CBS Analysts Pity Charlotte Murder Suspect, Insist He Needed More Help
10th September 2025
Tuesday’s CBS Morning Plus may have clinched the single dumbest and most tone-deaf segment on last month’s brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina by declaring the murder was proof of a “mental health crisis…within this country” and that America has failed to properly “invest in” and “rehabilitate” people like the alleged killer, DeCarlos Brown Jr.
The claims were leveled by two CBS News contributors — former Suffolk County, New York Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison and KFF Health editor-at-large Dr. Céline Gounder — and despite solid, appropriate questions from co-host Tony Dokoupil and fill-in co-host Kelly O’Grady about the need for law and order.