September 8, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show delivers a powerful and emotionally charged breakdown of one of the most disturbing crime stories in recent memory: the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail train. Buck Sexton, hosting solo while Clay Travis is off for the day, leads with this tragic incident, emphasizing its significance as a national story that mainstream media outlets have largely ignored.
The segment opens with commentary on President Donald Trump's remarks at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., where he addressed the Charlotte stabbing and broader issues of violent crime in Democrat-run cities. Buck highlights the systemic failures that allowed the alleged killer, Decarlos Brown Jr. —a career criminal with 13 prior arrests—to remain free despite repeated offenses, including assaults on women. The show critiques progressive criminal justice policies, particularly no-cash bail and leniency toward repeat offenders, arguing that these policies directly contribute to rising urban crime rates.
Throughout the hour, Buck contrasts the media's silence on this case with its past coverage of racially charged incidents like the Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown cases. He accuses outlets like The New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN of selectively amplifying stories that fit a left-wing narrative while ignoring crimes that challenge their ideological framework. The show also explores the role of social justice ideology in undermining law enforcement and public safety, citing examples of judges and prosecutors who prioritize restorative justice over accountability.
Listeners are encouraged to consider the broader implications of unchecked crime, the erosion of law and order, and the politicization of the justice system. Buck calls for renewed support for police, tougher sentencing for repeat offenders, and even judicial accountability through impeachment where warranted.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody. Monday edition of the Clay Travis end Buck
Sexton Show kicks off right now. Clay off today, He'll
be back tomorrow, but he sends you all, of course
his regards, and we have a lot to dive into today,
my friends. We have some big stories coming in from
over the weekend. We have Trump speaking this morning at
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the Museum of the Bible in d C. Coole Museum.
I was there actually many years ago. Interesting place. We
have that to discuss. We've got some stuff from the
legal front here, Trump's appeal for the EG and Carol lawsuit.
I'll tell you about that. Some fascinating data out of
the NBC News World about gen Z that you are
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going to want to hear because you know that is
the future in a sense. Those are people eighteen to
twenty nine years old. And also I'll give you some
thoughts on the US Open from over the weekend. But
let's just dive right into it. By far, the biggest
story in America right now for at least half the
country is because the other half is trying to ignore
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it desperately, desperately. Is this absolutely horrific video that has
been released of a refugee from Ukraine, Irena Zarutska. She
was on August twenty second on the Charlotte light rail line.
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She's twenty three years old. She's a lovely young woman.
There's a video of her. She was showing up as
a refugee working, I believe, at a subway, trying to
just support herself, trying to do things the right way.
Fled a war and was viciously brutally stabbed to death
for absolutely no reason other than the evil and maliciousness
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malevolence of an individual. Carlos browns now in custody, and
we need to talk about this. First of all, there's
many layers to get into here. I just want to
say people are waking up and the countries had enough.
The countries had enough of We're going to refuse to
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prosecute in a serious way. We're going to refuse to
clean up the streets. We're going to allow people to
be murdered, raped, robbed because we lack the political will
to do something about it. We all know what must
be done. It could not be more clear, and I'll
walk you through in this case, it could not have
been more clear. But there are social justice angles. There
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are racial angles. There are components here that push the
Democrat Party, push the left to make us all suffer
in our cities and just in general, from crime that
is preventable and that should have been in this case, prevented.
The authorities failed this young woman, and the video that
has been released of this attack from a few weeks
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ago is haunting. I've had people texting me from over
the weekend. They're all just saying, have you seen this?
I'm sick to my stomach. Have you seen what happened
to this beautiful young woman? Because this vile psycho murdered her,
and he was a career criminal. It was known that
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he was a risk to the public. It was known
that this guy was going to continue to offend. But
a judge saw him recently and decided, let's just give
him a fifteenth chance. No more fifteenth chances. Maybe we
could start with that, no matter what the race, no
matter what the gender, no matter what the creed of
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the individual may be, no more fifteenth chances. Can we
all agree with that? I know you can, But a
lot of Democrats, a lot of Democrats seem to think
that social justice, racial justice means no accountability for criminals
who are repeat offenders over and over and over again,
and people have had enough. In fact, President Trump this
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morning spoke about this at the Museum of the Bible.
Listen to what our president had to say. Play one.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I just give my love and hope to the family
of the young woman who was stabbed this morning or
last night in Charlotte by a madman.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
A lunatic just got up and started.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It's right on the tape, not really watchable because it's
so horrible, but just viciously stabs she's just sitting there.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So they are evil people.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
We have to be able to handle that.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
If we don't handle that, we don't have a country.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Among the most heinous and terrifying footages of a murder
committed I've ever seen, and this is in the era
where we have more video, more bodycam, more footage of
who's doing this stuff than we ever have before. So
we can all see and thanks to X and yes,
thank you Elon Musk, this circulates freely. Why is that
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so important in this case? Do you want to guess
how many stories this is the number one story on
Fox News. This is the number one story that I
am leading with today on this program on five hundred
and sixty radio stations across the country. Do you want
to guess how many stories there are in the New
York Times about this, about this footage that has gone
absolutely viral. Again, horrifying footage, but people should see it.
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By the way they cut out the actual vibe. They
stop right as the knife is about to plunge into
or neck. They have that footage too, they didn't release that.
We all know how grotesque this situation is. We all
know how horrific it was. This young woman sitting there
in abject horror and terror as she is being really
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murdered on a train with other people around by this
maniac because she sat in front of him. She fled
a war zone and thought I'll be safe in America.
But because of social justice process couters, because of this
left wing idea that social justice and racial justice equals
soft on crime. Because of that, she is dead. Because
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of that, she is no longer with us. It is
a stain on this country that we would bring a
refugee in, a true refugee from the war right, not
a fake refugee like Biden was bringing in by the millions.
Someone who fled a warzone and is murdered brutally on
a subway train. This is a huge story because it
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hits home for so many people, because we don't want
to be afraid on light rail, and we increasingly in
these Democrat run cities with Democrat prosecutors and Democrats in
the at the top of the police department. Democrats as
mayors who view part of their role as trying to
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offset the crime statistics. Who's doing the crimes, well, we
have to make sure we treat them less harshly because
it looked bad to us as Democrats. No, I think
we should just punish whoever's doing the crimes as severely
as we can for the severe offenses that they are committing.
And this then brings me to the coverage of this incident.
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I want to get into the criminal justice component of
this some more because Trump is right on all of this.
He is right about what he's doing in DC. He's
right when he says he should go into Chicago. We
actually don't have to live this way. And I remember
what it was like. I remember what it was like
in New York when the choice had been made in
the nineties we were going to live this way. That
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There are going to be people who are committing crimes
over and over again that we're going to be praying,
acting in a predatory fashion against their fellow human beings,
without consequence and without accountability. Why because it's society's fault.
Society failed them, or it was a history of prejudice
or a history of injustice, or who knows, who knows.
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Maybe if we had just legalized drugs, it would have
all gone away. All the vince, all just wrong lies,
never makes the situation better, in fact, makes the situation worse.
How many stories had the New York Times done? As
I went on air on this zero and I checked
just to be sure, not a single story in the
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New York Times, a mega viral video of a heinous
murder of an unarmed girl, a refugee from Ukraine. What
about all the Ukraine flags in the bios everybody? What
about all these lives with their slava Ukraine?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
All about Ukraine? One of our people brought into this
country as an actual refugee from Ukraine brutally murdered. They
have no interest. No stories in the Washington Post, no
stories in the New York Times. I'm not even saying
page you know, C seventeen or something. No, no, none, zero,
no interest in this, no interest in this. CNN had
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run its first story on this uh an hour ago,
in part because of the outcry of everybody online saying,
how can you not how can this not be a story?
And maybe here's a better way to put it, why
is this not a story? But I just watched this documentary,
which I will recommend to you because it just shows
how insane the system is and how it has everything
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backwards in so many ways. Why was Jesse Smolette's fake
hate crime national news that required the most powerful Democrats
in the country to express immediate solidarity with that fraud,
with that liar, with that narcissistic loon. You know the
answer to the question, because he is in a He
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is an oppressed and aggrieved minority and a member of
the LGPTQ plus community. And so the Democrats take a
certain position on this because it attacked MAGA, because it
attacked people who are on the right, because it was
supposedly not to Nigerian bodybuilder friends of his, but actually
a couple of white guys, which of course, as we know,
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it was not. But they liked that narrative, so they
ran with it. Why are there so few stories about
this across the entire internet. Isn't it about clicks? Isn't
it about getting attention? This is getting you find yourself.
And I can't recommend that you watch the video, by
the way, because it will haunt you. So I leave
that to you. There was a time when I had
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seen so many beheading videos when I was in the CIA,
by gie hottists, not by criminals who were let out
by judges in this country. But I had seen so
many beheading videos that I just I was like, I
really need to just not watch see these because obviously
in the CIA we had a whole, unfortunately, a whole
trove of these things from the Jihatis that we were fighting.
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But when you've seen enough of that you want to
forget it. You won't be able to forget this attack.
You won't be able to forget this video. Maybe you
should see it anyway, I think you probably should, but
I leave that to you to your discretion, because you
see just how vicious, how violent, how heinous it is.
It's so ugly, it's so wrong, it goes right to
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your core, your basic soul. As a human being who
could do such a thing. Well, this fellow, de Carlos Brown,
an African American arrested fifteen times, went before a judge
recently and once again she let him out on no
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cash bail January of twenty twenty five. Last month, his
public defender questioned his mental capacity, but the judge wanted
to order a forensic evaluation, ordered Brown to remain free.
You see, the system decided that he was going to
continue to roam free, that this would not be a
case that they would take seriously. They won't do anything
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until he murders somebody, until he murders, in this case,
a defenseless white girl, a refugee from Ukraine, and now
they'll maybe do something. I think that a lot of
the calls not just for increased justice, but a lot
of the calls for the death penalty and a restoration
of taking criminal justice seriously in this country are getting
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louder because people are recognizing that they are correct, that
they are right, and that taking a restorative justice, social justice,
all these different phrases that are used, they are failures.
They are failures that encourage evil people to continue to
do evil things. Okay, we all know there's a difference
between somebody who's caught, you know, with drugs one time,
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and somebody who has been arrested ten times, fifteen times,
fifty times. New York just had a story about sixty offenders,
six zero offenders who have committed thousands, thousands of criminal
infractions on the subway thousands and how you say to you, shoff,
how are they not in prison? Look at the treatment
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of and it absolutely goes to the mindset of this.
Look at the treatment of absolutely non island and harmless
to their fellow Americans. J six nonviolent prisoners. Look at
the way they use the system. Lock them up, ruin
their lives, destroy them, put them in solitary confinement. But
barbarians running around stabbing people, murdering people, raping people. We
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need to give them a second chance. We need to
make sure that we don't go too far here. When
criminals go to their fifteenth or twentieth hearing before a judge,
it's really time to think about restorative justice. No, I
think people have seen enough of that. And this is
why the lib media, this is why PBS, New York Times, BBC,
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CNN just did a story finally, because of all the pressure.
This is why they don't want to cover this, because
they know the American people are fed up and they've
had enough. There is absolutely no justification for this murderer
to have been on the streets. Everyone in the system failed.
Everybody who was a prosecutor, a judge, everyone who was
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involved in what is supposed to be taking this individual
off the street so he cannot prey on his fellow
human beings. They all failed, and they should face consequences.
People should lose their jobs over this. People should be
removed from office over this. And I'm just talking about
along the way and this individual, of course allegedly because
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he hasn't gone through his judicial process yet. But assuming
that we all know what happened here, because there's a
crystal clear video of it, what better case could there
be for someone to face the death penalty than this?
What more clear situation could you even draw up in
your mind? And yet a fraction of the stories, if
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that then really almost zero from half of the press,
and or rather half the country's presses. We know it's
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this story. Well, it's because it's indefensible and we all
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Welcome back into Clay and Box. So we're talking about
this horrific stabbing video and the media response or lack
of response in some part of this. If you're on
the right and you care about law and order, you
are very focused on this story. We're very dialed into
what happened here, and it is truly horrific. Beyond words,
it is haunting, and it's something that stays in your
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mind after you watch it. Democrat media has almost no
interest in this at all, don't want to talk about it,
don't want anyone to focus in on this, because they
also know that in the background, you have a Trump
administration that has said, we just don't want to allow
the murder rate to continue in these cities because we're
going to lock up criminals, We're going to deploy resources,
We're going to take the bad people and do something
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about them. We're going to take the thugs, the criminals
off the streets. The Charlotte, North Carolina mayor has responded
to this horrific murder it is being charged as a
first degree murder of a Ukrainian woman on this public
on public transport in her city. By saying, quote, the
city can't arrest our way out of issues. End quote.
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That is wrong. That is one of the lies here. No,
you can. Actually, this guy had been arrested thirteen times.
He had been arrested thirteen times twice already for assaulting women.
What judge sees him on the thirteenth try and says,
you know what we need for you, maybe a little therapy.
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Why don't you show up to a shrink's office in
a few months. No, one's gonna check and we'll see
if that helps you. No, this guy should have been
locked up for a long time. It was never going
to end anyway. But this and everybody in the criminal
justice system who's honest knows that. But social justice, well
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social justice has left this or Ukrainian girl murdered on
the floor of a light rail trail in front of
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We're still talking about that video that was released from
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the light rail in Charlotte, a stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee,
a young woman in her early twenties. She was on
her way to a job at pizzeria. She previously worked
at subway. She's trying to just make a living. She's
here in this country refugee from war and basically the
entire democrat aligned media is ignoring the story. In fact,
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there's already efforts underway to remove this. I saw this
last night from Wikipedia saying it does not reach the
interest level. They're trying to just make this whole thing disappear.
Here is the question that I think a lot of
us want to ask, when is an incident indicative of
a bigger problem or a broader trend? And when is
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it a bolt of lightning out of the blue. When
is it something that by the numbers you should not
focus on because it's incredibly rare. Right? When is it rare?
When is it a sign of something bigger? This goes
to media focus, but it really goes to what people
broadly refer to as the narrative, which is our general
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set of beliefs about how things are going in this
country and what is generally speaking true. Right. This is
where we start to get into data and per capita
and what is generally true is not And this is
where people always online get into these fights where they say, well,
I know of a situation where that didn't happen, or
I know, yeah, we're not talking about anecdotes because again,
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that is the rare thing or can be the rare thing, right,
anecdote doesn't really mean anything. Anyone can come up with
a story that can support whatever narrative that they want.
When you look at the data, when you look at
the numbers, you can get a broad spectrum picture of
what is happening. And so with this, I ask you,
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why is the shooting of Mike Brown and Ferguson, for example,
a national news story that requires weeks months of coverage,
presidential comment. Or the Trayvon Martin incident down here in
Florida didn't even involve a cop, involves some guy. Why
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is that a national story? Well, it's because of involved
a black person who was killed by a non black person,
and we are led to believe that that is a
very common thing that happens because of racism in this country. Well,
the problem with that is we look at it and
we see. We see, first of all, in the case
of I don't want to skip this, Mike Brown, he
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was shot entirely justifiably by law enforcement officer who was
horrifically maligned by the press. As we know, Eric Holder's
own Justice Department, because there were eyewitnesses found the same
that this was a lawful and moral under the circumstances, yes,
moral shooting that occurred, and yet we were told hands up,
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don't shoot all these other lives, the Frayvon Martin situation.
They came up with the the white Hispanic designation for
George Zimmerman. As many pointed out at the time, if
his name had been you know, George Ramirez or Dominguez
or something. I'm down here in South Florida. We have
a lot of Latin Americans down here. If he had
sounded more Latin, if you look at this guy, you
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would not think old. This guy is someone you'd classify
as white. You would classify him probably as Latino. But
because of his name, it kind of worked, and it
was a racism story. They and it was a black kid,
and they used a photo of him. He was eighteen,
actually he was a young man and he weighed one
hundred and eighty pounds. They used a photo of him
when he's twelve years old, remember that in his cap.
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Same thing with Mike Brown, the photo in the cap
and go this is just all propaganda. This is all
just race agitation by the media, as you know, because
they lied about those incidents. And on top of that,
what they're trying to show, which is a country where
black men are killed due to racism, generally by non
black individuals, is just not true. It happens incredibly rarely,
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which is a good thing, But it happens very rarely. Right,
And talking about cops, the Washington Post used to have
this unarmed black men that they would count every year
they count how many on armed black men. Remember, unarmed
does not mean non lethal, does not mean not a threat.
Mike Brown was unarmed, but he was much bigger than
the cop. He charged at the cop. And if and
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any law enforcement officer will tell you, once you've drawn
your gun, if someone's gonna run at you and tack
you to the ground, that's a lethal force situation. Oh
you're supposed to wait until they bash your head on
the concrete and take your gun and kill you with it. No,
you pull a gun because somebody will not obey a
lawful command and they're threatening you, and then they run
at you, you shoot. That was what was found, by
the way, in the Mike Brown case. This is what
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Eric Holder's own DJ under the Obama administration found. So
these are the facts. These are the facts. But the
Washington Post was running this counter of unarmed black men
who were killed by police, and it was they stopped
doing it. Really, at least you never hear about it
anymore because the number was so low. I think one
year the number was like four. I can't, I don't,
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don't quote me on it, but it was in the teens. Okay,
it was in the teens. One year of three hundred
and sixty million people. And there's something like, if you
take suicides out of it, something like fifteen thousand people
a year are shot and killed in this country. And
you're gonna tell me that ten or twenty or thirty
unarmed black men are killed in this nation, and it's
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a national crisis that we have to again adjudicate each
one of those. Any cop who steps over the line,
any cop who kills anyone or uses force on anyone
in a way that violates the trust in them and
the laws that they are duty bound to uphold. Yeah,
of course, prosecute that person. But you'll notice in these
other cases, there was all this media frenzy around this,
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and Democrats believe this stuff, and they convince people of
this stuff, and it's just not true. It's just not true. Now,
why is the case of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin,
for example, why is that of such greater attention to
the Democrat media than this case, again, a Ukrainian refugee
brutally murdered on. We have video of it. In the
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Trayvon and George Jemmerman thing, as we found out, Trevon
was smashing his head into the concrete, you know. But
in the Trayvon George Zimmerman thing, it was testimony and
we didn't have video of this. So why is this
not of greater interest because it goes against the narrative
where it's a narrative rather than they don't want people
to think about, which is why is violence from an
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individual like this that we can all see coming, Why
does the system excuse it, pass it along? Why was
this person arrested thirteen times, this alleged murderer, right, Why
was he arrested thirteen times for other crimes that he committed.
Why did the judge that looked at him decide, you know,
we should just let you out, You're fine. And what
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social costs do we all have to bear because of
those decisions? This is where people have finally come out
and said enough is enough. I mentioned this to you
before with the New York Post story. I want to
give you the actual number. Five thousand arrests. Five thousand
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arrests made by a total of sixty three people, with
only five of them. Five of the sixty three are
behind bars a slew of crimes, including assault, robbery, theft,
turnstile jumping. They just are let out over and over again.
Where is the accountability? Yeah, somehow if the irs thinks
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that I'm like five hundred dollars short on my very
large tax bill, I get some notice about it in
the mail, you know, accountability. But here we go. You
can just do whatever you want and the system keeps
just letting you back out on the streets. What do
you think that does to the cops who know that
every time they have to wrestle one of these maniacs
to the ground, every time they have to do that,
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there's the possibility that somebody will video it and it'll
end up on World Star Hip Hop or one of
these sites that you know shares like the police violence thing,
and then all of a sudden there's a media frenzy
around this, and uh, well, their career could be over.
Their life could be over essentially because of something taken
out of context without the lead up to it, and
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then everyone has there's this oh, there's this big rush.
Oh my gosh, look at this, more more cop violence
against you know, unarmed men, generally unarmed minortymen. Remember, cops
shoot more white people than any other race in this country.
And yet anytime a white person is shot by a cop,
the general attitude of the media is, well, what do
they do? They deserve it? I mean, maybe probably you
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know that that is the attitude. And yet anytime there's
even a hint that a non white individual is killed
by law enforcement in circumstances where there could be some question,
they actually rush in the other direction. The cop has
to prove beyond any reasonable doubt before any trial can
even happen. That cop has to prove in advance of
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the facts coming out that he did the right thing.
This is just arson by propaganda. Really, this is just
people who are kicking at the load bearing walls of
our civilization and trying to see what they can get
to come tumbling down. They decide that law and order
is to be undermined from within. This is scary stuff,
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and you're seeing this in this country, and by the way,
and a number of European countries as well, where the
decision has clearly been made that those who are offending
are to be given not just the benefit of the doubt,
but are to be turned into victims. And this is
where you really get into what happened in this country
going back to the seventies and this so called revolution
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and the criminal justice approach, you know, the societal criminal right,
it's society's fault. So in fact, when someone does something terrible,
it is because we failed. You and I failed. Maniacs
get arrested one hundred times and you know, stab old
ladies in the street because you and I failed. This
is a widespread belief among libs in this country today.
(29:14):
And if you don't believe me, you can see that
they had to remove already go fund me pages set
up for the guy who stabbed this Ukrainian woman to
death with a knife, stabbed her on the neck over
and over again. A go fund me page. Well it's
now been taken down by GoFundMe, but the explanation was, well, clearly,
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we need to make sure that there's a robust representation
for this individual and society must have society failed. You see,
we're not. This is where it really comes down. We're
not allowed to stop these individuals from doing this, these thugs,
these criminals, we're not allowed to stop them. And by
the way, a lot of these jurisdictions, as you know,
a lot of these places. If you, my friend, if
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you are walking around in some of these Soros prosecutor
jurisdictions as a law abiding American with a firearm that
violates one of the in my view, completely unconstitutional provisions
of that local or state law, they're gonna lock you
up while they're letting gang members who are felling in possession. Oh,
we're gonna we're gonna call that one off because you
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must be disarmed, because your arming yourself is a rejection
of the state's total authority over you, that little rebellion
that you have enjoying your Second Amendment rights. That is
an affront to the statist, authoritarian mindset that dominates the
Democrat Party. You know, it's shut up and mask up,
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be disarmed, do what you're told, you know, you know,
clap for DEI or else. This is the totalitarianism that
is among us, and it is very real, especially on
this issue of where you're able to defend yourself and
not places like New York City. You can't even I
don't think you're allowed to have pepper spray New York City.
(31:00):
This is crazy. You can't have pepper spray. Why because
the bad guys are going to use the pepper spray
when when they rob somebody. Think about this, you know
you're disarmed. Oh well, Time Square is a gun freeze on,
except they just had a shooting there, fatal shooting recently,
so you know, I guess the bad guys don't pay
attention to the signs. No, this is showing everybody what's
really going on. Crime is not out of control because
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it is beyond our control. Crime is out of control
because there are people among us who have decided that
the crime is our fault collectively, and we need to
suffer collectively because it is a failure of society. It
is a failure of poverty, or a failure of racism,
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or a failure of whatever you want to call it.
That is the reason that we have to continue to
have the homicide numbers we do in these cities. That's
why it can't get better. That's why we can't lock
these individuals up. A choice is being made. A choice
is being made every day. And as you see from
the mayor of Charlotte, as you see from the judges
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who looked at this guide to Carlos, you know, in
previous instances they decided that you and I and everybody
else who obeys the law, who wants to live in
peace and security, we need to suffer because the worst
thing would be to have some accountability for individuals like this.
That's that's the worst thing in society. There can be
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no accountability because what would that mean. I mean, once
we start doing it with one criminal thug, are we
going to start doing with others? I mean, where would
we be then? Oh my gosh, I mean we could
turn into like you know, Japan or Switzerland with almost
no crime rate if we actually punish criminals. That sounds horrible.
Let's not do that. Let's continue to suffer and have
idiot leftists tell us that this is our fault. And
(32:52):
the subtext of this is always that we deserve it.
You have to remember that they think we deserve it.
That's really where this is. All right, all right, shake
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Welcome back into Clay and Buck. A lot of reaction,
of course, to this story about the ukrading girl murdered
on that light rail in Charlotte, and I know a
lot of went away in so I want to dive
into it with you. Now. We've got to talk back first.
Up here, this is AA Dave, who's a listener on
five AD WHP. He's calling in from or rather sending
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the talkback in from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Hit it, Hey from Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I'm listening to you tell this story about this Ukrainian girl.
Why can't these judges be hell the accountable when this happens.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
See, let this dude go. She should be charged.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Why can't these Democrat pieces a crap be held accountable?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
It's gonna I understand the frustration and the sense of outrage,
and I share it. I would just tell you that, unfortunately,
the system that we have means that unless there's some
quid pro quote corruption or something like a judge gets
breaks the law right takes a bag of money to
let somebody out something like that, they're allowed to make
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really terrible decisions and not face any criminal consequences for that,
no matter how bad the decision making really is. This
is where impeaching judges become something to consider. Now we're
talking about it. In this case, I believe a state judge,
so I have to look at what the rules are
in the state of North Carolina to remove a judge.
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But certainly federal judges can be impeached. That can be done.
And now then you get into world democrats along with it.
I mean, there's challenges here, but we do need to
think more in those terms because one of the real
real problems we have in this country now is that
the Democrat left and I mean, the hard left has
(36:19):
ceded their idealogues in positions within the judiciary and prosecutors'
offices all over the country, and we are all unfortunately
suffering the consequences of that, and they are burrowed deep
into the system. We'll talk more about this, including another
judge that went against another decision that went against Trump
here in just a moment. So stay around, team, I've
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got a lot more for you.
Welcome everybody. Monday edition of the Clay Travis end Buck
Sexton Show kicks off right now. Clay off today, He'll
be back tomorrow, but he sends you all, of course
his regards, and we have a lot to dive into today,
my friends. We have some big stories coming in from
over the weekend. We have Trump speaking this morning at
(00:24):
the Museum of the Bible in d C. Coole Museum.
I was there actually many years ago. Interesting place. We
have that to discuss. We've got some stuff from the
legal front here, Trump's appeal for the EG and Carol lawsuit.
I'll tell you about that. Some fascinating data out of
the NBC News World about gen Z that you are
(00:48):
going to want to hear because you know that is
the future in a sense. Those are people eighteen to
twenty nine years old. And also I'll give you some
thoughts on the US Open from over the weekend. But
let's just dive right into it. By far, the biggest
story in America right now for at least half the
country is because the other half is trying to ignore
(01:11):
it desperately, desperately. Is this absolutely horrific video that has
been released of a refugee from Ukraine, Irena Zarutska. She
was on August twenty second on the Charlotte light rail line.
(01:31):
She's twenty three years old. She's a lovely young woman.
There's a video of her. She was showing up as
a refugee working, I believe, at a subway, trying to
just support herself, trying to do things the right way.
Fled a war and was viciously brutally stabbed to death
for absolutely no reason other than the evil and maliciousness
(01:56):
malevolence of an individual. Carlos browns now in custody, and
we need to talk about this. First of all, there's
many layers to get into here. I just want to
say people are waking up and the countries had enough.
The countries had enough of We're going to refuse to
(02:17):
prosecute in a serious way. We're going to refuse to
clean up the streets. We're going to allow people to
be murdered, raped, robbed because we lack the political will
to do something about it. We all know what must
be done. It could not be more clear, and I'll
walk you through in this case, it could not have
been more clear. But there are social justice angles. There
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are racial angles. There are components here that push the
Democrat Party, push the left to make us all suffer
in our cities and just in general, from crime that
is preventable and that should have been in this case, prevented.
The authorities failed this young woman, and the video that
has been released of this attack from a few weeks
(03:03):
ago is haunting. I've had people texting me from over
the weekend. They're all just saying, have you seen this?
I'm sick to my stomach. Have you seen what happened
to this beautiful young woman? Because this vile psycho murdered her,
and he was a career criminal. It was known that
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he was a risk to the public. It was known
that this guy was going to continue to offend. But
a judge saw him recently and decided, let's just give
him a fifteenth chance. No more fifteenth chances. Maybe we
could start with that, no matter what the race, no
matter what the gender, no matter what the creed of
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the individual may be, no more fifteenth chances. Can we
all agree with that? I know you can, But a
lot of Democrats, a lot of Democrats seem to think
that social justice, racial justice means no accountability for criminals
who are repeat offenders over and over and over again,
and people have had enough. In fact, President Trump this
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morning spoke about this at the Museum of the Bible.
Listen to what our president had to say. Play one.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I just give my love and hope to the family
of the young woman who was stabbed this morning or
last night in Charlotte by a madman.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
A lunatic just got up and started.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It's right on the tape, not really watchable because it's
so horrible, but just viciously stabs she's just sitting there.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So they are evil people.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
We have to be able to handle that.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
If we don't handle that, we don't have a country.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Among the most heinous and terrifying footages of a murder
committed I've ever seen, and this is in the era
where we have more video, more bodycam, more footage of
who's doing this stuff than we ever have before. So
we can all see and thanks to X and yes,
thank you Elon Musk, this circulates freely. Why is that
(05:03):
so important in this case? Do you want to guess
how many stories this is the number one story on
Fox News. This is the number one story that I
am leading with today on this program on five hundred
and sixty radio stations across the country. Do you want
to guess how many stories there are in the New
York Times about this, about this footage that has gone
absolutely viral. Again, horrifying footage, but people should see it.
(05:25):
By the way they cut out the actual vibe. They
stop right as the knife is about to plunge into
or neck. They have that footage too, they didn't release that.
We all know how grotesque this situation is. We all
know how horrific it was. This young woman sitting there
in abject horror and terror as she is being really
(05:47):
murdered on a train with other people around by this
maniac because she sat in front of him. She fled
a war zone and thought I'll be safe in America.
But because of social justice process couters, because of this
left wing idea that social justice and racial justice equals
soft on crime. Because of that, she is dead. Because
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of that, she is no longer with us. It is
a stain on this country that we would bring a
refugee in, a true refugee from the war right, not
a fake refugee like Biden was bringing in by the millions.
Someone who fled a warzone and is murdered brutally on
a subway train. This is a huge story because it
(06:33):
hits home for so many people, because we don't want
to be afraid on light rail, and we increasingly in
these Democrat run cities with Democrat prosecutors and Democrats in
the at the top of the police department. Democrats as
mayors who view part of their role as trying to
(06:53):
offset the crime statistics. Who's doing the crimes, well, we
have to make sure we treat them less harshly because
it looked bad to us as Democrats. No, I think
we should just punish whoever's doing the crimes as severely
as we can for the severe offenses that they are committing.
And this then brings me to the coverage of this incident.
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I want to get into the criminal justice component of
this some more because Trump is right on all of this.
He is right about what he's doing in DC. He's
right when he says he should go into Chicago. We
actually don't have to live this way. And I remember
what it was like. I remember what it was like
in New York when the choice had been made in
the nineties we were going to live this way. That
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There are going to be people who are committing crimes
over and over again that we're going to be praying,
acting in a predatory fashion against their fellow human beings,
without consequence and without accountability. Why because it's society's fault.
Society failed them, or it was a history of prejudice
or a history of injustice, or who knows, who knows.
(07:57):
Maybe if we had just legalized drugs, it would have
all gone away. All the vince, all just wrong lies,
never makes the situation better, in fact, makes the situation worse.
How many stories had the New York Times done? As
I went on air on this zero and I checked
just to be sure, not a single story in the
(08:18):
New York Times, a mega viral video of a heinous
murder of an unarmed girl, a refugee from Ukraine. What
about all the Ukraine flags in the bios everybody? What
about all these lives with their slava Ukraine?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
All about Ukraine? One of our people brought into this
country as an actual refugee from Ukraine brutally murdered. They
have no interest. No stories in the Washington Post, no
stories in the New York Times. I'm not even saying
page you know, C seventeen or something. No, no, none, zero,
no interest in this, no interest in this. CNN had
(08:56):
run its first story on this uh an hour ago,
in part because of the outcry of everybody online saying,
how can you not how can this not be a story?
And maybe here's a better way to put it, why
is this not a story? But I just watched this documentary,
which I will recommend to you because it just shows
how insane the system is and how it has everything
(09:18):
backwards in so many ways. Why was Jesse Smolette's fake
hate crime national news that required the most powerful Democrats
in the country to express immediate solidarity with that fraud,
with that liar, with that narcissistic loon. You know the
answer to the question, because he is in a He
(09:38):
is an oppressed and aggrieved minority and a member of
the LGPTQ plus community. And so the Democrats take a
certain position on this because it attacked MAGA, because it
attacked people who are on the right, because it was
supposedly not to Nigerian bodybuilder friends of his, but actually
a couple of white guys, which of course, as we know,
(10:00):
it was not. But they liked that narrative, so they
ran with it. Why are there so few stories about
this across the entire internet. Isn't it about clicks? Isn't
it about getting attention? This is getting you find yourself.
And I can't recommend that you watch the video, by
the way, because it will haunt you. So I leave
that to you. There was a time when I had
(10:22):
seen so many beheading videos when I was in the CIA,
by gie hottists, not by criminals who were let out
by judges in this country. But I had seen so
many beheading videos that I just I was like, I
really need to just not watch see these because obviously
in the CIA we had a whole, unfortunately, a whole
trove of these things from the Jihatis that we were fighting.
(10:43):
But when you've seen enough of that you want to
forget it. You won't be able to forget this attack.
You won't be able to forget this video. Maybe you
should see it anyway, I think you probably should, but
I leave that to you to your discretion, because you
see just how vicious, how violent, how heinous it is.
It's so ugly, it's so wrong, it goes right to
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your core, your basic soul. As a human being who
could do such a thing. Well, this fellow, de Carlos Brown,
an African American arrested fifteen times, went before a judge
recently and once again she let him out on no
(11:26):
cash bail January of twenty twenty five. Last month, his
public defender questioned his mental capacity, but the judge wanted
to order a forensic evaluation, ordered Brown to remain free.
You see, the system decided that he was going to
continue to roam free, that this would not be a
case that they would take seriously. They won't do anything
(11:48):
until he murders somebody, until he murders, in this case,
a defenseless white girl, a refugee from Ukraine, and now
they'll maybe do something. I think that a lot of
the calls not just for increased justice, but a lot
of the calls for the death penalty and a restoration
of taking criminal justice seriously in this country are getting
(12:09):
louder because people are recognizing that they are correct, that
they are right, and that taking a restorative justice, social justice,
all these different phrases that are used, they are failures.
They are failures that encourage evil people to continue to
do evil things. Okay, we all know there's a difference
between somebody who's caught, you know, with drugs one time,
(12:31):
and somebody who has been arrested ten times, fifteen times,
fifty times. New York just had a story about sixty offenders,
six zero offenders who have committed thousands, thousands of criminal
infractions on the subway thousands and how you say to you, shoff,
how are they not in prison? Look at the treatment
(12:54):
of and it absolutely goes to the mindset of this.
Look at the treatment of absolutely non island and harmless
to their fellow Americans. J six nonviolent prisoners. Look at
the way they use the system. Lock them up, ruin
their lives, destroy them, put them in solitary confinement. But
barbarians running around stabbing people, murdering people, raping people. We
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need to give them a second chance. We need to
make sure that we don't go too far here. When
criminals go to their fifteenth or twentieth hearing before a judge,
it's really time to think about restorative justice. No, I
think people have seen enough of that. And this is
why the lib media, this is why PBS, New York Times, BBC,
(13:43):
CNN just did a story finally, because of all the pressure.
This is why they don't want to cover this, because
they know the American people are fed up and they've
had enough. There is absolutely no justification for this murderer
to have been on the streets. Everyone in the system failed.
Everybody who was a prosecutor, a judge, everyone who was
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involved in what is supposed to be taking this individual
off the street so he cannot prey on his fellow
human beings. They all failed, and they should face consequences.
People should lose their jobs over this. People should be
removed from office over this. And I'm just talking about
along the way and this individual, of course allegedly because
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he hasn't gone through his judicial process yet. But assuming
that we all know what happened here, because there's a
crystal clear video of it, what better case could there
be for someone to face the death penalty than this?
What more clear situation could you even draw up in
your mind? And yet a fraction of the stories, if
(14:45):
that then really almost zero from half of the press,
and or rather half the country's presses. We know it's
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this story. Well, it's because it's indefensible and we all
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Welcome back into Clay and Box. So we're talking about
this horrific stabbing video and the media response or lack
of response in some part of this. If you're on
the right and you care about law and order, you
are very focused on this story. We're very dialed into
what happened here, and it is truly horrific. Beyond words,
it is haunting, and it's something that stays in your
(16:26):
mind after you watch it. Democrat media has almost no
interest in this at all, don't want to talk about it,
don't want anyone to focus in on this, because they
also know that in the background, you have a Trump
administration that has said, we just don't want to allow
the murder rate to continue in these cities because we're
going to lock up criminals, We're going to deploy resources,
We're going to take the bad people and do something
(16:48):
about them. We're going to take the thugs, the criminals
off the streets. The Charlotte, North Carolina mayor has responded
to this horrific murder it is being charged as a
first degree murder of a Ukrainian woman on this public
on public transport in her city. By saying, quote, the
city can't arrest our way out of issues. End quote.
(17:10):
That is wrong. That is one of the lies here. No,
you can. Actually, this guy had been arrested thirteen times.
He had been arrested thirteen times twice already for assaulting women.
What judge sees him on the thirteenth try and says,
you know what we need for you, maybe a little therapy.
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Why don't you show up to a shrink's office in
a few months. No, one's gonna check and we'll see
if that helps you. No, this guy should have been
locked up for a long time. It was never going
to end anyway. But this and everybody in the criminal
justice system who's honest knows that. But social justice, well
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the floor of a light rail trail in front of
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We're still talking about that video that was released from
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the light rail in Charlotte, a stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee,
a young woman in her early twenties. She was on
her way to a job at pizzeria. She previously worked
at subway. She's trying to just make a living. She's
here in this country refugee from war and basically the
entire democrat aligned media is ignoring the story. In fact,
(19:15):
there's already efforts underway to remove this. I saw this
last night from Wikipedia saying it does not reach the
interest level. They're trying to just make this whole thing disappear.
Here is the question that I think a lot of
us want to ask, when is an incident indicative of
a bigger problem or a broader trend? And when is
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it a bolt of lightning out of the blue. When
is it something that by the numbers you should not
focus on because it's incredibly rare. Right? When is it rare?
When is it a sign of something bigger? This goes
to media focus, but it really goes to what people
broadly refer to as the narrative, which is our general
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set of beliefs about how things are going in this
country and what is generally speaking true. Right. This is
where we start to get into data and per capita
and what is generally true is not And this is
where people always online get into these fights where they say, well,
I know of a situation where that didn't happen, or
I know, yeah, we're not talking about anecdotes because again,
(20:22):
that is the rare thing or can be the rare thing, right,
anecdote doesn't really mean anything. Anyone can come up with
a story that can support whatever narrative that they want.
When you look at the data, when you look at
the numbers, you can get a broad spectrum picture of
what is happening. And so with this, I ask you,
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why is the shooting of Mike Brown and Ferguson, for example,
a national news story that requires weeks months of coverage,
presidential comment. Or the Trayvon Martin incident down here in
Florida didn't even involve a cop, involves some guy. Why
(21:03):
is that a national story? Well, it's because of involved
a black person who was killed by a non black person,
and we are led to believe that that is a
very common thing that happens because of racism in this country. Well,
the problem with that is we look at it and
we see. We see, first of all, in the case
of I don't want to skip this, Mike Brown, he
(21:25):
was shot entirely justifiably by law enforcement officer who was
horrifically maligned by the press. As we know, Eric Holder's
own Justice Department, because there were eyewitnesses found the same
that this was a lawful and moral under the circumstances, yes,
moral shooting that occurred, and yet we were told hands up,
(21:46):
don't shoot all these other lives, the Frayvon Martin situation.
They came up with the the white Hispanic designation for
George Zimmerman. As many pointed out at the time, if
his name had been you know, George Ramirez or Dominguez
or something. I'm down here in South Florida. We have
a lot of Latin Americans down here. If he had
sounded more Latin, if you look at this guy, you
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would not think old. This guy is someone you'd classify
as white. You would classify him probably as Latino. But
because of his name, it kind of worked, and it
was a racism story. They and it was a black kid,
and they used a photo of him. He was eighteen,
actually he was a young man and he weighed one
hundred and eighty pounds. They used a photo of him
when he's twelve years old, remember that in his cap.
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Same thing with Mike Brown, the photo in the cap
and go this is just all propaganda. This is all
just race agitation by the media, as you know, because
they lied about those incidents. And on top of that,
what they're trying to show, which is a country where
black men are killed due to racism, generally by non
black individuals, is just not true. It happens incredibly rarely,
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which is a good thing, But it happens very rarely. Right,
And talking about cops, the Washington Post used to have
this unarmed black men that they would count every year
they count how many on armed black men. Remember, unarmed
does not mean non lethal, does not mean not a threat.
Mike Brown was unarmed, but he was much bigger than
the cop. He charged at the cop. And if and
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any law enforcement officer will tell you, once you've drawn
your gun, if someone's gonna run at you and tack
you to the ground, that's a lethal force situation. Oh
you're supposed to wait until they bash your head on
the concrete and take your gun and kill you with it. No,
you pull a gun because somebody will not obey a
lawful command and they're threatening you, and then they run
at you, you shoot. That was what was found, by
the way, in the Mike Brown case. This is what
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Eric Holder's own DJ under the Obama administration found. So
these are the facts. These are the facts. But the
Washington Post was running this counter of unarmed black men
who were killed by police, and it was they stopped
doing it. Really, at least you never hear about it
anymore because the number was so low. I think one
year the number was like four. I can't, I don't,
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don't quote me on it, but it was in the teens. Okay,
it was in the teens. One year of three hundred
and sixty million people. And there's something like, if you
take suicides out of it, something like fifteen thousand people
a year are shot and killed in this country. And
you're gonna tell me that ten or twenty or thirty
unarmed black men are killed in this nation, and it's
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a national crisis that we have to again adjudicate each
one of those. Any cop who steps over the line,
any cop who kills anyone or uses force on anyone
in a way that violates the trust in them and
the laws that they are duty bound to uphold. Yeah,
of course, prosecute that person. But you'll notice in these
other cases, there was all this media frenzy around this,
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and Democrats believe this stuff, and they convince people of
this stuff, and it's just not true. It's just not true. Now,
why is the case of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin,
for example, why is that of such greater attention to
the Democrat media than this case, again, a Ukrainian refugee
brutally murdered on. We have video of it. In the
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Trayvon and George Jemmerman thing, as we found out, Trevon
was smashing his head into the concrete, you know. But
in the Trayvon George Zimmerman thing, it was testimony and
we didn't have video of this. So why is this
not of greater interest because it goes against the narrative
where it's a narrative rather than they don't want people
to think about, which is why is violence from an
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individual like this that we can all see coming, Why
does the system excuse it, pass it along? Why was
this person arrested thirteen times, this alleged murderer, right, Why
was he arrested thirteen times for other crimes that he committed.
Why did the judge that looked at him decide, you know,
we should just let you out, You're fine. And what
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social costs do we all have to bear because of
those decisions? This is where people have finally come out
and said enough is enough. I mentioned this to you
before with the New York Post story. I want to
give you the actual number. Five thousand arrests. Five thousand
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arrests made by a total of sixty three people, with
only five of them. Five of the sixty three are
behind bars a slew of crimes, including assault, robbery, theft,
turnstile jumping. They just are let out over and over again.
Where is the accountability? Yeah, somehow if the irs thinks
(26:39):
that I'm like five hundred dollars short on my very
large tax bill, I get some notice about it in
the mail, you know, accountability. But here we go. You
can just do whatever you want and the system keeps
just letting you back out on the streets. What do
you think that does to the cops who know that
every time they have to wrestle one of these maniacs
to the ground, every time they have to do that,
(27:02):
there's the possibility that somebody will video it and it'll
end up on World Star Hip Hop or one of
these sites that you know shares like the police violence thing,
and then all of a sudden there's a media frenzy
around this, and uh, well, their career could be over.
Their life could be over essentially because of something taken
out of context without the lead up to it, and
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then everyone has there's this oh, there's this big rush.
Oh my gosh, look at this, more more cop violence
against you know, unarmed men, generally unarmed minortymen. Remember, cops
shoot more white people than any other race in this country.
And yet anytime a white person is shot by a cop,
the general attitude of the media is, well, what do
they do? They deserve it? I mean, maybe probably you
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know that that is the attitude. And yet anytime there's
even a hint that a non white individual is killed
by law enforcement in circumstances where there could be some question,
they actually rush in the other direction. The cop has
to prove beyond any reasonable doubt before any trial can
even happen. That cop has to prove in advance of
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the facts coming out that he did the right thing.
This is just arson by propaganda. Really, this is just
people who are kicking at the load bearing walls of
our civilization and trying to see what they can get
to come tumbling down. They decide that law and order
is to be undermined from within. This is scary stuff,
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and you're seeing this in this country, and by the way,
and a number of European countries as well, where the
decision has clearly been made that those who are offending
are to be given not just the benefit of the doubt,
but are to be turned into victims. And this is
where you really get into what happened in this country
going back to the seventies and this so called revolution
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and the criminal justice approach, you know, the societal criminal right,
it's society's fault. So in fact, when someone does something terrible,
it is because we failed. You and I failed. Maniacs
get arrested one hundred times and you know, stab old
ladies in the street because you and I failed. This
is a widespread belief among libs in this country today.
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And if you don't believe me, you can see that
they had to remove already go fund me pages set
up for the guy who stabbed this Ukrainian woman to
death with a knife, stabbed her on the neck over
and over again. A go fund me page. Well it's
now been taken down by GoFundMe, but the explanation was, well, clearly,
(29:34):
we need to make sure that there's a robust representation
for this individual and society must have society failed. You see,
we're not. This is where it really comes down. We're
not allowed to stop these individuals from doing this, these thugs,
these criminals, we're not allowed to stop them. And by
the way, a lot of these jurisdictions, as you know,
a lot of these places. If you, my friend, if
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you are walking around in some of these Soros prosecutor
jurisdictions as a law abiding American with a firearm that
violates one of the in my view, completely unconstitutional provisions
of that local or state law, they're gonna lock you
up while they're letting gang members who are felling in possession. Oh,
we're gonna we're gonna call that one off because you
(30:18):
must be disarmed, because your arming yourself is a rejection
of the state's total authority over you, that little rebellion
that you have enjoying your Second Amendment rights. That is
an affront to the statist, authoritarian mindset that dominates the
Democrat Party. You know, it's shut up and mask up,
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be disarmed, do what you're told, you know, you know,
clap for DEI or else. This is the totalitarianism that
is among us, and it is very real, especially on
this issue of where you're able to defend yourself and
not places like New York City. You can't even I
don't think you're allowed to have pepper spray New York City.
(31:00):
This is crazy. You can't have pepper spray. Why because
the bad guys are going to use the pepper spray
when when they rob somebody. Think about this, you know
you're disarmed. Oh well, Time Square is a gun freeze on,
except they just had a shooting there, fatal shooting recently,
so you know, I guess the bad guys don't pay
attention to the signs. No, this is showing everybody what's
really going on. Crime is not out of control because
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it is beyond our control. Crime is out of control
because there are people among us who have decided that
the crime is our fault collectively, and we need to
suffer collectively because it is a failure of society. It
is a failure of poverty, or a failure of racism,
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or a failure of whatever you want to call it.
That is the reason that we have to continue to
have the homicide numbers we do in these cities. That's
why it can't get better. That's why we can't lock
these individuals up. A choice is being made. A choice
is being made every day. And as you see from
the mayor of Charlotte, as you see from the judges
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who looked at this guide to Carlos, you know, in
previous instances they decided that you and I and everybody
else who obeys the law, who wants to live in
peace and security, we need to suffer because the worst
thing would be to have some accountability for individuals like this.
That's that's the worst thing in society. There can be
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no accountability because what would that mean. I mean, once
we start doing it with one criminal thug, are we
going to start doing with others? I mean, where would
we be then? Oh my gosh, I mean we could
turn into like you know, Japan or Switzerland with almost
no crime rate if we actually punish criminals. That sounds horrible.
Let's not do that. Let's continue to suffer and have
idiot leftists tell us that this is our fault. And
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the subtext of this is always that we deserve it.
You have to remember that they think we deserve it.
That's really where this is. All right, all right, shake
this off for a second. Here, we gotta change gears.
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Welcome back into Clay and Buck. A lot of reaction,
of course, to this story about the ukrading girl murdered
on that light rail in Charlotte, and I know a
lot of went away in so I want to dive
into it with you. Now. We've got to talk back first.
Up here, this is AA Dave, who's a listener on
five AD WHP. He's calling in from or rather sending
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the talkback in from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Hit it, Hey from Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I'm listening to you tell this story about this Ukrainian girl.
Why can't these judges be hell the accountable when this happens.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
See, let this dude go. She should be charged.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Why can't these Democrat pieces a crap be held accountable?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
It's gonna I understand the frustration and the sense of outrage,
and I share it. I would just tell you that, unfortunately,
the system that we have means that unless there's some
quid pro quote corruption or something like a judge gets
breaks the law right takes a bag of money to
let somebody out something like that, they're allowed to make
(35:34):
really terrible decisions and not face any criminal consequences for that,
no matter how bad the decision making really is. This
is where impeaching judges become something to consider. Now we're
talking about it. In this case, I believe a state judge,
so I have to look at what the rules are
in the state of North Carolina to remove a judge.
(35:55):
But certainly federal judges can be impeached. That can be done.
And now then you get into world democrats along with it.
I mean, there's challenges here, but we do need to
think more in those terms because one of the real
real problems we have in this country now is that
the Democrat left and I mean, the hard left has
(36:19):
ceded their idealogues in positions within the judiciary and prosecutors'
offices all over the country, and we are all unfortunately
suffering the consequences of that, and they are burrowed deep
into the system. We'll talk more about this, including another
judge that went against another decision that went against Trump
here in just a moment. So stay around, team, I've
(36:39):
got a lot more for you.
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