Charlotte, North Carolina, made news in August when a young Ukrainan woman, Iryna Zarutska, was stabbed to death by black thug Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr, 34, within the city’s light rail system. After the brutal murder, Brown is reported to have said,”I got that white girl.”
Charlotte was soon added to Homeland Security’s list of targets. And last week, agents arrived. On Saturday alone, they arrested 81 criminal aliens.
Democrat politicians, including the state’s governor, Josh Stein, immediately began complaining about the operation — dubbed “Charlottes’ Web — but the city clearly needs help. Some parts of it, according to local authorities, have seen a one-year 200-percent rise in the murder rate.
Charlotte, with a 2020 population of 874,579, is the most populous city in North Carolina. Astonishingly, of that nearly 900,000, at least 150,000 are foreigners.
In the Zarutsha case, the perpetrator was not an immigrant; the victim was. But Charlotte clearly needs help with its crime problem. A group of Republican legislators on November 5 wrote to Gov. Stein, noting the following:
Recently, the city faced eight homicides in seven days. The murder rate in uptown Charlotte is now 200% higher than it was a year ago. According to the Fraternal Order of Police, aggravated assaults involving knives or guns have risen from 86 in 2024 to 111 in 2025, and personal strong-arm robberies have increased from 26 to 31 in the same period.
Unfortunately, not all of Charlotte’s residents want help. During a sweep of a wooded area within the city limits on Sunday, angry protestors surrounded federal agents carrying out Operation Charlotte’s Web. They screamed and shouted but the operation continued. Being helped whether they want it or not.
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