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Tragic losses like these expose the deadly cost of weak leadership and failed policies that put criminals ahead of law-abiding citizens. Iryna Zarutska, a young Ukrainian refugee seeking safety, was brutally stabbed on a Charlotte light rail. Her senseless murder demanded real reform and sparked Iryna’s Law to keep violent offenders behind bars.Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old British-Polish finance student at the University of Southampton, was walking home after a night out when Vickrum Digwa chased him down and stabbed him five times with a 21cm ceremonial knife. As Henry lay dying in his own blood, pleading he couldn’t breathe, police handcuffed him based on the killer’s false claims of racial abuse.These bright young lives, full of promise, were stolen while authorities hesitated. We must demand stronger enforcement, end revolving-door justice, and treat knife crime as the national emergency it is so no more families endure this heartbreak.