""A beautiful young girl," Trump said, "with a magnificent future in this country. And now she's dead. She was slaughtered by a deranged monster who was roaming free after 14 prior arrests.""
""That larger social problem, that we have just a very inadequate sort of mental health safety net or treatment system that's not something that the mass transit system itself can fix,""
""But that winds up playing out in things like what we saw in the tragedy in Charlotte.""
Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old refugee from Ukraine, was stabbed to death by a stranger on Charlotte's light-rail on Aug. 22. President Trump highlighted her death and described the attacker as a "deranged monster" with 14 prior arrests. Right-leaning politicians have used the assault to criticize public transit, even though overall train and bus crime remains low. The alleged attacker has a history of mental illness and numerous convictions. Charlotte authorities increased transit police presence after the killing. Criminologists say transit agencies cannot alone solve broader problems such as homelessness, drug addiction, and weak mental-health treatment systems.
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