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Posted on 06/09/2026 8:56:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
The left tried really hard to turn the Karmelo Anthony case into a civil rights story.
They wanted Karmelo to look like some modern-day Rosa Parks, like being told to leave another team’s tent at a high school track meet was the same thing as being ordered to the back of the bus.
Revolver:
There’s nothing the left wanted more than to turn an everyday black thug into the next Rosa Parks. That’s what they were desperately trying to do with accused murderer Karmelo Anthony. You’ll recall that Anthony is charged with the brutal stabbing murder of young, white teen Austin Metcalf at a track meet.
Karmelo was from the opposing high school and was in the “wrong tent.” When Austin asked him to leave, Karmelo got angry and stabbed him to death.
The left tried to frame this as some kind of “Rosa Parks” moment, as if Austin had ordered a young black kid to the back of the bus. In other words, they wanted yet another race war scenario. But witness testimony at trial made it clear there was nothing racist happening here. This was a violent black thug stabbing a white teen to death.
The witness testimony is a massive blow to Anthony’s defense.
The horrific story they told caused the “Rosa Parks” narrative to fall apart. Clearly, this wasn’t some civil rights showdown at a track meet. According to the teens who were there, Karmelo was asked to leave the team tent, words were exchanged, and he had his hands in his backpack before Austin was ever stabbed. Sounds like he was waiting to pounce.
That’s a very different story than the one left-wing activists were trying to sell.
That “Rosa” narrative has been getting harder to sell as the facts start piling up.
The facts coming out in court tell a totally different story. The majority of prosecution witnesses, including the coach, are black. And they’re not helping the media’s “race case” nonsense. They’re describing what happened before Austin Metcalf was stabbed to death, and the picture that’s coming out is not helping Karmelo’s defense.
According to testimony, Karmelo showed up at that tent with a knife. He was asked to leave. Words were exchanged. Then Austin Metcalf ended up dead.
Karmelo’s side is claiming self-defense, as if he were surrounded, attacked, and forced to stab his way out of danger. But now, even his own witness is debunking that story.
What happened on the last day of Karmelo’s trial was the type of moment that can change an entire case. One defense witness who helped create the entire “self-defense” idea, claiming Karmelo was surrounded and in danger, backtracked his story under cross-examination.
Karmelo’s entire story is falling apart.
Eric Daugherty:
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Karmelo Anthony’s own witness just THREW A WRENCH in his “self defense” claim during the Austin Metcalf murder trial on the stand
Before the stabbing of Metcalf, the teen claimed: “Karmelo was surrounded!”
Then prosecutors REPLAYED the footage.
The witness backtracked, and ADMITTED he “can’t tell” if Karmelo was actually surrounded and ganged up on…
DESTROYING the idea that Karmelo had to stab and murder someone to defend himself.
This is pure murder, plain and simple! Life in prison is too kind, we need capital punishment.
Yikes. That’s a big problem for the defense.
If Karmelo’s entire argument is that he had no choice because he was trapped and surrounded, then the video matters a whole helluva lot. And when a key witness admits he can’t actually tell what happened, the little self-defense story suddenly evaporates.
But it didn’t stop there…
Another defense witness got chewed up and spit out on cross.
CBS News:
Video evidence challenges witness accounts One of them told police they saw a punch, which contradicts more than a dozen prosecution witnesses.
DEFENSE: Did anything happen that you took particular notice of in the stands?
WITNESS: Everybody was standing up and I saw somebody get pushed or get punched, I don’t know which.
But under cross-examination, prosecutors show the jury a video that captured the witness on the field stretching and not even looking in the stands until after the stabbing.
PROSECUTION: A lot of what you said, you’re kind of guessing?
WITNESS: Yes, sir.
PROSECUTION: Do you remember seeing the video i showed you?
WITNESS: Yes, sir.
PROSECUTION: It showed that you didn’t see what you thought you saw?
WITNESS: Yes, sir.
The other witness:
DEFENSE: Do you remember telling the detective My teammate might be in trouble and maybe I needed to go help him’?
WITNESS: Yes, sir, I thought there could be something wrong. I wanted my teammates to see it too.
DEFENSE: What did you see when you first noticed something was wrong?
WITNESS: I saw the arms go out. I see arms and make contact with Karmelo.
But that witness also recanted when prosecutors showed him the video of what happened.
PROSECUTION: And when you saw the video, your eyes were opened to what actually happened, is that right?
WITNESS: Yes
PROSEUCTION: My impression, when we first met, you thought when you saw people surrounding Karmelo Anthony. It was before the stabbing?
WITNESS: Yes, sir.
PROSEUCTION: That was actually after the stabbing?
WITNESS: I couldn’t really tell.
That’s some devastating stuff, folks, because it shows how much of the “defense narrative” is likely based on total confusion, panic, and people thinking they saw things they didn’t actually see.
READ MORE: A bunch of ‘chuds’ restored the Reflecting Pool. They did it on time and under budget…
On the last day of trial, one witness admitted he was guessing, and another thought the surrounding happened before the stabbing and then couldn’t really tell once the video was shown. That doesn’t exactly scream rock-solid self-defense, does it?
It sounds more like a case where the video evidence is doing what video evidence does: cuts through the fog.
The jury is now deliberating, and right now, this case looks very different from the version the left and their media cohorts tried to sell us in the beginning.
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Here is the real Karmelo that never made it into the courtroom.
https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/2064201714237132969
Saw that a while back...............
The defense asked for and received a manslaughter instruction today. I thought since yesterday that’s what they would do. I bet in final argument they ditch the self defense argument and argue for a manslaughter conviction. And I think they have a decent chance of getting it. In any event, it’s all they have now.
Satan and his minions in the MSM...............
Omygosh. Can we just get on with the riots?
He went there looking for a fight.
He knew the people in the tent would be hostile.
What’s sick is that all the fund-raising, all the defense attorney’s statements, all the race-baiting happened after they knew it was all a lie.
Karmelo Anthony was a wannabe gang member who thought the “tough guy”/ “don’t diss me, bro” persona was the way to go. He listened to people tell him that anybody standing in his way would be eviscerated by cries of “racism!”
This kid was set up by the race-baiters. That’s what race-baiters do: they destroy the lives of primarily young black men as sacrifices to the bigger agenda.
We need to call it out for what it is, and young black men need to realize that wolves often dress in sheep’s clothing.
He’s guilty. It was premeditated. He’s a murderer. Hang him in the public square, leave the body as a warning for other like minded animals.
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” ― Booker T. Washington
Re “… Can we just get on with the riots?..”
Patience.
They’ll be along shortly. Summer is here and the usual suspects are going to act … as usual.
He wents dere to kill him a white boy. And he did figuring if he played the race card he would be out on the street in 7 years with street cred for killin' that white boy. If the manslaughter deal goes through he will have succeeded
Absolutely - Murder 1
This wasn’t manslaughter.
The two teams played each other in football. He supposedly didn’t know the victim, but I wonder if that’s so if if only by reputation.
Maybe, maybe not. But I can sure see a jury choosing it as a compromise verdict. Seen it happen many times.
Austin Metcalf paid the ultimate earthly price for what Karmelo never learned. Convicting him and making him pay a price for what he did may help other Metcalfs from this fate in the future. Of course, the only thing the left and the media care about is that there are no blacks on the jury.
I saw those pics last year and also one of Karmelos classmates was interviewed on campus and she said he got into trouble for carrying a knife around.
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