#BlackLivesMatter

One important point I remind everyone of is that the BLM protests and eventually riots were concentrated around election years.

And we’re in an election year now.

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.

“What the hell is wrong with these people?” I heard someone ask as a clip of Jasmine Crockett played on the television at the restaurant bar the other day. What was Crockett talking about? Her sympathy for the murderer named Karmelo Anthony because he’s black. Yes, that’s why she cares, or at least pretends to care, about the fate of the man who’ll spend at least the next 17.5 years of his life in prison in Texas. How could anyone, real or not, go on camera and express sympathy for a murderer, at the expense of the murder victim and his family, no less? There’s really only one possibility: the cancerous cultural rot Democrats have forced and enforced on the black community.

The father of Austin Metcalf, who was fatally stabbed at a track meet by Karmelo Anthony, referred to his son’s killer as a ‘Watermelon Felon’ in a blistering tirade against him and his family.

Jeff Metcalf spoke to the JinxedSip podcast on Wednesday after a gag order forbidding either side from speaking out expired following the conclusion of the trial.

The case sparked fierce debate about the role of race in the justice system, with public discussion often focusing on the fact that Metcalf was white and Anthony is black.

A jury rightfully convicted Karmelo Anthony for murder and sentenced him to 35 years in prison, but if there isn’t finally a complete rejection of the toxic “Black Lives Matter” movement, similar events are going to play out well into the future. There will be more violence and, if justice is served, more young black men in prison.

At the heart of the BLM ideology is the lazy, destructive assertion that “black and brown” people are oppressed by whites and therefore minorities, particularly blacks, are entitled to exhibit antisocial behavior with impunity, such as resisting arrest, stealing, or, as in the case of Anthony, bringing a knife to a high school track meet in the event he decides to murder someone under the guise of self defense.

McKINNEY, Texas — Karmelo Anthony’s mother was filmed shouting “racist!” as she left a Texas courthouse in an Acura sedan — hours after her 19-year-old son was convicted of murdering fellow teen Austin Metcalf and sentenced to 35 years in prison.

“Racist! Bias!” Kayla Hayes yells through the passenger side window of a black car on Tuesday amid the throngs of protesters outside the court in McKinney, Texas, in the Dallas suburbs.

🚨 JUST NOW: Karmelo Anthony supporter says Karmelo should’ve kiIIed Austin’s twin brother HUNTER as well

And the Karmelo group AGREES with her.

They’re OPENLY calling for MURDER. This was NEVER about self-defense. Some of them just want to see white people murdered in cold… pic.twitter.com/x0VQgLz0uv

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 9, 2026

With tears streaming down her face, she rips into the black dysfunction that’s hurting everyone.

It must be very sad to be black and to be aware of how badly your own people behave. pic.twitter.com/bmQE23wXFn

— Jared Taylor (@RealJarTaylor) April 23, 2026