A beautiful young life was snuffed out in the most senseless way possible — knifed in the heart in what should have been a completely safe place: a high school track meet.
And another young man, seemingly once promising, is going to prison for 35 years for fatally stabbing him.
It truly cannot get more depressing than the case of Austin Metcalf, killed by Karmelo Anthony in 2025.
But because Metcalf was white and Anthony is black, this has been turned into a toxic stew of racial grievances, exacerbating an already heartbreaking story.
Outside Karmelo Anthony’s trial, protesters called out to “Free Karmelo” and called the verdict racist.The Dallas Morning News via Getty ImagesThroughout the trial, protesters have demonstrated outside the Collin County courthouse, ranting that a guilty verdict would be racism. On social media, some have ghoulishly celebrated Metcalf’s death, while race hustlers like US Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) are trying to turn this avoidable tragedy into a racial reckoning for a broken nation.
“Black women live in fear and agony every single day. A fear and agony, I promise you the Metcalfs probably never spent a day living that way,” she so callously said in an episode of her podcast, “Clock It with Crockett.”