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Happy Thursday morning, everyone. This is Haley Carania here, host of Scrolling with Haley filling in for Vince. Welcome to Vince. I always love filling in for Vince when he's out and about. I think he's in New York today with his daughter. And as a New Yorker, I just want to say keep your head on a swivel, Vince. Keep your head on a swivel. You never know what's coming. We're going to get into some of this crimes that's sweeping the nation today on the show. But first, Ukrainian refugee Irina Zaruska. Remember, she was brutally and senselessly murdered on the Charlotte Light Rail August 22, 2025. President Trump said in the days after her death that if her murderer wasn't handled, we don't have a country. So I guess we don't have a country. Plus, videos of teen takeovers are going viral. It's like spring break with minors. But instead of jello shots, they have guns. So what could go wrong then? Despite the Trump administration's best efforts to remove illegal aliens from the country, the ones they haven't caught yet are wreaking havoc on Americans. And you don't have to live in a sanctuary state or to fall victim of one of their crimes. All of that and so much more on Vince. But first, I want to tell you about Bon Charge. I've been using the infrared sauna blanket and red light face mask ever since they sent some to me and I cannot recommend them enough. I first turned to the sauna blanket to help with muscle recovery and detoxification and it's become a game changer. It's easy to use. Just wrap yourself up and let the infrared heat work its magic. I've noticed a real difference in how relaxed and rejuvenated I feel afterwards. The red light face mask is equally impressive. I've been using it to help improve my skin's texture and reduce inflammation. I've seen some fantastic results. It's like having a mini spa treatment right at home. 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She wants her to wear dresses all the time, which I think is funny. It's so not like the left. The left would want women to wear suits and women and men to wear dresses, but when Melania Trump does it, then it's, you know, all hell breaks loose. So, anyway, I want to get into this story from yesterday and just kind of recap what has happened since Irene Zarutska's death. So if you don't remember, Irene Zarutska and her family were living in a bomb shelter for months as Ukraine fought off Russia. Eventually, Zarutska's mother, Anna, moved Irina and her brother and her sister to Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2022, while their father stayed in Ukraine. For three years, the family lived in the United States, and Irina assimilated to American life, you know, the best she. She could. She enrolled back in college. She started learning to speak English. She was dating a boy who taught her how to drive for the first time. And she got a job at a local pizzeria. And on August 22, Irina was stabbed in the neck on her way home from that job. We've all seen the video. She was minding her own business, scrolling on her phone. This is just her commute home. This is not unlike everything that all of us Americans do all the time. Going to work. A lot of us take the train, A lot of us take the bus. A lot of us drive. A lot of us rely on public transportation. When I lived in New York, I certainly had to. This is not. This shouldn't happen, obviously, but this deranged individual pulled a pocket knife out of his sweatshirt and stabbed her multiple times. And you can see this video here. This is what is so disturbing. These are the last seconds of Irina Zarutska's life. And it happened so quickly. But this man goes off the train immediately. You can see there's blood on the floor. It just makes me absolutely sick to watch a shocked Irina realize that she had been fatally stabbed. She looks her Killer in the eye before crying, her head in her hands, struggling for a minute before finally falling to the ground and bleeding out. But by far the most disturbing part of this whole situation is that nobody helped her. Nobody helped her. In this video, it shows just the breakdown of every single person and their reactions in that moment. Again, this is a fellow human being, a human being that has just been killed. She's fighting for her life. These are the last seconds of her life. And there's a woman next to her that's looking at her, knows it's happening. And their first instinct is to get off the train and get away from her. The man who brutally stabbed Irina said, I got that white girl before exiting the train. I got that white girl. Here's the video. You can see everyone's reaction to this stabbing, this fatal stabbing. They're all looking at what's happening. They're looking out for themselves, leaving the train. I mean, no one was consoling her in that moment. No one asked if she needed medical attention, I mean, obviously. But no one seemed to jump into action and do anything helpful when that man stabbed her, said, I got that white girl, and then exited the train. Thankfully, he was arrested by police and he was known by police. Based on these CCTV cameras and all this security footage, they know that he was riding the train all day long. Did he have a ticket to do so? No. Security footage also shows that he was passed multiple times by Charlotte Area Transportation System security guards. And, you know, think of these people that are supposed to work on trains. I mean, no one asked him for a ticket or anything. Maybe he jumped a turnstile. I know when I was working in New York and living in New York, I would see people do that all the time. You didn't have to pay for the subway if you didn't want to. If you wanted to break the law, you could do that. And people did it all the time. Homeless people ran. They just took the subway all day long. They would switch trains, and that's what they did all day long. So this guy, no different, he was seen talking and laughing to himself, clearly unwell. He should have been behind bars for however many crimes he had committed, but he wasn't. He had been known to the authorities since 2007. He was at the center of 14 criminal cases in Mecklenburg County. 14. And he was charged in at least four separate cases for shoplifting, larceny, breaking and entering, felony conspiracy. Court records show he was convicted of all of those charges except conspiracy. He pulled a gun on a man and robbed him of $450. He took a plea deal, went to jail for six years. Then a year ago, he was having some sort of a mental episode at a hospital. He called 911 and was arrested for misuse of calling 911. He was arrested, let go by a judge. So again in jail, released, arrested, let go by a judge. Then in July, just a month before he killed Irina Zarutska, a judge didn't even think he was mentally there enough to understand all of the charges that he was faced with. So instead of getting him the mental health treatment that he needed and locking this person away, he went on to murder Irina Zarutska because she was white and he was armed and dangerous and crazy, and the system allowed for him to get away with murder. Irena's story became a rallying cry for conservatives and a lot of what we stand for politically, which is to clean up our country's crime problem, to support our law enforcement officers, not defund them, and to actually hold criminals accountable instead of soft on crime policies that allow for criminals like this to reoffend. You know, just months before his own death, Charlie Kirk was beside himself over the death of Irina Zarutska, pointing out the mass hypocrisy of how the Democrats dropped everything and protested on behalf of George Floyd. And then they were eerily silent when a white woman was killed for no reason other than her skin color. Remember, George Floyd wasn't killed because of his skin color. But that's the issue that the Democrats made it right. They turned it into this entire race war and they burned down cities because of it. Then the same thing happens. Not even the same thing. What they were fighting for actually happened to Irina Zarutska. And nothing. Right? Blm. Of course, they don't care about all lives. They just care about black lives. They only care about black lives when they're killed by police officers. But they don't see that hypocrisy. Charlie Kirk was trying to point that out. He was sounding the alarm on the magistrate judge that allowed for this schizophrenic career criminal to walk free, tweeting this magistrate judge Teresa Stokes was released. He released to Carlos Brown on Cashless Bailey before he murdered Irina Zarutska. This woman, not even a licensed lawyer in California, I'm sorry, North Carolina, where this took place, not even a licensed lawyer. So I looked into this because he linked to the Post Millennials reporting, and it says this. When Theresa Stokes name is entered into the North Carolina State Bar Lawyer lookup tool, an error is presented indicating the judge, although overseeing a magistrate court, does not have the ability to practice law as a lawyer professionally in the state of North Carolina. Magistrate judges in the state do not have to be licensed lawyers according to state law. Interesting. Interesting that you don't need to be licensed in the state that you're working in. You don't have to be a licensed lawyer to be a magistrate judge. That's. That's interesting. Well, other state laws need to be looked at as well. And in North Carolina, state lawmakers passed House Bill 307, also known as Irena's law. And that was in response to this senseless killing. This would restrict cashless bail, which would prevent people charged with petty crimes from evil, even that to be walk free and to reoffend easily. If they could just pay their way out of jail or not have to pay anything, then what's the point of having jail at all? I mean, why even take these people to jail if you're just gonna let them out? And then Irena's law would also bring back the electric chair and firing squads to kill inmates on death row. And of course, some House Democrats sided with Republicans, but no, semi, no Senate Democrats did. Some Democrats argued that these new measures would not have prevented Irena Zarutska's death and that Republicans were just playing politics. How would these measures not have prevented Irina's death? This man was in and out of jail, in and out of the system for 14 years. Clearly the system is broken. Clearly the system doesn't work. Clearly no rehabilitation was happening. Clearly he wasn't getting the mental health treatment that he needed. Clearly he wasn't in jail long enough. You go to jail, you're supposed to, I don't know, learn your lesson. The point that I think most Americans feel is send someone to jail so that they're off the streets, not just in there for a few years, back out, back for a few months, back out, let out of jail. It's ridiculous. And the Democrats in Washington after this, Irene Zarutska's law was passed in North Carolina. They said that Republicans were playing politics. Democrats kept up the charade. For whatever reason, they decided to stand with criminals and not innocent bystanders. Do you remember this? This was at the State of the Union. Democrats refused to stand for Irina's parents. Watch this a dozen times.