Lead Network Shows Ignore ANOTHER Violent Attack on Charlotte Light Rail

On Friday night, Charlotte’s light rail system was again foisted into the national spotlight as a criminal illegal alien — 33-year-old Oscar Solarzano — allegedly stabbed an innocent fellow passenger and left them with serious injuries. Apprehended soon after, Solarzano was hit with a slew of charges, including attempted first degree murder.

And, like we initially saw with the fatal September 5 stabbing of Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska, ABC, CBS, and NBC have shown no interest in covering this latest negative headline for the Queen City on their flagship morning and evening newscasts and Sunday political talk shows.

NBC showed they were fully aware of the story, however. On Monday, the stabbing was covered four times (with one being a reairing) on their free, ad-supported television platform, NBC News NOW.

Its early evening newscast Hallie Jackson NOW was one such show that brought it up.

“Let’s take you to North Carolina now, where a man accused of stabbing someone on a train last week was denied bond during his first court appearance today. Prosecutors say he was drinking alcohol. He was yelling at people Friday while on the light rail in Charlotte, before allegedly grabbing a knife and stabbing somebody in the chest,” Jackson began.

 

Along with the slew of charges he’s now facing, Jackson added the illegal “admitted to drinking and to stabbing the man and had actually been banned from riding the train even before the attack happened.”

Instead of a brief or deploying a junior staffer, correspondent Aaron Gilchrist — who’s appeared on NBC Nightly News and Today — was on the case throughout the day and further displayed the fact that NBC was wholly aware of this.

Gilchrist reiterated most of Jackson’s setup before adding “[a]s we understand it, this started with Solorzano having an interaction with one person on the train, yelling, cursing on the train” with the victim demanding Solorzano “back up, to quiet down, to not bother people, and that turned into a physical altercation...which ended with, according to prosecutors, Solorzano pulling out what they described as a large, fixed blade knife and stabbing the victim in the chest here.”

Gilchrist continued:

At this point, we know that prosecutors intend to have Lozano held in jail, obviously with such a serious charge. They also say that he had already been banned from the light rail system in Charlotte, something that we’re still looking into to try to figure out what prompted that and then how he was still able to get access to the train system. A lot of questions still remaining here, Hallie.

Gilchrist went onto reiterate this happened despite “safety on the light rail system” having received a lot of “attention” after Zarutska’s death as the city and rail itself claimed to “have invested in trying to ramp up safety and security” with “more off duty officers,” “private security,” and “new technology and safety tools for riders.”

“But Hallie, our station, our affiliate in Charlotte, talked to some folks who use the system who said that they are really concerned about their own safety, trying to do basic things like going to work on the train system there in Charlotte. They want to see more done,” he concluded.

The bias by omission wasn’t the only similarity between the two attacks. Just as was the case then, Friday’s incident has received multiple mentions on cable news across the Fox News Channel, Newsmax, Newsmax2, and NewsNation. Even CNN mentioned it with five mentions on Sunday and an addition times on Monday.

MS NOW — the artist formerly known as MSNBC — joined the broadcast networks in ignoring it.

Instead of covering this, they covered a potpurri of weird stories such as ABC’s World News Tonight reporting Martha Stewart hopes to be composted when she dies, CBS Mornings airing new audio from the 2023 near-disaster of an off-duty pilot trying to crash a plane while high on mushrooms, and NBC’s Today sharing that more people are falling for celebrity AI scams.

To see the relevant Hallie Jackson NOW transcript from December 8, click here.