We met Iryna Zarutska’s murder with terrifying indifference

Like everyone else, my imagination filled in the missing gap of the original video of Iryna Zarutska’s murder with images from an action film: the killer’s knife, flashing beside his shrouded face, plunges in a frenzied swing.

Next, the nearby passengers leap backward into the windows, shouting in terror but frozen by fear. The sight of the killer striding nonchalantly away down the aisle leaves eyes wide and jaws agape.

But as the world now knows, reality was far more disturbing. The girl, who had fled the war in Ukraine to the safety of a proud U.S. city, did not die instantly nor painlessly, but slowly and consciously, at first not understanding what had happened...