A Charlotte man with a rap sheet stretching back over a decade filmed himself randomly attacking women on the street, posted the footage to social media, and was only arrested after someone showed the videos to police — because the platforms that hosted and distributed the content sure weren't going to flag it. Di-Quan Schafar Hunt, 32, was taken into custody Aug. 6 and charged with assault with a deadly weapon after detectives connected his social media posts to a July 30 assault in Charlotte's Dilworth neighborhood, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
This is the deal ordinary Americans keep getting sold: violent offenders cycled back onto the streets, and tech platforms that profit from the engagement their content generates washing their hands of the consequences. Hunt's social media account contained multiple recordings of physical confrontations, and it took a citizen tip — not a platform flag — to bring any of it to law enforcement's attention.
The New York Post reviewed the videos and reported that in one recording, Hunt ranted about a "real issue" before punching a woman holding a get-well balloon on the sidewalk, knocking her to the ground. He hovered over her motionless body, screamed racial slurs, and yelled about someone named Elijah before ripping the broken frames from her sunglasses and kicking the balloon away. In a separate undated video, Hunt charged at another woman while ranting about McDonald's, chasing her around a parked car and yelling: "You wanna run bitch, you wanna run motherf–ker, huh? I betcha run again motherf–ker." Syracuse.com, by contrast, reported only that a video "appeared to show an assault" and that a woman was punched before the suspect fled — omitting the racial slurs, the second victim, and the self-documented nature of the attacks.
The system failure here is bipartisan and total. Hunt has been arrested at least nine times in the past 34 months in Mecklenburg County, the Post reported. Between December 2012 and June 2019, he was arrested three times for assault on a female and three times for domestic violence protective order violations — every single one of those cases was dismissed. He pled guilty in 2019 to discharging a weapon into occupied property and felony probation violation, drawing a sentence of 20 to 36 months. He was out by June 2020. The reason for the early release remains unexplained. He was convicted again in March 2026 of assault with a deadly weapon and carrying a concealed weapon. He was on the street in July to film himself hunting women.
Meanwhile, the social media platforms that hosted Hunt's violent recordings faced no scrutiny and no consequences. Their algorithms reward engagement, and nothing engages like footage of real violence against real people. The content stays up until someone complains, the ad revenue accumulates, and the communities where these attacks happen absorb the damage.
Hunt was transported to a medical facility after his arrest for unspecified treatment. He will be transferred to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office upon release. The victim of the July 30 attack has not been publicly identified.
The open question: How many dismissed cases and early releases does it take before a repeat violent offender actually stays locked up — and how many women have to be chased down on camera before anyone asks what Big Tech owes the public that watches it happen?
