RALEIGH, N.C. (WJZY/WNCN) — Two days after being grilled in Raleigh by state lawmakers on Charlotte-area public safety, Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden — who in 2018 announced his office would not cooperate with ICE — was asked to provide more documents, mostly related to his communication with immigration officials.
McFadden and other Charlotte leaders were in Raleigh to testify to the Republican-led House Oversight Committee on Safety six months after the first of two high-profile light rail vicious stabbings led to the caught-on-video deadly attack on young Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska.
The brutal ambush stabbing attack on the young woman was followed in December by a non-fatal stabbing on the same Charlotte rail system, are among the chief reasons for GOP critiques of area law enforcement.
Many Republicans also questioned why the suspect in the innocent woman’s death, Decarlos Brown Jr., had more than a dozen prior criminal arrests before the most recent charge, and concerns had been raised about his mental health…