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‘We’re in a nightmare’: Karmelo Anthony’s parents speak as son files appeal
Court TV ^ | June 11, 2026 | Lauren Silver

Posted on 06/11/2026 12:04:47 PM PDT by kevcol

“We’re in a nightmare. It doesn’t feel real,” said Anthony’s parents in their first interview following the verdict with Mimi Brown on The Breakfast Club. “We’ve been up all night crying and praying.”

“We didn’t know how cruel the world could be,” Karmelo Anthony’s father, Andrew Anthony, said. “We did everything we were advised and told to do, and look what happened.”
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“The reality of this is that somebody literally walked into [Karmelo’s] life,” he said, “[Karmelo] did everything by the law and just look at where we’re at.”

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KEYWORDS: austinmetcalf; crime; karmelo; karmeloanthony; murder; ohnoanyway; texas; thuggery; thugocracy; tx
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To: kevcol

Acting like 8 year olds.


21 posted on 06/11/2026 12:23:14 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: kevcol

‘We’re in a nightmare’

At least your son is still alive..............


22 posted on 06/11/2026 12:24:08 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: kevcol

They’d be cool if America wasn’t full of racists. That’s pretty much the whole problem.


23 posted on 06/11/2026 12:24:23 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: PGR88

Texas has legalized murder?


24 posted on 06/11/2026 12:24:49 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: kevcol

Is this the Babylon Bee?


25 posted on 06/11/2026 12:25:14 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: nitzy
same people who said Zimmerman wasn't justified for shooting Martin as Martin was on top of him, slamming his head into the concrete.

Ah, yes.

Once it was revealed that Zimmerman wasn't white, they created a new classification - White Hispanic

26 posted on 06/11/2026 12:25:51 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: kevcol

It’s election season.

Dems are desperate for another Floyd summer.

But try and burn down Frisco, TX and it won’t be like Minneapolis.


27 posted on 06/11/2026 12:26:25 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: OpusatFR

Really, when is stabbing someone to death a part of the law.


Likely in many shithole African countries.


28 posted on 06/11/2026 12:26:29 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: kevcol

Unfortunately, Karmelo’s family, and Karmelo’s circle of supporters, live in the world of:

What Would Karmelo Do?

And they are following through on it.

They will also fundraise on all of it, and continue to Buy Large Mansions (BLM).


29 posted on 06/11/2026 12:28:00 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: kevcol

Rented a new mansion, bought new cars, hit a fundraising jackpot, and all that was needed was for their son to murder someone in cold blood.


30 posted on 06/11/2026 12:28:48 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: frank ballenger

“Dr. Carson even overcame the influence of youth gangs in his neighborhood during his adolescence, changing from a struggling student to one who was awarded a scholarship to Yale University.”
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I have great respect and admiration for Dr. Carson; and yet even he, by his own admission, stabbed another youth as a young boy His remorse for that act was a major turning point in his life.


31 posted on 06/11/2026 12:29:20 PM PDT by Ozymandias Ghost
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To: kevcol

Karmelo’s lawyer, and his his parents, knew the chance of success in a murder trial would be <1%

But they rejected the plea-deal. Why?

There would be no money in that. If son is going to prison anyway, might as well make something from it.

They had to run him through the trial to get the funds!

With all the money they are making, they’ll be moving to a white neighborhood


32 posted on 06/11/2026 12:29:32 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: kevcol
“We did everything we were advised and told to do, and look what happened.”

Your Race Card has been cancelled.

33 posted on 06/11/2026 12:30:30 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: kevcol

A nightmare that your family created.


34 posted on 06/11/2026 12:32:14 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact.)
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To: kevcol

How did she raise him?

I turned 21 in prison, doing life without parole
No one could steer me right, but mama tried, mama tried
Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied
That leaves only ME to blame ‘cause mama tried...


35 posted on 06/11/2026 12:32:19 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (REOPEN THE CLOSED MENTAL HOSPITALS! Closed in the 1970s, murders by crazies sky rocketed!)
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To: kevcol

“We did everything we were advised and told to do, and look what happened.”


Perhaps they should direct their anger towards the people advising them and telling them what to do.


36 posted on 06/11/2026 12:32:51 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: kevcol

What part of “Your son killed someone in cold blood” do these idiots not understand?


37 posted on 06/11/2026 12:33:16 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

And if he didn’t want a problem he was free to walk on out of the tent to “safety”.


38 posted on 06/11/2026 12:34:27 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact.)
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To: Ozymandias Ghost

Good catch.

Undermines my favorable list. I salute you.

I’m not being sarcastic.


39 posted on 06/11/2026 12:37:03 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: kevcol

Just wait till the DNC comes to confiscate their go fund me loot.


40 posted on 06/11/2026 12:38:08 PM PDT by Track9 (Liberal tears make me smile. Thank you DJT!)
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