RALEIGH — Long before the release of a video graphically depicting Iryna Zarutska being stabbed to death on a Charlotte train, state and local leaders should have publicly mourned her death and expressed outrage at so appalling a crime. Now they’re paying the price.
Every homicide is a tragedy. Every innocent victim deserves our sympathy. But within hours of Zarutska’s slaying on August 22, it should have been obvious this case would create more than a one-day story.
For starters, Zarutska was a Ukrainian refugee. She’d fled a country subject to nightly attacks by a terrorist state targeting civilians — only to be stabbed to death on her way home from work, in the very country where she thought she’d be safe…