Meme - shoe @shoe0nhead: "whats wild is this wasnt even like a "cop kills black guy" thing where there *might* be some debate about the police or whatever it's just straight up a black kid stabbed a white kid and they're losing their minds that he's going to prison over murder. fascinating."
"Fuck it dig Austin Metcalf up and stab his ass again"
"Black people please carry more than a pocket knife. Get their asses before they can get you"
"Stop sending your kids to the white schools."
"35 years on your first offense is over sentencing. Yea there has to be a retrial. This is blatant injustice."
Meme - Preet Shahi: "Which way White Man?
1. Chud the Builder = Defend yourself. Be arrested and thrown in prison with a 1 milion bond and impossible to meet stipulations. Your attacker survived and is not charged for assauiting you.
2. Austin Metcalf = Die. And your death is celebrated due to racial animus towards your whole entire race. Your killer let out on 250k bond. And the jury will most ikely be intimated to let your killer off easy."
Meme - Isaac Hayes Ill @lsaacHayes3: "The Karmelo Anthony verdict shows that the justice system has reverted back to the Jim Crow South era. It is no longer about evidence. It is no longer about right or wrong. It is about keeping racial score through the prosecution and imprisonment of Black people. It was no surprise that an all white jury would find a 19 year old kid, who was bullied and harassed by two 6’1” bullies, guilty of murder while he was minding his business. We have seen this story before. A young Black man is put on trial, and somehow the burden shifts from what happened to him, to why he should not have defended himself. The facts become secondary. The optics become everything. The outcome feels predetermined long before the verdict is read. People will tell you not to make it about race. But race has always been part of the story in America. The hard truth is that many Black people no longer believe they will receive the benefit of the doubt when their freedom is on the line. And verdicts like this are exactly why. At some point, we have to stop pretending that everyone is playing by the same set of rules. Because the people watching this case saw something very different than what that jury claimed to see"
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Clarification: While the jury in K Anthony's murder trial had no Black jurors, it was not all White. Reports confirm a diverse panel including White, Hispanic, Asian, and other jurors (e.g., 5 White males noted in coverage, plus women of color)."
Meme - Wanjiru Njoya: "These are the replies he got from blacks when he said murder is wrong"
Pastor Ben @BenjaminPDixon: "my dearest goofy ass nigga. the money for coons was all spent on candace owens. all they have left for you is hot plate. you can stop it now"
Fuck You, I'm from Texas @ScamNetwon: "Hey bro, we don't really give a fuck. The only reason it became a thing is. because his GoFundMe was in response to white folks giving a bitch a million dollars for calling a 4 y/o the n word. Talk to them white folks you pandering to, leave us alone coon"f
Meme - Ames @Real_ Ames: "Funny how some people online keep saying these photos are the same. One photo shows Austin and Hunter Metcalf outdoors in hunting gear, holding hunting rifles while dressed for a hunting trip. The other shows Karmelo Anthony indoors posing with a rifle, flashing gang-style hand signs and giving the middle finger to the camera. Whether you support someone or not, pretending these images send the exact same message requires ignoring the obvious differences. What do you think - are these photos really comparable, or are people forcing a narrative?"
Meme - "Your honor, this is only his first murder"
Don Moolio @_ReeMiddleChild: "35 years on your first offense is over sentencing. Yea there has to be a retrial. This is blatant injustice."
Readers added context: "Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murder, not a standard "first offense" misdemeanor. Under Texas law, a first-degree murder conviction carries a sentence of 5 to 99 years or life in prison. The 35-year sentence falls well within legal guidelines."
Meme - Aly @XxMurderBabexX: "Imagine getting a nose job instead of a lawyer with your gofundme money..."
Erica Day | Facebook - "I read a post saying the defense in the Karmelo Anthony case was incompetent, underfunded, and that something smells wrong. That the punishment phase was too thin. That only his mother testified. Here's what actually happened: The defense had a strategy. They went all in on "sudden passion" — a legal argument that would have capped his sentence at 20 years. That was their bet. They put his mother on the stand, asked for mercy, and pushed that angle hard. The jury took two and a half hours and said no. That's not a conspiracy. That's a bad bet that didn't pay off. Now because the strategy failed, people want to call it incompetence. Want to call it a setup. Want to find a reason — any reason — that explains this outcome that doesn't include the possibility that Karmelo Anthony stabbed a boy over a tent and a jury of his peers said so. Here's what I know. His classmates testified he was looking for a fight. He told people to touch him and see what happens. He brought a knife to a track meet. He refused to leave. A 17-year-old boy died. The defense tried self defense. The jury said no. They tried sudden passion. The jury said no again. At some point you have to ask yourself — what verdict would actually satisfy you? Because it sounds like the only acceptable outcome was walking free. And when that didn't happen, suddenly everything is suspicious. That's not skepticism. That's just not being able to accept what happened."
Mark Dice | Facebook - "It's long over due for the country to have a serious talk about race... ...and why so many black people online (especially on TikTok and Twitter/X) support violent and murderous black people when they're arrested and want them to go free and spew vile hatred about wanting to harm innocent White people to get revenge. The Karmelo Anthony guilty verdict has sparked some of the most evil and vile antiwhiteism since the Black Lives Matter insurrection of 2020. Slavery ended over 150 years ago. We had a black president nearly two decades ago (who wouldn't have been president if tens of millions of White people didn't vote for him), and a black VP in the last administration. Black privilege has been systemic for decades through affirmative action and countless social programs. More black people are racist at this point than White people. Enough is enough. Black Crimes Matter."
Sujata PG | Facebook - "For the past few days, I've been completely captivated by the Karmelo Anthony trial in Texas. Obviously, it's a devastating tragedy all around. Two young men whose futures are either gone forever or effectively destroyed. But what compelled me to write about it wasn't the case itself. It was the reactions coming from certain corners of the internet. It's one thing when anonymous social media users and street protesters rush to defend what appears to be a clear-cut murder. It's another when a university professor publishes an article titled "Dear Jeff Metcalf: Your Son Is Dead Because You Failed to Teach Him That Black Boys Have Boundaries." At that point, you're left staring at the screen wondering what exactly you're looking at. When a highly educated academic responds to a fatal stabbing by blaming the victim and his grieving father, words like "delusional", "detached", and "unreachable" naturally come to mind. Because this isn't a mere disagreement over politics or public policy. This is something far more disturbing. What we're looking at is narcissistic victimhood in action. When people hear the word narcissism, they usually picture the grandiose extrovert who can't stop bragging about how great they are. But there's another type: the vulnerable narcissist. The vulnerable narcissist derives their sense of specialness not from superiority, but from victimhood. Their suffering is always more profound, their grievances grander than anyone else's, and therefore, in their worldview, infinite empathy must flow toward them, while accountability should apply to everyone else. Once someone gets trapped inside that psychology of perpetual grievance, facts no longer matter. Reality becomes bendable. Everything is filtered through a very primitive psychological defense mechanism psychologists call DARVO: Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. And because Dr. Stacy Patton is an academic, she doesn't DARVO in plain language. She does it using sophisticated academic terminology: autonomy, systemic entitlement, power dynamics, historical context. But the packaging doesn't change the underlying mechanism. By reframing a fatal knife attack at a high school track meet as a grand sociological lesson about "boundaries," she achieves three goals that fit perfectly into the narcissist's defense structure: 1. She strips Austin Metcalf of his humanity. His killing is not a tragedy to be mourned. He is reduced to a symbol of "entitlement." This is a hallmark of narcissistic thinking: people are not fully human subjects, only objects in a story centered on the narcissist's emotional and ideological needs. 2. She elevates herself. She becomes the brave truth-teller who can see what lesser minds supposedly can't. This allows her to defend an indefensible act while avoiding the shame that should naturally arise from doing so. 3. She gets the intoxicating reward that social media now offers to professional provocateurs. Every outraged response from her followers, every accusation of cruelty serves as narcissistic supply, evidence not that she is wrong, but that she is important. The ultimate destination of this entire framework is total immunity through identity. Because if you can successfully convince people that a person's behavior can only be judged through the lens of historical or personal trauma, then you've effectively destroyed the concept of personal responsibility. Under those rules, a person is never a murderer, they are just a tragic byproduct of an oppressive system, and the person they killed is just collateral damage, or worse, their oppressor, who finally got what they deserved. One of the most astonishing claims in Dr. Patton's article is that the absence of Black jurors meant there was nobody present who could truly understand Karmelo Anthony's fears, vulnerabilities, and lived experience as a young Black man. But that argument flips the entire point of a jury on its head. The purpose of a jury is not to find twelve people who identify with the defendant. It is to find twelve people who can evaluate the evidence despite their identification with anyone involved. By her logic, every defendant should be entitled to jurors who share his race, background, ideology, religion, and life story. Then, we're no longer talking about impartial justice. We're talking about tribal representation. And the whole point of a jury is to rise above that impulse, not institutionalize it. This is precisely why the jury's swift, three-hour verdict stands as a massive rejection of that entire framing. The jury didn't play the academic game. They didn't look at sociological theories or historical essays. They didn’t get pulled into Patton's grievance-based inversion of accountability. They looked at a video of a young man taking an unarmed classmate's life with a knife, and they applied the law. It was an absolute, objective declaration of accountability. No matter how many unhinged articles are written to satisfy a collective delusion, that 35-year prison sentence stands as a firm reminder that reality cannot be rewritten."
Lucky Teter on X - "W. Burlette Carter went to Harvard Law School and is now Professor Emerita ar George Washington University Law School. She apparently believes that a "jury of your peers" means that Karmelo Anthony was entitled to a jury of black teenagers. She also admits she hasn't even read the transcript so she gets basic facts wrong about the case. One of the coaches testified that he put Austin Metcalf in charge of watching over the tent. Additionally, self defense requires proportional force. A light shove, in which you don't claim you feared for your life, does not allow you to use deadly force. How did this woman get accepted to Harvard Law? How is she now teaching at GW Law?"
Savanah Hernandez on X - "One of the most shocking things I witnessed today was this woman in pink screaming “you gon end up like Metcalf, you gone be pushing up daisies”. I caught the tail end of her saying this to Metcalf supporters in the clip below. I also witnessed several Karmelo supporters get extremely aggressive when ANY media tried speaking with them. One female reporter went up to the group to ask questions (linked below) and they immediately got angry saying “we told y’all to stop coming the f*ck over here” (this was her first attempt at speaking to them). At this point I started warning every reporter who was trying to speak with this group, as earlier, another local reporter had tapped on the shoulder of the man who leads their chants. This man immediately squared up and acted like the reporter had punched him. I’ve been covering protests for 7 years and this is some of the most violent and racially charged rhetoric I’ve ever encountered."
The American Tribune on X - "They know Karmelo did it. They don’t think he is innocent. They think he should be able to get away with it. Oh, and they’re there protesting in favor of a murderer on a weekday afternoon because our tax dollars pay for the welfare programs that allow them to do so"
Viva Frei on X - "The irony is had Karmelo Anthony “retreated”, gone to the police, and asked them to charge Austin Metcalfe with assault, they would have laughed him out of the precinct. The other irony is that had Karmelo Anthony said to Austin Metcalfe “put a finger on me and I will stab you in the heart”, Karmelo would have been guilty of uttering a threat. It’s murder. Pure and simple, and nothing in the evidence - even that presented by the defense - has attenuated that conclusion. It’s just an indescribable tragedy that we are discussing this as a matter of law, when as a matter of life, there is a dead kid and family and friends devastated for the rest of their lives."
Matt Walsh on X - "This is so devastating. Imagine being a black parent tonight. How do you protect your children? If they go out and stab just one person, they might go to prison. It’s like a black man in America can’t even murder anyone anymore. Unimaginable. Jim Crow all over again. I’m furious."
i/o on X - "At our heart, we are a nation of Black juries acquitting Black men when they kill white people. If we lose this, what have we become?"
OutspokenSamantha on X - "Keep teaching your kids to hate white people, and that they will get away with anything as long as the victim is white.. And they'll end up throwing their life away like Karmelo Anthony did. Hate will absolutely destroy your life."
Meme - David Santa Carla: "And while his father was on national tv forgiving Anthony for murdering his son, Anthony's black supporters donated money to him with a simple message."
"GiveSendGo. SHINE BRIGHTLY
Help Karmelo Official Fund Goal: USD $600,000
Raised: USD $518,115
Death to the white man $ 5.00 USD"
Meme - "Democrats finding out that it's illegal for Black people to just stab White people to death. *Joffrey clutching chest at the Purple Wedding*"
Jasmine Crockett suggests she also would have stabbed Austin Metcalf in stunning defense of Karmelo Anthony - "Lame-duck Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) suggested during an unhinged episode podcast that she too would have stabbed track star Austin Metcalf — after Karmelo Anthony was convicted of first-degree murder in the racially charged case. On Tuesday’s episode of “Clock It with Crockett,” the failed Senate candidate let loose a torrent of falsehoods to paint a picture of the brutal slaying of 17-year-old Metcalf that had virtually no basis in reality... Contrary to Crockett’s fact-free assertions, there was no “beating,” Metcalf was never “on top” of Anthony and Metcalf weighed nowhere near the formidable 300 pounds the congresswoman alleged. X users flooded posts sharing clips of Crockett’s podcast with comments pointing out her misstatements of even the simplest facts in the case... Crockett, an attorney, has previously made gaffes indicating a twisted understanding of the criminal justice system, including the infamously ponderous statement “Just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn’t make them a criminal” on Jonathan Van Ness’ “Getting Better” podcast, for which she was widely ridiculed."
The most revealing bit of this episode has been what it shows about black people and how many of them believe that it's justified to kill people if they insult or touch you, and that Anthony was really defending himself. Which proves that lots of black people die at the hands of other black people due to slavery, racism and white supremacy
Karmelo Anthony found GUILTY of murder of Austin Metcalf, 17, in stabbing that shocked America: Jurors deliberated for less than three hours after defense was repeatedly demolished in court : r/law - "I feel like just in yesterday’s post I read that the defense’s defense is just claiming self-defense (chaotic sentence, I know). I don’t see how the defense thought it was enough to claim that, without giving the jury a plausible story as to why he felt threatened enough to pull a knife, told by the defendant himself. I guess they weighted the possibility of perjury, possibility of self-incrimination and thought it best to not give him the opportunity to do either of the above."
"Which is very puzzling for a jury. If self-defense, the defender's story is very important. If you claim self-defense and can't testify, you're cooked."
"Most likely the defense attorney perceived Karmelo Anthony to be lacking in credibility, and therefore thought his testimony would only make things worse."
𝒯𝒞⁷⁷⁷ on X - "We should’ve stayed segregated"
Riley Gaines on X - "Mind you, this is because they can't murder innocent white people without consequences. I have no words."
Meme - Tamorah Shareef Muhammad @ModestyQueen19: "Karmelo Anthony being found guilty is an exact representation of black boys never being afforded the luxury to make a mistake, as it clearly is in today's society. They are not afforded the same empathy that many Caucasian males are, nor the"
Merman @larecon78: "Here's just one example of a black man only being afforded the luxury 14 prior mistakes before the last one." *14 Decarlos Brown mugshots*
Meme - Anti-fascist and proud: Rando Calzone: "Austin Metcalf was a white supremacist."
Jessica Schaffer-Cline: "A dead one. The best kind."
Left wingers just hate white people and love violence. If white people don't let black people murder them, that's "fascism" and "white supremacy"
Meme - Sistas aren't the Democratic...: "Your son is dead. Go get grief therapy and tell the other kid to keep his hands to himself. He got 35 years. Accept it, shut the fuck up and move on."
Collin Rugg: "Austin Metcalf's father says Karmelo Anthony's family has shown zero remorse after his son was murdered, says they decided to play the race card instead..."
HowlingMutant @Howlingm...: "I don't know if you're aware of this but all the slaves are dead too, so I assume you'll be shutting the fuck up about that"
