Karmelo Anthony is seeking a new trial in Texas as tensions increase over the conviction for the murder of Austin Metcalf. The criminal case was not a difficult one for the prosecution with overwhelming witness and video evidence of the stabbing. Anthony’s motion for a new trial is extremely weak, in my view, because it focuses on his decision not to testify (despite a record showing he made that decision knowingly and freely). At the same time, the case is now becoming a political issue with Democratic senatorial nominee James Talarico declaring that the case “prove[s] this system is not working for black Texans.”
The grounds for the new trial are extremely dubious, as Anthony now suggests that he wants to testify. Such later regrets are common after a conviction, and courts, including this one, anticipate such objections by creating a clear record that the defendant made the decision knowingly and freely.
Ironically, a new trial could bring forth even more damaging evidence. New messages have surfaced showing that Anthony was threatening his former girlfriend and expressing violent ideations just hours before killing Metcalf.
Text messages allegedly include a picture of the knife he used in Metcalf’s killing. Anthony’s girlfriend, Valeria, went to the school on the morning of April 2, 2025, before he stabbed Metcalf. She reportedly told school officials that Anthony was stalking her after she broke up with him.
The evidence shows Anthony told her, “I’m low key on the verge” and “When I stab somebody I’m gonna lick their blood off the blade,” prosecutors alleged.
New information also raises questions about the victim, who was accused of spray-painting racist messages and engaging in threatening conduct. The jury never heard this information about both individuals due to a “gentleman’s agreement” between the prosecution and the defense.
Meanwhile, Talarico has publicly portrayed the conviction as a failure of the legal system. In his appearance on the New York radio show The Breakfast Club, he discussed how he nodded along as a town hall attendee who called Anthony’s conviction a “tragedy.”
He added: “I’m not an expert on this particular case, but I know that there were no black members of the jury, and to me, that’s, that’s the only evidence you need to, to really prove this system is not working for black Texans.”
The Supreme Court has long addressed the use of race to select jurors, particularly when evidence shows jurors were barred from the jury because of their race. It is not considered a constitutional violation to have a jury without a member who shares the race or other characteristics with the defendant.
The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees trial by an impartial jury, not a particular racial makeup. The Equal Protection Clause also protects after discrimination in jury selection.
Under Batson v. Kentucky, the defense can challenge the use of peremptory challenges by the prosecution on the issue of race. However, the issue is not simply the result of the challenges but the motivation behind such challenges.
In the case of James Kirkland Batson, the defendant was charged with burglary and receipt of stolen goods. The prosecutor used his peremptory challenges to remove all four African Americans from the jury pool. Justice Powell ultimately wrote the opinion for the Supreme Court and held that, while a defendant is not entitled to have jurors who meet certain racial criteria, the state is not permitted to use its peremptory challenges to automatically exclude potential members of the jury because of their race.
In the Anthony case, challenges to black prospective jurors drew criticism before the trial. However, the prosecutors objected to a number of individuals because they were educators and the crime occurred on school grounds. The ultimate jury was not “all-White” as commonly claimed. It included Asian, Indian, and Hispanic members.
It is another high hurdle for the defense to argue that the racial makeup of the jury was an unconstitutional element at the trial.
Moreover, calling the trial a “tragedy” and evidence that the system is failing black Texans ignores the overwhelming evidence against Anthony.
I do not believe that a new trial is likely based on the failure to testify. There were ample reasons for the “gentleman’s agreement” and the decision to remain silent. Anthony would have faced a withering cross-examination, and much of this evidence of his prior alleged threats and stalking would likely have been brought out for impeachment and rebuttal purposes.
Is Talarico advocating jury nullification? Does he think Black jurors will automatically vote to acquit their Black brother, irrespective of the facts?
RE: James Talarico’ PR Firm
A.I. String: ( The Public relations Advertising firm behind James Talarico )
The primary digital communications and PR strategy behind James Talarico’s blockbuster U.S. Senate campaign is managed by Luminary Strategies.
Luminary Strategies is recognized as the first Gen Z-led digital firm in Democratic politics. Talarico’s campaign signed on as their first-ever official campaign client, prioritizing massive viral outreach and next-generation communications that have successfully generated hundreds of millions of social media views.
Firm Profile & Campaign Impact
Gen Z Leadership: Luminary Strategies is recognized as the first Gen Z-led digital firm in Democratic politics. Talarico was their first-ever major campaign client.
Viral Reach: The firm designed Talarico’s media strategy to exploit modern algorithmic feeds—prioritizing raw, authentic, high-volume video content. Their viral social media strategy helped generate over 170 million views in key stretches of the election cycle.
Key Team Members: The messaging, video content, and speeches are coordinated internally with campaign leadership, including Creative Director and Speechwriter Antonio Esparza (formerly of Blue Victory Communications).
While Luminary Strategies dictates the high-impact social and digital media theater, Talarico’s messaging is tightly managed by an internal campaign team and grassroots digital networks:
Internal Messaging: Antonio Esparza, former Chief Operating Officer at Blue Victory Communications, serves as the Creative Director and Speechwriter guiding the campaign’s core messaging.
Grassroots Digital Ads: Tech for Campaigns additionally engineered targeted digital advertising programs and voter text outreach infrastructure.
Additional Support Teams
Early Campaign Infrastructure: During Talarico’s early political career launching into the Texas House, the non-profit political organization Tech for Campaigns designed and managed his first targeted digital ads and peer-to-peer texting programs.
The Scale of the Media Push: Supported by a massive $40M+ fundraising apparatus backed by individual grassroots donors and high-profile PACs, this team has directed a massive media campaign. This includes multi-million dollar ad buys stretching across major broadcast, streaming, and Spanish-language network.
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IMO: Backing a Murderer is not a ‘Good Strategy’, particularly when your Client has a Baby face. To their credit they do a ‘Good Ol Country Boy’ Television Ad of Talarico and his father sitting out on the front porch Texan Style. The power of Advertising (not the reality) may decide the outcome of this race.
James Talarico blurted, “I’m not an expert on this particular case, but I know that there were no black members of the jury, and to me, that’s, that’s the only evidence you need to, to really prove this system is not working for black Texans.”
Can you say “Senator Paxton?”
“that’s the only evidence you need”.
talarico says don’t think TOO much about it, just view it through a racial lens and you will reach the ‘correct’ opinion. Just believe his innuendo (whites are racist!) and ignore ANY other facts in a case. Talarico’s racial filter will guide his every action once in office too.
there is ZERO doubt what he did!
Trial should be about 5 minutes
Innocent until proven guilty?
He’s been proven guilty.
As a Texan, I am hopeful the people of Texas do not fall for the lunacy of James Talarico! When he makes public speeche it is like someone who spent to much time with Timothy Leary. Out of state money has been pouring in hoping to eventually turn Texas Blue while the Republican Party sulks because we were tired of John Cornyn’s BS. Paxton has his failings but he knows the law and kicks butt. If Talarico gets to the Senate it will be a joke. The Republican Party has not been very helpful to Paxton as I am aware of, very sad!
America fell for it when it lifted the required and imperative vote restrictions of the Founders—male, European, 21, and 50 lbs. Sterling/50 acres—and when it accepted heterogeneous interlopers into the population of this European nation.
Commenter Sam is right about the race-baiting. But there is also the reality that in this great country, with our secured rights to vote, we still suffer the pandering, placating, posing, and prevaricating by political candidates targeting our votes. I suspect Benjamin Crumb might try to run for office down the road.
Race-baiting. The only people who are race baiting the case is the media. With their zero credibility, no one believes it, yet you and Sam are stoking animosity here.
There absolutely Should be animosity toward mainstream media (MSM) for slanted and race-baiting coverage, just as in the Nolan Wells case. A free press permits, even welcomes, diverse opinions like MSNBC and Fox,- but not every person is willing to give up the opportunity to serve as a juror in a high-profile trial by admitting what he saw/viewed or read or felt a priori regarding the case might have affected his opinion. Among whom are Sam and I “stoking animosity?” from You? thx
Among? This blog?
l,
Notice the blind man’s premise:
The Left (in this case, Talarico) can smear race everywhere. But if you point out the fact that the Left smears race everywhere — you’re spreading racial animosity.
Can you say shoot the messenger?
Without generating some racial animus, How’s a guy like Talarico supposed to get elected in the least racist country on earth?
race baiting is the only path forward.
ooops. That was an honest mistake, not sarcasm.
Benjamin Crump.
Come On Man – everybody knows it was Racism, Supremacy, and White Misogyny that convicted Poor Little Karmelo! The Judge, the Jury, the Prosecutor, and even the victim were just TOO WHITE for him to get a ‘fair’ trial under the new Saint George Floyd Model Rules of Professional Conduct. That trial needed to be a neutral venue like South Los Angeles or Washington DC where they know ‘THE MAN BE DOIN THE BOYZ WRONG’ and that fella Austin done wrong when he looked sideways at Karmelo. Hood Justice was called for immediately so Karmelo could still feel good about himself and let the world know he was THE MAN! What a farce all this retrial BS is. The facts show the idiot committed MURDER – Case Closed and see you at your parole hearing when you are 65!
What’s wrong with that? Aren’t America and Americans free? Is this a sacred cow and protected class dictatorship?
If almost every white juriy is racist, how are voters supposed to trust whitey Talarico?
In any scenario, the person most consumed with race is the racist.
The Professor makes one huge mistake.
He allows Trolls to infest the blog comments.
The conversation and quality of the comments would be far improved if anonymous posting was not allowed and trolling posts simply removed.
It is high time to clean out the useless vitriol and fact free comments.
So says an anonymous comment called Ralph Chappel. Can we see your gov. issed ID please?
Ralph’s “interpretation” of the freedom of speech is that everyone speaks exactly as Ralph instructs them.
The whole thing, all around is a tragedy.
The greatest tragedy is a 17 year old is dead. Let’s not be so generous.
If Anthony is granted a new trial, the death penalty should be back as an option if he is convicted.
The death penalty never was an option, and is not an option now. There is no way to make it an option. Sorry to disappoint you, but it’s just not available.
Explain
What’s to explain? The murderer was 17, so it’s unconstitutional to sentence him to death or to life without parole. But even if he were 18, what he did is not a capital crime, so the death penalty would still not be available. The max he can get is life with the possibility of parole.
Talafreako is a threat to our Republic. He isn’t stupid and knows what he is saying is a lie. Only racist people bring race into the outcome of this trial.
Only racist people? And yet here you are stoking the race aspect.
How do you know he’s lying? Then disprove it.
The race card was Anthony’s only hope to escape justice.
The facts are that if the facts of the case were exactly the same m, only the races reversed, the left would be demanding the death penalty and cities would be burning even as we speak.
So you apparently had 2 imperfect young men with impulse control problems. Saw a lot of that in high school myself and the same thing as my children grew up and went to school. Fights in schools and at basketball and football games. Almost always the same ones. The usual bad behavior of bullying smaller kids and female students, handling frustration and disappointment poorly.
It happens everywhere and most grow up and straighten out, some don’t and proceed down a path to more and more violence. Judgement, whether black or white or hispanic is largely non existent in many cases.
The case still comes in as a confrontation, one armed and one not, one dead and the other holding the murder weapon and seen committing the murder and then freely admitting he committed the murder. You can add all the sidebars you want but that is still the essence of the case.
Mr Anthony’s side screams racism but there is no question he held the knife, committed the murder of another unarmed young man. That is murder. Sad and unnecessary and a lot of stupidity. 2 lives destroyed.
So you were in a “loss of impulse control” incident with Anthony?
Oh please.. what an un thoughtful response…
Obvious it was very well thought out. Yours, not so.
I taught for 26 years in hospitals in Prince George’s County MD. At one school where I taught fights were a weekly occurrence. However, those alterations DID NOT INCLUDE WEAPONS. 20 years ago things were a bit more civilized.
Why are you making yourself the centerpiece of the Karmelo Anthony story here? Darn attention seekers here…
“Darn attention seekers here…” LIKE MORON ANON
Darn attention seekers here…” LIKE MORON DUSTOFF
MORON ANON thinks everyone is Estovir or Dustoff. What a PSYCHO DF
MORON kirk thinks everyone is Estovir or Dustoff. What a PSYCHO DF
More MORON ANON Psychobabble. DAILY!!
I’m sick of the 2 lives destroyed. Not everyone is a murderer. Kid is a creepy murderer.
^^ Same to Robinson and Mangione. These are murderers!
IMAGINE the nightmare Austin’s family must live for a lifetime!
How much time did James Talarico (or anyone on this website who agrees with him) spend in the courtroom, listening to the evidence during the trial?
Courtroom. Zero. He read the transcripts.
How do you know he read the transcripts? I can almost guarantee you that he didn’t, nobody does.
How do you know he didn’t. You can’t guarantee anything. What a stupid thing to say.
Per the article, “He (Talarico) added: “I’m not an expert on this particular case, but I know that there were no black members of the jury, and to me, that’s, that’s the only evidence you need to, to really prove this system is not working for black Texans.”
When James Talarico tells you he is a racist (i.e., judges the jury verdict based on the skin color of the jurors rather than the evidence submitted at the trial), you should believe him.
By definition a guarantee is absolute. One can’t “almost guarantee” anything.
Appellate judges read transcripts. If not, good luck with an appeal.
He wants a new trial because he thinks a Black jury will acquit.
Hopefully Derek Chauvin gets his day.
FREE DEREK CHAUVIN NOW!
Brotha George Floyd was a criminal who was all jacked up and killed himself.
Derek Chauvin applied a restraint procedure he had been trained in and that had been previously employed.
Brotha George Floyd was a criminal who was all jacked up and killed himself.
Derek Chauvin applied a restraint procedure he had been trained in and that had been previously employed.
Hung jury
“Holy ‘he was depraved on account of he was deprived’, Batman!” The victimization mindset by their politically motivated overseers will keep this lot down on the plantation indefinitely notwithstanding the dark complexion of President, the Governor, or the Mayor who was liberated. There’s no role model for them in these achievements as long as the solution remains ‘free stuff’.
victimization mindset? Who’s the victim you’re referring to?
The black community which consistently responds to the bugle call of the Cavalry, “we are from the government and we’re here to help.“ The opportunity for self-determination fades with the depletion of residual agency. Why bother the effort when I can get it without lifting a finger.
Quite the word salad.
“Word salad” is that which is offered up as argument in citing hardship by the disadvantaged as the rationale for opposing the Save America Act whilst readily enabling the same community to overcome barriers to the acquisition of an EBT or Medicaid card should they exist. Both being politically expedient for the goals and aspirations of the opposition.
Quite the word salad.
Your advocacy, twice over, in this matter is greatly appreciated.
“. . . James Talarico declaring that the case ‘prove[s] this system is not working for black Texans.’”
If your goal is to ignite a bloody race war, that is the right language to use.
Race war huh? You fool.
Anonymous, grow up and get lost you are a creepy weirdo.
hullbobby grow up and get lost you are a creepy weirdo.
Would be nice to hear from blackenigma and get his unbiased opinion about this case.
Since you asked…
I’m late arriving at the Karmelo Anthony Trial. Was the Verdict Racist?
The Removal of all the Black Jurors is a Hint
William Spivey
William Spivey
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Jun 10, 2026
Jury Finds Texas Teen Karmelo Anthony Guilty of Murder in Stabbing of Competitor at Track Meet — Tennessee Star
I try to keep up with everything, but there’s so much going on and so little time. When I first heard about the Karmelo Anthony trial in Texas, I checked to make sure it didn’t involve the former NBA player, Carmelo Anthony, whom I’d just seen broadcasting during the NBA playoffs. The Karmelo on trial wasn’t the Carmelo I knew of, so I moved on, because my brain can only handle so much information.
The next thing I knew, the trial was over, and some people were claiming the verdict was racist while others said it had nothing to do with race. My antenna raised when people associated with Fox News and the New York Post were announcing the verdict wasn’t racist. I don’t consider them the best barometer for determining what is and isn’t racist in America.
Let’s look at what happened and the varying descriptions of the same participants and events. On April 2, 2025, a regional track meet was held at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas. Approximately 10–14 teams were participating. Each school sets up a tent to serve as its designated team area. This is where athletes:
keep their bags
store warm‑ups, spikes, water, snacks
meet with coaches
rest between events
It’s essentially the team’s locker room on the field.
Team tents are used for:
shade from the sun
shelter from rain
protection during lightning delays (until athletes are moved indoors)
There was a storm at the Frisco meet, multiple athletes from multiple schools ducked into whatever tents were nearby — including the Memorial tent.
This is normal at large meets.
1. The storm was big enough to trigger an official weather delay
UIL (Texas high‑school athletics) and Frisco ISD have strict rules:
If lightning is detected within 8 miles → all outdoor events must stop immediately.
The reporting says the meet was paused due to the weather, which means:
Lightning was detected
The stadium was under a lightning delay
Athletes were told to seek shelter
This is not a light drizzle — it’s a severe‑weather protocol.
2. The storm was strong enough that athletes crowded into ANY available tent
Multiple witnesses said:
Athletes from several schools rushed into the Memorial tent
The tent became crowded
People were trying to stay dry and out of the wind
This only happens when:
Rain is heavy
Wind is strong
Lightning is present
Athletes cannot remain on the track or in the stands
A mild shower does not cause this kind of movement.
3. The storm was strong enough that coaches were directing athletes to shelter
At Frisco ISD meets, coaches only tell athletes to leave the track area when:
Lightning is detected
Heavy rain makes the track unsafe
Wind gusts threaten tents or equipment
This is consistent with a significant thunderstorm, not a passing sprinkle.
4. The storm was strong enough to disrupt the meet schedule
The meet was:
Delayed
Events paused
Athletes waiting for the “all clear”
This means the storm was not brief or minor.
Karmelo Anthony was a 17-year-old student at Frisco Centennial High School. He was a student‑athlete there, participating in junior varsity football and track. Austin Metcalf was a 17-year-old student at Memorial High, where he was a varsity linebacker and member of the track team. Many reports suggest that JV running back Anthony was larger than Metcalf, but nothing in the photos I’ve seen indicates that.
Austin Metcalf (left) died in the arms of his twin brother, Hunter, after he was stabbed by Anthony at a high school track and field meet. Jeff Metcalf / Facebook
There is no evidence that Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf knew each other before the incident. All reporting indicates they were strangers who encountered each other only because of the storm delay and the crowded team tent.
Back in my days participating in high school Track (I threw the discus), it was normal to socialize with athletes from other schools between events and during rain delays. Many of us knew each other from competing in other sports, such as basketball and football. Even in Frisco, Texas, it was common for people to visit other tents for no particular reason, let alone escaping a lightning storm. Centennial High School track coach Adam Linwood testified that athletes commonly socialized in other schools’ tents during track meets.
At the time of the incident, several people were seeking shelter under the Memorial tent who didn’t attend Memorial. For some reason, Austin Metcalf and several of his teammates singled out Karmelo Anthony and insisted he had to leave the shelter and go back out in the rain. One witness testified that Anthony was asked to leave the Memorial tent “at least 15 times.” No one else was requested to leave, and no adults were involved in making the request.
At least three witnesses testified that Metcalf (who is white if I hadn’t mentioned that earlier) shoved Metcalf. A single witness said they heard Anthony tell Metcalf, “Touch me and see what happens.” That testimony wasn’t corroborated by any other witness. What all agree on is that Metcalf shoved Anthony (which is assault under Texas law), and Anthony stabbed Metcalf once with a 5-inch knife.
To legally claim self‑defense in Texas, Anthony needed to show he reasonably believed:
Metcalf was about to use deadly force, OR
Metcalf was about to cause serious bodily injury
A single, open‑handed shove — described by every witness as not forceful — does not meet that threshold.
The judge said exactly this: Anthony’s belief that he was in deadly danger was not reasonable under Texas law. It seems to me that it was reasonable for Anthony to assume the incident wasn’t over after being shoved by Metcalf and surrounded by several of his teammates. Asking the reading audience, what do you believe was going to happen next?
“Stand Your Ground” does NOT apply unless deadly force is justified.
Texas Stand Your Ground removes the duty to retreat, but it does not give you the right to use deadly force unless:
You are facing deadly force
You are facing a violent felony
You reasonably believe you are about to be killed or seriously injured
A shove in a crowded tent does not qualify, according to the judge. Perhaps he needed to receive a severe beating first. On the other hand, there’s nothing in the testimony to justify Anthony having a knife in the first place, but he was legally carrying the weapon. Lax laws in Texas allow knives to be carried in many circumstances. Knives with blades over 5.5 inches cannot be carried in:
Schools
Colleges
Bars
Hospitals
Amusement parks
Government buildings
Polling places
Correctional facilities
A high‑school track meet is a school‑sponsored event, so a knife over 5.5 inches would be illegal there. Anthony’s knife was under that length, which is why he was not charged with illegal weapon possession.
Despite Fox News (including one Black commentator) declaring the lack of racism. They didn’t mention the thing that concerned me most, which was the purposeful exclusion of all Black jurors. The Karmelo Anthony trial was held in Collin County, Texas. The judge was Jennifer Edgeworth, a Collin County district judge.
Collin County has a decades‑long pattern of all‑white or nearly all‑white juries. Collin County has repeatedly produced juries that are:
0% Black, or
far whiter than the county’s population
This pattern appears in cases from the:
1980
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Several appeals specifically challenged racially discriminatory jury strikes in Collin County. Collin County uses a ZIP‑code–based jury summons system that skews white. They historically used a summons system that disproportionately pulled jurors from:
Frisco
Allen
McKinney
Plano
These areas have higher white populations, higher homeownership, and fewer undeliverable summons.
Meanwhile, ZIP codes with higher Black populations had:
more returned summons
more hardship exemptions
lower voter registration
This created racially skewed jury pools before voir dire even began.
Multiple appellate cases show:
Black jurors were struck at far higher rates
Prosecutors used race‑coded justifications that higher courts later rejected
Some convictions were overturned due to Batson violations (racially discriminatory jury strikes)
This is part of a broader Texas pattern, and Collin County is among the most frequently cited counties in the Dallas–Fort Worth region.
Collin County has been the subject of civil rights complaints and media investigations. Local reporting (Dallas Morning News, Community Impact, Plano Star Courier) has documented:
Black defendants routinely facing all‑white juries
Black jurors being struck for reasons not applied to white jurors
Jury pools that did not reflect the county’s demographics
This pattern persisted into the 2020s
At the Karmelo Anthony trial, the jury pool had been whittled to 18 jurors, of which 12 would be jurors and 2 alternates. The prosecution used its final three challenges to eliminate the three remaining Black jurors. The defense challenged their removal. The prosecutor gave the excuse that the three Black people were educators and, therefore, had interaction with children. They argued that people who work with youth might be more lenient toward a teenage defendant.
The defense immediately challenged this explanation because a white educator was allowed to remain on the jury. If “educators are too sympathetic” was truly the reason, then all educators should have been struck. But prosecutors struck only the Black educators, not the white one. The defense argued that the “educator” rationale was a pretext for racial exclusion.
The Next Generation Action Network said the strikes were:
“deeply troubling” and “outrageous,” because the prosecution used its final strikes to remove every remaining Black juror.
Under Batson v. Kentucky, once the defense shows a pattern of striking Black jurors, the prosecution must give a race‑neutral reason.
But here’s the catch:
The reason does NOT have to be consistent
It does NOT have to be logical
It does NOT have to be applied evenly
It does NOT have to be persuasive
It only has to be facially race‑neutral
“Educators are too sympathetic” is race‑neutral on its face.
That’s all the judge needed to accept it.
Judges rarely find purposeful discrimination. This is the dirty secret of Batson. Judges almost always accept the prosecution’s explanation. Even when the facts contradict the explanation. Even when the pattern is obvious, and even when the justification is flimsy or absurd
Texas courts — especially in Collin County — have a long history of:
accepting pretextual reasons
rejecting Batson challenges
allowing prosecutors to strike Black jurors using coded rationales
The bar for proving intentional discrimination is extremely high.
The judge said the defense didn’t prove “purposeful discrimination.” To win a Batson challenge, the defense must show not just that the strikes disproportionately removed Black jurors. But that the prosecution intended to discriminate. That is almost impossible to prove unless the prosecutor makes an overt statement.
So even though all three Black jurors were struck, a white educator was kept, and the rationale was inconsistent. The judge ruled that the defense didn’t prove intentional racial discrimination.
So yes, the Karmelo Anthony verdict was racist, in at least the same way that trials with Black defendants in Texas and elsewhere have long been racist. Karmelo Anthony didn’t get a jury of his peers, where jurors can’t be excluded on the basis of race, as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. He got the jury prosecutors could get away with, which is racist as hell.
Enigma, what a long, boring story. Let me summarize the facts. A severe storm hit, and those on the field sought shelter. Anthony went under another team’s tent and was asked to leave 15 times. Metcalf shoved Anthony, and Anthony plunged the blade of his knife into Metcalf’s chest, killing him.
Anthony is not guilty. The storm killed Metcalf.
BAN FOR LIFE!
Why? Someone specifically asked my opinion and I provided it. It’s true I was a little lazy and posted something I’d written almost two months earlier. I am disappointed in myself in that I didn’t provide the version with pictures which helped tell the story. S. Meyer says he was bored so maybe pictures would help, like Trump in his daily briefing.
https://medium.com/the-polis/im-late-arriving-at-the-karmelo-anthony-trial-was-the-verdict-racist-c5e01c554903
“S. Meyer says he was bored so maybe pictures would help,”
I’m not interested in seeing a knife shoved through a man’s chest and then finding out it was the weather’s fault.
You have no interest in anything that doesn’t support your existing view. You could have added something to the story. There’s a picture of Metcalf and his brother in their football uniforms with one of them making a hand gesture. I’m not up on white people gang signs or white power gestures, I was hoping you could identify it?
“You have no interest in anything that doesn’t support your existing view. “
What type of craziness are you promoting? Anthony stabbed Metcalf in the chest, killing him. He got 35 years and, with good behavior, might get parole in 17.5 years, while Metcalf is still dead. Anthony could have gotten life had the jury known about his other activities.
This is crazy, considering Anthony’s other activities. If he got parole at 17.5 years, do you think that is too much? If so, why?
Without hearing the evidence, I don’t know what I’d think if I were on that jury. Is it possible I’d find him guilty of murder or a lesser offense? I don’t know.
What I do believe is that Anthony was screwed by his own lawyer who agreed to a gentlemen’s agreement that took away his best defense. I believe, what nobody here seems to, is that Metcalf was the aggressor. He made his way to Anthony, demanded he leave the tent (with no authority) and shoved Anthony in the chest which is assault anywhere in the country, except the places it’s categorized as battery. I believe that based on a number of documented events, that Metcalf’s racism was part of his decision making. He was backed up by his boys and probably felt he could do whatever he wanted. Anthony dared him (foolishly) to touch himm and Metcalf f’ed around and found out.
“Is it possible I’d find him guilty of murder or a lesser offense? I don’t know.”
The push described was not violent, yet you don’t question the sentence length; rather, you question guilt. It makes no sense, but you are entitled to your opinion.
“Metcalf f’ed around and found out.”
That sounds like a justification for Anthony to kill Metcalf. Additionally, “and found out.” sounds like gang talk.
So now you’re creating “non-violent” pushes? It’s assault. I am questioning the charge and the guilt. Metcalf did f around and find out and maybe the next person who decides to assault someone will think.
“So now you’re creating “non-violent” pushes?”
Are you trying to say that there aren’t variations of pushing? Does a push mean that the person should be knifed and die?
Get one of the criminal lawyers here, you obviously aren’t one, to say why this push wasn’t an assault. I’ll help you with Texas law. Tell me that Metcalf didn’t assault him?
Texas Assault: The Three Core Degrees
1. Assault – Offensive Contact (Class C misdemeanor)
This is the lowest level.
A person commits this when they intentionally make offensive or provocative physical contact with someone.
Examples:
shoving
poking
grabbing someone’s arm
spitting on someone
No injury is required.
This is the charge that applies to many shove‑based confrontations.
“Get one of the criminal lawyers here, you obviously aren’t one, to say why this push wasn’t an assault. I’ll help you with Texas law.”
You like to change other people’s words. Why? Because you cannot debate; the truth is against you. I am well aware of the legal term assault, but my words do not reflect that term. They reflect the response warranted by any touching, whether it is assault or not; INTENT is key. On a NYC subway train during rush hour, there is a lot of pushing. You advocate knifing everyone, which would lead to an entire train of dead people. Your philosophy of life, vengeance, and victimhood doesn’t lead to anything good.
I haven’t advocated knifing anyone. I am saying when you assault someone, you have no control over the response.
You have tried to minimize and ignore the assault. There is none so blind…
“I haven’t advocated knifing anyone. “
You didn’t directly advocate killing, but you had agreement with a generalized threat based on vengeance, which leads to killing.
You said: “Metcalf did f around and find out and maybe the next person who decides to assault someone will think.”
This is gangster talk, and leads to the obituaries read after the weekend in Chicago, which came from thoughts such as, “I showed them.”
Assaulting people (which is violence) leads to additional violence. The answer isn’t for me to not talk about it but for people not to feel they have the liberty to assault people.
“Assaulting people (which is violence) leads to additional violence”
Your rhetoric is that of a revolving door.
I think you need to brush up on self defense law. There is this thing called proportionality. A shove may be “assault” but it is not, in and of itself, a justification for the use of lethal force. Unless Karmelo had direct knowledge of A.M.’s past behavior, it is irrelevant to this case. You also cannot goad someone into a confrontation, then claim self defense when you kill them. The text messages are much worse for the defense, because it shows state of mind just prior to the event and that Karmelo was looking to stab someone. I’d say the “gentleman’s agreement” worked much more in his favor than against.
Self defense must be backed up by a reasonable fear someone is going to kill you or inflict severe bodily harm. A.M. was unarmed and witnesses (not all white) stated he never issued any threats… just demanded he leave their team’s tent and a shove. Karmelo should have never been in that tent to begin with. It wasn’t his. This would be like someone sitting on an opposing football team’s bench or in an opposing baseball team’s dugout. NOBODY does that & anyone who does would cause a stir. Those tents are brought by the school for THEIR athletes. One could easily argue that Karmelo violated that decorum specifically because he was looking for a fight. The text messages seem to back that up… which is why his defense tried to keep them out. What they got in return was keeping out information that may have been excluded anyway. Seems smart to me.
It may FEEL good to you that a jerk got his due, but that is not how the law works. Take race out of the equation, or reverse it, this ends the same way. Last I checked, being a jerk did not warrant a knife in the heart.
You can’t goad someone into a fight, then use lethal force to “defend” yourself… that is taught in any CCW permit class. If you escalate the confrontation, you are placing yourself in legal jeopardy. If A.M. shoved Karmelo and started getting his own @ss beat, then stabbed Karmelo in “defense”… A.M. would be the one on trial. Someone can say mean things, they can be a jerk, they can even shove you… but the response can only be lethal if you are faced with the threat of death or severe bodily harm. As I read the trial breakdown, the only one issuing threats was Karmelo. By all accounts the Metcalf kids were @$$holes. But that doesn’t justify being killed. They probably never even expected Karmelp to pull out a knife, because who does that at a H.S. track meet?
What you seem to be saying is being murdered is fine, as long as you are a jerk & white, therefore you deserved it. You have said before something to the effect of “lay your hands on me with others standing around and all bets are off…” that is not how the law works and every self defense/CCW class I have taken says you will go to prison. It’s the totality of the situation and what is happening in that moment. The fact there was a group there is irrelevant if all the others were doing is standing there watching. Lots of people (of all races) end up being tried, even convicted, for defending themselves… even if they are right.
It is usually better to leave/de-escalate, then end up on trial. Even an attempt to de-escalate can go a long way at trial. None of that was done here, quite the opposite… as someone who has studies use of self defense since I got my first CCW 3 decades ago, I’m not shocked by the guilty verdict. I am shocked his sentence was as short as it was. If I did what Karmelo did, it would have been a longer sentence.
Sam,
Is the defense trying for an escalation of race based rage in hopes of everyone being afraid of a Floyd, 2020 Summer of Love like riots, the jury would not dare return another guilty verdict?
Before we start. Were you in the service?
Good point. But they need a change of venue — to Minneapolis.
Hey Upstate Farmer, I saw your comment yesterday that you have a college degree. Where did you go?
I also saw that 24 hours earlier your comment to Olly was that you were thinking about a “2 year school”.
Hey upstate were you ever in the service?
Your silence is deafening.
It was raining really hard is the defense. 😂 he had no problem beating feet in the rain in the escape attempt.
I wouldn’t go near any sport anymore as a participant or spectator.
Talarico’s rationale for the failure of the system adds to the dilemma. By insisting that the selection of a jury not be complexion blind its take the judicial process into considerations of religious beliefs, gender, culture, national origins, and a host of other factors which might deemed cause for inequality or imbalance.
“When I stab somebody I’m gonna lick their blood off the blade”. Hey Dustoff you were in WWII, what was it like?
I was in Nam you moron. My father was in WWII. ( Bataan Memorial Death March)
Anything else ano.
Try growing up.. I know, to much to ask.
Bataan Death March)
And dishonorably discharged too.
Nope.. But nice try.
You should stayed there permanently.
Been back a few times… Wonderful people.
Anything else you wish to complain about.
Or acting like a 10 year old s what you do best.
Dustoff please shut-up today. You’ve a complete ass of yourself. Come back tomorrow.
The dinks???
Nam? What’s Nam? A school for morons?
What is wrong with you. Seek help.
What is wrong with you. Seek help.
You didn’t serve did you. Nam is short for Vietnam.
Someone commented earlier Dustoff, you wrote you father was at Bataan in 1942, yet you were born 1952.
Hey genius, not everyone in the Bataan Death March died. Anonymous keeps reminding us of the failure of our education system. What a weird little freak.
So what’s your story. I’m sure it’s a bigger whopper than Dustoff’s.
Still losing Poor ano
Dustoff, based on what was written about you and you’re unwillingness to prove your statement. Just shutup.
You definitely were never in the US military.
HullBobby,
Annony is the result of higher-indoctrination. Failed at reading, writing, math and now history.
Let’s see that college degree keep telling everyone about and have confirmed multiple previously you don’t have one. But the day before you told Olly you were thinking of getting a two year degree? I can post your comments here, that okay?
Living rent free …
Go ahead.
Post both what I said and the linky to the comment.
Be sure not to leave any words out or change them around.
Here, let me show you an example: What I said,
“Oh, no!
The Floor level annony is putting on display what a ever so short memory he has!
I have recently announced here on the good professor’s blog that I am now in a position that I can not only run the farm, but I am going to college starting next week.
That would be an example of how successful I am.
And yes, on paper accounting for all my assets, I would classify as upper-middle class.
I do not feel it.
I do not live like it. I live at or even below my means. Which is why I am so successful.”
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/08/20/fourth-circuit-strikes-down-south-carolinas-restrictions-on-absentee-ballots-under-the-26th-amendment/comment-page-2/#comment-2663480
Hello Upstate:
No need to defend or respond to the one who is repeatedly trying to get a rise out of you. Those of us who have been here for a few years have a good understanding of you, your insight, and your intelligence. And I daresay, you probably know that your military, personal (farming and business) and other life experiences may/often convert to several college credits, which will shorten the time you need for your degree. Even your DD-214 might list them. If you did not already, ask at the curricular counseling dept./office.
Congratulations on your plans and enthusiasm! But don’t get so bogged down with homework that we will have to do without you–too much of a loss for this blog site!
And you never got a college degree. Why, obviously too stupid.
Or were in in jail for molestation?
Are you gay too? Just asking for a friend, Dustoff.
Oh, no. Annony is having another one of his mental meltdowns.
Cannot decide if I do or do not have a degree.
Cannot even comprehend what I said.
As I have stated previously, I do no have a degree, have not attended college previously.
Now, I am in the position where I can attend college.
But as I have pointed that out, annony in his desperation now is claiming I was in jail. And is questioning my sexual orientation.
Annony could not be more wrong on any of the above. Annony is not very bright. Despite failing reading, writing, math and history, his higher-indoctrination camp just passed him along.
That would explain his failure to launch. His parents paid a lot of money for a useless degree and he cannot even do the basics.
Battan death march huh? So he died in 1942? You wanna stick to that story? Has all the indications of a lie. Your DOB is 1952. Matches perfectly.
He survived the march. I didn’t say he died.
Do you know anything?
Besides stupid insults.
No one survived the march Dustoff. It was called a death march for a reason.
Try Goggle you fool.
What google got to do with the Bataan march Dustoff. Was it there?
DustOff,
For the assist, Bataan Death March
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March
Oh my. Such ignorance. Thousands of US and Filipino POWs survived the ” Death March”. As a retired history , I want go weep at comments on this blog. Thank you Dustoff. Vietnam may have been a huge mistake, but you and your brothers and sisters served nobly.
Dustoff stop posting this nonsense. We know it’s you. You can’t write a coherent sentence. That’s the proof.
You got proof?
Dustoff why don’t you prove your story? Shut down the drama here. I for one want to see proof of your statement. Lots of liars here.
Amazing how commentators pop-up here praising you and your father when you have zero proof of what you say. Are you lying?
Lots of Americans embellish or lie about military service. So if you got the facts, post it, otherwise you need to shut-up and back off here.
Thank you for your service Marine!
Dustoff please stop. Take a break today.
Yawn.
You know how many losers have said the same thing to me over and over.
I’ve posted my US Army history more than once.
So you can shut up.
More than once? Then do it again. Let’s see your DD-214. I tend to think you are a liar Dustoff.
Funny, no vets I know, I’m one, call it his “history”. And I don’t brag or lie about my service. Its no one’s business.
Dustoff its not adding up.
Then take their advice.
@USMC-Vet – If you’re so legit and seeking proof of service, why don’t you kick things off by submitting your DD-214, name, address, phone number for verification of your service? Suddenly all these military pseudonym‘s show up questioning proof of service, ribbons and division’s. Dustoff’s handle isn’t today’s topic, stay with the program, that’s an order and get down an give me 10!
Wagstaff huh?
The USMC Vet never made any statement about his service time. It is Dustoff who’s on a “I’m a Nam vet”. Whatabout asking Army Vet too?
BTW. No one mentioned ribbons.
And please prove you prof. title.
And any military service.
@Anny – You continue proving your ignorance and a piss poor troll. Prof Wagstaff is the comic name of one of greatest comic’s of all time “Groucho Marx” and no he’s not the brother of Karl Marx. Whatever they’re paying you it’s far too much.
In other words you’re a 70 year old something or other masquerading as a comic book character. Says a lot about your level of stupidity.
And they’re paying you for being stupid or just volunteering?
You continue proving your ignorance and a piss poor troll.
@Dustoff – Thank you and your dad for your service.
Lesson #1, when you engage and respond to a troll he survives, starve the troll. Lesson #2, see lesson #1.
You see the thing with Dustoff and his kind, he can’t shutup, he keeps feeding the Anon, as it is with all the commenters here. Its not Anon’s fault Dustoff lacks selfcontrol. And who is anon? Just a reflection of all you.
I am guessing your father survived that horrible experience and am sorry he had to experience it.
Unfortunately my uncle did not. It was the second time he was captured. The first was when he was 18 and a member of the underground. Born and raised in Manila, he was able to mostly assimilate (Spanish and American parents) as did the rest of the family. I would have loved to meet him. Unfortunately the first time he set foot on U.S. soil, was after my mother fought for years to have his remains transferred to Golden Gate National Cemetery.
To the annoying Anon. and the other haters, personal experiences and sharing them in some occasions, can help with personal growth and understanding of history. Use your favorite tool, the keyboard and research the Bataan Death March and learn about another atrocity on civilization.
Why guess, ask Dustoff for proof. And what if anon is a military vet? I’m guessing you never served my country.
I am not sure what “my country” is to you. If it is the U.S., I did not serve in the traditional way of being drafted into the military. I was a conscientious objector based on going to a foreign country that did not attack us. I would have and will defend my country, property and family as an individual. As such, I was ordered to do alternate service, 30 hours a week as a volunteer. After 6 months a federal judge released me and others that were required to do alternate service based on discrimination by the selective service system. They made C.O.’s do alternate service but were not drafting the same lottery numbers for 1-A individuals.
I have always supported those that did serve and had no respect for those that went to Canada.
I also did not see that Dustoff had said his father had survived.
“did not serve” you wrote. So you did not serve his country, right? So where’s the problem.
You life story interests no one. Looks what happens here when you blab about being a vet, as Dustoff did. Best keep it to yourself.
RCS, I respect your actions and your story. Vietnam was an avoidable war, and though you did not mention the “Iran War” (not formally declared), I will add that a confrontation with Iran under these circumstances was not avoidable, though earlier better actions would have avoided today’s conflict. Iran threatened America with “Death to America” and, by proxy, attacked and killed Americans and American bases outside of Iran.
I am curious, but I don’t want to push an answer. Vietnam should never have been fought, and our management at the end was atrocious. At the other extreme is WW2. Where would you fit Iran and your own morality: not to fight, but to support or not support the war?
Both my parents were born and raised in Manila. My mom’s family had been there since the early to mid 1800’s from Spain via New Spain. My dad’s parents came from Germany right after WW1. My knowledge of WW2 is based on their experiences as both occupied and occupier. I did not pay that much attention in high school,1968 in Palo Alto with drugs and rock and roll, to learn much about what started WW1 or the Vietnam war and how the U.S. got involved. As to WW2, my mom’s family buried their U.S. Documents in the dirt in the back yard. Spanish coloring, speaking not only Spanish, Tagalog, some Chinese in addition to English helped them but they were always in fear of someone turning them in to the Japanese. My father spent the time during the U.S. occupation hiding in the mountains.
As with Iran I am conflicted as it is a different scenario than Vietnam, no boots on the ground and that I am 55 years older and more exposed to life and reality. Iran has for years attacked the U.S. in many different ways directly, the embassy, and indirectly through proxies. Thus my confliction however based on their stated interest in destroying western civilization, it is deserved if only from the nuclear angle. It is still horrible that the people not the leaders have to suffer on all sides.
Life sucks when there are people that want to rule the world.
RCS, thank you for your reply. You have a very interesting life.
What were your MOS and unit?
Maybe it is not MOS, but AOC.
The system is working fine unless you’re a murderer ‘of color’ and you’re unable to manipulate the system to walk free.
Long live Karmelo Anthony!
The system is racist.
Quiet Neville.
Not very bright are you?
So says the local idiot.
Democrat remains the party of racism. They prove it every chance they get.
“They prove it every chance they get.” What did the Democrats do in the Anthony case that was racist?
Made the case about race. You’re welcome.
Really? Did it have an affect on the outcome of the case? You’re welcome. Have a nice day!
Race having an effect on the outcome of a case depends on the point of view of one’s complexion. It will cease to be a tool when those accused of racism acquire the stones to stand in the line of fire in opposition and resist instead of showing the white flag of surrender. Better to inculcate in an individual with a high moral compass and self-respect than allow charges of racism to serve as a response to a failure of same and charges of moral and ethical turpitude. Either his parents failed in the effort, or they had nothing of themselves to pass along from the outset.
It was about race.
Marxist nonsense! Guilty!
Marxist? What was the political rhetoric in the Anthony case? What was the “nonsense” you refer to?
You’re so lame. Is that’s all you got? Trying to make him document every point while you document nothing, as if that proves anything??