Earlier this week, a Texas jury found Karmelo Anthony guilty of Austin Metcalf’s murder and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. Anthony’s parents are now speaking out and playing the victims. The bullshit that is coming out of the Karmelo Anthony supporters and team is rank. They are acting like Karmelo Anthony was stabbed by Austin Metcalf, and he got off. That is not what happened.
Karmelo Anthony stabbed Austin Metcalf, taking this 17 year old’s life in an instant, over nothing. He went into Austin’s school’s tent during an April 2025 track meet. Each school had their own tent, though Karmelo Anthony’s school apparently didn’t have one for some reason. Austin and others told him to leave because he wasn’t part of their school.
Austin did lay hands on him in a way that was not violent in any way. Testimony said it barely moved him at all. And as soon as he touched Karmelo Anthony, Anthony plunged that knife into his heart, killing him. That is what happened.
The jury saw autopsy photos that were so gruesome, they recoiled in horror. Their jaws dropped at the photos that showed a two-and-a-half-inch gaping wound where his heart was. He stabbed him so severely and deeply – forgive me – it went through the heart, testified the medical examiner, and punctured the bone behind. He didn’t nick him. He plunged that knife deep into Austin’s heart, and it is obvious he meant to kill him.
Playing the Victim
And now his family and their supporters are playing the victim and the race card as if there is some doubt in this. We know he did it, but that hasn’t stopped people like Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and former Dallas City Council candidate Davante Peters for saying vile things.
We covered Crockett’s crazy commentary yesterday, but, in the wake of the verdict, Peters called for Austin Metcalf to be dug up and stabbed again. That is what this guy actually said. He left the courthouse and posted that on social media. Where is your soul? Seriously, what is wrong with him?
Meanwhile, the parents of Karmelo Anthony – Kayla Hayes and Andrew Anthony – have started their own little media tour. Was their message something like: ‘We’re so sorry for the Metcalf family. This is a tragedy all around because, of course, we’re sad that we’ve lost our son too. But we know what he did was wrong. He is sorry’?
No, they had a very, very different message. This is what they said to Mimi Brown on The Breakfast Club about the “fairness” of the trial:
BROWN: So, do you believe your son received a fair trial?
HAYES: Absolutely not.
ANTHONY: Absolutely not
HAYES: Absolutely not… And we’re gonna keep fighting. We will not stop fighting for justice for my son.
BROWN: And as parents, have you all struggled with guilt? You know, asking yourselves, is there anything differently? I know, Kayla, you said you wish you had gone to that track meet. Is there anything that you both wish you could have done differently?
ANTHONY: I wish I would have just been rebellious. I was told, don’t talk to this person, don’t tell this person. I feel like it was just a setup now. They told us, go get white attorneys. Every black person I went to, white attorney. You know, white attorney. Set em up. Pushed em. Here you go. I mean, no objections… It was, things moved so fast. As a father, as me, who I am, I got to make sure she [Hayes] is straight. This is mama bear. I got to make sure she’s straight mentally, because if she’s not straight, my house ain’t straight, I’m not straight. Then because I got the kids to worry about.
So, what he is upset about is that he wasn’t more rebellious when friends told him to get a white attorney? He is mad they didn’t play the race card – that is what he is mad about. I said it yesterday and I stand by it: This guy is a race hustler. He would not have hired the Dominique Alexander character who has been pushing the race buttons from the beginning on this case, if he weren’t.
And the mother saying, “We are going to fight for justice for my son” – who do you think you are fooling? They are trying to turn the entire narrative on its head. You are the defendants and Austin is the victim, not the other way around.
Can you imagine for one second if a white teenager like Austin Metcalf had plunged that knife for no reason into the heart of Karmelo Anthony, and then was, appropriately, found guilty of murder? Imagine the backlash to white parents coming out there saying, ‘I will fight for justice for my son. We were told that we should get black lawyers, and I wish we’d been more rebellious.’ And then all these white people coming out and being like, ‘That boy should be dug up, and we should stick a knife in him again.’
Can you imagine the societal backlash to that messaging? We would have deep examinations on how wrong we have gone as a society. Anthony’s family and supporters should be held to the same standard as the rest of us. What they are saying and doing is vile and disgusting and racist. This is so gross.
You are not victims. You raised a boy who has zero empathy and, apparently, is a sociopath. You have yourselves to blame for that – not society, not whites, not your friends who told you to get a white lawyer.
These people were so without character they abandoned their son when the sentencing came down. The mother took the stand and said, ‘Boo hoo, please have mercy on my boy.’ And then they asked the one question: “Does he regret what he did?” She said, ‘Yeah, he regrets it.’ That is all she was able to come up with, and then she was out of there. Karmelo had to stand alone for the actual sentencing that came down. That is who they are.
They have been pimping the race thing from the beginning. There is zero evidence that race played any role in this case, although, if it did, it was on Karmelo Anthony’s part.
Not only that, but they took the $600,000 they raised on GiveSendGo and rented a mansion. They have been living the high life, driving around in a nice car, and now they are mad at the justice they received and they are mad at the legal services they received. They hired a shitty lawyer. They decided to go with a white guy who wasn’t bad because he is white; he was bad because he is bad. You can have a great lawyer as a black man, you can be a great lawyer as a white man, and vice versa.
I am just so disappointed in them. I am horrified by their behavior.
Revisionist History
In that same interview with The Breakfast Club, they also took issue with the narrative that Austin died in his twin brother’s arms because that seems like something we should be debating, right?
ANTHONY: …The other family, they go paint this lie… that he died in his brother’s arms, and it was–
BROWN: But that’s not true.
ANTHONY: No.
BROWN: Because that is the narrative.
ANTHONY: No, no. You never heard it no more. That was a lie. You heard about a bag. You never heard about a bag since trial. That’s why I was telling people a lie is temporary but the truth lasts forever. It’s just now, it’s harder now. I gotta fight to get the truth out.
There was testimony that Hunter Metcalf did hold Austin and was screaming, “I can’t do this.” But I guess that is uncomfortable, so we need to reject it. It is important to go revise the pain that the twin brother was in. Let’s say he wasn’t holding him. Is it better? Does it make what Carmelo did less bad? Because I am not feeling that. You are not, in any way, lowering my sympathy for the Metcalf family or for his twin brother Hunter.
Why was the anchor doing this? Why don’t you ask a question like, ‘Would it matter?’ ‘Are you disputing that Hunter was in incredible pain?’ ‘What’s your message to Hunter?’ ‘Do you want to apologize to him right here and now?’ Where were those questions?
Here is what they had to say about why Karmelo didn’t take the stand:
BROWN: And did Karmelo want to testify in his own, on his own behalf, and was that–
ANTHONY: Based on everything, he didn’t need nothing. Because everything they said on their self-defense, they have to prove it. They never proved it.
BROWN: So, that was never, that was– because I know there was this pause and a lot of people thought that, you know, we were going to come back and he was going to take the stand, and he didn’t. So, that was never an option? That had never been discussed of him taking the stand?
ANTHONY: That’s why we just need a new, we need somebody who’s gonna fight. That’s what I’m gonna say right now. We just need somebody gonna fight.
He is saying that the prosecution didn’t make its case, and that is why he didn’t take the stand. That is a lie. A first-year lawsuit knew that the prosecution had made its case, and, by the way, then the judge said explicitly that the state made its case because, when the defense moved for a directed verdict arguing that they hadn’t made their case, the judge said no.
The reason they didn’t put him on the stand is, I guarantee you, because he was not a sympathetic witness. When did Karmelo cry? When he was found guilty. That was the first we saw any emotion out of him. He wouldn’t look the Metcalf family in the eye. He wasn’t man enough. That is why he pulled a knife and stabbed Austin Metcalf. Only someone who had to prove how tough he was would ever even consider such a thing as an option.
‘Shame on You’
He is such a small, pathetic little man. That is the truth about Karmelo Anthony. That’s why he did what he did. He appears to have been raised by a couple of race hustlers and, therefore, looked for insult at every turn and almost certainly understood the ‘please leave our tent’ directive as some sort of racist message, as opposed to you are on an opposing team for today’s purposes and we are in battle. That is how every athlete looks at these things.
Why didn’t Karmelo Anthony know any of that? Because he had been raised by two grievance-y race hustlers. Why else would they hire Dominique Alexander as the spokesperson? You created this situation. You created what happened to your son and what happened to Austin Metcalf. Shame on you. All the Metcalfs want to hear from you is that you are sorry.
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