Posted on 04/15/2025 9:28:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“To murder a man is to rob the world of his future, to steal what he might have given.” – John Steinbeck
The tragic loss of Austin Metcalf’s life to a murderer with knife is so senseless it is difficult to process, and yet it has already become yet another cause célèbre that the race baiters have gleefully taken on as permission to escalate.
You can be sure they are already planning for another full-blown scandal. You can bet they are hoping for another George Floyd 2.0 national riot.
Hopefully, that will not happen. Metcalf’s death was perhaps not intentional, but then, maybe it was.
The accused killer, Karmelo Anthony, most probably provoked the victim.
Isn’t it possible the seventeen- year-old from another school, who had a knife in his duffle bag, just might have decided to sit under the tent of Metcalf’s school in order to provoke just such an incident?
When Metcalf asked Anthony to move, he refused. Then, according to witnesses, Anthony said “punch me and see what happens,” and “don’t put your hands on me.”
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Metcalf apparently put his hand on Anthony’s shoulder, Anthony reached into his bag for the knife and stabbed Metcalf in the heart and ran. Metcalf died in his twin brother’s arms. When police caught up to him, he freely admitted he had done it, asked if Metcalf was going to be O.K., and quickly said it was “self defense.”
He began crying but no remorse was discerned beyond being caught.
As in many such horrific events, the killer sees himself as the victim. And like clockwork, social media was full of angry videos comparing Anthony to Rosa Parks! Rosa Parks he is not.
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Chances are he just misread the situation. Another black kid might have realized Anthony was intent on starting something and known how to respond, that what was required was an equally threatening retort which might have diffused the situation or escalated it to mutual disrespect which is always the excuse for violence, the kind of violence justified in the streets of far too many neighborhoods.
The George Floyd playbook deja vu all over again.
Karmelo gave evidence that it was intentional.
Did you hear the killer’s family bought a multi-hundred thousand dollar home ,with the GoFundMe donations that have come in?
The victims family? 100% unsupported
Carmelo was a straight A student and already taking pre-med at community college ,he recognized that the other boy had heart problems and attempted open heart surgery to save his life.He dindu nuffin except try to help.
Unless you have a gun on you, call security. The guard would have known to call the police immediately and surveil the punk until the police arrive.
Didn’t hear it but it’s enraging.
Not by all accounts.
A freeper who lives in the area said his classmates say he was always looking for a fight. He posted social media posts with himself with guns and making gang signs. He brought a knife to a track meet. He trespassed on the opposing team’s tent (who even does that?!) He begged the other kid to fight.
If this was a wannabe gang member he might have planned this for his initiation murder. What the left should consider is that the “Maryland father” they want to make sure gets back to the US, as a ranked MS-13 member, would have made the calls for young guys to do exactly what this one did, to prove they can kill without remorse or conscience.
Karamello is a liar. It was a premeditated act of cold blooded murder by an animal with no respect for life. Terminate the remorseless piece of refuse with extreme prejudice. There is no other justice that will do. Take from him what he took from the other.
The money laundering operation that is GoFundMe should be investigated by the DOJ/FBI and shut down.
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5.56mm
You can tell EXACTLY what kind of a household he was raised in WHEN the damn legal fund donations were used to buy a more upper scale house for them…..SPIT!!!
Sounds like there was no time. As soon as anybody knew he had a knife he had plunged it into the other guy’s heart. Why would a kid even have a knife at a track meet?
And ya don’t go in another team’s tent. That’s like forcing your way into the other team’s dugout or locker room, and then when they tell you to get out you fight? It wouldn’t even occur to a good kid to do such things. And even his having his bag with him when he was in a different team’s tent is backwards. Each team has its own hangout; in my day we hung out in groups on the grass in the infield, which is where we kept all our stuff. The only meet that wasn’t like that was the state meets when you were only out of the bleachers to report in for your events and then compete in them. Unless things are totally different than in my day, this whole story shows the kid was seriously looking for a serious fight.
Exactly.
That’s a big knife! [if that’s it] The perp plunged it fully into the victim’s chest, through his heart. The murderer claims self-defense...as his family plans to buy a new house with the defense cash. Grifters.
Was he a football player? YES! Did he have good grades? Maybe, at this point I'm discounting a whole LOT that is out there.
It’s sadly far worse than that! Many on all kinds of media are making up all kinds of stuff, there have been HOAXES, and people saying THE most ridiculous tripe known to mankind.
Some people who know nothing but are all for riots to happen and it keeps on getting posted. None of them is from there, know ANY facts, are lying their heads off, and some just might decide to go to Frisco and start trouble.
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