CNN contributor Van Jones said there’s “no evidence” the black Charlotte train murder suspect, DeCarlos Brown, stabbed Iryna Zarutska because she was white—even though video footage shows him saying, “I got that white girl.”
CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip on Monday said “certain people” have aimed to turn the killing into a “reciprocal George Floyd situation.” She played a clip of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk saying Zarutska, a refugee of the war in Ukraine, “was murdered just because she was white.”
Jones disagreed, arguing there was “no evidence” Brown had racial motivations {snip}
“We don’t know why that man did what he did. And for Charlie Kirk to say, ‘We know he did it because she’s white’ when there’s no evidence of that is just pure race-mongering, hate-mongering. It’s wrong,” Jones said. “For someone like Charlie Kirk, he should be ashamed of himself. No one mentioned the word ‘race,’ ‘white,’ ‘black,’ or anything—except him.”
But surveillance footage shows otherwise. After stabbing Zarutska, Brown said, “I got that white girl, got that white girl,” as he meandered around the train car.
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Kirk also accused mainstream media outlets of holding a double standard. He argued if Brown and Zarutska’s races were reversed, “it would be an apocalyptically huge national story used to impose national, sweeping political change.” {snip}
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