August 26, 2025 • 34 mins
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Jensen dives deep into what he calls a disturbing pattern of silence and deflection from Charlotte city officials — especially Mayor Vi Lyles, who took four days to issue a public statement. He slams the response as tone-deaf, highlighting how it focused more on the mental health of the suspect than on the innocent victim who lost her life. Jensen calls out the mayor’s deflection, the city’s transit safety failures, and the media’s national attention on the case — all while Charlotte leaders remain mostly silent. From broken communication to broken policy
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hi, Oh, let's go I Oh, let's go, Oh, let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh. That's the Mother's Talk eleven there the day night,
Drea WBT. Bred Jensen here with you on this Tuesday
night edition. I'm breaking with Brett Jensen as we go
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(00:52):
me on exit. Bret underscore Jensen for all the letters
of breaking news in and around the shad area. Because uh, like,
I'm getting some stuff out there today that has gotten
a lot, a lot and a lot of views and
a lot of interaction. So and let's I talked a
little bit about it last night, but I really truly
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want to dive deeper into the horrible situation with the
young girl twenty three years old birthday from Ukraine gets
stabbed randomly on the light rail in South End.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Dies.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Okay, just so you know this particular story, have you
guys ever heard of Glenn Beck talking about it today?
Have you guys ever heard about the New York Daily
News talking about it today? Did story on it said,
a woman escapes missiles and bullets only to get stabbed
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in North Carolina, escapes me, whistles some bullets and war
in Ukraine, only to be here for like three or
four months. And of course it's in Charlotte. How come
you never hear about this in Raleigh? Somebody asked me today,
is Raleigh crime just as bad? It's like, oh god, no,
not even remotely close. They don't have the violence at
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the Wake County schools either, not even remotely close.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
So anyways, if.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
You remember, and we're gonna talk a little bit more
about the young lady in a little bit, but I
want to talk about the city's response more importantly, the
lack thereof Let's not forget that. Back in July there
was a mass shooting in Uptown and the only thing
to come out of the Uptown of the city council
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and the city leaders were trying to decide whether or
not it should be actually called a mass shooting. I think,
what six people were shot and they're well, but not
that we many people died.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Oh okay, that.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Was like the internal email. They were upset or at
least one person was upset that they were calling it
mass shooting. Okay, And so no one hears from Vye
Lyles for over a week or close to week, like
like five days. She goes to have this big signing
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that she's running for reelection, so all.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
The media are there.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And then everyone's talking about her reelection. And then I
dropped the giant bomb in the fish bowl and say,
we haven't heard a single thing from city leaders about
the mass shooting that took place over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
And she goes, well, I've been.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
In Washington, d C. And some of the city council
members have been on vacation. I was up in DC
with my grandchild. Cut us some slack. That was her
direct quote. Give us I think it was give us
some grace. That was her quote, give us some great.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Apparently phones and emails don't work in Washington DC. I mean,
I didn't know that you would thought that the infrastructure
would be better in Washington, DC. But apparently she couldn't
call like her PR person who's on call twenty four
to seven for her, not even joking, couldn't email. Her
phone apparently wasn't working because you know, they don't get
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cell service or internet service in Washington, DC. And then
she begrudgingly gave a statement, and then after that they're like, hey,
can we keep the questions to her reelection? And then today,
and I will tell you, Joe Bruno at WSOCTV has
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been doing an exceptional job on this story. He's been
doing great. I've been I generally don't retweet other reporters,
but I've been retweeting some of his stuff today and
he's been pestering vy Lyles. And guess what, four days
after the fact, she gave a statement only because Joe's
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been pestering her. So, hey, she improved it by a day.
Last time she went, I think she went five days
with the mass shooting.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
This time it only took four days.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Congratulations, nice job, nice job. A story that's literally making
national news. There's a reason why her nickname is no
show Viy, no show vibe. But I'm going to read
you her wonderful statement. I'm gonna read it to you
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first and foremost. My thoughts and prayers go out to
the young woman's family and friends. This is a tragic
situation that sheds light on problems with society, with society,
safety nets related to mental health care and the systems
that should be in place. You need to understand this
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entire statement is about the poor young man with mental
health that stabbed her. You need to understand this as
we come to understand what happened and why we must
look at the entire situation. Never mind that he's a
career criminal spent five years in the joint. While I
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do not know the specifics of the man's medical record,
what I have come to understand is that he was
he has long struggled with mental health and appears to
have suffered a crisis. No, you know who's suffered the crisis.
The woman that he's stabbed. That's who suffered the crisis.
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That's who suffered the crisis. This is unbelievable, all right.
This was the unfortunate and tragic outcome. No, no, No,
the unfortunate and tragic outcome wasn't him suffering a crisis.
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It was the young woman getting stabbed to death.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Period period.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
While there are questions about the safety and security of
our transit system and our city, I do know there
have been significant and sustained efforts to address safety and
security within our transit system and across our city.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Really, really, I've got a lot of police on the
light rails.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Do you do you require people to buy tickets that
they're supposed to do using the honor system to get
on the light rail?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You actually do that.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
You have turnstiles just so random crazed people can't just
get on there without buying a ticket, because they're not
going to buy a ticket.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Let's be honest, they're not. I continued.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Charlotte is, by and large a safe city. Cats by
and large is a safe transit system. However, tragic incidents
like these should force us to look at what we
are doing across our community to address root causes. We
will never arrest our way out. We will never arrest
our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health. Again,
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you're literally making excuses for the guy, making excuses nothing
about the young woman.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
So far.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
The only thing you've said about the woman is the
first sentence. That's all you've said. This is I tell
you this all the time. You want to govern like
you're in Baltimore, Saint Louis and Memphis, You're going to
get the same crime.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Anyways.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I am committed to doing the hard work with Mekenberg
County community leaders, healthcare service pro dividers, and the private
seenter to ensure that show it continues to be one
of the best cities in the world with the highest.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Quality of life for everyone.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Really, really, how many people will go walking uptown after
dark right now?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
How many by yourself a female? How many?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Why are you just now wanting to talk to community
leaders about safety? Why haven't you been doing this?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
You literally just said.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I am committed to doing the hard work with Mecklenburg
County community leaders, health care service providers.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
So you weren't committed before?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Is that what you're saying, because now you're committed, but
only because it's making national news.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So you weren't committed before. Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I want to be clear that I am not villainizing
those who struggle with mental health or those who are unhoused.
The word unhoused tells you they're a democrat. I don't
know I'm unhoused. Did you know that I don't have
a house in an apartment? I am unhoused. Anywhere can
be a home, Your car can be a home. Anything
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can be a home. There's only one thing that can
be a house, and that's a house. Anyone who uses
unhoused are the same people that say undocumented migrants, same
people just throwing that out there for you. Mental health
disease is just that, a disease like any other, that
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needs to be treated with the same compassion, diligence, and
commitment as cancer or heart disease. Our community must work
to address the underlying issue of access to mental health care. Also,
those who are unhoused once again, unhoused are far more
frequently the victim of crimes and not the perpetrators. Really, okay, right,
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Too many people who are not Too many people who
are on the street need a safe place to sleep
and wrap around services to lift them up. Is a
community must do better for those members who of our
community who need help and have no place to go.
She literally made excuses. The entire thing is about, Oh,
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the poor guy had an episode. That's what's tragic. No, no, no,
The tragedy is the woman who died twenty three years old,
Ben and Charlotte four months on the light rail in
South End. That's the tragedy. First and foremost. My thoughts
and prayers go out to the young woman's family and friends.
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That's literally all she says about the woman.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
That's the only thing she said about the woman. Everything
else is, Oh that poor guy who's been in and
out of jail a thousand times.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Oh that poor guy who's spent five years in jail.
All that poor guy.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Welcome back to breaking with Brad Jensen on this Tuesday night,
going up until going up until seven o'clock, seven four, five,
seven eleven ten. Okay, so Vilyles put out a very
tone deaf statement.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Just remember that.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Just just I mean, by the way she's now, just
so you knows, Charlotte has ever put out a thing.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Last yesterday actually.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Was as much as I ripped the Charlott Observer sideways
for all this stupidity.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
A lot of times.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
They actually put out a decent report yesterday about how
many people of the city can council elected officials, including
mayor villle oles, just don't show up for city council meetings.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Just don't show up and vile ailes as an excuse.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Was well, I'm trying to give them, you know, more
help or not, I'm trying to give them more experience
in running things by themselves.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Really, you didn't do that with Julie isl digit why
is that? Why is that? Mayor? I mean, I have
a couple of thoughts. You're not gonna like any of them.
You're not.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
As to why you didn't do that too, Julie isl
But yet here you are doing it for the current
city council because you apparently.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Don't want to be there anymore. But yet you're running
for reelection. Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Mayor vill Laws has attended less than half of the
zoning meetings delegating zoning responsibilities to mayor delegating the zone
any responsibilities to Mayor pro tem Dante Anderson. Lyyle stated
that her absences are strategic, allowing Anderson to gain experience
facilitating meetings. That is the biggest I like, I really
should be on serious XM right now, Like I in
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order to say the words that I want to say,
I really should be on serious XM right now. That is,
I just just just lies flat out, like did you
do that to Julie Eielt Again. I have my own
reasonings why you may be doing it now, and you're
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not gonna like any of them. You're not gonna like
any of the reasons. And there are quite a few
of them that I cannot say on air again, serious
exam would really need to be a place for me
to be right now, By the way, others the ones
that missed the most. Smudgie Mitchell, the fact that he
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even lives in shaw At his borderline a miracle because
he's never here. Yeah, of course he's running for reelection
because he wants that money.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Of course he is.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Don't do anything, hasn't done anything in four years.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
He's got to get that cash. Gotta get that cash.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Baby Ed Driggs, who has one of the strongest attendance records,
emphasize the importance of council members taking their commitments seriously
by showing up. Quote, my bottom line is if you're
not at the meeting, it better be for a good reason.
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I promise you there are not any good reasons for
Smudgie Mitchell or ylaws. You're literally the mayor of the
fourteenth biggest city in America who's got obviously violent problems,
and you can't be bothered to show up.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
That's good, that's good. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I would be stunned beyond belief if the FOP Fraternal
Order Police, the police union stunned if they endorsed Viylaus
who likes to do secret deals with Johnny Jennings and
take care of their own right, their buddies take care
of them.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
And oh, by the way.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I'm just not even gonna go to meetings. Oh and
then when there's a mass shooting, I'm not gonna give
a statement. Oh when there's something happening national news about
a young woman randomly attacked, I'm gonna make apologies and
excuses for the person that did it, as opposed to,
you know, talk about the young girl and what a
tragedy it is that she died. Instead, I'm gonna say
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it's a tragic tragedy that he had the episode, not
that she died, but he had a quote episode. Okay, okay,
So anyways, this is a welcome to Charlotte, ladies and gentlemen.
This what right here? This We are Baltimore, We are Memphis,
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we are Saint Louis, we are New Orleans, and we
are Detroit. That's who we are. And you keep electing
leaders like that, this is what you get. These are
the end results period. You want elected leaders like you
live in Baltimore, You're gonna get Baltimore results. Yeah, just
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just just look at those cities, just crime everything else, right,
just look at those cities. Okay, all right, when we
come back, we'll get into a couple other things. I
do want to talk about some possible safety to be
on the light rail if you actually want to have
safety because you can't afford you can't afford or you
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can't hire any more police officers. I mean, you can
afford it, but you haven't hired any more police officers.
So maybe there's something you can do, and we'll talk
about that when we return. Welcome back to breaking with
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Brett Jenson on this what was it Tuesday night? Yeah,
Tuesday night, seven, four, five, seven eleven ten. Brett Underscore
Jensen for other letters and breaking news in and.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Around the Charlotte area. Okay, so light rail, how many
people write it?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
They used to when it first came into existence, right,
And you would think more and more people are writing
it now because South End has blown up and South
End is South End, right, Millennial Row where everyone lives
and a lot of bars and restaurants and all the apartments. Right,
So you think get from one end to South End
to the other end of South End, you just took
the light rail, and so remember people used to take
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it to hornet games and concerts and panther games. So now,
like I said the other day, many people are actually
taking it from the intersection of South Boulevard and four
eighty five, which is the furthest south of the light
rail goes. How many people are actually taking that into
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uptown work every day? How many people are taking it
from UNCC into uptown for Friday or Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I can't expect it's a lot. I could be wrong,
But here's the problem. It's a massive loser. It has
to be financially.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It has to be because.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
They rely on the honor system. And this was always
the failure, the immense failure.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
From the beginning.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
And I don't know whose idea this was to do
it this way. I have no idea, but whoever did
it this way failed miserably, complete and utter failure. You
spend million and millions and millions of dollars building this thing,
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but basically you make it free transit because people get
on and off all the time without buying their ticket.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
They make you use the honor code.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Really, and not just Charlotte, in any major city, you
think the honor code is the way to go. Hell,
even if it were in Gastonia or Monroe, you think
the honor code system is going to work for people
buying their ticket?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Get out of here? What like seriously?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And what are the light rails being pulled by unicorns?
And rainbows are everywhere? Like what are we talking about?
So we'llever designed that like failed to no end. So
now here's what you should do. You want to make
the light rail safer, so not just anyone can get on,
because you don't have cops on.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
The light rail hardly at all.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Sometimes you do on big event nights and something like that,
like you might have a you know, an officer randomly
in one car, right, that happens.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I'm sure I've seen it. But you need to take
some money because.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I mean, you're you're voting on a billion dollar tax
for transportation.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Well, this is part of transportation.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You need to build high fences and turnstiles. So high
fences gates, and I don't mean four foot gates, I
mean like fifteen foot gates, twelve foot gates, ten foot gates,
like a wrought iron fence.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
So the only way you can get under the light
rail is.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Buying a ticket on the outside and then having it
scanned or whatever so the gate will open or the.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Turnstile or whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
They're usually like the rotating doors like this, these circular doors,
like you know, the the doors that go in circles
a lot of times, like at malls or whatever.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
You can do that.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
You can do that, and now that way you're actually
recouping money. You're actually bringing in money for the light rail,
more than you've ever had. And then that people who
can't or shouldn't be on the light rail won't be
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getting on there for free anymore, like homeless vagrants that
by Lyle said tragically had an episode. No, the woman died,
that was the tragedy. But thanks by for apologizing for
the criminal, Thank you for the career criminal, Thank you
for apologizing and making excuses for him. Nice job, by,
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nice job, inexcusable. So that is I think a solution.
Whether it's when I was in Ukraine, whether it's when
I was in Poland, Romania, whether it's when I was
in New York City, Washington DC, Chicago, Atlanta, wherever the
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SunRail down in South Florida. Guess what, you have to
buy a ticket and you have to go through turnstiles
and all that stuff, right, and most times they have
someone actually manning the turnstiles. Guess what, you could hire
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city employees.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
You could actually put people to work. I want to
talk about upward mobility by lyles.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Do that, Charlotte City Council, because you're all talk like,
actually do that. You say you're here for safety, by
the lials, you're just now saying, oh, I now wanted,
I'm now going to be dedicated to try and make
Charlotte safe.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
But we are safe city for the most part. Buy
in law. We're a safe city.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Okay, cousely make national news, but okay, anyways, that is
my plan or an idea to do that. Wrought iron fences,
make them tall ten feet and you have a turnstyle
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like a swinging door. You can have someone there watching it.
And the only way you can get through is when
you buy the ticket on the outside of the fence,
and then that way the only people that are supposed
to be on the light rail are those that actually
bought the ticket. Now, if some craze, homeless vagrant wants
to buy a ticket on the light rail, there's nothing
you can do. He or she have the ability to
get on the light rail just like anybody else. But
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at least you'll know that the odds of those people
being on the light rail are way down, way way down.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
So that's my solution.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
And like I said, the city, you hire these people
to work at the turnstiles. Guess what, all those extra
people buying tickets might actually pay for those people working
for the city at the turnstiles, like they do in
every other major metropolitan city in the country that have
subways or trolleys or trains.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
That's exactly how they do it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
So anyways, just my two cents on that. I thought
it occurred to me today.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Part of the.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Problem is you let all these vagrants, many of whom
are just flat out animals writing the light rail system,
just violent criminals or mentally deranged or homeless. How about
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you actually care for the paying custos to her? How
about that?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Just thought talking about direct you with Brett.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Jensen a few more minutes here on this Tuesday night,
becus we got about oh six and a half minutes ago,
all right, So here's something. Because Mayor var Lyles refused
to say the young woman's name that died and instead
focused her entire attention and statement on the guy that
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did the murder in basically making excuses for him, saying
that his episode that was the tragic situation, him having
a mental breakdown or mental episode.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
That was the tragedy.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Literally didn't mention the young woman at all, only said
one sentence, and the mayor just making all these excuses.
But I want to tell you a little bit about
the woman herself. And again, she is twenty three.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Years old, just moved to Charlotte a.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Few months ago, and Irena Zarutska, Irena Zarutska is her name,
and she was stabbed to death Friday night. She came
to Charlotte seeking peace and some new beginnings, to get
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away from her worn torn country, war torn country of Ukraine.
So you escaped the missiles and the bullets and the
utter sheer destruction. You come to America, and four months
later you're dead. You're stabbed to death on a train
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by just a horrible human being and a career criminal.
He's been charged with first degree murder by the way,
just so you know, but in North Carolina they don't
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do the death penalty. They do, but there's been issues
in lawsuits and everything else. So it's been on hold
for quite a while. So but the fact that she
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came here seeking refuge twenty three years old.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Beautiful woman, but her being pretty has nothing to do
with any of this. That has absolutely nothing to do
with any of this.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Just like.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
You know the woman that was in Lancaster County driving
to her family in rock Hill and was shot by
all these teenagers of illegal aliens. They were all illegal aliens.
They were all teenagers and a lot of what thirteen
years old, fourteen years old, sixteen years old, seventeen, eighteen,
twenty one, something like that. That was an equally horrific
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tragedy just randomly shot her because they thought, well, we'll
just car tracker. Literally could happen to anyone. But this
is Charlotte. This is your Charlotte now. And I say
that all the time, and I'm gonna keep pounding it
into your head. This is Charlotte the last six years.
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This is the norm. This is who we are as
a city. And people want to know why they don't
go uptown. This is why I think there were ten shootings.
I saw something today. There were ten shootings in the
month of July uptown. That's just uptown, so including.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
University, Betty's Ford, West Boulevard, Steele Creek, Matthews, Minhill, Huntersville, Davidson,
everywhere else, not including those places.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Valentine, I'm just talking uptown, Okay. There's someone that means
the world to me. And the other day they thought
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they had a meeting uptown and I said, I don't
like that, and it was gonna be at night, and
I said I don't like that. I said, I don't
like you parking in parking decks and then having to.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Walk to a particular place.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I don't like you having to walk back at night
to back to the parking deck. And I made them
promise that they wouldn't walk back to the parking deck
by themselves because it's uptown. Well then they found out
that it wasn't uptown. Thankfully, thank god, I told you
I don't go uptown. Sorry, Charlotte Bite's Charlotte Center business
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community can all get upset at me.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Don't care.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Tell that to your mayor and your city council. They
wanted more pander to the criminals and make excuses for them,
like viy Laws did today. And one of the worst
statements I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
From a politician.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
But this person's meeting was actually in South End, and
I said, I don't care if it isnt South End.
I want someone walking you to your car. I said,
look what happened Friday night. We're gonna happen Friday night
in South End just four ten pm, so a ton
of people are out and about and this happened. If
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you have loved ones, don't let them go outside by
themselves uptown. Don't just don't even go uptown. South End
safer but not completely safe. You better have the buddy system,
a mail with you, or a couple different females more
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than one telling you it's this is the new Charlotte.
This is who we are. Because this doesn't it's not
like this is a one off. This happens quite a bit.
Drive by shootings, sixteen year olds getting shot, twenty year
olds getting shot, innocently getting shot innotantly, getting stabbed on
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the public transit system.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
This is Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
This is who we are, and people don't like it.
Charlotte's a great city. There's a lot of great things. Okay,
name ten to fifteen things that's great about Charlotte that
everyone can do. Everyone the entire city. Anyone can do it.
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What Carolin's well, half of that's in North and South Carolina. Okay,
But again, this is Charlotte. And I hate to say
this because when I was growing up, I loved the city,
loved everything about it. But this is who we are now,
and it all starts with the elected officials.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
That's the city is Charlotte and its residents put in place.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
When you have a fellon on city council, that's all
you got to say. All right, everyone, when we tomorrow
look for I was gonna say when we return, but
we're not returning.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
We're returning tomorrow. TJ.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Ritchie's coming up next. But again until then, until tomorrow everyone.
My name is Brett Jensen, and you have been listening
to Breaking with Brett Jensen.
Hi, Oh, let's go I Oh, let's go, Oh, let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh. That's the Mother's Talk eleven there the day night,
Drea WBT. Bred Jensen here with you on this Tuesday
night edition. I'm breaking with Brett Jensen as we go
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me on exit. Bret underscore Jensen for all the letters
of breaking news in and around the shad area. Because uh, like,
I'm getting some stuff out there today that has gotten
a lot, a lot and a lot of views and
a lot of interaction. So and let's I talked a
little bit about it last night, but I really truly
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want to dive deeper into the horrible situation with the
young girl twenty three years old birthday from Ukraine gets
stabbed randomly on the light rail in South End.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Dies.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Okay, just so you know this particular story, have you
guys ever heard of Glenn Beck talking about it today?
Have you guys ever heard about the New York Daily
News talking about it today? Did story on it said,
a woman escapes missiles and bullets only to get stabbed
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in North Carolina, escapes me, whistles some bullets and war
in Ukraine, only to be here for like three or
four months. And of course it's in Charlotte. How come
you never hear about this in Raleigh? Somebody asked me today,
is Raleigh crime just as bad? It's like, oh god, no,
not even remotely close. They don't have the violence at
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the Wake County schools either, not even remotely close.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
So anyways, if.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
You remember, and we're gonna talk a little bit more
about the young lady in a little bit, but I
want to talk about the city's response more importantly, the
lack thereof Let's not forget that. Back in July there
was a mass shooting in Uptown and the only thing
to come out of the Uptown of the city council
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and the city leaders were trying to decide whether or
not it should be actually called a mass shooting. I think,
what six people were shot and they're well, but not
that we many people died.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Oh okay, that.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Was like the internal email. They were upset or at
least one person was upset that they were calling it
mass shooting. Okay, And so no one hears from Vye
Lyles for over a week or close to week, like
like five days. She goes to have this big signing
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that she's running for reelection, so all.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
The media are there.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And then everyone's talking about her reelection. And then I
dropped the giant bomb in the fish bowl and say,
we haven't heard a single thing from city leaders about
the mass shooting that took place over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
And she goes, well, I've been.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
In Washington, d C. And some of the city council
members have been on vacation. I was up in DC
with my grandchild. Cut us some slack. That was her
direct quote. Give us I think it was give us
some grace. That was her quote, give us some great.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Apparently phones and emails don't work in Washington DC. I mean,
I didn't know that you would thought that the infrastructure
would be better in Washington, DC. But apparently she couldn't
call like her PR person who's on call twenty four
to seven for her, not even joking, couldn't email. Her
phone apparently wasn't working because you know, they don't get
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cell service or internet service in Washington, DC. And then
she begrudgingly gave a statement, and then after that they're like, hey,
can we keep the questions to her reelection? And then today,
and I will tell you, Joe Bruno at WSOCTV has
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been doing an exceptional job on this story. He's been
doing great. I've been I generally don't retweet other reporters,
but I've been retweeting some of his stuff today and
he's been pestering vy Lyles. And guess what, four days
after the fact, she gave a statement only because Joe's
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been pestering her. So, hey, she improved it by a day.
Last time she went, I think she went five days
with the mass shooting.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
This time it only took four days.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Congratulations, nice job, nice job. A story that's literally making
national news. There's a reason why her nickname is no
show Viy, no show vibe. But I'm going to read
you her wonderful statement. I'm gonna read it to you
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first and foremost. My thoughts and prayers go out to
the young woman's family and friends. This is a tragic
situation that sheds light on problems with society, with society,
safety nets related to mental health care and the systems
that should be in place. You need to understand this
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entire statement is about the poor young man with mental
health that stabbed her. You need to understand this as
we come to understand what happened and why we must
look at the entire situation. Never mind that he's a
career criminal spent five years in the joint. While I
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do not know the specifics of the man's medical record,
what I have come to understand is that he was
he has long struggled with mental health and appears to
have suffered a crisis. No, you know who's suffered the crisis.
The woman that he's stabbed. That's who suffered the crisis.
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That's who suffered the crisis. This is unbelievable, all right.
This was the unfortunate and tragic outcome. No, no, No,
the unfortunate and tragic outcome wasn't him suffering a crisis.
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It was the young woman getting stabbed to death.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Period period.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
While there are questions about the safety and security of
our transit system and our city, I do know there
have been significant and sustained efforts to address safety and
security within our transit system and across our city.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Really, really, I've got a lot of police on the
light rails.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Do you do you require people to buy tickets that
they're supposed to do using the honor system to get
on the light rail?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You actually do that.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
You have turnstiles just so random crazed people can't just
get on there without buying a ticket, because they're not
going to buy a ticket.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Let's be honest, they're not. I continued.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Charlotte is, by and large a safe city. Cats by
and large is a safe transit system. However, tragic incidents
like these should force us to look at what we
are doing across our community to address root causes. We
will never arrest our way out. We will never arrest
our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health. Again,
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you're literally making excuses for the guy, making excuses nothing
about the young woman.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
So far.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
The only thing you've said about the woman is the
first sentence. That's all you've said. This is I tell
you this all the time. You want to govern like
you're in Baltimore, Saint Louis and Memphis, You're going to
get the same crime.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Anyways.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I am committed to doing the hard work with Mekenberg
County community leaders, healthcare service pro dividers, and the private
seenter to ensure that show it continues to be one
of the best cities in the world with the highest.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Quality of life for everyone.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Really, really, how many people will go walking uptown after
dark right now?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
How many by yourself a female? How many?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Why are you just now wanting to talk to community
leaders about safety? Why haven't you been doing this?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
You literally just said.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I am committed to doing the hard work with Mecklenburg
County community leaders, health care service providers.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
So you weren't committed before?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Is that what you're saying, because now you're committed, but
only because it's making national news.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So you weren't committed before. Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I want to be clear that I am not villainizing
those who struggle with mental health or those who are unhoused.
The word unhoused tells you they're a democrat. I don't
know I'm unhoused. Did you know that I don't have
a house in an apartment? I am unhoused. Anywhere can
be a home, Your car can be a home. Anything
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can be a home. There's only one thing that can
be a house, and that's a house. Anyone who uses
unhoused are the same people that say undocumented migrants, same
people just throwing that out there for you. Mental health
disease is just that, a disease like any other, that
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needs to be treated with the same compassion, diligence, and
commitment as cancer or heart disease. Our community must work
to address the underlying issue of access to mental health care. Also,
those who are unhoused once again, unhoused are far more
frequently the victim of crimes and not the perpetrators. Really, okay, right,
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Too many people who are not Too many people who
are on the street need a safe place to sleep
and wrap around services to lift them up. Is a
community must do better for those members who of our
community who need help and have no place to go.
She literally made excuses. The entire thing is about, Oh,
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the poor guy had an episode. That's what's tragic. No, no, no,
The tragedy is the woman who died twenty three years old,
Ben and Charlotte four months on the light rail in
South End. That's the tragedy. First and foremost. My thoughts
and prayers go out to the young woman's family and friends.
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That's literally all she says about the woman.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
That's the only thing she said about the woman. Everything
else is, Oh that poor guy who's been in and
out of jail a thousand times.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Oh that poor guy who's spent five years in jail.
All that poor guy.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Welcome back to breaking with Brad Jensen on this Tuesday night,
going up until going up until seven o'clock, seven four, five,
seven eleven ten. Okay, so Vilyles put out a very
tone deaf statement.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Just remember that.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Just just I mean, by the way she's now, just
so you knows, Charlotte has ever put out a thing.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Last yesterday actually.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Was as much as I ripped the Charlott Observer sideways
for all this stupidity.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
A lot of times.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
They actually put out a decent report yesterday about how
many people of the city can council elected officials, including
mayor villle oles, just don't show up for city council meetings.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Just don't show up and vile ailes as an excuse.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Was well, I'm trying to give them, you know, more
help or not, I'm trying to give them more experience
in running things by themselves.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Really, you didn't do that with Julie isl digit why
is that? Why is that? Mayor? I mean, I have
a couple of thoughts. You're not gonna like any of them.
You're not.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
As to why you didn't do that too, Julie isl
But yet here you are doing it for the current
city council because you apparently.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Don't want to be there anymore. But yet you're running
for reelection. Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Mayor vill Laws has attended less than half of the
zoning meetings delegating zoning responsibilities to mayor delegating the zone
any responsibilities to Mayor pro tem Dante Anderson. Lyyle stated
that her absences are strategic, allowing Anderson to gain experience
facilitating meetings. That is the biggest I like, I really
should be on serious XM right now, Like I in
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order to say the words that I want to say,
I really should be on serious XM right now. That is,
I just just just lies flat out, like did you
do that to Julie Eielt Again. I have my own
reasonings why you may be doing it now, and you're
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not gonna like any of them. You're not gonna like
any of the reasons. And there are quite a few
of them that I cannot say on air again, serious
exam would really need to be a place for me
to be right now, By the way, others the ones
that missed the most. Smudgie Mitchell, the fact that he
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even lives in shaw At his borderline a miracle because
he's never here. Yeah, of course he's running for reelection
because he wants that money.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Of course he is.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Don't do anything, hasn't done anything in four years.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
He's got to get that cash. Gotta get that cash.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Baby Ed Driggs, who has one of the strongest attendance records,
emphasize the importance of council members taking their commitments seriously
by showing up. Quote, my bottom line is if you're
not at the meeting, it better be for a good reason.
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I promise you there are not any good reasons for
Smudgie Mitchell or ylaws. You're literally the mayor of the
fourteenth biggest city in America who's got obviously violent problems,
and you can't be bothered to show up.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
That's good, that's good. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I would be stunned beyond belief if the FOP Fraternal
Order Police, the police union stunned if they endorsed Viylaus
who likes to do secret deals with Johnny Jennings and
take care of their own right, their buddies take care
of them.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
And oh, by the way.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I'm just not even gonna go to meetings. Oh and
then when there's a mass shooting, I'm not gonna give
a statement. Oh when there's something happening national news about
a young woman randomly attacked, I'm gonna make apologies and
excuses for the person that did it, as opposed to,
you know, talk about the young girl and what a
tragedy it is that she died. Instead, I'm gonna say
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it's a tragic tragedy that he had the episode, not
that she died, but he had a quote episode. Okay, okay,
So anyways, this is a welcome to Charlotte, ladies and gentlemen.
This what right here? This We are Baltimore, We are Memphis,
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we are Saint Louis, we are New Orleans, and we
are Detroit. That's who we are. And you keep electing
leaders like that, this is what you get. These are
the end results period. You want elected leaders like you
live in Baltimore, You're gonna get Baltimore results. Yeah, just
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just just look at those cities, just crime everything else, right,
just look at those cities. Okay, all right, when we
come back, we'll get into a couple other things. I
do want to talk about some possible safety to be
on the light rail if you actually want to have
safety because you can't afford you can't afford or you
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can't hire any more police officers. I mean, you can
afford it, but you haven't hired any more police officers.
So maybe there's something you can do, and we'll talk
about that when we return. Welcome back to breaking with
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Brett Jenson on this what was it Tuesday night? Yeah,
Tuesday night, seven, four, five, seven eleven ten. Brett Underscore
Jensen for other letters and breaking news in and.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Around the Charlotte area. Okay, so light rail, how many
people write it?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
They used to when it first came into existence, right,
And you would think more and more people are writing
it now because South End has blown up and South
End is South End, right, Millennial Row where everyone lives
and a lot of bars and restaurants and all the apartments. Right,
So you think get from one end to South End
to the other end of South End, you just took
the light rail, and so remember people used to take
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it to hornet games and concerts and panther games. So now,
like I said the other day, many people are actually
taking it from the intersection of South Boulevard and four
eighty five, which is the furthest south of the light
rail goes. How many people are actually taking that into
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uptown work every day? How many people are taking it
from UNCC into uptown for Friday or Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I can't expect it's a lot. I could be wrong,
But here's the problem. It's a massive loser. It has
to be financially.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It has to be because.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
They rely on the honor system. And this was always
the failure, the immense failure.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
From the beginning.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
And I don't know whose idea this was to do
it this way. I have no idea, but whoever did
it this way failed miserably, complete and utter failure. You
spend million and millions and millions of dollars building this thing,
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but basically you make it free transit because people get
on and off all the time without buying their ticket.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
They make you use the honor code.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Really, and not just Charlotte, in any major city, you
think the honor code is the way to go. Hell,
even if it were in Gastonia or Monroe, you think
the honor code system is going to work for people
buying their ticket?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Get out of here? What like seriously?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And what are the light rails being pulled by unicorns?
And rainbows are everywhere? Like what are we talking about?
So we'llever designed that like failed to no end. So
now here's what you should do. You want to make
the light rail safer, so not just anyone can get on,
because you don't have cops on.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
The light rail hardly at all.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Sometimes you do on big event nights and something like that,
like you might have a you know, an officer randomly
in one car, right, that happens.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I'm sure I've seen it. But you need to take
some money because.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I mean, you're you're voting on a billion dollar tax
for transportation.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Well, this is part of transportation.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You need to build high fences and turnstiles. So high
fences gates, and I don't mean four foot gates, I
mean like fifteen foot gates, twelve foot gates, ten foot gates,
like a wrought iron fence.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
So the only way you can get under the light
rail is.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Buying a ticket on the outside and then having it
scanned or whatever so the gate will open or the.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Turnstile or whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
They're usually like the rotating doors like this, these circular doors,
like you know, the the doors that go in circles
a lot of times, like at malls or whatever.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
You can do that.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
You can do that, and now that way you're actually
recouping money. You're actually bringing in money for the light rail,
more than you've ever had. And then that people who
can't or shouldn't be on the light rail won't be
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getting on there for free anymore, like homeless vagrants that
by Lyle said tragically had an episode. No, the woman died,
that was the tragedy. But thanks by for apologizing for
the criminal, Thank you for the career criminal, Thank you
for apologizing and making excuses for him. Nice job, by,
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nice job, inexcusable. So that is I think a solution.
Whether it's when I was in Ukraine, whether it's when
I was in Poland, Romania, whether it's when I was
in New York City, Washington DC, Chicago, Atlanta, wherever the
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SunRail down in South Florida. Guess what, you have to
buy a ticket and you have to go through turnstiles
and all that stuff, right, and most times they have
someone actually manning the turnstiles. Guess what, you could hire
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city employees.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
You could actually put people to work. I want to
talk about upward mobility by lyles.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Do that, Charlotte City Council, because you're all talk like,
actually do that. You say you're here for safety, by
the lials, you're just now saying, oh, I now wanted,
I'm now going to be dedicated to try and make
Charlotte safe.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
But we are safe city for the most part. Buy
in law. We're a safe city.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Okay, cousely make national news, but okay, anyways, that is
my plan or an idea to do that. Wrought iron fences,
make them tall ten feet and you have a turnstyle
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like a swinging door. You can have someone there watching it.
And the only way you can get through is when
you buy the ticket on the outside of the fence,
and then that way the only people that are supposed
to be on the light rail are those that actually
bought the ticket. Now, if some craze, homeless vagrant wants
to buy a ticket on the light rail, there's nothing
you can do. He or she have the ability to
get on the light rail just like anybody else. But
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at least you'll know that the odds of those people
being on the light rail are way down, way way down.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
So that's my solution.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
And like I said, the city, you hire these people
to work at the turnstiles. Guess what, all those extra
people buying tickets might actually pay for those people working
for the city at the turnstiles, like they do in
every other major metropolitan city in the country that have
subways or trolleys or trains.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
That's exactly how they do it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
So anyways, just my two cents on that. I thought
it occurred to me today.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Part of the.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Problem is you let all these vagrants, many of whom
are just flat out animals writing the light rail system,
just violent criminals or mentally deranged or homeless. How about
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you actually care for the paying custos to her? How
about that?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Just thought talking about direct you with Brett.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Jensen a few more minutes here on this Tuesday night,
becus we got about oh six and a half minutes ago,
all right, So here's something. Because Mayor var Lyles refused
to say the young woman's name that died and instead
focused her entire attention and statement on the guy that
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did the murder in basically making excuses for him, saying
that his episode that was the tragic situation, him having
a mental breakdown or mental episode.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
That was the tragedy.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Literally didn't mention the young woman at all, only said
one sentence, and the mayor just making all these excuses.
But I want to tell you a little bit about
the woman herself. And again, she is twenty three.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Years old, just moved to Charlotte a.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Few months ago, and Irena Zarutska, Irena Zarutska is her name,
and she was stabbed to death Friday night. She came
to Charlotte seeking peace and some new beginnings, to get
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away from her worn torn country, war torn country of Ukraine.
So you escaped the missiles and the bullets and the
utter sheer destruction. You come to America, and four months
later you're dead. You're stabbed to death on a train
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by just a horrible human being and a career criminal.
He's been charged with first degree murder by the way,
just so you know, but in North Carolina they don't
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do the death penalty. They do, but there's been issues
in lawsuits and everything else. So it's been on hold
for quite a while. So but the fact that she
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came here seeking refuge twenty three years old.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Beautiful woman, but her being pretty has nothing to do
with any of this. That has absolutely nothing to do
with any of this.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Just like.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
You know the woman that was in Lancaster County driving
to her family in rock Hill and was shot by
all these teenagers of illegal aliens. They were all illegal aliens.
They were all teenagers and a lot of what thirteen
years old, fourteen years old, sixteen years old, seventeen, eighteen,
twenty one, something like that. That was an equally horrific
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tragedy just randomly shot her because they thought, well, we'll
just car tracker. Literally could happen to anyone. But this
is Charlotte. This is your Charlotte now. And I say
that all the time, and I'm gonna keep pounding it
into your head. This is Charlotte the last six years.
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This is the norm. This is who we are as
a city. And people want to know why they don't
go uptown. This is why I think there were ten shootings.
I saw something today. There were ten shootings in the
month of July uptown. That's just uptown, so including.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
University, Betty's Ford, West Boulevard, Steele Creek, Matthews, Minhill, Huntersville, Davidson,
everywhere else, not including those places.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Valentine, I'm just talking uptown, Okay. There's someone that means
the world to me. And the other day they thought
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they had a meeting uptown and I said, I don't
like that, and it was gonna be at night, and
I said I don't like that. I said, I don't
like you parking in parking decks and then having to.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Walk to a particular place.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I don't like you having to walk back at night
to back to the parking deck. And I made them
promise that they wouldn't walk back to the parking deck
by themselves because it's uptown. Well then they found out
that it wasn't uptown. Thankfully, thank god, I told you
I don't go uptown. Sorry, Charlotte Bite's Charlotte Center business
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community can all get upset at me.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Don't care.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Tell that to your mayor and your city council. They
wanted more pander to the criminals and make excuses for them,
like viy Laws did today. And one of the worst
statements I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
From a politician.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
But this person's meeting was actually in South End, and
I said, I don't care if it isnt South End.
I want someone walking you to your car. I said,
look what happened Friday night. We're gonna happen Friday night
in South End just four ten pm, so a ton
of people are out and about and this happened. If
(32:27):
you have loved ones, don't let them go outside by
themselves uptown. Don't just don't even go uptown. South End
safer but not completely safe. You better have the buddy system,
a mail with you, or a couple different females more
(32:47):
than one telling you it's this is the new Charlotte.
This is who we are. Because this doesn't it's not
like this is a one off. This happens quite a bit.
Drive by shootings, sixteen year olds getting shot, twenty year
olds getting shot, innocently getting shot innotantly, getting stabbed on
(33:12):
the public transit system.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
This is Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
This is who we are, and people don't like it.
Charlotte's a great city. There's a lot of great things. Okay,
name ten to fifteen things that's great about Charlotte that
everyone can do. Everyone the entire city. Anyone can do it.
(33:38):
What Carolin's well, half of that's in North and South Carolina. Okay,
But again, this is Charlotte. And I hate to say
this because when I was growing up, I loved the city,
loved everything about it. But this is who we are now,
and it all starts with the elected officials.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
That's the city is Charlotte and its residents put in place.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
When you have a fellon on city council, that's all
you got to say. All right, everyone, when we tomorrow
look for I was gonna say when we return, but
we're not returning.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
We're returning tomorrow. TJ.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Ritchie's coming up next. But again until then, until tomorrow everyone.
My name is Brett Jensen, and you have been listening
to Breaking with Brett Jensen.
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