{"id":434,"date":"2026-06-12T07:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=434"},"modified":"2026-06-12T07:08:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:08:47","slug":"karmelo-anthony-and-race-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Karmelo Anthony and Race \u2018Justice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><span><span><span>A<\/span> Texas jury found Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder for the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf in April 2025, rejecting Anthony\u2019s claim that the killing was <\/span><span>an act of self-defense<\/span><span>. Anthony was sentenced to serve a 35-year sentence, with eligibility for parole after serving half of the time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=433\">Belfast Is Burning, and the Media Won\u2019t Say Why<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><span>The <\/span><span>incident occurred<\/span><span> at a track meet after a group of students from Metcalf\u2019s school, Frisco Memorial High School, saw Anthony under their team\u2019s tent in the opposing Frisco Centennial High School gear. After being approached and asked to leave the tent 15 times over two minutes by several Memorial students, Anthony responded by saying, \u201cTouch me and find out,\u201d while he had his hand in his open backpack on his lap. Metcalf then gave Anthony what was described as a \u201cminor push.\u201d Anthony pulled out a folding knife and stabbed Metcalf in the chest. Both boys were 17 years old. The blade pierced Metcalf\u2019s heart, and he died shortly afterward in the arms of his twin brother.\u00a0<strong>(RELATED: <i>The Spectacle<\/i>\u00a0Ep. 429: Karmelo Anthony Trial Is a Race-Baiting Scandal)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Anthony\u2019s defense argued that Metcalf provoked him and that the stabbing was in self-defense. The jury rejected that claim. As Randy Zelin, an attorney not involved in the case, <\/span><span>put it<\/span><span>, \u201cYou can\u2019t be justified in killing someone with a knife and stabbing them in the chest if they were not about to immediately use deadly force on you \u2026 you have the absence of the ability to use deadly force versus someone having deadly force immediately on hand.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The case should be morally straightforward: a young man was killed, and a jury found his killer guilty. Instead, the case was turned into a racial morality circus by activists, commentators, and Anthony\u2019s defense team.\u00a0<strong>(RELATED: Five Quick Things: Henry Nowak, the Inevitable British Civil War, and What It Means for Us)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>During the trial, Anthony\u2019s family and his attorneys <\/span><span>repeatedly claimed<\/span><span> he was the victim of racism due to the prosecution\u2019s objection to three black candidates to the jury. The prosecutors explained that because the individuals were teachers, they \u201cmay have biased sympathies toward either the defendant and victim,\u201d who were both high schoolers. They also claim that his murder conviction and severe sentencing, rather than a lighter charge such as manslaughter, were part of a racist pattern.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Proceedings during the trial drew crowds of mostly black supporters and activists who <\/span><span>chanted their backing<\/span><span> for Anthony even after the jury rejected his self-defense claim. \u201cWe love Karmelo! We love him!\u201d\u201dRacist!\u201d and \u201cFree Karmelo!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=431\">Is Graham Platner the Democrats\u2019 New Alger Hiss?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><span>One online figure, performer Cardi B, <\/span><span>criticized the verdict on X<\/span><span>. \u201cWow! Just freakin wow! DISGUSTING\u2026 This is not justice, this is trying to make an example!!!\u201d Cardi B\u2019s reaction is emblematic of a broader tendency to treat all unfavorable verdicts in racially charged criminal cases as indictments of the justice system.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Texas U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat, <\/span><span>suggested<\/span><span> that she, too, would have stabbed Austin Metcalf while misrepresenting the facts of the case. \u201cIf a 300-pound man is beating, like on top of me and beating me down, I\u2019m not limited to fists,\u201d said Crockett. Metcalf was six foot and 200 pounds. Crockett\u2019s framing transforms the case from a stabbing into a fantasy of racial self-defense.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>The contrast of the framing of the case by Anthony\u2019s family and supporters to Metcalf\u2019s family is stark. Jeff Metcalf, the victim\u2019s father, pleaded in <\/span><span>his victim statement<\/span><\/span><span><span> after the verdict that the case was \u201cnever about race \u2026 Please don\u2019t make it about race,\u201d while describing the harassment his fam<\/span>ily endured during the painful trial, including repeated swatting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The jury heard the evidence and convicted Anthony of murder. The facts were clear enough. But for those committed to seeing justice through the lens of racial politics, even a teenager stabbed through the heart cannot be allowed to remain a victim. Justice cannot survive the kind of racial politics that only respect verdicts that fit the preferred narrative. Austin Metcalf was killed, and Karmelo Anthony was convicted: that should be enough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=429\">Alberta\u2019s Revolt<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A most wonderful article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsfeed"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Karmelo Anthony and Race \u2018Justice\u2019 - National Logistics Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=434\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Karmelo Anthony and Race \u2018Justice\u2019 - 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