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There is something deeply broken about a society that watches a teenage boy lose his life after being stabbed in the heart at a school track meet… and then turns the accused killer into a celebrity.
Today I witnessed hours of livestreams dedicated to fundraising for the Karmelo Anthony family. Panels praising Karmelo Anthony. Calling him a “hero.” Saying HE is the victim. Saying HE deserves justice. Saying HE “did nothing wrong.”
Meanwhile Austin Metcalf is no longer with us.
Austin doesn’t get to go home. Austin doesn’t get to graduate. Austin doesn’t get to hug his family again. His parents are still grieving a child they will never get back while strangers online celebrate the person accused of taking his life.
And in the last 24 hours alone, the fundraising connected to Karmelo grew past $600,000.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars flowing in while people openly glorified a man who stabbed Austin in the heart, and mocked the suffering of a dead child’s family.
This case has become so toxic that people have been threatened, doxxed, swatted, and harassed simply for defending Austin or demanding accountability (Myself included). There are people sitting in jail right now because of threats tied to this madness.
Yet, Dominique Alexander went live yesterday, calling for justice for Karmelo.
And these livestream panels continue day and night, pushing the narrative that the real tragedy is what happened to Karmelo.
No.
The tragedy is that a teenager was killed.
The tragedy is that we now live in a culture where personal responsibility is treated like oppression, accountability is treated like injustice, and a grieving family has to watch people turn the accused into a martyr while their son is buried beneath the ground.
Austin Metcalf was the victim.
And no amount of livestreams, donations, spin, propaganda, or emotional manipulation will change that.
During this live stream, I recorded several clips. Only listen if you can stomach it. But according to the panel and Tiffney Billions, who was a participant (the family’s advocate), the Anthony family was listening to them. As they went up one by one, and praised Karmelo for his actions.
Billions also stated that during the time of the trial, herself and a group should walk the neighborhood of Frisco, knocking on doors with their “documentation”. And registering black people to vote so that they could have more of “their people” on juries for cases such as this.
Just a reminder that in the state of Texas, only an official county-appointed Volunteer Deputy Registrar (VDR) is authorized to officially collect and submit completed voter registration applications on behalf of others in many organized registration efforts.
A person also cannot engage in fraud, coercion, intimidation, or misrepresent eligibility rules.
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