JD Vance fumes at the men who did nothing to save Iryna Zarutska: 'We have to protect our girls'

CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA: Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday, September 24, that when he saw the video of Iryna Zarutska being killed on a train, he was furious that the men around her didn't step in.

During his interaction with the crowd in Concord on Wednesday, a person from the crowd asked the VP if he had seen the awful clip of Iryna Zarutska that went viral across social media earlier this month, and Vance shared his thought with the crowd.

JD Vance says clip of Iryna Zarutska was very hard to watch

Replying to the person's question, JD Vance said, "I have seen a lot of gruesome footage, some of them involving my friend from last couple of weeks. But the footage of Iryna is very hard to watch."

"I have not seen the whole video from start to finish. I had to cover my eyes because it is so gruesome. Maybe we all should stare at it to know the kind of evil that we are actually confronting because what happened to her was really, really disgusting," he added.

Vance mentioned, "Such people come from a deep, dark and evil place that exists. Thankfully, there are a very few number of people but those people we got to lock up in prison so that they don't kill anybody else."

The vice president then added, "When I saw the video, you know what really got me as a father? I got three little kids, two boys and my youngest is a baby girl. She is three years old and she is the apple of my eye."

Vance then mentioned that after seeing the horrific video of the 22-year-old girl, he thought he would like her daughter to have a life where she doesn't have to face any such incident.

"If you are a man...I don‘t care what skin color you are, rich or poor. But if you are a man and you see the pleading eyes of a girl looking up for protection, we have to protect our girls and our women in this country," he added and was applauded by the crowd.

"That was my reaction, that's what I thought when I saw the video," Vance concluded.

DeCarlos Brown Jr reveals motive for killing Iryna Zarutska 

Earlier in September, Iryna Zarutska's stabbing suspect DeCarlos Brown Jr claimed he killed her on August 22 because he believed she was "reading his mind", according to jailhouse audio shared by his sister with The New York Post.

Brown Jr, who is accused of stabbing Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail train, confessed the reason for the attack in a phone call from jail to his sister. In the call, he rambled through a shocking explanation for the random and senseless act of violence.

In the recording, Brown was heard rambling about "material in his body" forcing him to carry out the attack.

He said, "I don’t even know the lady. I never said not one word to the lady at all. That’s scary, ain’t it. Why would somebody stab somebody for no reason?"

Meanwhile, his sister, Tracey Brown, who also suffered a violent assault by him in 2022, said that Brown Jr had long expressed paranoid delusions, including beliefs that the government implanted a chip in him.

She added that she visited him several times after the killing to try to understand what triggered the attack.

She said, "When I went to visit him, he was mumbling and talking to himself. 'Well, what’s on your mind?' He looked at me and he was like, 'I have to get you to'. And I said, 'What do you mean you have to get me?'"

Tracey added, "He said he was on his way to the hospital, the mental hospitat. I just wanted to know why her, because he had been on the train for a while before she got on. And he said, well, she was reading my mind. He said she was reading my thoughts."