As is known, on 22 August 2025, Ukrainian citizen Irina Zarutskaya, 23, was stabbed to death on a Charlotte light train, North Carolina. Footage of the event is doing the rounds on the internet. The footage shows that Irina was the only white person within the scope of the surveillance camera. The black perpetrator of the crime sat behind her. Apart from him there were five other black people – four males!
That the murder conducted in cold blood was heinous goes without saying, and we are not going to focus on it. Rather, we are going to draw the reader’s attention to the total indifference of the black passengers who witnessed the event. Even though the murderer left the place, none of the remaining passengers thought as much as to approach the victim and offer help. Why was that so?
Answer number one: they themselves were scared for their lives. This explanation is not particularly convincing as the perpetrator – as already mentioned – left the train car. It is all the less convincing since the four of the black passengers were black males. No courage?
Answer number two: the witnesses’ moral stance has been debilitated by the American legal system where you can never be sure what the court of law will decide: you might as well land up in prison for interfering. But interfering apart, why did no one try to give first medical aid to the victim?
Answer number three: the remaining passengers were black while the victim was white. It is possible that the black witnesses to the crime would have helped Irina if she were black. It sounds convincing because also the perpetrator selected Irina for her whiteness – he was not interested in any other person of which one was a black woman also sitting in a row in front of him across the aisle.
When a black person is killed as a result of a police action, much of the United States rises up in arms and demands severe punishment for the officer responsible for the killing, shops are set ablaze, American citizens of African origin jump on cars and smash windows, while all chant black lives matter. How do we know that no reaction remotely similar to what we have described above will ever be possible?
The mainstream media are trying to play the event down: they would blow a similar event out of proportion if it were not the black-on-white crime, but, conversely, the white-on-black crime. Why?
Even here, the murder was viewed by the mainstream media as an opportunity to throw a barb at Russia. It was all too often emphasized that Irina Zarutskaya fled Ukraine in fear of Russian aggression as if the ultimate perpetrator was Russia’s president. But really? How does her origin or whatever from her life relate to the murder? It would be more to the point whether such an event would have occurred elsewhere. Would Irina have been murdered on a Moscow Metro or a Moscow light train? Would Moscow co-passengers show so much indifference to her fate? We’d like to leave you with these questions.
