Henry Johnston in RT: When does murder get ignored? When the victim is white and the killer black

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When does murder get ignored? When the victim is White and the killer Black

A black man kills a white woman in an American city, and the mainstream media gives it zero coverage. Imagine if the races were reversed.

By Henry Johnston, a Moscow-based editor who worked in finance for over a decade

The US mainstream media tends to operate by encouraging a certain prefabricated outrage. Sensationalized narratives are cultivated along predictable tracks. But no less egregious is what the media chooses to ignore. Few events of late have better exposed the ideological underpinnings of the media – and of the elite whose narratives it plugs – than the recent brutal and shocking murder of a young Ukrainian woman on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina.

On August 22, a career criminal, Decarlos Brown Jr., casually walked up behind 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was seated on a train minding her own business, and stabbed her three times in the neck in cold blood, killing her. He sauntered away, still clutching the knife dripping blood.

The mindless and savage attack was captured on surveillance footage, but Charlotte’s Democratic Mayor Vi Lyles pushed for it not to be released, ostensibly out of respect for the victim’s family. But the footage did eventually surface, and the story spread like wildfire. But this was a wildfire that couldn’t reach the impervious redoubt of the mainstream media – even after Elon Musk gave it the push into viral territory by chiming in on an End Wokeness thread pointing out the stunning media silence.

In fact, not a single major legacy outlet – the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Reuters, CNN, Wall Street Journal, and others – picked it up. One would think that, by sheer chance, one of these esteemed outlets would have bucked the trend. But that didn’t happen because, as Matt Taibbi once brilliantly pointed out,

“Reporting is done in herds, no one wildebeest can break formation without screwing things up for the others. So, they’ll all hold the line, until they all stop holding the line.”

As of this writing, it seems the media herd is starting to reluctantly skate to where the puck is going. And that means that some version of the story, however sanitized, will soon appear everywhere.

So what exactly has given this story its irresistible momentum? Let’s start with the blatant double standard about reporting interracial crime. A white victim and a black perpetrator, as was the case in this instance, is usually a circumstance that tips the scales in favor of silence. When an instance of black-on-white crime cannot be avoided, the respective races of the individuals involved are not mentioned, and the tone is more along the lines of “aww shucks, what a tragedy.” When the racial roles are reversed, the media coverage is extensive and sensational, and the race angle is established immediately and runs throughout the ensuing coverage like an electric wire.
12 replies
  1. Peter Boomerlow
    Peter Boomerlow says:

    You mean Russians actually care about Ukrainian lives? They certainly have a funny way of showing it.

    • K M Landis
      K M Landis says:

      Eastern Ukrainians are Russians too. Russians do care about Ukrainian lives. Jews do not. Jews gleefully celebrate the killing of Whites, whether it be in Europe or in the US. Their attitude to Whites is the same as their attitude to Palestinians.

    • Zman
      Zman says:

      The incident in which a Ukrainian woman was killed by a Black man in the North Carolina subway suggests that the very premise of the Ukraine war was flawed. The idea that joining the EU or NATO would allow Ukrainians to live prosperous lives like New Yorkers in the American TV show Friends was, in fact, a lie. Americans do not live in a wealthy or advanced society as portrayed in television dramas.

      In reality, even in New York or other major U.S. cities, owning a single home with $2 million in assets often means you’re merely part of the middle class. This is because the value of the dollar continues to decline regardless of the decisions made by the Federal Reserve, inflation is real, and there seems to be no end in sight to rising prices.

      Policies that go against Darwinian principles—such as extreme racial integration (comparable to radical social mixing in Korea) and unchecked immigration—have drastically increased people’s exposure to crime on public transportation like subways and buses, or even while walking down the street.

      To be frank, the idea of a “prosperous EU” or “prosperous America,” which many Ukrainians idealize, is closer to Soviet-style propaganda than reality. The U.S. and EU, in truth, lack the human capital and social infrastructure to sustain advanced industries like semiconductors. As a result, they are essentially incapable of maintaining a truly civilized society.

      Given this, the notion that Ukraine—lacking any high-value industry—could significantly improve the quality of life for its citizens simply by adopting the euro is nothing more than political propaganda and a blatant falsehood.

      Just as the U.S. could not tolerate the construction of Soviet nuclear missile bases in Cuba, and China would never accept the collapse of North Korea, Russia likewise cannot accept NATO or CIA bases being built in Ukraine that would keep Russia under constant threat.

      Western leaders treated Russia as if it were run by drunken peasants operating an oil refinery, ignoring this simple geopolitical reality. They assumed that once sanctions were imposed on Russia, China and India would follow. Instead, China and India became Russia’s biggest customers, and with the inclusion of Saudi Arabia, began attacking the dollar’s status as the global reserve currency.

      All of this happened under the Biden administration.

  2. K M Landis
    K M Landis says:

    This is horrible. Negros killing Whites again. It’s a national epidemic, which the Media deny. The only solution is racial segregation, like we used to have before the Jews took over the US. That also explains NATO’s proxy war against Russia, instigated by the Neocons. This woman would have been safer back in Ukraine than in any large US city, because of our disgusting Negro population. Let that be a lesson to the whole world.

    The perp was out on bail for other violent crimes. He should have been summarily executed the first time. Some “woke”, lefty judge let him out again, because he’s black. If he were White, then this same judge would refuse bail. It’s a two-tier “justice” system, favoring of black criminals.

    And the Democrat Mayor, Viola Lyles, tried unsuccessfully to suppress the video – out of concern for her loony-left ideology. Lefty politicians and the jew-Media are committed to their anti-White ideology above all else. They worship the sacred Negro, just as Hindus worship the sacred cow.

    • English Patriot
      English Patriot says:

      Much the same in UK. A Stephen Lawrence Day, not a Keith Blakelock, Kriss Donald or Philip Lawrence Day. Yes, US readers – you will have to cyber-search for these race victims and MANY others.
      By the way, Jews themselves don’t “worship the sacred Negro” and Negroes don’t like Jews.
      More important than blaming all the Jews for promoting mass-immigration of people who don’t like Jews in Israel or elsewhere is what to do to get these immigrants out of our own National Homes

  3. Tim
    Tim says:

    Now they’re coming with even more details of horror! It will soon be unbearable even for me!

    https://nypost.com/2025/09/09/us-news/ukrainian-refugee-iryna-zarutskas-look-of-horror-after-she-was-fatally-stabbed-on-train-as-her-final-moments-are-revealed/

    No American publication provides a photo of dis cursed black “judge” Teresa Stokes, who made the crime possible in the first place and rather looks just like the murderer’s mother. Only the British DailyMail provides it.

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/09/08/19/101950831-15078101-Magistrate_Judge_Teresa_Stokes_pictured_freed_Decarlos_Brown_Jr_-a-21_1757357140582.jpg

    https://www.carolinajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Ltr.-to-NC-District-Ct-re-Teresa-Stokes-Removal.pdf

    In 2022, this young American woman with a German surname was brutally butchered by an equally abhorrent black monster, who stabbed her 46 times.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Brianna_Kupfer

    https://forebears.io/surnames/kupfer

    Just now, a petite female vet prof (also with a German surname) was hacked to death by one of these black monsters in the park while walking her dog.

    https://nypost.com/2025/09/08/us-news/auburn-vet-prof-julie-schnuelle-hacked-to-death-in-alabama-park/

    https://forebears.io/surnames/schn%C3%BClle

    How right he was!

    https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/23/dilberts-scott-adams-white-people-should-get-the-hell-away-from-black-people/

    But who is preventing his warning from being spread? Those primarily responsible own America’s leading media outlets and lie to the white public about the actual state of affairs with the most malicious intent, because they do not belong to it at all, but intend to harm it.

  4. Tim
    Tim says:

    P.S. This shocking case dramatically illustrates what is happening on a large scale in our countries. However, this time it is particularly striking because it was recorded by public transport cameras. Recordings of similar cases are rare. Out of sight, out of mind.

    The fact that the little Iryna is holding her hands over her face is probably because she blacked out. Shortly afterwards, she fell forward and hit the floor. Oh God, how awful. In most cases, victims of stab wounds are completely unaware of what has actually happened.

    With any normal, healthy sense of morality, you simply cannot imagine how something like this is possible, how anyone could even contemplate such an incomprehensibly insane act. Questions such as, “Would he have also stabbed a black person sitting in front of him?” remain unanswered and can only be guessed at.

    He will plead “schizophrenia” in court, as advised by his (often Jewish) lawyer. Then this lowest, most degenerate, worthless scum on earth will continue his “career” at the expense of the general public while in custody. In a few weeks, the general public will either have suppressed or forgotten it, and everything will remain the same as before.

    Perhaps some of these insane “diversity” propagandists, as is now the case in Germany after the murder of her 16-year-old compatriot (an Iraqi pushed her in front of a freight train), will even call for “reconciliation and against hatred” in a prayer/editorial, because that is usually the reaction of this deeply sick society.

    Charlotte was named after a queen of German descent (similar to Adelaide), the county is still named after Mecklenburg, now “ruled” by a mulatto Democrat. North Carolina borders Virginia to the north, where Mr. Taylor lives. The term “American Renaissance” can be traced back to a certain Francis Otto Matthiessen, whose grandfather was born in Germany.

  6. Michel Martin
    Michel Martin says:

    This incident of (another) black on white murder has actually triggered a media revolution in the right direction. You cannot defy reality for ever. Uncle Tom Sowell said this would happen eventually.

  7. Nicola Winslow
    Nicola Winslow says:

    This has been described as the Right’s George Floyd moment. “I got that white girl.” There won’t be mobs of whites looting and killing – but I think we can see a change not only in “social” media but even the MSM. A good story about a bad incident “sells papers” but may now see an ideological sea-change. Next time a leftist TV presenter or woke windbag will be stabbed by a Decarlos Dunuffin, a serious look at crime rates and real causes.

  8. Tim
    Tim says:

    I’ll be honest with you, the fate of this poor
    girl “consumes” me every day. I’m filled with
    anger & powerlessness. If her death is not to
    be in vain, she must serve our cause as a do-
    cument of horror. We all know what would
    happen to this [N-word] if he were not “pro-
    tected” from the wrath of the people. When
    I have to look into the mere mug of this cre-
    ature, it screams inside me: “You f*cking pie-
    ce of sw*ne, ey!”

    FTJmedia also has a video of the “rescue mea-
    sures” showing her fresh, warm red blood flo-
    wing in streams toward the train exit. I could
    not watch it for more than a few seconds. What
    is this damn “system” actually imposing on us!

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