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The former ESPN personality Samantha Ponder urged New York City Mayor Eric Adams to take measures to ensure a brutal killing, such as the one that took place in Charlotte is not happening.
Ponder sent a message on social media in response to the murder of Iryna Zarutska. President Donald Trump has since called for Decarlos Brown Jr., the man accused of murder in the stabbing of the woman on a Charlotte Light Rail car to meet the death penalty.
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Then-spor reporter Samantha Ponder present during the first half of the 2013 BCS Championship Game between Notre Dame, who fought Irish and Alabama Crimson Tide at Sun Life Stadium on January 7, 2013. (Matthew Emmons/USA Today Sports)
The former host wrote that Adams should make it a point to get “clearly unwell and violent men” out of the streets.
I take the subway several times a day, every day, with my 3 children. Every single day we encounter several clearly unwilling and violent men, “she wrote on X.” I have taught my children not to make eye contact, to change train cars, even when it is not our stop & to never get on an almost empty train. All split other decisions when we try to measure whether an obviously ill person will do to hurt someone or just continue to scream, knocking over, knocking over, etc.
“The horrible video of Iryna’s murder has confirmed my belief that we have to get these men off the streets. Our das and judges have failed us. They show the illusion of empathy for the mentally ill … But it is neither loving nor safe to continue to let career criminals roam around the streets.”
She labeled Adams’ X account in the post.
Ponder responded with some of the comments she received over her post. She made it clear that what happened in Charlotte and what she is dealing with in New York are not isolated events.
Iryna zarutska’s family requires justice in the first statement as ‘horrible’ stabbing
The then-Spn reporter Samantha Ponder looks at her husband, Minnesota Vikings Quarterback Christian Ponder (not depicted) at training camp at Blakeslee Fields, July 27, 2013. (Bruce Kluckhohn/USA Today Sports)
“I don’t know how you live like that. Why expose your children to degeneration and violence? So many places to live,” wrote a person.
Ponder replied, “Like Charlotte? Or what about Auburn, Alabama? Maybe Athens? This is happening across the country. It wasn’t always like this, and it doesn’t have to be.”
When another person asked her to move to Arizona, Ponder revealed an upset story from when she was a child.
“I was followed to school at the age of 5 of an exposed children’s collester in Arizona. Had a kidnapper tried to pull me inside his van at a bus stop in Arizona. Should I continue? There is much more,” she wrote.
Brown, who is black, was arrested shortly after the stabbing and charged with first -time murder. Tuesday accused the Department of Justice Brown for a count of committing an action that causes death on a mass transport system.
Registrations obtained by Pakinomist Digital showed that Brown has a history of arrests that goes back more than a decade, including conviction for crime of Larceny and crime and burglary in 2013, and a 2015 sentence for robbery with a dangerous weapon that sent him to prison for more than six years. He was released in 2020, but remained in triallessness until 2021, and subsequently charges against him included communication of threats and abuse of the 911 system earlier this year.
Trump has since called on cities to end cashless bail.
