the larger crisis of violent offenders being repeatedly released. He explains why Iryna's Law in North Carolina, which ends cashless bail for violent crimes, could be the model every state needs and how soft on crime policies are putting young women at risk on America’s streets and transit systems.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio act or
wherever you get your podcasts. What has to be done
for defenseless young women in America to be safe on
our streets, to be safe on our mass transportation in cities. Well,
(00:34):
IRENA's Law maybe a start. Before I get to IRENA's Law.
The reason I'm thinking about this is that law, of course,
but also this violent assault against this NYU student, Amelia Lewis.
She was walking down This is New York City. She
was walking down Broadway in New York. This is one
(00:55):
of the busiest streets in the world, one of the
most famous streets in the world, one of the busiest
streets in the world. Nine thirty am on a Monday when,
and it's all on videos you can see it. Some
maniac comes up. It's a white guy, long hair and beard,
comes up behind her, whacks her from behind, like kind
(01:18):
of on the on the butt as hard but as
hard as he can, and then grabs her by the
hair and pulls her to the ground. This is in
broad daylight. People everywhere, and no one does anything. You know,
there's there's a few things going. And first of all,
why does this hit home so much? Well, because it
(01:40):
turns out, does anyone again? Does anyone a guess? Is
this the first time? Was this guy just having a
bad day? Is this the first time that this lunatic
attacking woman? Now he's wanted on multiple previous assaults of
women things just like this. And I'm sure we could
get some ACLU attorney that tells us, Oh, but he's
really good at, you know, finger painting, and we shouldn't
(02:03):
lock him up. He's got a bright future if only
we understood him better or whatever. But this is a
guy who who does not deserve to be walking freely
in society. And it's cruelty to victims. It's cruelty to
young women like this, this slender NYU female co ed
(02:24):
who's walking down the streets. It's cruelty to them to
subject them to this kind of risk because the state
makes it. The state made a decision New York City
in this case, big s state or little less state depends.
But New York City made a decision here that they
(02:44):
were going to let this individual roam the streets because
he had had multiple contacts with law enforcement. He was
wanted on other things, but they kept letting him out.
You let him out, you let them out. And you know,
I understand in this case, the girl is she's really
shaken up. I mean, she put out a video on
social media about.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
This right before it all happened. So I circled where
I'm walking. I just crossed the street and I'm walking
down the right side of Broadway, and then you can
see that he literally followed me across the street and
that's him right there, and he literally targets me and
approaches me and does this.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
She's very shaken up. She's upset, understandably, and people might say, well,
you know she's okay, no serious injury. Yeah, but you
know this guy, let's say he pulled her, she fell
and hit her head and went slipped into a coma
and died. That kind of thing has happened. Even something
as straightforward as shoving, somebody can believe it or not,
(03:46):
can kill someone because they can fall back, hit their head, hemorrhage,
and they can die. That happens. And so what you
see is we have a society now, we have an
America where, because of leftist ideology, when it comes to
criminal justice, let's be clear. This guy in this case.
Often this is there's a racial element to this. Insofar
(04:08):
as Democrats are uncomfortable with how many black people in
America per capita are in prison for violent crimes, that's there.
They think that there must be something wrong with the system.
The other side of the argument is it is what
it is. You break the law, you hurt people, you
(04:29):
go to prison, and you know if they are far
fewer Amish than African Americans in prison per capita per capita,
very important. That's just the way it is. We have
to have law, we have to have order, we have
to have people protected from violent crime on the streets.
But in this case, it's a white guy who did it.
(04:51):
And I'm making the same argument because he was arrested
multiple times, because it's actually not about race at all.
The race is irrelevant. Race should be irrelevant to the
prosecution of criminal justice cases. It's do you break the law?
Are you a threat to public safety? Are you a
repeat offender? Are you at danger to others? You look
(05:12):
at that and if the answers are yes, you go
away to a cell. It is very kind of us
as a society. There are other places and other times
in not distant path and not the distant past, America
among them, but other countries as well, where you did
something like this and they just let mean, they just
execute you. Now, we give people health care and food
(05:33):
and a safe you know, and warm place to sleep
and live, but we get them out of the general
population because they're a risk to people in the general population.
And this is where we just have to have an
end to this madness, which will bring me to IRENA's
law here in a second. But our sponsor is Paradigm Press. Look,
(05:57):
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The world is changing very quickly, and politics and markets
have this effect on each other that you have to
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(06:18):
I hope you'll subscribe to our portfolio, which we publish.
It's this is now out there. People say portfolio has
done amazingly well this year of suggested investments that we have,
and that's just a fact. And we are pulling the
big stories out of politics in DC and applying it
to big moves in the markets, and so far it's
(06:41):
been phenomenal. I explain all the details of this, in
fact something that I'm calling Manhattan too, but it meant
like Manhattan Project too, not Manhattan so much the city.
I explain all these details in an interview that is
available for you to go watch. Go to offair twenty
five dot com to watch it. That's off Air twentyfive
dot com, paid for by Paradigm Press. Now, IRENA's law,
(07:08):
it went into effect today in North Carolina. And now
remember Irena was and we you know, you have this
video of it, which I think that one of the
big changes. As you know, I've been popularizing this for
a while, this idea that body cameras ended BLM. Essentially
(07:29):
that the BLM movement now they said, oh, we need
more body cameras on more cops. We can see all
the racism and all the excessive force. And a lot
of people say some of these cops should use more force.
Some of these cops are too slow to draw their
weapon actually, and I understand why they don't want to
get sued. They don't want to go to prison. But
body cams have changed the whole game. Surveillance cameras as well,
(07:51):
just in public places, show us the kinds of things
that are happening in this country far too often, and
who the perpetrators are, and so we're very aware of
the reality. People can say what they want about it,
but because of surveillance cameras which are omnipresent now in
public places, we are very aware of what's going on,
(08:11):
and that's why you have And it also makes it visceral,
makes it more real, makes it more honestly traumatic for
us because we can see this stuff now. And we
saw the stabbing of Irena and how vicious it was,
how I mean, unprovoked is not even the right word
(08:33):
for it. It's completely out of nowhere. Scirl was doing it,
had nothing to do with this guy, didn't even know
he was there. He just came up and just stabbed
her in the neck and she bled out there, and
for the first few minutes, no one did anything to
help her, no one even moved. She was white, everybody
around her was black. No one did a thing to
help her. We all saw it on the video. I'm
just describing. I'm describing what we saw on the video.
(08:55):
It is a description. And if descriptions of reality make
people uncomfortable. That's too bad, because we choose to live
not by lies. We choose to live in reality. And
that also means that we have to be realistic about
criminal justice laws and the way that they're applied. This's
(09:17):
why IRENA's law is a step in the right direction.
It eliminates cashless bail for a whole range of offenses
and violent offenses. There are certain now conditions for any
pre trial release, including GPS monitoring, and it's a step
in the right direction. Let's just see what the let's
(09:37):
to see how this is actually implemented. But if you
really hurt somebody without justification, meaning you know, you're not
justified in self defense or something. If you walk up
to a woman on the street and punch her in
the face and break her nose because you're a maniac,
you should sit in a cell until a judge decides
that you should go to prison for years. That's the truth.
(09:59):
That's the country we need to live in. I was
in Taiwan, as you know, in September and experienced effectively
a zero crime society. Essentially, there's some crime, but it's
so little that it can be safely and truly ignored.
We don't have to live this way. We don't have
to have maniacs attacking women in the streets, stabbing them
(10:21):
on the on light rail in North Carolina. We don't
have to live this way. We just have to have
the resolve to enforce laws and to have strong enough
laws and strong enough prosecution that these individuals are removed
from being the public safety threats that they are. I mean,
already you have some just some nonsense from some of
(10:43):
the sheriffs. Remember some I want to North Carolina. I
bet sheriffs are elected. I got to check and see
how it is in different states or different counties. But
you got some sheriffs saying, well, now because of all
the iceed attentions, now we have to hold people. We
can't do the iceed attentions, so we're overcrowded and all
this stuff. This is one of the complaints they have
about this. And I just say, okay, you know, if
(11:03):
you're gonna hold rapists and murderers and people that are
guilty of violent felony assaults longer, we'll figure out the
other part about ice, we'll get that going too. Just
hold them, okay, keep them from harming people. Do your job.
That would be a really nice, a really nice change. Yeah,
you had some sheriff heres ending in agreement with ICE
(11:27):
citing resource constraints. You know, it's just remarkable how instead
of wanting to be the solution, people just always want
to perpetuate the problem. They want to make things worse somehow.
There's a lot of reasons for it. It's kind of
just a loser mentality thing. But anyway, what's going on
(11:47):
in North Carolina with IRENA's law. This needs to be
the case in every American state, in every American county
and city, where if you're a violent offender, there's no
It's also the other thing to people, Oh what about
people who are innocent? You know, the last time somebody
was executed in North Carolina was two thousand and six,
been almost twenty years since anybody, anybody was executed North Carolina.
(12:08):
There was Oh, but what about people that are going
to prison who are innocent. We try to operate at
the highest levels of truth and accuracy and honesty in
the criminal justice system, but if perfection is going to
be the only acceptable outcome, we don't have a criminal
(12:29):
justice system. We have a fantasy that we're living in
or that we want to live in. It's never going
to happen. So just like if you've got to fight
a war, you do the best you can. You don't
kill civilians on purpose. But it's not going to be perfect.
Our criminal justice system is not going to be perfect either.
And with the lights going off in my face here,
I will call it, except for our sponsors, preborn Today.
(12:54):
Behind the news stories getting the headlines in our tension,
there's an ongoing quiet struggle in the minds of thousands
of women across the country what to do with an unplanned pregnancy.
So many things are pushing them toward abortion. But there's
one organization out there, one group doing everything they can
to save lives preborn. Preborn clinics are out there to
save babies lives, and they start this process with a
(13:14):
free ultrasound to introduce mom to her baby. Over three
hundred and fifty thousand babies have been saved in this way.
Please consider a twenty eight dollars a month donation. That's
the cost of an ultrasound. You could help save a
life every month this Christmas season. Is there a better
way to spend your money? Dial pound two five zero,
say the keyword baby. That's pound two five zero Say
(13:35):
the keyword baby. Or go to preborn dot com slash buck.
Preborn dot com slash Buck sponsored by Preborn. That's the show,
Shield sigh
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio act or
wherever you get your podcasts. What has to be done
for defenseless young women in America to be safe on
our streets, to be safe on our mass transportation in cities. Well,
(00:34):
IRENA's Law maybe a start. Before I get to IRENA's Law.
The reason I'm thinking about this is that law, of course,
but also this violent assault against this NYU student, Amelia Lewis.
She was walking down This is New York City. She
was walking down Broadway in New York. This is one
(00:55):
of the busiest streets in the world, one of the
most famous streets in the world, one of the busiest
streets in the world. Nine thirty am on a Monday when,
and it's all on videos you can see it. Some
maniac comes up. It's a white guy, long hair and beard,
comes up behind her, whacks her from behind, like kind
(01:18):
of on the on the butt as hard but as
hard as he can, and then grabs her by the
hair and pulls her to the ground. This is in
broad daylight. People everywhere, and no one does anything. You know,
there's there's a few things going. And first of all,
why does this hit home so much? Well, because it
(01:40):
turns out, does anyone again? Does anyone a guess? Is
this the first time? Was this guy just having a
bad day? Is this the first time that this lunatic
attacking woman? Now he's wanted on multiple previous assaults of
women things just like this. And I'm sure we could
get some ACLU attorney that tells us, Oh, but he's
really good at, you know, finger painting, and we shouldn't
(02:03):
lock him up. He's got a bright future if only
we understood him better or whatever. But this is a
guy who who does not deserve to be walking freely
in society. And it's cruelty to victims. It's cruelty to
young women like this, this slender NYU female co ed
(02:24):
who's walking down the streets. It's cruelty to them to
subject them to this kind of risk because the state
makes it. The state made a decision New York City
in this case, big s state or little less state depends.
But New York City made a decision here that they
(02:44):
were going to let this individual roam the streets because
he had had multiple contacts with law enforcement. He was
wanted on other things, but they kept letting him out.
You let him out, you let them out. And you know,
I understand in this case, the girl is she's really
shaken up. I mean, she put out a video on
social media about.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
This right before it all happened. So I circled where
I'm walking. I just crossed the street and I'm walking
down the right side of Broadway, and then you can
see that he literally followed me across the street and
that's him right there, and he literally targets me and
approaches me and does this.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
She's very shaken up. She's upset, understandably, and people might say, well,
you know she's okay, no serious injury. Yeah, but you
know this guy, let's say he pulled her, she fell
and hit her head and went slipped into a coma
and died. That kind of thing has happened. Even something
as straightforward as shoving, somebody can believe it or not,
(03:46):
can kill someone because they can fall back, hit their head, hemorrhage,
and they can die. That happens. And so what you
see is we have a society now, we have an
America where, because of leftist ideology, when it comes to
criminal justice, let's be clear. This guy in this case.
Often this is there's a racial element to this. Insofar
(04:08):
as Democrats are uncomfortable with how many black people in
America per capita are in prison for violent crimes, that's there.
They think that there must be something wrong with the system.
The other side of the argument is it is what
it is. You break the law, you hurt people, you
(04:29):
go to prison, and you know if they are far
fewer Amish than African Americans in prison per capita per capita,
very important. That's just the way it is. We have
to have law, we have to have order, we have
to have people protected from violent crime on the streets.
But in this case, it's a white guy who did it.
(04:51):
And I'm making the same argument because he was arrested
multiple times, because it's actually not about race at all.
The race is irrelevant. Race should be irrelevant to the
prosecution of criminal justice cases. It's do you break the law?
Are you a threat to public safety? Are you a
repeat offender? Are you at danger to others? You look
(05:12):
at that and if the answers are yes, you go
away to a cell. It is very kind of us
as a society. There are other places and other times
in not distant path and not the distant past, America
among them, but other countries as well, where you did
something like this and they just let mean, they just
execute you. Now, we give people health care and food
(05:33):
and a safe you know, and warm place to sleep
and live, but we get them out of the general
population because they're a risk to people in the general population.
And this is where we just have to have an
end to this madness, which will bring me to IRENA's
law here in a second. But our sponsor is Paradigm Press. Look,
(05:57):
I think that we are entering at once in a
century opportunity for mainStreet investors. This AI stuff is real.
The world is changing very quickly, and politics and markets
have this effect on each other that you have to
understand to be a savvy investor. This is why I've
launched a new e newsletter called Money and Power, which
(06:18):
I hope you'll subscribe to our portfolio, which we publish.
It's this is now out there. People say portfolio has
done amazingly well this year of suggested investments that we have,
and that's just a fact. And we are pulling the
big stories out of politics in DC and applying it
to big moves in the markets, and so far it's
(06:41):
been phenomenal. I explain all the details of this, in
fact something that I'm calling Manhattan too, but it meant
like Manhattan Project too, not Manhattan so much the city.
I explain all these details in an interview that is
available for you to go watch. Go to offair twenty
five dot com to watch it. That's off Air twentyfive
dot com, paid for by Paradigm Press. Now, IRENA's law,
(07:08):
it went into effect today in North Carolina. And now
remember Irena was and we you know, you have this
video of it, which I think that one of the
big changes. As you know, I've been popularizing this for
a while, this idea that body cameras ended BLM. Essentially
(07:29):
that the BLM movement now they said, oh, we need
more body cameras on more cops. We can see all
the racism and all the excessive force. And a lot
of people say some of these cops should use more force.
Some of these cops are too slow to draw their
weapon actually, and I understand why they don't want to
get sued. They don't want to go to prison. But
body cams have changed the whole game. Surveillance cameras as well,
(07:51):
just in public places, show us the kinds of things
that are happening in this country far too often, and
who the perpetrators are, and so we're very aware of
the reality. People can say what they want about it,
but because of surveillance cameras which are omnipresent now in
public places, we are very aware of what's going on,
(08:11):
and that's why you have And it also makes it visceral,
makes it more real, makes it more honestly traumatic for
us because we can see this stuff now. And we
saw the stabbing of Irena and how vicious it was,
how I mean, unprovoked is not even the right word
(08:33):
for it. It's completely out of nowhere. Scirl was doing it,
had nothing to do with this guy, didn't even know
he was there. He just came up and just stabbed
her in the neck and she bled out there, and
for the first few minutes, no one did anything to
help her, no one even moved. She was white, everybody
around her was black. No one did a thing to
help her. We all saw it on the video. I'm
just describing. I'm describing what we saw on the video.
(08:55):
It is a description. And if descriptions of reality make
people uncomfortable. That's too bad, because we choose to live
not by lies. We choose to live in reality. And
that also means that we have to be realistic about
criminal justice laws and the way that they're applied. This's
(09:17):
why IRENA's law is a step in the right direction.
It eliminates cashless bail for a whole range of offenses
and violent offenses. There are certain now conditions for any
pre trial release, including GPS monitoring, and it's a step
in the right direction. Let's just see what the let's
(09:37):
to see how this is actually implemented. But if you
really hurt somebody without justification, meaning you know, you're not
justified in self defense or something. If you walk up
to a woman on the street and punch her in
the face and break her nose because you're a maniac,
you should sit in a cell until a judge decides
that you should go to prison for years. That's the truth.
(09:59):
That's the country we need to live in. I was
in Taiwan, as you know, in September and experienced effectively
a zero crime society. Essentially, there's some crime, but it's
so little that it can be safely and truly ignored.
We don't have to live this way. We don't have
to have maniacs attacking women in the streets, stabbing them
(10:21):
on the on light rail in North Carolina. We don't
have to live this way. We just have to have
the resolve to enforce laws and to have strong enough
laws and strong enough prosecution that these individuals are removed
from being the public safety threats that they are. I mean,
already you have some just some nonsense from some of
(10:43):
the sheriffs. Remember some I want to North Carolina. I
bet sheriffs are elected. I got to check and see
how it is in different states or different counties. But
you got some sheriffs saying, well, now because of all
the iceed attentions, now we have to hold people. We
can't do the iceed attentions, so we're overcrowded and all
this stuff. This is one of the complaints they have
about this. And I just say, okay, you know, if
(11:03):
you're gonna hold rapists and murderers and people that are
guilty of violent felony assaults longer, we'll figure out the
other part about ice, we'll get that going too. Just
hold them, okay, keep them from harming people. Do your job.
That would be a really nice, a really nice change. Yeah,
you had some sheriff heres ending in agreement with ICE
(11:27):
citing resource constraints. You know, it's just remarkable how instead
of wanting to be the solution, people just always want
to perpetuate the problem. They want to make things worse somehow.
There's a lot of reasons for it. It's kind of
just a loser mentality thing. But anyway, what's going on
(11:47):
in North Carolina with IRENA's law. This needs to be
the case in every American state, in every American county
and city, where if you're a violent offender, there's no
It's also the other thing to people, Oh what about
people who are innocent? You know, the last time somebody
was executed in North Carolina was two thousand and six,
been almost twenty years since anybody, anybody was executed North Carolina.
(12:08):
There was Oh, but what about people that are going
to prison who are innocent. We try to operate at
the highest levels of truth and accuracy and honesty in
the criminal justice system, but if perfection is going to
be the only acceptable outcome, we don't have a criminal
(12:29):
justice system. We have a fantasy that we're living in
or that we want to live in. It's never going
to happen. So just like if you've got to fight
a war, you do the best you can. You don't
kill civilians on purpose. But it's not going to be perfect.
Our criminal justice system is not going to be perfect either.
And with the lights going off in my face here,
I will call it, except for our sponsors, preborn Today.
(12:54):
Behind the news stories getting the headlines in our tension,
there's an ongoing quiet struggle in the minds of thousands
of women across the country what to do with an unplanned pregnancy.
So many things are pushing them toward abortion. But there's
one organization out there, one group doing everything they can
to save lives preborn. Preborn clinics are out there to
save babies lives, and they start this process with a
(13:14):
free ultrasound to introduce mom to her baby. Over three
hundred and fifty thousand babies have been saved in this way.
Please consider a twenty eight dollars a month donation. That's
the cost of an ultrasound. You could help save a
life every month this Christmas season. Is there a better
way to spend your money? Dial pound two five zero,
say the keyword baby. That's pound two five zero Say
(13:35):
the keyword baby. Or go to preborn dot com slash buck.
Preborn dot com slash Buck sponsored by Preborn. That's the show,
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