Former Republican National Committee Chair and current North Carolina Senate candidate Michael Whatley told Newsmax that Democrat policies under former Gov. Roy Cooper have left the state vulnerable to violent crime, pointing to the recent killing of a Ukrainian refugee.
“It’s incredible when you look back at Roy Cooper’s tenure, everything that he did to be soft on crime, the fact that he actually put together a task force to reimagine law enforcement in North Carolina,” Whatley, who is campaigning against Cooper to represent North Carolina in the U.S. Senate, said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “We don’t need to reimagine law enforcement. We need to enforce the law.”
Whatley urged current Gov. Josh Stein, a Democrat, to sign Iryna’s Law, legislation passed by the Republican-controlled legislature after the stabbing of Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee killed on a train Aug. 22. The suspect, DeCarlos Brown Jr., had been arrested 14 times before the attack.
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