Iryna Zarutska & America’s inner-city violence epidemic
Americano
The Spectator
4 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Freddy Gray is joined by Heather Mac Donald, fellow at the Manhattan Institute. They discuss how race and crime grips America, and the epidemic of violence in inner-cities.
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| 0:00.0 | This Tuesday, Amazon brings the unmissable UAFA Champions League match. |
| 0:05.1 | Unbelievable! |
| 0:07.3 | Tottenham versus Villarreal. |
| 0:10.4 | And it's touched goal at one straight! |
| 0:14.7 | The UEFA Champions League, Tuesday from 6.30pm. |
| 0:19.0 | It's on Prime. |
| 0:37.2 | Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, power and prejudices. |
| 0:43.8 | It is 2025 and Donald Trump is president once again of the United States. |
| 0:49.9 | We will, of course, be following the moves of the Donald and his second administration very closely. |
| 0:53.3 | However, it won't just be politics for us this year. |
| 0:58.7 | We'll also talk a lot and cover American culture, life and the arts. |
| 1:03.9 | I should also remind you, because my producer Natasha will not let me hear the end of it, |
| 1:06.4 | that we are on Spectator TV. |
| 1:09.5 | So head to our YouTube channel to watch that. |
| 1:17.2 | On Tuesday this week, we recorded this interview with Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute about the shocking crime of the murder of Irina Zarutka on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina last month. |
| 1:31.6 | Since we've recorded, of course, the odious murder of Charlie Kirk on stage in Utah has occurred. We still think it's worth putting out this |
| 1:38.9 | earlier interview, which is also about violent crime, although we go in a rather different direction. Heather, |
| 1:47.2 | this is a fairly familiar story, is it not, of horrific violence happening, a transport system |
| 1:53.5 | in an American city. And yet it seems to have tapped into something that's going on in the zeitgeist |
| 1:59.6 | somehow. What's happening here? |
| 2:01.7 | Well, I don't think we've ever seen quite this degree of a video up to the moment. We've |
| 2:07.1 | not been allowed to see the actual stabbing, but it is to observe this violent act, deliberate act |
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