On Tuesday’s broadcast of “NewsNation Now,” North Carolina State House Chief Democratic Whip Rep. Terry Brown Jr. said that the suspected perpetrator of the fatal stabbing on a Charlotte train “should not have been out on the streets,” and “this could have been prevented well before he got on the light rail that night.” Brown also stated that “Oftentimes, those magistrate courts are the wild west.”
Brown said, “What I will say is that this was a heinous crime. It never should have happened. … I will say that it’s not a left or a right issue. It is a failure by the system on multiple different levels that caused for this brutal murder of this young woman in the city of Charlotte. So, I don’t believe…the left versus right, Republican versus Democratic politics is going to do anything to advance this. We have to look at all the different reasons why the system failed this young woman.”
He added, “I have dealt with our magistrate courts on a fairly regular basis. … Magistrates do not have to be trained legally. Oftentimes, those magistrate courts are the wild west. Most of the magistrate judges don’t have law degrees. I have always said that we need to have more training for our magistrate judges so they are more abreast of the laws, more abreast of the rules of evidence, more abreast of the things that they can do there.”…