The official Black Lives Matter (BLM) account has come under fire after posting a video earlier this week claiming that all “oppressed people have a right to violence.”
The post went up as the nation is still reeling from the brutal murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was stabbed to death on a North Carolina light rail train on August 22 by Decarlos Brown, as The Dallas Express previously reported.
Elon Musk reposted the video from the organization with a simple one-word caption:
Really https://t.co/jPoDSCdPkB
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 21, 2025
Outrage over the video lit a fuse on social media, with people responding with their thoughts, including political commentator Megyn Kelly:
Really? I wasn’t aware of any group in the United States of America having a “right to violence”! This is where the justice system should come in and correct this notion. This is what is failing us. pic.twitter.com/RituxshAAu
— GinnyM 🇺🇸🙏✝️ TRUMP WON – KARI LAKE WON (@PatriotXV11) September 10, 2025
HOLY SHLIT
This was BLM’s response to Iryna getting m*rdered by a black man on the train
“We [black people] have a right to violence” pic.twitter.com/DGKeOhGByK
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 10, 2025
The video posted by the official account continued to blow up on social media the same week as Charlie Kirk’s memorial service, following Kirk’s assassination earlier this month, as previously reported on by The Dallas Express.
On the day Kirk was assassinated, Kirk took to X and condemned Zarutska’s death as “senseless” tragedy, in what turned out to be his final social media post. Additionally, that same day, Kirk called out the BLM for “justifying” the killing of Zarutska:
Official Black Lives Matter account justifying the murder of Iryna Zarutska https://t.co/2anFrPmHOR
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) September 10, 2025
“If we want things to change, it’s 100% necessary to politicize the senseless murder of Iryna Zarutska because it was politics that allowed a savage monster with 14 priors to be free on the streets to kill her,” Kirk posted on September 10.
Not only did Zarutska’s killer, Decarlos Brown, have a long history of violent crime, but so did his brother and father. Brown’s brother is currently in prison for murdering an older man during a robbery, and his father previously spent time in prison for violent crimes, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.