DeCarlos Brown Jr. - Remember that name!

An innocent young girl thought the US would be safter than Ukraine and the Russians. Sadly she was wrong...Because of political cowardice and our justice system failures.

I want to apologize for not writing about the Israel situation as I promised today. I woke up this morning to this story and couldn’t get it out of my head. I had to explore this tragedy and what’s it’s real meaning is to our society!

Charlotte’s Leaders Have Blood on Their Hands

Once upon a time, the scales of justice in this country were supposed to be blind. Same law, same punishment, no matter your name, your skin color, or the size of your wallet. Today? Forget it. The blindfold has been ripped off and replaced with a diversity checklist and a bank account ledger.

Just look at Charlotte. A 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, was stabbed to death on a train by a man with a rap sheet longer than a New York City block. Decarlos Brown Jr.—14 arrests, violent history, already shown mercy more times than a stray cat in an animal shelter, and yet he was still out, still roaming, still a “free man” right up until the moment he killed an innocent woman.

And who do we thank for this catastrophe? Mayor Vi Lyles and the Mecklenburg County prosecutors, who have turned the justice system into a revolving door for predators.

Mayor Lyles, instead of calling this what it is; a catastrophic failure of leadership, you called it a mental health issue. That’s not leadership. That’s cowardice. You don’t explain away a career criminal’s violence as if it’s a case of seasonal allergies. Fourteen arrests. Fourteen! And your response is to sound like a Hallmark card about “compassion”? Tell that to Zarutska’s family.

And where the hell are the prosecutors? These are the geniuses who had every chance to put Brown behind bars for good. They had the record. They had the history. Instead, they kicked the can down the road, cutting deals and reducing charges until he was back on the streets. They talk about “restorative justice.” Let’s be clear, restorative justice is code for we care more about criminals than victims.

Here’s the ugly truth:

• Justice in America isn’t about guilt or innocence anymore. It’s about whether you can buy the best attorney or whether your identity fits the narrative.

• It isn’t about protecting law-abiding citizens. It’s about bending over backward to “understand” criminals while ignoring the trail of bodies they leave behind.

• It isn’t blind. It’s wide-eyed and corrupt.

Mayor Lyles treats public safety like a side project. She’s more worried about protecting her political image than protecting her citizens. Prosecutors in Mecklenburg County have turned law and order into a social experiment. Instead of protecting the community, they’re testing out theories about equity while people die. Together, they’ve created a system where justice doesn’t mean accountability, means excuses.

Let’s talk about GoFundMe for a second. The platform was supposed to be a way for people to support passion projects or medical bills, not serve as a damn burial registry for victims of political failure. But here we are, again, watching strangers on the internet donate $20 at a time to help bury a woman who never should’ve died in the first place. And what does GoFundMe do? They slap a blue checkmark on the campaign, maybe toss in a few bucks from their “donation match fund,” and then pat themselves on the back like they solved something. Newsflash: they didn’t.

And when the backlash started, when people noticed how grotesque it was that justice had to be crowd-funded, GoFundMe did what all cowardly corporations do: they ran. Fast. One second the campaign’s getting promoted with corporate flair, and the next, it’s quietly yanked off the platform like it never existed. No explanation. No accountability. Just a retreat into the shadows once the PR stench got too strong.

GoFundMe has become the digital janitor for a society that keeps shitting the bed. Every time our leaders screw up, GoFundMe’s right there to sweep up the mess and turn it into a marketing campaign. They love to talk about “community” and “hope” while profiting off grief. But here's the raw truth: real justice means not needing a funeral fundraiser in the first place. When your system fails so hard that death becomes a bill and GoFundMe becomes the bill collector, you’ve officially left civilized society behind.

The real compassion isn’t coddling predators. It’s protecting the people they prey on. And when leaders like Lyles and her prosecutors shrug their shoulders, they’re not just failing, they’re enabling.

Which is why Mayor Vi Lyles should resign. She has lost the moral authority to lead a city when her own residents are dying because of her failures. And if the Mecklenburg County prosecutors can’t find the backbone to put away predators like Brown, then they should pack their desks too.

Americans are tired of this crap. They’re tired of seeing criminals treated better than victims. They’re tired of leaders who care more about optics than outcomes. And they’re tired of funerals for people who should still be alive.

GoFundMe has become the digital janitor for a society that keeps shitting the bed. Every time our leaders screw up, GoFundMe’s right there to sweep up the mess and turn it into a marketing campaign. They love to talk about “community” and “hope” while profiting off grief. But here's the raw truth: real justice means not needing a funeral fundraiser in the first place. When your system fails so hard that death becomes a bill—and GoFundMe becomes the bill collector—you’ve officially left civilized society behind. And in Charlotte, that failure has names attached, Mayor Vi Lyles and the Mecklenburg County prosecutors. They don’t just deserve criticism. They deserve removal.

Blind justice is dead. But it doesn’t have to stay that way. We either fix this mess; demand accountability, restore punishment that actually fits the crime, and stop giving infinite breaks to people who don’t deserve them, or we can keep burying innocent victims while our so-called leaders hide behind buzzwords.

And let’s be brutally honest: when people see predators like Decarlos Brown walk free again and again until they kill, the public starts thinking about real punishment. Not “restorative justice.” Not another slap on the wrist. I’m talking about punishments that actually sting. Some folks will say he belongs in a wood chipper. Others would gladly hand the victim’s family a locked room and an hour alone. I don’t have to endorse it to tell you this: when the justice system fails this spectacularly, people start craving justice in its rawest form. And that should scare the hell out of every mayor, prosecutor, and politician who let this happen.

Your call, Charlotte. Your call, America.