The reaction to the Karmelo Anthony verdict: he’s the victim!
Some people consider Karmelo Anthony the innocent victim here. My sense is that the people reacting this way to the Anthony verdict are a relatively small group, but they’re very vocal and getting a lot of media attention. The group is composed of extremely angry black people and virtue-signaling white “progressives.” But even one person reacting this way is one too many.
One of these people is Karmelo Anthony’s grandmother, who spoke to the pro-Anthony demonstrators after the trial:
? WATCH: Karmelo Anthony’s grandmother riles up the crowd by REPEATEDLY screaming “RACIST, BIASED, PREJUDICED” as she left the courthouse
“They sent a MESSAGE that a white person can hit a black boy and get away with it! They can do whatever the F—K they want!”
This entire… pic.twitter.com/p80ibpTnTF
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 10, 2026
Karmelo Anthony’s grandmother riles up the crowd by REPEATEDLY screaming “RACIST, BIASED, PREJUDICED” as she left the courthouse
“They sent a MESSAGE that a white person can hit a black boy and get away with it! They can do whatever the F—K they want!”
So Austin Metcalf “got away with it”? Being murdered wasn’t punishment enough to satisfy this lady? What else would she have liked to see happen to Austin Metcalf and his family? Perhaps she’d prefer something of this sort?:
Twisted Karmelo Anthony supporters are bombarding the family of slain high school football player Austin Metcalf
with sickening death threats, including a disgusting message saying Austin’s twin brother, Hunter, should have also been killed.
It’s almost irrelevant to point out that Austin Metcalf is not reported by witnesses to have hit Karmelo Anthony, because even if he had done that it wouldn’t have given Anthony license to kill him. It used to be that just about everyone understood that. But for some, the rule is now, “if you lay a hand on me, even if I’ve been asked to leave a school tent because it’s not my school, and then I refuse to do so and insult and curse at you, I get to kill you.” Or maybe just, “if you lay a hand on me I get to kill you.”
At least this was Anthony’s grandmother saying it; she is expected to be understandably upset at the fact that he’s going to prison. But people deal with upset in any number of ways, including apologizing to the real victims – the Metcalf family and anyone who witnessed the killing – and looking inward rather than deflecting blame outward. That this woman chose the latter route is telling.
But then there are people who are supposed to be leaders. For example, there’s Jasmine Crockett, who made a series of extraordinary statements on the case, including this one:
Rep. Crockett: "Black women live in agony every day that I promise the Metcalfs had never lived through" pic.twitter.com/GVielzMf51
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 10, 2026
Pure intersectionality. Black women rank very high on the all-important victimhood ladder, according to Jasmine Crockett.
Also see this from Crockett about the size of the knife wielded by Anthony, although that’s irrelevant, and about motive and the self-defense justification. This woman is a lawyer and knows better, but her need to whip up racial anger is strong:
Some of Karmelo’s crazed supporters are now reportedly randomly punching white people. Do the white people get to stab them in the heart? Assuredly not.
ADDENDUM:
This Legal Insurrection post features a number of comments by black people who agree that Karmelo Anthony is clearly guilty of murder and needs to pay the price. I think their position represents that of the majority of black people, despite the attention-getting behavior of those who consider Anthony a victim.
Its Cultural Marxism pushing race war.
Unsettling any normal society that White Supremacists are taking over.
“But then there are people who are supposed to be leaders. For example, there’s Jasmine Crockett, who made a series of extraordinary statements on the case, including this one”
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I am not picking on you, neo, I swear! But the description of political office holders as “leaders” rankles me to no end. I know it’s semantics, and I apologize, but I hate automatically ascribing leadership qualities to someone who manages to win an election.
Disgusting! Blacks need to stop demanding special treatment, and the rest of the country needs to stop granting it.
When Karmelos’ sentence was reported on the radio, I thought the announcer said 45 years, which would be better than the 35 he was given. Still, 35 is better than anything less.
If he were to be paroled after 17.5 years he would be about 36 years old, which would be unjust after the completely inexcusable murder he committed!
sharksauce:
That’s why the phrase “supposed to be” is in there.
“Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary.”
George Orwell, “1984” — “The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.”
Heaven help us.
His grandmother is a graceless creature.
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‘Racist’ generally means that proper status hierarchies have been violated; he cannot be held accountable for having killed a social inferior. Both his grandmother and Jasmine Ratchet are animated by this feeling.
Yesterday I saw a video from a black man–don’t have the link— which pointed out that many black mothers rear their children with the admonition, “Don’t let them touch you,” with the implication that a violent response is justified.
Here is another video w Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, @ 3:00. They’re Defending Karmelo Anthony. Let’s Respond.(hat tip to huxley. The blogger is another black who did not deify St. Karmelo.) Jasmine Crockett dixit:
First point: While Austin Metcalf was bigger than Karmelo Anthony, he was not on top of Karmelo. Nor was Austin Metcalf beating Karmelo. Which means that Jasmine Crockett does not accurately describe the Austin Metcalf/Karmelo Anthony situation.
Nonetheless I would agree with Congresswoman Crockett that if someone bigger than me were on top of me, and beating me up, I would be legally justified in being “not limited to fists.”
I can think of a situation some years back when a larger person was on top of a smaller person, beating the small person up, and the smaller person’s response was “not limited to fists.”
I refer to George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. Trayvon Martin was IIRC 6″ taller than George Zimmerman.
Would Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett agree that George Zimmerman was justified in doing what he did? The jury acquitted George Zimmerman, so it saw some justification in George’s killing Trayvon Martin.
Gringo:
Not only that, but Trayvon was repeatedly bashing Zimmerman’s head against the pavement, and there was indeed evidence of that.
Zimmerman also claimed that Martin saw his gun and reached for it.
And of course Crockett wouldn’t think Zimmerman was justified.
The black community has been marinated in grievance, entitlement, and the bigotry of low expectations since the ’60s…or if I’m feeling generous, the ’90s.
Nothing asked. Everything given. Zero accountability. And here we are.
We (whites and blacks) exist in two separate irreconcilable realities.
When you reward grievances without establishing their legitimacy, you create an incentive for people to create grievances for gain. Are all of these displays being made in good faith, in real anger and outrage, or are they performative?
The result should not be a surprise. The result is also a warning and a red flag that indicates a course correction is becoming critical.
Thomas Sowell said some years ago: “”When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”
This Legal Insurrection post features a number of comments by black people who agree that Karmelo Anthony is clearly guilty of murder and needs to pay the price. I think their position represents that of the majority of black people, despite the attention-getting behavior of those who consider Anthony a victim.
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That sounds overly optimistic. Sure, I’d like to believe it. But I don’t see a reason to.
“We (whites and blacks) exist in two separate irreconcilable realities.” John Guilfoyle
Among many others, just the very existence of Thomas Sowell, Walter Hudson and Colion Noir testify to race being no obstacle to full American assimilation.
It’s culture and parenting that embraces as ‘armor’ the rejection of “white values”. Such as education, developing a strong work ethic, acceptance of personal responsibility and accountability plus, acceptance of familial obligations and loyalty, and finally the virtue of delayed gratification which builds self-discipline and develops persistence in pursuit of goals. That rejection is entirely responsible for, in the aggregate, the pathetic socio-economic performance of blacks.
My grandmother never used foul language.
As a career prosecutor, I am pro law and order but I have to wonder if a slightly lesser degree of homicide might not have been an appropriate verdict here. My non-expert understanding of the Texas law in this case is that the only two possible charges that were sent out with the jury were murder in the first degree, and manslaughter.
Here in Pennsylvania, a person could be charged with third degree murder too.
“We (whites and blacks) exist in two separate irreconcilable realities.” John Guilfoyle
Only those in hate-filled subcultures. Not all, on either side.
@ RigelDog – your question was addressed in the comments on yesterday’s post.
IIRC, judges have some discretion over what is submitted to the jury to decide on, depending on the charges brought by the prosecutor. IANAL
https://thenewneo.com/2026/06/10/karmelo-anthony-has-been-sentenced-to-35-years/#comment-2854359
Dave L. on June 11, 2026 at 12:04 am said:
Neo-
Life in prison was not possible on the charge convicted, that of Murder (TPC 19.02).
The Texas Penal Code has four degrees of criminal homicide: Capital Murder, Murder, Manslaughter, and Criminally Negligent Homicide. Only Capital Murder carries the death penalty or life without parole, analogous to 1st Degree Murder in other states.
Murder is a 1st degree felony, with a possible sentence of 5-99 years.
Under Texas law, a convict must serve half of their sentence, or 30 years, whichever is less, before they are eligible for parole.
@ Aggie > “Thomas Sowell said some years ago: “”When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”””
Jeff Childers had an observation in his post today that points to at least one action that applies to that maxim (among many others over the last few decades), because it also involves students of Anthony’s age.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/fall-of-the-dei-jedi-thursday-june
I recommend the entire post.
Speaking of black folks:
““if you lay a hand on me I get to kill you.””
I suspect, in some instances, this may lead to “not if I kill you first.”
I have no doubt that the prominence of this kind of belief – intense verbal discussion, and/or mild physical event that all too frequently escalates into justification for lethal confrontation – will lead to curtailment of a lot of formerly normal activities; risk will be evaluated, pronounced too high, and another piece of “normal life” disappears.
“WATCH: Karmelo Anthony’s grandmother riles up the crowd by REPEATEDLY screaming “RACIST, BIASED, PREJUDICED” as she left the courthouse
‘They sent a MESSAGE that a white person can hit a black boy and get away with it! They can do whatever the F—K they want!'”
To all the people I’ve seen wondering what could have gone wrong, what could have prompted a kid with good grades, an athlete, no criminal record or known gang ties, to stab another kid for nothing more than shoving him during an argument…
There you go. At least two generations of his family have been setting him up for this his whole life. It was just a matter of time.
“I am not picking on you, neo, I swear! But the description of political office holders as “leaders” rankles me to no end. I know it’s semantics, and I apologize, but I hate automatically ascribing leadership qualities to someone who manages to win an election.”
Hear Hear!!!!
They are supposed to be our *representatives*, not our “leaders”.
That propensity to view them as and/or expect them to be “leaders” is a big part of the problem with keeping government under control.
Following up on the demonic grandmother’s comments, there are reports of the Metcalf family receiving death threats.
The people screaming most loudly about this may not actually believe what they are saying: they are doing it for profit or attention. Anthony’s family figured that they had discovered a perpetual goldmine but are quickly discovering that the George Floyd windfall machine no longer exists. Times are different and the story is getting little traction. They spent all of their GoFundMe money on a luxurious house and it’s only trickling in now. Karmelo has told the court that he needs court appointed appellate counsel because he can’t afford private representation.
It may not be quite as obvious to people outside Texas, but Jasmine Crockett has not been heard from since her ignominious defeat in the Democrat senate primary. She’s seized on this issue as something to get her back in the public eye and so far it’s worked. But in any event she’ll be gone from Congress in January and I’m not seeing any signs that she’s snared that lucrative media gig that she’s angling for.
Aesopfan @ 12:15 am, re Childers blog.
“Disparate impact” was a core idea shoved into government by Obama. All things he could have his administration touch were commanded to factor in “disparate impact”.
He sowed it into hiring requirements, test standards, school discipline, criminal prosecution, housing, loans, … Et al.
DEI without the label.
His legacy has been the exponential fueling of entitlement and racism.
We are all paying dearly.
Several months ago, my husband’s truck was broken into and a handgun was stolen. The police caught the young men who did it. Two were juvenile, one was 19. There were videos of them breaking into and stealing other things in the same neighborhood around that same time. The police lifted the prints of one of the juvenile offenders from our little crime scene. (They didn’t look for prints on the truck as my husband already touched the door handle and the console.) The “adult” had a photo of himself on his social media with my husband’s gun. (It was an unusual gun.) They found the clothes he was wearing in the videos from that night in his house.
At his bail hearing, the judge was not aware that the little weasel had stolen a gun and was going to release him on his own recognizance. My husband went to the bail hearing and spoke up. The judge set a bail amount. The mother was weeping and wailing.
The prosecutor decided not to charge the “adult” with the theft of the gun. Because there wasn’t any “proof” that he did it: we didn’t have video of him breaking into our truck; you couldn’t see the serial numbers of the gun in the photo on the social media. (I did mention that it was an unusual gun.) and HIS prints weren’t on our crime scene (even though in all the video that the police collected from that evening, he was with his two little juvie pals,) He was charged with theft of diesel fuel from another property that night. He pled guilty to that in return for probation, and paying restitution to my husband for the theft of the gun.
(The police didn’t recover it from his home, and he wouldn’t give it up because my husband pressed charges. Another gun was stolen that night, and that owner didn’t press charges so the little weasel gave up the gun. And as an aside, he showed up to his hearing sentencing drunk or high.)
Three months later, he hasn’t reported to the probation officer at all, and he hasn’t started the three year payment plan for the gun. The probation office hasn’t heard word one from the little weasel since his sentencing. And the person from the County just shrugs her shoulders and says, “Well, that happens.”
And they didn’t charge the juveniles at all.
This is the problem. Nothing happens. There are no consequences for little criminals. When the little weasel was arrested, his mother was screaming at the police, “My son would never do anything like that!” (She apparently was a real prize.) People — parents, authorities — aren’t doing any favors for the criminals by ignoring consequences for minor-ish infractions and letting it slide. It’s not only that it leads to greater crime in general, but also for the offenders — they might actually NOT accelerate to more serious stuff if they actually got in trouble for the petty stuff they did.
This was not the little weasel’s first brush with the law. Googling him showed that he had been arrested before. He was 19, so it’s not like a lot of time had passed since he was no longer a “juvenile.”
Every time there is shooting in the town where the little weasel lives, I wonder if the missing gun was used. So far, no. But I gotta figure that it is just a matter of time. The little weasel faced pretty much no consequences for his night of breaking in and stealing things. When will he decide that he can get away with armed robbery?
I am not sure how much the fact that he is a “person of color” factors into the saga.
(On a humorous note: when he was arrested, the little weasel was naked and hiding under the bed with his girlfriend, also naked. The police really kept my husband informed of stuff.)
Hey, there’s a big election coming up, so Dems need to whip up some racism so Obama and his disciples can talk shit about America!
As Obama might say, if we had a modern equivalent of Nazis, Dems are what they’d look like!
The prosecutor is a government employee who could not be bothered.
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All penal code offenses, including burglary and larceny, should carry a penalty of incarceration or corporal punishment. Restitution and / or forfeiture should be a supplementary penalty. For the most minor offenses, fines may be a supplementary penalty as well. There should be no suspended sentences, no conditional discharge, no unconditional discharge, and no penalties apart from incarceration, corporal punishment, fines, forfeiture, restitution.
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Sentences should be specified in formulae written into the statute. Scalar quantities in the formulae should be determined in separate hearings in front of a panel of a judge and two assessors. The assessors should be drawn at random from guild rolls in professions other than law (e.g. accounting and occupational therapy.
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Fact finding in re juvenile offenders should be ratified in municipal or superior court depending on whether or not the top count is a felony or a misdemeanor. Proceedings in family court, if any, should be to ponder custody arrangements for the accused during those intervals when the accused was not in the custody of the county or the state. Should an accused be under the age of 25, a portion of the incarceration or corporal punishment should be replaced with probation. The ratio of probation to incarceration / corporal punishment should be inversely correlated with an offender’s age. Whether in jail or in prison, those under 25 should when in the general population be sorted into sets consisting of 2, 3, or 4 age cohorts, with each set segregated from the others and from older offenders. The segregation can be accomplished by placing the offenders in question in different institutions, in walled compounds, in separate buildings, or in cell blocks between which offenders do not travel.
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Offenders over the age of 25 should not receive probation. Fines are properly for offenses defined outside the penal code (vehicle and traffic law, tax law, environmental conservation law, securities law, local ordinances) or for corporation offenders. Offenders who welsh on their fines, forfeiture, and restitution should be collared and put to work under the supervision of nasty sheriff’s deputies. Labor services, not ‘community service’. This is the only circumstance in which labor services should be imposed.
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Points should be awarded an offender for each conviction of a number derived from the severity of offenses on a particular bill. Each time a recidivist is sentenced, his statutory sentence should include a formulaic enhancement calculated from his point accumulation.
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Courts should not be shy about preventive detention and some portion of bail or bond should always be in cash. If charges fall apart or the eventual sentence is less than time service, the offender can be compensated for his time according
to a standard formula.
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If an offender has > 100 days left to serve at the time of conviction, he should be remanded to state prison.
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As is the practice in New York, a convict serving his time in a county jail may be paroled at the discretion of the sheriff when 2/3 of his time has been served.
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As is not the practice in New York, a convict remanded to state prison may be considered for parole when half his sentence has been served and annually thereafter. Parole decisions should be made by parole juries consisting of six prison system employees selected from the personnel database at random. Ideally, they receive dossiers consisting of his disciplinary record in prison, but with the name of the offenders and prison employees replaced with code numbers and are urged to make their decision on the basis of the convicts respect for rules and prison personnel.
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Those incarcerated should serve sentences of modest duration in prisons which have few amenities. Orange uniforms, head and beard shaved fortnightly, bland but nutritious diet heavy on Bulgar wheat, tiny single occupancy cells with a cot, desk, basin, toilet, and change of linen. No entertainment electronic or otherwise, no classes, no counseling from aught but a chaplain and the offender’s lawyer, no prison factory, no weight room, no sports (just an outdoor yard), visitors only through plexiglass and intercom, and the franchise to receive care packages distributed by lottery (as it takes staff time to examine such packages). There would be an infirmary and some custodial options other than the general population. The guards would have a franchise to take a birch or a cane to offending convicts.
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/rant off.
https://floppingaces.net/most-wanted/the-trial-exposed-a-killer-the-aftermath-exposed-an-entire-grievance-industry/
The exceptions prove the rule.
Sailorcurt on June 12, 2026 at 7:13 am said:
“That propensity to view [politicians] as and/or expect them to be “leaders” is a big part of the problem with keeping government under control.”
I agree with your general thrust, but if the sovereign people are not paying attention to the actions vs. promises of their elected reps, that is partly on them. Clearly made worse with a biased partisan media not providing the real info needed for such assessments.
We can also factor in Edmund Burke’s views that he understands the issues of his constituents, but will rely on his own judgement as to the merit or lack for a given law or proposal. If we have truly virtuous reps, that position can be applauded, otherwise not so much.
My Congressional rep sends out mails (sometimes daily) detailing the role his office played in helping constituents interact with the govt agencies, recovering about $100M over the last 4 years. But today he also put out messages citing his ability to bring home the bacon to our district with a series of $300K to $700K grants for local infrastructure improvements (some hurricane response related I am sure) or selected business / educational developments.
He claims to be a “small government” Republican, so such actions really should be avoided and left to local or state resources. But then again, he wants to be re-elected and plays the “trough” game.
He will probably face a couple of challengers this primary season but I don’t really know yet if any of them are any more promising.
There are numerous videos of mobs running loose creating mayhem in NY city during game 3.
Most of those in the mob have little fear of Law Enforcement or the consequences it appears.
Be careful what large gathering you attend. Also, a good idea to have a plan B.
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ArtDeco: Orange uniforms, head and beard shaved fortnightly, bland but nutritious diet heavy on Bulgar wheat, tiny single occupancy cells with a cot, desk, basin, toilet, and change of linen. No entertainment electronic or otherwise, no classes, no counseling from aught but a chaplain and …
Will there be a library? What crimes, excluding those that harm people, will get me a sentence of about five years?
Asking for a friend.
@ John Guilfoyle – Your link re-posts an article at Ace of Spades.
The complete source article is here.
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/420101.php
Ace is not a happy camper.
Will there be a library? What crimes, excluding those that harm people, will get me a sentence of about five years?
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A library is fine.
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The time served in this scheme would depend on when in the course of your sentence you were granted parole. The sentence would depend on your accumulation of points from prior convictions, your age at the time of the offense, and whether you were convicted at trial, negotiated a plea, or submitted a naked plea. It would also depend on what were the charges on the bill below the top count. Five years sounds like something quite severe, like robbery or forcible rape.
They really aren’t fit to live in a civilized society, for the most part.
So much for LBJ’s “Great Society”.
They really aren’t fit to live in a civilized society, for the most part.
So much for LBJ’s “Great Society”.
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Which ‘they’ is that?