Another stabbing on a Charlotte train (12-08-2025--Hour1)

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And I am still on Twitter at Pete Calendar and that is still spelled k A l I n E R. You can also email me Pete at the Pete calendarshow dot com. All right, so is everybody feeling safe? Now? How is your perception of safety? How's that do it? But with the big announcement, remember last week, late last week where the CMPD police chief, the new police chief of Stella Patterson and U city officials and they were all like, hey, we're you know, we're gonna focus on on safety. We're gonna like surge a bunch of safety stuff into downtown because you know, your perception of safety is being undermined by what we can't tell. We don't really know why people wouldn't feel safe, but they don't feel safe for some reason. And so there we're going to be doing this, you know, surging of resources and personnel in order to make people feel safer, to improve their perception of feeling safe. And then an illegal alien homeless guy stabbed a dude on the train, So yeah, not not great timing there for Yeah, for the city court records, according to Joe Bruno at WSOC TV, court records say that Charlotte Mecklenburg police arrested Oscar Solorzano in connection with the stabbing on the light rail line. He was held on no bond and he did actually have a court appearance today and WSOC reports that Judge Keith Smith ordered Solarzano, thirty three years old, to remain in jail without bond after he was accused of stabbing a twenty four year old man in the chest Friday near North Brevard Street and East twenty second Street in court. So it was reported Joe Bruno it was in court and this is where this information was first divulged, which was Solarzano was not supposed to be on a train. He was already banned from CATS, so he had already acted like associopath enough where he got banned from public transit, and somehow or another just banning him. Didn't quite do the train. He still got on the train, which really isn't surprising because there's nothing to stop you from getting on the train. There isn't even really anything to stop you from just jumping on the train without paying. Which is what he did. Also, yeah, he didn't pay, So once again another person didn't pay the fare and stab somebody. This is now twice in the last almost four months. Arena Zarutska the story that went viral, and now you've got this story which is obviously now getting national attention as well, because it's like, what the hell is happening in Charlotte. That's what people are asking, what is going on in Charlotte. According to the DA's office, Solarzano was drinking alcohol on the train and started yelling at passengers, and that's when this twenty four year old guy told him to stop and just leave everybody alone, the DA's office said. Solarzano then drank a bit more, walked over to the victim, started yelling at him, and the victim told him to back away. Solar Zano would not back away, fearing for his safety. The DA's office says, quote, the victim pushed Solarzano, who fell over a seat, probably because he's drunk, but yeah, he got pushed down, got pushed away because he's getting all up in this guy in the victim's face, so the victim pushes him away. He falls over a seat. He gets up, pulls out a large fixed blade knife, and the victim backs up tries to get away from him. Solarzano, though, stabs the victim in the chest. He then flees when the train comes to a stop at the next station, and when police found him, he had slurred speech, red eyes, and booze breath. The Charlot Michluer Police Department said he actually admitted to everything, which will make the trial much easier. Yeah, all right, if you're listening to this show, oh, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. 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Russ says that dude was banned from the country twice. Why would a ban from a train keep him off the train. It's a very astute observation. That's an astute observation. Yes, banning him from the country didn't keep him out, So banning him from the train and the buses, why would that keep him out? That's a fair point. Also, he says, my perception about safety is highly affected by my observations about safety. So no, I'm not feeling super safe in the city. Yeah. So let me go back to this WSOC article. The attacker on the light rail line that stabbed a twenty four year old man in the chest, who by the way, the last report on his condition that I have seen is that he is still in critical condition but stable. So if you are of the praying kind, say a prayer for this man and his recovery as well as his family. Solarzano is currently inside the Mecklemburg County jail. That's the suspect. Ice has lodged a detainer against this guy, and now our sheriff will have to comply. And by the way, it is still unknown. I've been trying to track down the chronology on all of this because we have some details about his prior arrests. For example, according to the Department of Homeland Security, the suspect is from Handros and he was deported in twenty eighteen during the first Trump administration. He was then arrested attempting to cross the border again in twenty twenty one, but I don't know what date that was, but I assume it was probably un dur the Biden administration, which I'm surprised that they caught him number one, and really surprised that they sent him back. But he had already been deported once and usually if you've got the deportation and then order against you and they send you home and then you come back again. That's a felony, and so usually they will send you back again. So he crossed the border again in twenty twenty one, he gets caught, they send him back home again. He then enters for a third time. But this is an unknown date and location, so we don't know where he crossed or when he crossed, don't know when the latest one was. But he's got a record, he has prior offenses, and it appears that these crimes were committed in North Carolina. I don't know what the chronology is. Were these crimes committed prior to twenty eighteen and the first deportation, or were they committed after his re entry for the third time, because the second time he got popped coming across the border and he got sent right back. So is it like, are these offenses things that he was charged with after he crossed over yet again sometime after twenty twenty one, in which case then you know, well not, in which case we want to know where were these crimes committed. Did he end up in a jail? Did he end up in a jail like Mecklenburg Counties where we do not honor ice detainer requests, and so he was released after that, even though he had been deported twice before. I don't know, I did, yeah, I did see this. I've got a couple of people that have sent me screenshots of his arrest intake, I should say, the intake website for Mecklimber County Jail, and you can look up the inmates, oh sorry, the residents. You can look up their. Mug shots and stuff. And he is classified as a white male. So yeah, I'm not sure what that does to the data collection and the stats except completely screw it all up. But anyway, he was arrested previously for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, destroying evidence, resisting arrest, using a false ID, as well as convictions for robbery and illegal re entry. And it says these crimes do appear to have happened in North Carolina. That's according to WSOC TV. But I think the real story here is the republic reaction to the story. Am I right? Like that's the real story. That's always the real story. That's rule number two of Journalisming. Rule number two is that when the story is about a Republican scandal, then the story is the scandal. But when it's a Democrat scandal, then. The story is the Republican reaction to the scandal, you see, And so we are getting that kind of coverage. Of course, from the Charlotte Observer headline, Trump lashes out as if like lashes out. Shouldn't you guys be lashing out? Shouldn't everybody be upset about this? Shouldn't everybody be angry? Trump lashes out as latest Charlotte light rail stabbing reignites political fight. That's the headline, the story by Mary Ramsey. The reporter starts fussly quote another stabbing on Charlotte's light rail system reignited political conversations about the city's handling of crime and immigration. Right, these are political conversations, No, they're they're people just outraged. This just happened. We just had the murder of Arena Zarutzka that prompted all of this coverage, all of this focus on Charlotte's crime problem, right, and then we had all of the response from the city and from the Charlotte Area transit system. They're like, you know, this is unacceptable. We're going to you know, ramp up presents and we're going to put more people around, and we're going to paint you know, boxes on the platforms where if you're standing in that box, you better have paid for a fair. And we're going to try some new technology to figure out how to make sure that people have paid the fair before they get on the train. But we actually, I don't even know if they've painted the boxes yet. But the response was because of the horrific attack. These aren't political conversations, you know, I maybe I'm nitpicking too much here. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life. And our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and Mint Hill, North Carolina. 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I guess it needs to be called a portrait. It may be a glamour shot, a family photo. That's that's a fair point. These aren't These aren't inmates. Inmates get mugshots. These are residents, so well, I guess we would call them a portrait. Joe Bruno reported also that this suspect that's been held without bond address is listed as the roof above homeless center, so he is a twice deported criminal illegal alien who is living in or at least lists as his address the homeless shelter. Charlotte Area Transit has not said whether PSS, which is the company that provides security for cats. They have not said whether there were any PSS employees or personnel on the train at the time of the attack. It doesn't seem like it. It doesn't seem like there was anybody any kind of security on the train. And they have told us that they can't staff one person for every train, for every car, basically because you can't walk between the cars on our light rail system, you can't jump between the two cars, so you'd have to put one on each car. The mayor put out a statement, having learned from the previous stabbing of Arena Zarutska, the Charlotte Mayer at least now is a little bit more vi on the spot, a little bit more responsive to these stabbings on the light rail system. She came out with a statement posted up onto Twitter formerly known as x She says everyone deserves to be and feel safe in our city. Well, to quote Clint Eastwood in the documentary Unforgiven, deserving got nothing to do with this. Okay, this isn't a matter of deserving things. This is a matter of we are paying for these things. We have entered into a social contract with GOVC. You are to do these things. It's not a matter that we deserve it and everyone deserves this or that. No, this is this is a transaction. Okay, we are paying you for a service. You need to fulfill the terms of that contract, which is to provide security, to create the umbrella of security. This is the primary thing, really, the only reason you exist as GOVC. All right. Your primary objective is securing the peace, is creating an umbrella of security, of safety, under which we may all freely operate and associate and engage in commerce and activities. If you cannot do that, then you need to clear the way for somebody else who can. She says, there is no room for violence in our community. Again, this is just platitudes, right, there's no room for violence. I disagree. As we have seen, there's obviously a lot of room. There's a lot of room for violence in our society, in our community. It's all over the place. So don't tell me there's no room for it. There's plenty of room for it. It's whether you accept it or not. And you can pay the lip service to say that this is unacceptable, but your actions indicate that it is acceptable to some degree, to a large degree. Have you heard of our sheriff Gary Not my fault, McFadden. I'm just waiting to find out that this guy went through the Mecklamburg County jail and was released even though he. Had ice detainers on him. Like, I'm just waiting for that information to come out, and it will if that is in fact the chronology, which I don't know yet. But he was. Deported, he came back in, he got caught at the border, he was deported again, and then he came back in at some point after twenty twenty one. We don't know when he came in. We don't know where he came in, and we don't know when those charges that he picked up and he was convicted on these other things, we don't know. I don't know. I haven't seen any reporting to indicate where that falls in the timeline. The mayor goes on to say in her statement, we have invested heavily in increasing security on our transit system, and CMPD has been proactive in increasing its presence across our city, including announcing a new multi agency effort just this week. Yeah, yeah, we noticed that. We noticed the big announcement and then the immediate stabbing so there are several aspects of public safety that are outside of the city's jurisdiction, including immigration policy and enforcement. But we will continue to disparage those who are doing the immigration policy and enforcement. I'm just kidding. She doesn't say that, but that is what we saw. Right when immigration enforcement came to Charlotte. All these same people were screaming, bloody murder. How dare they do this? Immigration enforcement? They pick people up, They're acting reckless and racisty at all of this. But this is outside of our jurisdiction. It's outside of our purview. No, you know what is ICE detainers, honoring the ICE detainers. And now that the legislature has basically forced our sheriff to comply, now it's very easy for you guys to be like, oh, we're cooperating totally right, But you guys never said anything about our sheriff. You never applied any kind of public pressure on him. And that's why we're seeing what we're seeing now is because we have had eight years of refusing to cooperate with ICE. And what happens is over those eight years, people get arrested, they come to the jail, they get released, and then they reoffend, and that's why we're now seeing the people after two, three, four times through the jail never being deported. That's how you get that it takes a while to amass the criminal record. There are several aspects of public safety that are outside of our jurisdiction. We will continue to focus on public safety and insuring a safe and vibrant community. Okay, you do that. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 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Cabins of Ashville has the ideal spot for you for any occasion, and they have pet friendly accommodations. Call or text eight two eight three six seven seventy sixty eight or check out all there is to offer at cabins Offashville dot com and make memories that'll last a lifetime. Alex, Welcome to the program. Hello Alexy, how are you doing? Hey? I'm well what's up? Yeah? I just want to say, if we're going to be taken immigrants, why can't we get some from civilized countries, why are we continuing continuously taking in the violent corrypt dregs of the Third world? Mean people, Well, this guy came illegally, So you're talking because that's the idea behind controlled legal immigration is that you are discerning. You know, Okay, do we want this person? I wish that as long as we're, as they say, a nation of immigrants, not get some from civilized countries. I mean, what I keep hearing is they keep, you know, they keep using the term immigrant. They don't distinguish between illegal and legal. I'm talking about, you know, if we're gonna have, you know, illegal immigration, I was hoping we could have some from some civilized countries. I mean, people keep comparing today's immigration with immigration from one hundred years ago. And by today's immigration, I mean illegal immigration as compared to the legal immigration of one hundred years ago. Back then, it was primarily European immigration, and they wanted to assimilate and they wanted to become Americans. But these current crop of illegal aliens coming into the country, they don't want to assimilate. They want to dominate. And I have a story that illustrates this perfectly. This happened about twenty years ago in uptown Charlotte. There is a car ahead of me in traffic, and it had a cartoon character urinating over the word Lamigra, I later found out is Mexican slang for the immigration and naturalization services. And I just thought I want to find out about what that meant. I thought that Makow perfectly illustrates the content that they have. Yes, some do, yeah, some do and look some some have a desire to be here and to stay here. They don't want to go back. I mean, this is the problem when conflating legal with illegal immigration. This is it makes it almost impossible to have conversations about what policy would be best implemented and what the impacts are. And Alex I appreciate the call. I mean, this is the this is the problem that the media is forcing us into this, uh, this murky conversation because it doesn't talk about illegal immigration. It's always just migrants, undocumented migrants. They find all these different ways to talk about the topic without having to to defy illegal aliens illegal immigration. And yeah, it's it's difficult. And most Americans are totally fine with legal immigration because the expectation there is that there is some sort of standard that people are meeting when they come, namely that they want to be American, they want to be a part of this project, right, that they are drawn to be American. They're not coming here and treating us like some economic zone where they just will work and then go back home. You know, that's the expectation. Now, whether that actually happens with the legal immigration system, that's a different discussion. I think. But but look again, I don't have any problem. I mean, I know Alex kept saying, you know, civilized society and this. Look there there are countries all over the world that are civilized, right. There are cities and places in various countries that are quote civilized. The problem is when there are large numbers of illegal immigrants, right, they've already shown a propensity to violate the law. Particularly this guy from Honduras who has been deported twice before. He keeps violating our law to come in. He's homeless, he's not participating in the society. He's using our freedom and he's using our lax enforcement. He's using our good hearted nature right to help people in his condition. He's listed as a resident or his address at least is at roof above, which is this homeless center. And I went and looked at their website, one of the one of the things that they vote. And I'm not here to drag Roof above. It's not their fault, right, But when you say our services are specifically designed with no or very low barriers to getting help, This is intentional, right, they say, our soup kitchen provides meals to anyone that shows up at our door. Okay, our year round emergency shelters do not require photo identification, So no barrier or very low barrier to getting help, quote unquote. So this guy knows that this service is available. He's taking advantage of our kindness. He's taken advantage of this nonprofit group, which by the way, has pulled in a couple million dollars from taxpayers from us. So we're funding these people. We're funding this organization that is now giving the services and the place to sleep and all this to somebody who has broken our laws multiple times, has been ordered removed from the country, and you're giving this guy shelter. This is why we call it suicidal empathy. Your your call to be nice and to empathize and look at me, I'm a good person. I'm gonna help this person. You're gonna help them what stay on the streets, continue with their addiction, continue breaking laws, assaulting people, harming innocent people. This is suicidal, Like it can't all just be this one, this one reaction of we're gonna help everybody, everyone that comes to the door. Sometimes you got to be tough, you know, sometimes that's what is required. And that's how you ended up with Customs and Border Patrol showing up in Charlotte. Which that's the real problem, right, that was the that's the real problem. And this is this is. Quite the script because now we're getting people like the editors over at the Charlotte Observer making an argument that Donald Trump's enforcement operation coming to Charlotte was reckless, but it should have targeted the criminal illegal aliens, and so it's Trump's fault basically that this guy was free to go stab someone on the train because Trump was focusing on other people. Maybe if he had focused on the right people, this never would have happened. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, So if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.