Charlotte Murder Exposes Democrat Failures After Career Criminal Freed by Woke Policies

The White House

September 8, 2025

Horrifying video released on Friday shows the moment and innocent woman was brutally murdered on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina — a shocking act of evil that didn’t have to happen.

The deranged monster had been arrested again and again for violent crimes spanning more than a decade. Despite that lengthy rap sheet, mental health issues, and forfeiting bonds on three occasions, a Democrat judge released him back on the streets following his most recent arrest in January — free to slaughter an innocent woman just months later.

That has become the norm in Democrat-run cities, where Radical Left policies like “no cash bail” and “defund the police” put depraved career criminals back on the streets — free to continue raping, pillaging, and killing their way through our nation.

It’s the culmination of North Carolina’s Democrat politicians, prosecutors, and judges prioritizing woke agendas that fail to protect their citizens when they need them the most:

• In 2020, the Charlotte City Council launched an initiative to “reimagine“ policing, which included diverting 911 calls away from the police department.
• In 2020, then-Governor Roy Cooper established the “Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice” — co-chaired by then-Attorney General and current Governor Josh Stein — which recommended “reimagining public safety” to “promote diversion and other alternatives to arrest,” “deemphasize” some felony crimes, prioritize “restorative justice,” and “eliminate cash bail” for many crimes.
• Over the last seven years, Mecklenburg County Criminal Justice Services has received millions of dollars from a foundation that advocates for no-cash bail and decreasing jail populations to address “inequities.”
• Mecklenburg County hired ”equity and inclusion consultants” to address “racial disparities at all levels of the justice system” and its “Office of Equity and Inclusion” lists reducing “racial disparities and disproportionality within the criminal justice system” as among its goals.
• In 2020, Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings said “law enforcement, in general, is based on racism” and their department can “probably slow down” on “discretionary arrests.”
• In 2020, Democrat State Senator Mujtaba Mohammed, who represents Charlotte, declared “independence from rogue police.”

As President Trump said today: “There are evil people. We have to be able to handle that. If we don’t handle that, we don’t have a country.”