Marc Caputo

THE OFFENSE

Axios’ Marc Caputo denigrated the murder of Iryna Zarutska by claiming conservatives were using the issue for political capital.

THE TRUTH

Zarutska’s murderer, Decarlos Brown, Jr., was a repeat felon and career criminal who had recently been released from jail in accordance with “no cash bail” policies in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.Marc Caputo claimed that those who would promulgate footage of this horrific event serve as, “a visual counterpoint to statistics showing crime decreases.” Ask yourself, why would Axios, who according to their mission statement claim to be, “turning our full focus to a deeper crisis faced by Americans: the erosion of truth, trust, safety and sanity in the news,” be devoting their labor toward a biased narrative that erodes truth, trust, safety and sanity in the news. There is nothing trustworthy about the way that Axios covered this story. There is nothing safe about discouraging citizens from advocating on behalf of Iryna Zarutska, and there is nothing sane about choosing to push back against those holding murderous animals accountable for their crimes. This tragic incident is deserving of America’s attention. Axios and Marc Caputo chose to publish an article that treated citizens calling for law and order in their country with disdain rather than report the news in an honest and unbiased manner.

KEY POINTS

• Axios disparaged those seeking to hold Iryna Zarutska’s murderer accountable.

SOURCES

• Stabbing video fuels MAGA's crime message
• Mecklenburg County has a new bail policy. But does it go too far — or not far enough?