NC GOP senators on opposite sides on federal response to Charlotte slaying

senator Tom Teleles, RN.C. He warned that he will face a problem if the White House decides to focus its attention on its mandate, with the increasing scrutiny of democratic policies and its relationship to the crime.

Irina Zarutska, the Ukrainian refugee, was killed in Charlotte, North Carolina, last month while she was in general transit. The suspect in the crime, Derlos Brown Junior, had previously been arrested 14 times before his arrest and was charged with killing.

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Since the story, which is driven by a terrible video of the alleged interaction between Brown and Zarutska, has spread at the national level, as well as criticism of democratic crime policies in blue cities such as Charlotte.

President Donald Trump accused that “blood is at the hands of Democrats who refuse to put bad persons in prison,” and that Prosecutor Bam Bondi, who directed the prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice to prosecute Brown’s federal prosecution, claimed that “the terrible murder of Zarutska” is a direct result of the failure of the soft policies that criminals place.

Their feelings come at a time when the Trump administration prompted federal intervention in democracy -led cities. The administration has already sent forces to Washington, DC, and plans to send the goalkeeper to Memphis and perhaps in Timur after that.

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President Donald Trump during the White House cabinet meeting in Washington on August 26, 2025. (Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

I told Tillis Fox News Digital that there was “a lot of cities that we should go before Charlotte.”

“On the one hand, I do not think we should be the power of the nation’s police, because you know what is happening? We will hide the failure of democratic leaders who make their cities less safe.” “But we also have to be realistic and see that there are some cities and red situations that are also in the best 20 list.”

“All I say is that we have a problem, and I am working before it becomes a national thing, the work we need to do there to fix the free journey of the subway there.” “But this does not rise to a level of national intervention. I think this will be a transgression, in general.”

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Ukrainian Iryna Zarutska came to the United States to escape the war but was stabbed to death in Charlotte. (Evgeniya Rush/Godundment)

The Senator Ted Pod, RN.C had a different vision from the situation.

He said that the “broken policies” encouraged by former ruler Roy Cooper, who is running for the seat of Teles, and the current ruler Josh Stein, DN.C, led to “this nonsense from criminal justice.”

“What I want to see is for the local government to work as it should,” said Bod. “This is the city’s government without these non -monetary struggling crimes in the streets that have turned away from homelessness and drugs. If they stop doing so, those crazy policies, then there is certainly no need to send the National Guard.”

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“I would like to say that negligence, such local governments, was in this case, calling for a larger base,” continued. “This is the federalists, and they do this in Chicago, and they do it in Washington, DC, because it was a local neglected. So politics concerns things at home as well.”

Fox News Digital connects to Stein’s office to comment but he did not hear immediately.