Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles is coming under fire for her woke comments calling for compassion for the deranged vagrant who is accused of viciously murdering a Ukrainian refugee on a train in the city last month.
“This is a tragic situation that sheds light on problems with society safety nets related to mental healthcare and the systems that should be in place,” Lyles wrote in a statement to WSOC-TV reporter Joe Bruno at the time.
The Democrat added that the alleged perpetrator, Decarlos Brown Jr. “appears to have suffered a crisis.”
She claimed that the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) where the savage caught-on-video killing took place is “by and large a safe transit system” — despite the unprovoked stabbing of Iryna Zarutska on her way home from work.
Video shows the madman unfolding a knife and preparing to attack an unsuspecting Zarutska as she fiddled with her phone, earbuds in.
“We will never arrest out way out [of] issues such as homelessness and mental health,” she wrote.
She added that she is “not villainizing those who struggle with their mental health or those who are unhoused.”
She said mental health, like the schizophrenia Brown was diagnosed with, “needs to be treated with the same compassion, diligence and commitment as cancer and heart disease,” adding, “those who are unhoused are more frequently the victim of crimes and not the perpetrators.”
Lyles didn’t mention Brown or his career criminal status in her comments, which she concluded with a plea to “do better for those members of our community who need help and have no place to go.”
The mayor did not respond to a request for comment by The Post.
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