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Once again, a murder was streamed live on Facebook.

Earl Lee Johnson Jr., 35, was charged with first-degree murder for killing Janice David, 34. Police said he confessed. The killing was on video.

He stripped her naked, tied her hands to the steering wheel of a car, beat and stabbed her, and tried to set the vehicle on fire. Live viewers posted comments. She could be seen begging for her life, covered in blood.

Both the perpetrator and the victim were drug addicts.

When he was arrested, Johnson flashed gang symbols at reporters—defiant, not sorry.

Femicide nobody wants to name

Femicide in the Black community is a major problem almost no one will discuss honestly for fear of being smeared as “racist.”

A study in the American Journal of Public Health examined ten years of data. Black women married to Black men were far more likely than White women married to White men to be killed by a spouse. Interracial marriages in which the husband was Black showed the highest spousal homicide rate of all. White women married to Black men were 12.4 times more likely to be murdered by their husbands than White women married to White men. Source: J. A. Mercy and L. E. Saltzman, “Fatal violence among spouses in the United States, 1976–85,” American Journal of Public Health, May 1989, Vol. 79, No. 5, pp. 595–599. Read the study.

The American Nurses Association has described intimate partner violence as a leading cause of death for young Black women (Journal of Issues in Nursing, Vol. 7, No. 1).

Salber and Taliaferro (1998), summarized in clinical references such as Medscape, reported that the spousal homicide rate among African Americans was 8.4 times that among Whites, and that spousal homicide was 7.7 times higher in interracial marriages than in intraracial marriages.

CDC data (2004) listed homicide among Black women as:

• the second leading cause of death for Black women aged 15–24 (about 20% of premature deaths in that band);
• the fifth leading cause of death for Black women aged 25–34.

What Baton Rouge police and Louisiana TV reported

A Louisiana woman was murdered on Facebook Live. Her killer had been out of prison only weeks.

David was found beaten and fatally stabbed in a car at 9:52 p.m. on a Monday, the Baton Rouge Police Department said. WBRZ, WAFB, and KPLC-TV carried the department’s account.

The Facebook Live session lasted about fifteen minutes. It followed a three- or four-day drug binge, Sgt. L’Jean McKneely said at a Tuesday press conference.

Johnson allegedly tied David’s hands to the steering wheel with jumper cables, then choked, beat, and stabbed her, WBRZ reported.

Someone reported the footage to Facebook. Facebook notified police. Officers found the car abandoned in the parking lot of Sherwood Tower, an office building in Baton Rouge. Inside was David’s mutilated, unclothed body. Officials said Johnson tried to set the car on fire.

He was arrested Monday on an unrelated car-theft case and was allegedly injured during a police pursuit. Under questioning, he admitted the killing, WBRZ reported.

KPLC-TV reported that Johnson was locked up in 2005 on several armed-robbery charges, pleaded guilty in 2007, and was sentenced to fifteen years with credit for time served. Records showed he walked out of prison on January 17, 2022.

David’s cousin Terri Austin called the situation “very horrible.”

“I really thought, you know, when they say she died that it would have been a vehicle wreck or something like that. Wouldn’t never dream that someone would do this to her.”

“She was caught up in a world I guess you could say that you know it was hard for her to get away from,” Austin added.

Authorities said it was unclear whether Johnson and David had any tie beyond the several days they spent using drugs together.

Johnson faced a first-degree murder charge.

Antiwhiteness.org: hate crime classification

Louisiana did not charge this as a racial hate crime. Police and most reporters stuck to drugs and “domestic” framing. We don’t accept that as the whole story. Extreme interracial violence—torture, degradation, murder in front of witnesses—is not race-blind. Racial motive is at least part of the picture, whatever the charging sheet says.

We classify Janice David’s murder as an anti-White hate crime under our editorial standard. That is not a legal verdict on intent; it is how we sort and condemn this kind of killing.