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The “racial equity” task force created in 2020 by former North Carolina Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper is under scrutiny after the fatal stabbing of a woman on Charlotte’s light-rail system, allegedly by a Black man with 14 prior arrests.
Since video surfaced of the Aug. 22 murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, the White House, along with congressional and state Republicans, has assailed Cooper’s Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice (TREC), which he established in 2020.
Republicans say TREC, created to “ensure racial equity in North Carolina’s criminal justice system,” is the reason Decarlos Brown Jr. was free to be on the train when Zarutska sat in the row in front of him on her way home from work…