Karmelo Anthony is not Rodney King. King, whose assailants were acquitted in 1992, endured a savage beating. Anthony, who is black, stabbed Austin Metcalf, who is white, to death at a high school track meet in suburban Dallas last year.
The guilty verdict rendered on Tuesday in Anthony’s murder case is now being assailed as an overzealous prosecution decided by an “all white” jury. Scenes outside the courtroom were reminiscent of the OJ Simpson trial. Unfortunately for Anthony, though, the facts in this trial were not complicated.
