Trump Demands Death Penalty for Decarlos Brown Jr.

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0:40when it's on camera like this, when the perp admits to it. I don't have any issues in theory of firing up old Sparky for this absolute POS who would do this to a pretty young girl, or anybody else for that matter, who is just sitting there minding their own business on a bus on her way home from work. This girl wasn't out there asking for a handout. Do you know how hard it is to work a crappy job like that and to have to ride the bus afterwards just to get home? The monster who stabbed this poor woman to death has never been able to keep a job, according to his own sister, a repeat violent offender that people are stupidly daring to call homeless, which is a criminally reductionist term that should be punishable by some form of centralized deprogramming.

1:23Let me be clear about that. This criminally insane street thug wasn't a homeless person who just needs three square meals, a warm bed, and a subscription to Newsweek. He was and is one of millions of criminally insane street thugs roaming Main Street USA at all hours of the night, barking obscenities at invisible demons when they're not hunched over, staring at the ground after being brought back from a fentanyl overdose with Narcan. Tent cities as far as the eye can see across the USA, an open air insane asylum and drug market filled with human trafficking and human waste on the ground filled with heroin needles.

1:58Isn't that a lovely picture? Well, that's what it is. And we're not talking about the kind of people who want help. We're talking about the kind of folks who just want to slam drugs all day and be left alone in their tents so they can come out at night when working people are sleeping to break into our cars and garages to fund their next fix. Isn't this why we pay taxes? To keep these criminally insane knife-wielding loser nutjobs off our city buses from randomly murdering people going home from a long day at work? Yeah, I say random because I refuse to play this idiotic race game because skin color is only relevant to racists.

2:30And there are a god awful lot of them on social media right now coming out of the woodwork like cockroaches over this. Don't be a simp and make this about race. This is exactly what the people who are controlling us want. Some sort of stupid race war so they can take away more of our rights while we're busy fighting each other in the streets. This is not about race. This isn't even about the cowards on the bus who didn't at least reach out to that poor girl as she bled out on that bus seat crying and alone. Nobody's blaming you for not confronting the crazy guy with a knife after he just stabbed that poor girl repeatedly, but he walked away.

3:00And everybody who's seen that footage witnessed your absolute indifference and lack of empathy in this situation, and you should be publicly shamed for that, as you rightfully are now. But that's not even the issue here. Because even these cowards didn't ask to be put in this ugly situation. It was the stupid bastard with a knife that deserves the blame. And it was the system that failed this poor woman who was murdered that deserves the blame. Next headline at Newsweek. North Carolina Republicans demand and removal of Judge Teresa Stokes over DeCarlos Brown Jr. Apparently, she was the one that presided over a previous case involving DeCarlos Brown Jr.

3:36months before he was accused of murdering that poor girl. Republicans questioned Stokes, a magistrate judge for the Charlotte District in North Carolina, over her decision to release Brown in a case from earlier this year. They said this decision gave grounds for removal. Yes, absolutely. Get this magistrate out of there, obviously. but a magistrate shouldn't be handling cases of serious repeat offenders like this in the first place because they're not really judges. They're more like a blend between a judge and a clerk. They don't even have to have law degrees if that tells you anything. Think of the DMV of judges.

4:09That might paint the right picture. Real winners, I'm sure. And I'm also sure that we can think of a hundred ways where someone like this easily lets a career criminal fall through the cracks just to go out and kill more people. But she should still find another line of work because this is inexcusable. What Elon Musk is chiming in on this? Sure, opinions from across the spectrum are welcome. Why not? Elon Musk says, quote, let's change the law. Between now and then, name and shame the DAs and judges who enable murder, rape, and robbery, but especially shame those who funded campaigns of the DAs and judges.

4:39That will make the biggest difference, unquote. I think he's absolutely right. And while we're at it, Trump could actually win some real brownie points, even from a never-Trumper like myself, if he started rounding up all the violent street druggies hiding in their tent cities and placing them in mandatory rehab centers operated by FEMA because this is a national disaster and FEMA isn't doing anything right now so build some camps round up all the bums let's figure out their mental health situations get them cleaned up and properly medicated weed out the violent from the non-violent put the violent ones in permanent institutions and the non-violent ones in work programs use disaster relief funds do whatever you gotta do because this is an absolute disaster from sea to shining sea.

5:20And it seems to me like this is a much bigger problem than immigration. Just look at this poor Ukrainian woman who was senselessly murdered on the bus on her way home from work, paying her taxes, contributing to the American dream, just to be cut down in the prime of her life by some scumbag, druggie asshole who couldn't keep his shit together long enough to even hold a job. Born and raised in the good old US of A, baby. Pathetic. Disgusting. Next headline in Newsweek, DeCarlos Brown's own mother says he shouldn't have been in the community. His mother said that he was diagnosed with schizophrenia following his release from prison for an armed robbery conviction.

5:55She said the courts failed by allowing her son to be out in the community despite knowing about his previous criminal history and mental health issues. Yeah, well, does that change anything for you? Because it actually might for me, if I'm being totally honest. On one hand, I think the death penalty, as Trump is demanding, is way too easy for people like this, and I want to see them suffer in prison for a long time before they're given that sweet release from this realm. On the other hand, if this guy is truly unable to control himself because of a real medical condition like schizophrenia, is it really fair to place all the blame on him?

6:30I'm just saying if, and it's a big if, this person truly could not control his violent tendencies because of a medical condition, then somebody else is to blame and should be held accountable for letting him roam the streets unmedicated and unsupervised. And if that is the case, I think it would be unethical to give him the death penalty from my perspective. So then where does the blame go from there? Should it be just as severe as the death penalty that many are demanding for the perp? I don't know. This is why I err on the side of no death penalty, because if they did something bad enough to deserve death, they should die of old age after serving hard time in prison.

7:05Death is the easy way out for lifers. That's why they beg for it. And it should be said that the vast majority of people living with schizophrenia do not randomly murder people. So in that aspect, I see why the argument of holding this person accountable regardless could be made. Ultimately, this could have been prevented in many ways. And the moral of the story here is once again that our government has failed us all by letting this kind of thing happen on Main Street, USA every single day. So there's audio out there of this alleged psychopathic murderer. I know. Doesn't it seem ridiculous to say alleged when it was on camera?

7:39Anyway, DeCarlos Brown blamed materials inside of his body for causing him to kill this poor girl in disturbing audio revealed by his sister. I guess let's take a listen. The material, uh, put it like the material using my body to establish it. You know that's not me. I'm talking about this for no reason. But since they did that, since they did that, now they gotta investigate the material my body is supposed to. Since they ain't gonna do all that, now they gotta investigate. I don't have nothing. Hey, they just lashed out on them. That's what happened. They lashed out on them. Whoever was working the material, they lashed out on them.

8:12Okay, so no personal responsibility. He admits to doing it, but says it was somebody else controlling him. Alright, well, this is pretty easy. The guy needs to go off to the loony bin for the rest of his life while the rest of us figure out who was responsible for letting him roam the streets unmedicated to terrorize the neighborhoods of Charlotte, North Carolina for the last 20 years. Maybe it's the magistrate, maybe it's the district attorney, maybe it's both of them. But somebody needs to pay for this, and if this thug is incompetent to stand trial, which it sure looks and sounds like he might be, someone besides him needs to face some serious jail time for neglect.

8:42When people can't take care of their crazy relatives to the point where they're roaming the streets with pocket knives and stabbing people, it is the duty and job of our states and even our federal government to step in and protect the people from this madness that continues to grow on our streets. You've heard the horror stories and might have even seen it yourself. Street druggies taking over entire neighborhoods and setting up tents and these roaming convoys of dilapidated RVs that many of them used to cook meth in, like Breaking Bad, you know, defecating out in the open and leaving trash and dirty needles everywhere covered in dirt and stinking up our streets and depreciating property values and starting fires on purpose, starting fires on accident and sucking up all the resources that people who are actually homeless want and need.

9:23We've always had bums in America, and that's what we used to call them back in the 80s. You would always see like, you know, four or five of them sitting around the city park around the edges in the shade, either drinking from a bottle or sleeping one off. Somewhere along the line, someone put fertilizer on these clowns and somehow millions of them have popped up over the last 20 years and ruined downtown. We've always had difficult times in this country. Do not tell me this is a housing issue or that it's as simple as economics because that's why we're still in this mess. If Trump wants his approval ratings to double overnight, this is the perfect issue for him to go after, which I realize is a major assumption that the idiot could get it done right.

9:58Leave a problem like this to Trump and he'll likely try to start deporting street druggies to foreign countries, which would be problematic for obvious reasons, but bring back the mental institutions. At least you tax us to death to fund all your foreign entanglements. The least you could do is clean up our streets from the vermin who openly and proudly embrace the street druggie lifestyle as some sort of badge of honor. Hey, while you're at it, maybe you can recruit a few of them to fight some of those foreign entanglements for you. Yeah, send bums, not bombs. Give them something else to do with all that extra time they have on their hands from not working so they don't start stabbing random girls on the bus.

10:32Isn't this the least that society should be able to procure for ourselves? And to that degree, the longer we let this continue to play out, the harder it is for any of us not to accept some level of blame for allowing it to get this bad in the first place. Yes, shame on all of us for allowing it to get to this level in the first place, and I'm not just talking about this one poor girl who was slaughtered on the bus in Charlotte. I'm saying shame on all of us for continuing to address this mental health national disaster of epic proportions as a homeless crisis that can be fixed with handing out free sandwiches and a needle exchange program that's making the problem worse and it's enabling these people to embrace that druggy lifestyle that's killing them we're all to blame to some extent for allowing our leaders and government officials to let it happen so the next time you hear a politician or pundit or friend or family members say that it's a homeless crisis you should stop them and correct them for being incredibly wrong about the dynamics of this situation.

11:28Terminology matters. And until we can at least get on the same page to what the problem actually is, we're adding to the problem, not fixing it. Anyway, that's my rant for today. And until we can do it again, it's Newsweek Radio. I'm Jesse Edwards. Catch you next time. Bye. And we say bye bye. Newsweek Radio is a member of the Trust Project.