A black judge has released accused murderer Karmelo Anthony in the latest case of “we should not be forced to live with these people.” Angela Tucker, a graduate of SMU’s ironically named Dedman School of Law, serves on the bench of Texas’ 199th District Court where she was elected as a Republican in 2012. She also lowered his bond from $1 million to a mere $250,000.

The case made national headlines for the senseless and unnecessary tragedy which saw Austin Metcalf, a white student athlete and honor student at Frisco Memorial High School in Texas, brutally stabbed to death during a track competition. According to reports, Austin and his twin brother Hunter became concerned when they saw a black male wearing the jacket of a rival school lingering around their valuables. When asked to leave, Anthony threatened, “Touch me again and see what happens.”

The Metcalf family, who are devout Christians, obviously did not have “the talk” with their son so he would understand the threat that those words coming from a black man pose. Austin reportedly grabbed Anthony to remove him from the tent at which point Anthony pulled a knife from his backpack and stabbed him in the chest. He then collapsed and died in his brother’s arms.

“I put my hand on there. I grabbed his hand and looked in his eyes. I just saw his soul leave and it took mine too,” Austin’s brother, Hunter Metcalf, told FOX News.

Austin’s father, Jeff Metcalf, had a rather different reaction. He publicly “forgave” Anthony while his son’s blood was still staining the ground red, and encouraged the public to pray instead of “making this about race.”

Once under arrest a police officer reportedly said, “I have the alleged suspect [in custody].” Anthony proudly boasted, “I’m not alleged! I did it!”

The case was immediately perceived along racial lines, with blacks uniformly arguing that the stabbing was justified “self-defense.” The family of the killer started two GoFundMe campaigns which were shut down due to that company’s policy against rewarding criminal activity. They found safe haven, however, at the “Christian conservative” alternative GiveSendGo where they blasted past their original goal of $150,000. At press, the fund had raised $418, 102. Based on available data, defending a murder case typically ranges from $10,000 to $50,000. The rest of that money will likely be pocketed to make the Anthony family hood rich for the killing of the white teen.

When whites are accused of racialized murder, as when Travis and Gregory McMichael were tried in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, they are ostracized and alone. When blacks do the same, their racial cohorts rally to their defense, including various nonprofit groups. Next Generation Action Network, a left-wing NGO which dispensed bail funds during the 2020 George Floyd riots, is working in tandem with the Anthony family to acquit their son. NGAN has collected more than 6 figures but uses a shady practice called “501(c) bouncing” to avoid IRS filings and obscure whether their funding comes from usual suspects like George Soros’ Open Society Foundation or government programs like USAID. To “501(c) bounce” a nonprofit fails to file IRS disclosures until their nonprofit status is revoked, at which point they just create a new 501(c). The group was founded by Minister Dominique Alexander, himself a repeat violent criminal offender. In 2011, he was convicted of assaulting his girlfriend’s 2 year old son. He was given a mere slap on the wrist for pleading guilty to criminal theft in 2017, despite a history of forgery.

Karmelo has been charged with first degree homicide, which means that the killing was premeditated. This concept is often misunderstood by the general public. They tend to think that the standard is someone plotting a killing over an extended period of days, weeks, or years. However, the legal standard is undefined and can actually be as short as a matter of moments. I was shocked when I learned this concept during the James Fields homicide trial. In that case, Fields had his home address programmed into his GPS after a nationalist rally in Charlottesville. However when his car was blocked by armed protesters, he backed up and then accelerated into the crowd. The moment where he backed up was considered premeditation by prosecutors and, ultimately, the jury. Similarly, even if Karmelo had not attended the track competition with murderous intent, prosecutors will argue that he had forethought when he reached for the knife in his backpack and warned, “Touch me again and see what happens.” Prosecutors will likely argue beyond that basic standard, that Karmelo bringing a banned weapon onto school property shows an even greater forethought, since there was no legitimate purpose for him to bring the knife.

The black community has been justifying their support for the murderer by drawing comparisons to highly publicized white defendants like Kyle Rittenhouse and Daniel Penny. From an ethical and legal standpoint, there are major qualitative differences with those cases. Metcalf wasn’t aiming a gun at Anthony, the way Gaige Paul Grosskreutz was at Rittenhouse. Neither was Anthony stepping in because Metcalf was threatening to kill other people, the way that Jordan Neely was before being subdued by Penny.

No trial date has yet been set but the Collin County District Attorney’s Office is preparing to present the case by the end of June 2025 to decide whether Anthony will be indicted and face trial, as well as what the charges will be.

https://www.unz.com/article/blacks-rally-to-defend-killer-of-white-teen-austin-metcalf