Wikipedia has faced furious accusations of censorship after alleged attempts to delete a page on the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska by a homeless career criminal on board a train in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Outrage erupted on social media on Monday as multiple conservative influencers shared screengrabs suggesting the site’s editors were trying to take down a page detailing the 23-year-old’s grisly death at the hands of suspect Decarlos Brown Jr. on Aug. 22.
“The left is cancelling Iryna Zarutska for the crime of embarrassing them by dying,” wrote Tara Servatius, host of “The Tara Show” on 98.9 WORD FM, a radio station covering the Carolinas and north Georgia.
“People who die due to Democrat crime or open borders policies are always cancelled. It’s the penalty for embarrassing the party,” she wrote in a post on X, featuring a screengrab of a Wikipedia page titled “Killing of Iryna Zarutska.”
The grab shows a notice at the top of the page reading, “An editor has nominated this article for deletion.”
“Wikipedia editors looking to memory hole the killing of Iryna Zarutska,” wrote Washington Free Beacon and former Post journalist Jon Levine on X.
“She was 23, stabbed to death on a Charlotte train by a man with 14 prior arrests. The system kept turning him loose, and she ended up dead. Now, instead of confronting that failure, the media stays quiet and Wikipedia tries to scrub her name,” wrote Malaysia-based influencer Ian Miles Cheong on X.
“It is deliberate censorship. They would rather delete her existence than admit the system killed her.”
Wikipedia did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
The article on Zarutska’s killing remained live as of Tuesday afternoon, but made no mention of the suspect’s name, due to the website’s restrictions on reporting during live cases.
Zarutska’s death sparked a nationwide conversation about crime and safety in US cities, after the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) published chilling video showing the moments before the fatal stabbing.
President Trump on Monday described the suspect Brown as “evil” and said the country must confront violent crime.
“There are evil people and we have to confront that,” Trump said, speaking at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC.
“We have to be able to handle that. If we don’t handle that, we don’t have a country.”
Many leading figures in the Trump administration, including deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, have pointed to the attack in a blue-run city as evidence Democrats are “soft on crime.”
Charlotte’s Mayor Vi Lyles drew outcry over her initial comments on the killing, which did not name Zarutska, and stressed the mental illness of the suspect.
Her statement, which she later rowed back on Monday, was attacked by many, including city council members.
“I believe that was a mistake made by our mayor, but I don’t believe that’s where her heart was for the situation, and I wish she would have thought through that a little more,” City Councilman Edwin Peacock told NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Report” Monday.
Brown, who was charged with first-degree murder, is currently undergoing a 60-day medical evaluation to determine whether he is fit to stand trial.
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