JD Vance Uses Ukrainian Woman's Death To Justify Homeless NYC Subway Killing
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A refugee's violent death has sparked a firestorm on the right.
Vice President JD Vance weighed into debate about the North Carolina stabbing death of a young Ukrainian immigrant with an inflammatory comparison to another public transit killing, suggesting tentative support for vigilantism.
“Daniel Penny prevented this from happening on a NYC subway,” Vance wrote alongside a still image of a mortally injured Iryna Zarutska.
“Instead of thanking him, many hated him for it,” Vance said.
The 2023 subway incident sparked intense debate over the way that Penny, a white marine veteran, justified putting a homeless Black man, Jordan Neely, in a fatal chokehold because he had been acting erratically, responding to a mental health crisis with deadly violence.
In Charlotte, North Carolina, Zarutska was attacked after choosing a seat on a train in late August, wearing the uniform of a local pizza parlor. Security camera footage shows a man sitting directly behind her suddenly stand, raise an arm, and slash her neck and upper torso. She covers her face as she loses consciousness.
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