On Monday afternoon, the defense team officially rested its case without calling Karmelo Anthony to the stand. According to multiple media observers the defense was very weak. The defense witnesses ended up being solid witnesses for the prosecution upon cross examination.
The evidence against Karmelo Anthony is overwhelming. The defense was reliant upon previous fabrications sold to the media that did not prove out in the courtroom.
The prosecution witnesses were consistent and strong in the case against the accused.
The jury was dismissed for the day Monday and is expected to return Tuesday morning for closing arguments.
There was an initial discussion about a plea agreement, likely spurred by the weight of the prosecution. However, no plea deal was reached, likely rejected by the prosecution, and the case is now headed toward jury deliberation.
Keep in mind if Karmelo Anthony had taken a plea agreement before the trial, his family would not have been able to fundraise from the process. The decision to push the case to trial was as much for financial gain as it was a roll of the dice on whether their attempted racist narrative would work.
The jury will be sequestered during deliberation.
Karmelo Anthony is ineligible for both the death penalty and life in prison without parole since he was only 17 when he killed Austin Metcalf.
The maximum sentencing he’ll receive is life in prison with the possibility of parole, if he is convicted on his first-degree murder charge. This means parole eligibility after 30 years, or half of his sentence, depending on the specifics.
I am truly sorry to evoke this thought, but the DEATH PENALTY is the ultimate deterrent to the horrific, extreme ills that plaque our society. Extreme deviances in human behavior are incurable, and society should not bear the burden of their presence.. 🙁
Do not be sorry, I so agree. We have become an extremely weak populace when it comes to punishment for capital crimes. ENOUGH. What this animal did was plain murder…punishment should be death or life in prison. PERIOD. There is no question Anthony is guilty as hell.
His behavior is incompatible with a civilized society…remove him from that civilized society forever.
Annex Madagascar or Venezuela
Rename it Scumbagland
Transfer the convicted there and let them live with each other by the laws of the jungle, with no contact with the outside world
Kill anyone who tries to communicate with them in either direction
Scumbagland needs to be an island.
………. With an active volcano!
North Sentinel comes to mind
I’m more of the opinion a horrible short sentence: manual labor for 12+ hours a day, 7 days a week (if you’re busy working and sleeping you ain’t got no time to play prison fights and drug running) which is then increase 5 fold upon a 2nd offense.
Prisons need to be humanitary (clean water, decent food, etc) but need to be a place no one wants to return to: who wants to spend 7 days a week busting their buttt?? Right now prison is too easy and induces recidivism, they don’t care if they go back.
Bologna sandwiches on white bread. Millions lived on those growing up.
I still eat them
With onions and mustard.
Peanut butter!
Don’t forget the bacon!
now don’t be getting all uppity…. ha!
No, Texas vet. Surely you jest
Mayo is fine though, and maybe a tomato slice
Perfect.
LARD
“Baloney” on the baloney with peanut butter.
my man! red onions pls
Boogers or balonie sandwiches!!!! 🙂
Sorry, I just HAD to go there given the seriousness of this thread! 🙂
If it’s what is offered, I’ll eat it it. More of a two PB&Js guy for lunches.
Three squares and a bed. Improved life for some. Should bring back the chain gangs or make them dig holes then fill them back up for 10 hours a day
Definitely chain gangs. Make them grow their own food. That will encourage them to get creative and resourceful.
I remember going into the Maryland State Penitentiary back in 1984 during a prison guard strike. I was a member of the Maryland State Police Tactical Team. Our group were in there a llittle over 24 hours. We ate in the prison chow hall and I remember those bologna sandwiches you speak of. By the way, the notorious South Wing of this prison housed the worse prisoners in the whole state.
You had bologna?
During the depression, my father and his siblings (8 of them) would take eggs to the local store and trade them for one slice of bologna and a loaf of white bread. White, store-bought bread was a treat because all they had at home on the farm was homemade bread… and store-bought bread was kind of like cake to them. They would go down to the lake, rub the slice of bologna between two slices of bread so they would have the taste of bologna on the bread, and each kid would have a ‘sandwich’ of bread only. Once all the bread had been doled out, they all would play numbly-peg to see who would actually get the bologna slice for his or her sandwich.
So, yes, they had bologna… but not much bologna.
In my family, balonie was the BREAKFAST and LUNCH of CHAMPIONS! 🙂
With Lebanon balonie for special occasions!!! 🙂
I absolutely love Lebanon bolognie-Seltzer’s is the best! However, I grew up in southeastern KY (a hillbilly) and had never heard of this until I was an adult.
Ha! I used to call that horse meat!
Having worked in correctional health care…the inmates work miracles with commissary items…there won’t be hunger. Trust me.
Fried bologna with Velveeta. Wait – that wouldn’t be a deterrent 🤔
I used to make these all the time!
Fried bologna sandwiches! Have seen them on diner menus 🥪
Yes, me too! And bologna was fine to eat until the late 1960s-1970s when they (gov’t regulators) started requiring that all butchers and meat companies begin adding all the preservatives, nitrates, and other chemicals in bologna that make it risky/unhealthy to eat these days.
Make mine olive loaf. The lunch of champions.
How about liver loaf (liverwurst) by Oscar Meyer. With mustard and dill pickle slices.
I order liverwurst from Nueske’s today.
I kinda like that…in small doses. Something in it doesn’t agree with my delicate digestion! 😀
look up “nutraloaf”. Widely considered a human rights abuse, it reminds me a lot of my mother’s tofu burgers.
Karmelo will be eating bologna sandwiches in prison every day. That’s bologna, spelled p-e-n-*-s, sandwiches, from his cellmate, Bubba.
Federal judges have already ruled that inmates can’t be expected to work like you and I did to get by, harsh and unusual punishment ya know. Only western Europe have more cushy prisons than we do.
Back in ol’ Jollyette…circa 90’s…inmates made about 35 cents an hour….and they would tell you that your new license plate had been processed and what the number were on it. That was the primo job….the average job was working in the ‘mattress factory’ were mattresses were made for other IDOC facilities….
Federal inmates made our tactical vests. Most of who had to wear them bought our own.
When I was a young lad, chain gangs did road work. They should earn their keep, but judges and labor unions would disagree.
Switzerland: Not a bad room… certainly ‘kingly’ compared to my time as a youth.
(and, with TV)
we work so the scumbags don’t have to!
Cool hand luke
Prison was NOT “humanitary” for 70-year-old Tina Peters. The prisons she was in were horrible. She was treated horribly, had rotten food (literally), slept on a 2nd tier bunk with no stairs and only one blanket in the winter and 85 degree temps in the summer with no A/C, had to defend herself constantly, NO medical care for her (she is a cancer survivor)….don’t kid yourself – “they” can make prison a hell. But “they” wouldn’t do that to this kid because of his color and age.
I don’t understand how they kept her locked up after Trumps pardon.
Tina was convicted of violating a Colorado state law. Because she was not convicted of a federal offense, a pardon by the President did not have any effect on her incarceration. Only the Colorado governor could pardon her. Eventually Colorado governor Police commuted her sentence and that’s why she wss released.
The entire case and search warrants was worked by the Denver FBI and given to the state prosecutor. It would have been realistic for Kash to have an internal affairs review of the FBI’s communications with the Colorado AG to see what dirty sham the prosecution was and whether federal law protected her as a election fraud whistle blower. Also, the FBI could have opened an investigation of the Colorado AG and then writed Tina to federal custody as a protected material witness. It’s done all the time and I don’t know why Blanche didn’t do it! 😎
She was railroaded. She admitted she had tech help not authorized but she did what she was supposed to do under the law as Clerk of Court. SOS Griswold and others pulled shenanigans and covered up the machines changing votes . Now Griswold is running for AG so she doesn’t have to face consequences of lawsuits. Such a total crock. If Tina’s case would have gone to the US Supreme Court, which it would have, then election integrity would have come into play and we can’t have that right (sarc)?????
NEVER FORGET TINA PETERS!!! We are BLESSED to live in her shadow of goodness! 🙂
The criminal’s family should have to provide food; if not, then the criminal should serve hard labor to pay for it. It’s prison, providing a roof and a dry place to sleep is humane enough. We have homeless vets who get less, among others who are homeless too.
that is how it is done in other countries — outside family must provide for the prisoner.
With you on that.
chain gang, doing the jobs illegals don’t want to do.
But such manual labor improves the body and clears the mind. Much better to confine the thug to a cell 23 hours per day with no other human contact, no TV, no books (as if the thug could read). And no human contact during his one hour out of the cell walking in an enclosed yard with solid walls that block all view of the outside world except the sky.
Unfortunately, the threat of the death penalty has no impact on populations without impulse control.
Maybe, but if the death penalty is carried out, their lack of impulse control is no longer a problem.
Good point. Without a pulse, no need to worry about an impulse.
Win, win.
Threats don’t work when they threatened punishments seldom if ever occur.
Actually punishing people will change everything.
Timely punishment is key.
The death penalty may not be a deterrent, but it is a punishment.
We need to see a lot more death penalties for them to become an actual deterrent again… Was it Ohio that just passed the law to resume the firing squad?
What after effects, (if there are riots or not) that happen here is going to feed into what’s happening over in the UK right now. Screaming BS racism has reached a boiling point in both countries. DEI and minority groups have used the excuse of white privilege so often as a right for them to commit crimes, that it doesn’t hold any substance anymore. People just don’t care about being called a racist anymore… Mainly because 95% of the time they aren’t!
Idaho has the firing squad
Firing squad is an option in SC. Condemned choose the squad, ole’ sparky, or the needle.
It’s nice to have a choice.
Yes we do. 👊
Unfortunately, he was a minor when he committed the murder so he won’t get the death penalty. He will either get a life sentence or 5 to 99 years.
No need to be sorry, I agree. When there was a death penalty in all states, a death penalty that was actually carried out swiftly, there were far fewer violent crimes.
In 2026, where there is video evidence, or there is DNA evidence, and it is 100% certain that the convicted is in fact the killer, especially for 1st degree murder, after the verdict of a death sentence is given, the the convicted should go right out the back door and be put to death right then and there because not a single tax payer dollar should go to paying for their incarceration.
If there is only circumstantial evidence, then let them have appeals and such…but once they run out, they too need to be put to death ASAP.
I asked a liberal family member who claimed the death penalty is archaic and cruel and unusual; I didn’t bother to point out that the crimes that need to be awarded the death penalty are what are usually cruel and unusual. I just asked them, “What’s more cruel, a quick death or spending potentially 60 plus years in jail, if convicted at 16/17/18? Isn’t spending an entire lifetime in a 6 by 6 cell cruel?”
They said they refuse to answer that ridiculous question and said the conversation has now gotten insane. I just said, of course it did and chuckled.
You can’t argue with a bleeding heart liberal. It’s simply a waste of time.
OT but it just burns my butt that they can’t do the death penalty any more because IT HURTS the prisoner. He may not go right to sleep in a few minutes and might suffer – something. Baloney! No one remembers what the victim suffered. I still believe in the eye for an eye way to justice. Sadly not many more do.
But here’s betting that family member is just A-OK with MAID…
Yes, and late term abortion. Imagine that.
We have turned the death penalty into a long life of hundreds of chances to overturn the punishment.
Thus it now deters nothing.
And when we declare certain groups ineligible for the death penalty, we encourage those groups to engage in death penalty crimes.
I’m saddened that it has come “back” to being needed again, but gallows were frequently erected and Public Hangings, Firing Squads were centrally staged and very publicly carried out for the towns folk to gather and witness. And they did, as they knew, felt it a necessary reality. And their “participation” or public presence was part of their civil duty!
It was not the “spectacle” you might think, but a somber, necessary part of law/justice/punishment to maintaining a civilized society.
Just as the guillotine was prominently rolled out in town squares across Europe for the public to witness decapitations, executions. These public executions were understood, accepted as “reality” in a world where some members of society, for whatever reason, were simply too dangerous, violent, evil to live or be amongst. It was not pleasant, but was understood, accepted that the risk to life, liberty, property and public safety was simply incompatibly too great.
Once proven guilty of theft, murderer, etc. and had thus proven they had no regard for the lives, property of others……their sentence and public hanging was swift! There were no lengthy jail sentences or appeals, as the town folk and their elected leaders knew they had neither the room or ducats to sustain such policies, beliefs. There was no time or even thought for insane progressive compassion, as everyone was busy and had to get back to real world of work; and face the cold hard truth & reality of life and survival.
Not only that, but in the twilight zone we live in if a murderer or rapist is set free by a BH judge, they may go on to do many more murders and rapes.
They usually do.
“If you come to Texas and kill someone, they will kill you back!” ~Ron White
In the time of Charles Dickens, being a pickpocket was a capital crime. Dickens described watching the public hanging of a pickpocket. He noticed two or three pickpockets that were working the crowd that had gathered to watch the hanging.
The death penalty has never been a deterrent. It merely saves a lot of money.
I look on the Death Penalty as Society’s Permanent Solution to Very Singular Problems. Nothing More, Nothing Less.
The challenge is to get it 100% right on the first shot! 😉
Did Dickens turn them in or just watch them work? He turns them in, then the death penalty will 100% deter them from ever doing it again. Dead men don’t pick pockets.
Not if it takes 15 to 30 years to bring about.
One of the few instances where Sharia Law gets it right…. Instant justice for the aggrieved…
But the inner carpenter in me always says: “Measure THRICE and cut once,” though lifetime sentences on Death Row are cruel and unusual punishment for all involved parties. 🙁
The death penalty is not a deterrent to criminals whatsoever…
Please see my comment above, and never forget the immortal words of Ford Fairlaine: “So many a$$holes, so few bullets…”
The Death Penalty has a 0% recidivism rate. AND, BEST OF ALL, it reduces carbon monoxide emissions that contribute to Global Warming and gives the rest of us more oxygen the breathe! 🙂
Your comment “but the DEATH PENALTY is the ultimate deterrent”… my reply remains it’s not a deterrent whatsoever.
As I await my previous post to gain approval from our beloved moderator on duty, I will say Thank You, Mr B for your reply.
it is inconsistent with the experience and effects of Capital Punishment over the last several millennia and its ensuing effects upon social order.
Have a Great Day! Hopefully the mods will release my earlier reply. 🙂
….but provides immediate, everlasting safety to law abiding citizens by removing the danger and know risk of a violent, evil criminal…
Don’t be sorry, you’re right.
Anthony was not charged with Capital Murder. He was charged with First Degree Murder, which does not carry the death penalty.
I’m not sure I agree with it, but it was probably due to Anthony’s age.
Seems to me First Degree Murder is a grown up crime, regardless of age. Race should have nothing to do with it.
Anthony was a minor who brought a weapon to a public High School event. I NEVER packed in ALL the High School events I participated in…..
WTF?
Any animal that brandishes a weapon in public should be put down like the rabid dog they are… including Siks with their “religious-carry-order” in Britain… 🙂
Unless they have a Federal and State recognized Conceal and Carry Authorization Permit, which does NOT indemnify them from warrant-less violence in the face of civil. order…:)
The death penalty is truly the ultimate deterrent. And execution in public will drive the message sufficiently.
Some may call it barbaric but it is an appropriate response to a barbaric act such as this one.
The death penalty is very final. There have been more than one released after DNA proved innocent. So there needs to be some iron clad guilty criteria. I’m for it in cases where there is zero doubt and DNA proof.
Que the rage machine over this one, when found GUILTY.
The flying monkeys from the idiot brigade will be dispatched by the Leftist morons.
There’s some political value here for them.
I was just reading about Michael Brown and Ferguson this morning. Yes, they are waiting with bated breath. Some commenters think no blacks were added to the jury so they could say it was not a fair jury.
The monkeys won’t fly in Texas like they would in Portland or Seattle. The heat melts their waxy wings…
I once thought the same. MSM has little to no interest in covering this trial. The interest is not there. Protests are small. Few people (black panthers showed up 7-8 strong, that’s it). I don’t expect the guilty verdict to produce any real response, violent or otherwise.
>> Leftist morons.
If it is Leftist Antifa, I consider the morons primarily agents of demonic evil.
Sadly I predict he will get ten years on a lesser murder charge or manslaughter and will be out in five for good behavior.
Then Austin’s brother can track him down.
That would be an Obamanation!
I JUST caught this…. Well played, WD!
Hopefully he makes great entertainment for the fellas in his cell block for the next 30yrs
He will probably wish he had gotten the death sentence after being used and abused for the nightly pass around sex toy his punk wise ass will become in a very short time, and they won’t care if he cries for his momma every night. May every night last eternity for him.
I believe there are now federal laws that apply to state institutions with regards to “sexual abuse” of the inmate, not sure if it relates to staff being the perps or all in contact with the inmate. So there are those small protections…and permanent placement in Protective Custody
Big Bubba has already claimed him for his new roommate!
The jurors should be sequestered for as long as it takes them to move their families.
His only hope with the jury, considering the testimony naming Melo as the aggressor as well as the “alleged” murderer (the politically correct description of the person who went to a track meet ARMED with a knife and used it to take the life of another–no witness disputed the murder).
The biggest question in my mind is: Will Melo mellow and express remorse? It hasn’t happened yet. Is he hoping for an involuntary manslaughter verdict (though when you take a knife to a track meet and then use it, that hardly seems involuntary)!!!!!
Did you say, ‘Will Melo mellow?’
He’ll be “pardoned” by the next leftie autopen.
It would take a democratic governor of Texas to pardon him
“Keep in mind if Karmelo Anthony had taken a plea agreement before the trial, his family would not have been able to fundraise from the process. The decision to push the case to trial was as much for financial gain as it was a roll of the dice on whether their attempted racist narrative would work.
Remember, his family had raised over $600.000 on GOFUNDME and blew through that to the extent that that we taxpayers got to pay for his attorney. Now, they’ll go on another fundraising tear for the appeals, appeals, appeals. It’s a cash cow.
Brave AI regarding TX appellate attorneys costs for a case:
Legal Fees for Clients For individuals hiring an appellate attorney for a criminal appeal, costs typically range from $25,000 to $40,000, with an average of approximately $30,000.
These fees can vary based on the length of the trial, the severity of the charge, and whether the case is state or federal. Additional costs include trial transcripts, which generally cost around $1,000 per day of trial.
For complex civil cases or high-profile matters, fees can exceed $100,000.
He’ll get Norm Eisen and Marc Elias for FREE! 😎
Yes. Pretrial fees are reasonable. Once the trial prep begins in earnest and litigating the case, those fees increase exponentially.
I wonder if Karmelo, as he rots in prison, will figure this out and appreciate what his family did with his life. This may well be more karmic than whatever his sentence turns out to be.
I noticed. A functioning media would shine a spotlight on things like that the way a fully coordinated enemedia would if the races in this case were reversed.
Wondering if he will ever realize how he was used by his family?
Sold Out the 17 year old boy that was mis-raised as a product of a DEI society for a couple $M…sounds like a solid win for True Racism…that from within!
It’s a version of the ghetto lottery. His family cries racism, sets up a gofundme account and all the ‘Karens’ and liberal idiots donate to the cause enriching “Marshmellow’s” family. It happens it every big city where a 13% tribal member is involved.
Early evenings, in my SW suburban ‘hood of Chicago…one often sees young families piling out of a Caddy Escalade, young families at the Walmart parking lot…
George Floyd’s family made out like “bandits” because of his drug induced death. Well, I guess he got his thuggery honestly.
You beat me to it
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner. This whole shindig: the felon advisor, the racial fervor, the mom claiming death threats, big cornfed white boys vs itty bitty negro boy etc etc etc was to fleece the black community and the white-guilt crowd… they were successful.
All humans are made as the imagers of God, and in His image. That is why He establishes the penalty for one person intentionally murdering another as death.
Did this person purposely stab the other person or not?
Motive is irrelevant. How bad your life has been is irrelevant. What mental issues you have is irrelevant. Did you mean to do it or was it an accident?
Our “justice system” completely complicates that simple concept into an injustice system.
Wait. Cain (the first murderer) was exiled by God, not killed.
The prosecutor was turning defense witnesses into prosecution witnesses in the cross examinations.
All the defense witnesses ended up saying Karmelo was the aggressor and had no business being in the tent. For all intents and purposes, there was no defense.
And the progressive cult will have their next transparently guilty as sin idol with which to invoke more mass rioting.
The issue at hand is always anything and everything in furtherance of the revolution.
Mass rioting and burning down a city might fly in Minneapolis MN, but Texas will roll out the Rangers and the National Guard at the first hint of a riot.
And about a million of us Texans asking to be deputized.
Perhaps.
There will be riots in multiple cities and States assuredly this Summer in time for the midterm elections.
They don’t need riots; they will just count and count and count for as long as it takes.
Just as scripted. It’s an election year, don’t you know!
Will require only 1 Texas Ranger per riot.
…..
Anthony walked up to the victim, taunted him while reaching for his knife, then stabbed him in the chest. Not even even Perry Mason could defend that.
Saw a former prosecutor/current defense attorney on TV explaining that “self defense” does not work as a strategy when the situation was instigated by the defendant.
Yes. Otherwise, all of the rioters in Minneapolis could instigate violence and harassment against ICE agents and then claim self defense when they are dragged away to be arrested.
Incompetence at its finest. The defense was so ill prepared to try this case I have to believe they are setting up the appeal claiming “Ineffective Assistance of Counsel”. Appellate courts to don’t like (real loathe) overturning a jury’s decision… a threshold almost impossible to reach.
This ^^^.. I agree.
‘if the Dumocrats are able to fulfill their mission, great trouble and consternation will follow.’
-Donald Trump
Still cant figure out why Trump would hire Pam Bondi for AG. Especially when Pams partner the 2020 election fraud denier Susie Wiles was the one likely trying to install her.
Good old George Zimmerman – the man Pam Bondi broke the law for trying to railroad him.
Restoring election integrity is paramount with a small window of success with Trump in charge. The AG’s role in this is critical. It must have been a major set back when Trump realized Bondi is not and never was up to the task.
Funny how Susie Wiles changed her mind, at least publicly, about election fraud shortly thereafter….isnt it?
Because she served a very narrow and limited purpose
The Judge should give a directed verdict so the Jurors aren’t held out to dry.
Facts dont matter when its a nuffin we seen that , they get a pass ,you still have frightened whities celebrating Martin Luther pornographer , Black lies matter in this U.S. one out of 3 aborted but who cares about facts …
“Karmelo Anthony is ineligible for both the death penalty and life in prison without parole since he was only 17 when he killed Austin Metcalf.” Why are juveniles exempt from these penalities?
Indeed, a lot of jurisdictions would make an exception and try a 17 year old as an adult given especially heinous acts.
The age to be considered an adult legally is more arbitrary than not.
He will spend 30+ years locked up. If he survives, he’ll be 50+ before he gets out and then parole for a decade, that, if he violates his parole, he’ll be sent back to serve his life sentence. This kid ruined his life proving he’s “bout that life”.
I’ve believed for years that age tier sentencing for violent crimes should not exist. There should be no juvenile vs. adult category for murder, rape, torture, or kidnapping.
I would agree but there are those regressives that would find instilling greater personal accountability into the culture is counterproductive to their, shall we say deconstructive ends.
Should be tried as an adult, as premeditated murder is a very adult thing. He brought a knife to a track meet and picked a fight deliberately. Why is immaterial, it was planned violence.
Because SCOTUS is political and doesn’t give a crap about the constitution.
It was premeditated.
100% agree
30 years doing Cool Hand Luke type labor. How’s that sound Boss?
And, without the eggs!
From a comment on TGP:
“I read that Karmelo Anthony, at the time of the murder, was already suspended from school for carrying a knife at school — the exact same knife later used in the murder, and his suspension included exclusion from any school property or events including athletic events.
Everybody is saying how Karmelo should not have been in the tent. Actually he was under a trespass order (suspension) by the school and should not have been anywhere on the property let alone in the wrong tent.
He and his parents could not have been unaware of the terms of his suspension and exclusion.”
Self defense laws in TX require that you reasonably believe that deadly force is required to prevent death or grievous bodily harm to yourself or another person.
Sexual assault, kidnapping and carjacking are explicitly covered.
Touching him does not rise to that level
Also you cannot be the instigator
In Texas, it will be difficult to argue self-defense when the defendant refuses to take the stand:
https://nypost.com/2026/06/08/us-news/karmelo-anthony-refuses-to-take-stand-at-murder-trial-and-it-could-sink-his-self-defense-claim/
Karmelo Anthony’s attorney is affiliated with NGAN, a “social justice non-profit”. Its founder has a long rap sheet, and its finances are murky. This reporter asserts that the “Donate” link went straight to ACT BLUE, in 2025:
https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-organization-behind-the-karmelo-anthony-case/
The left, especially their Act Blue slush fund, sure knows how to pick their saints. Hope the jury does the right thing, and convicts FAST.
HATS OFF!!! to the Judge and Collin County for getting this done right.
I’m betting on Sheriff Skinner ready and waiting…
BRING IT!
I wonder what kind of LEO preparations will be set up for tomorrow…in preparation as whenever they go on “Verdict Watch”?
Wondering if there are any empty hotel rooms, in Frisco?
guilty
If the leftists retake the country in November 2028, he will probably be back on the street before February 2029.
Karma, meet Karmelo.
I wonder if there is an Open Society plant in the jury box and the Defense knows it.
i hate having to waste one brain cell on this sad excuse for carbon.
Let him go. Odds are good for an earlier death.
Amen. This is the epitome of ‘spare the rod, spoil the child’.
Our permissive society, along with parental abrogation of responsibility, causes this kind of acting out by our youth. This is especially true in our black community, where they all have been brought up to believe they have a free pass to do anything due to their skin color and ability to play the race card.
Time we brought ALL American kids up right, no matter what their color or social class.
In closing, let me state that I believe Mr. and Mrs. Anthony should also be required to serve whatever sentence their son is given. After all, they are the people who made him into the young man he is.
Without having read the comments forthwith…I wondered about the rapid resting of both the defense and the prosecution.
I wonder if that is what will be the basis of his appeals…’ineffective counsel’? Over at one of the other sites I frequent, I finally had to stop reading the comments and just go away…two families and all their family and friends…forever changed…and the flames of racism are fanning that fire…
As one gets older and contemplates their own mortality, there is, in the Christian world, an idea of where it is not for me or others, to ideologically condemn someone to death, or wish them to burn in hell…irrespective of the crime crying out for that justice? That old log in the eye’ sort of thing.
Over at BB, there were reporting’s of the fatal wound (by the ME). Not for the faint of heart.
The social engineering of hate and violence, has got to stop. And that starts with the media that encourages it. It starts in the home. It starts with finding God again. Because under that top layer of ‘epidermis’ where the melanin sits, we all look the same.
Am praying for justice…I don’t know what else to say . And yet, hope for the future.
God Bless Texas and God Bless America.
Thank you for a heartfelt, honest post…this was an horrific crime, carried out by a young man who had clearly been raised to believe that he was not responsible for his own actions and for that, we must look to both his parents AND a society which has taught far too many young people that they are “victims” and therefore cannot be blamed when they commit crimes.
This mindset MUST stop and all of our young people must once again be taught that we, as INDIVIDUALS, will be rewarded for our positive behavior and punished for our bad choices – PERIOD! (And this applies equally to Karmelo Anthony and Sam Bankman Fried!)
I am old and I am tired – the path that we are on is unsustainable and I do not know how to fix it other than to revert back to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s brilliant observation that “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
Well said. I hope for justice first and foremost. I also hope that young Mr. Anthony comes to realize the horrific pain he has caused the Metcalf family as he sits in a prison cell for many, many years.
What a waste.
This will be a tough sell for the Summer of Rage folks who hit the street and get violent every even year election season, but they are not picky. They will use this, the “war” in Iran, the usual climate change and income inequality Marxist bugaboos, ICE and whatever else they are able to weaponize. I expect it will all peak around our 250th year as a nation, because of course that’s what they’ll do.
It is getting close to JUNETEENTH They only need and excuse.
To get an idea of what the defense is up against:
Demographics of Frisco…pop approx. 245k, 9% approx. AA, 48%-50% white, Hispanic about 12%…
highly educated…65-69% have a Bachelors degree, 96-97% high school graduates.
Median home value $642k-$745k, home ownership rage about 65%,
Top industries, professional, tech, scientific, health care, finance/insurance
Why are you talking about Frisco? Isn’t he on trial in Texas?
Yes he in Texas. Frisco Texas. Frisco in north of Dallas. Google Maps is your friend.
Frisco Texas
I’m all in favor of the death penalty. Some criminals commit crimes that are so heinous that as far as I am concerned they have forfeited their human soul. They need to be put down like rabid animals.
“Keep in mind if Karmelo Anthony had taken a plea agreement before the trial, his family would not have been able to fundraise from the process.”
Another case of Money for Murder.
What horrible legal advice Anthony’s family got. I’m sure a decent lawyer could have gotten through to them.
Greed.
It wasn’t bad advice. Something like $700K raised. They blew it on cars and a house. So he had to have a court appointed attorney.
I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for that culture to accept responsibility and start training their kids better. Most just don’t have the capacity.
Update:
“Karmelo Anthony is currently using a court-appointed attorney.
His family initially retained private legal representation, but later stated they could no longer afford the mounting legal fees. As a result, he was approved for indigent defense and is now relying on a court-appointed public defender as his case moves toward trial.”
The GiveSendGo account raised $625,000. Poof! That money got spent apparently.
https://www.givesendgo.com/helpkarmelo
While execution may be preferable, the Life in Prison sentence makes me ask some questions.
How did the Life in prison become set at 60 years, so that 30 years is half the sentence?
Does the judge have any discretion in sentencing, especially in a case with such egregious circumstances as this?
The family can approach this two ways.I have seen some families tell the judge that the charges of Anthony (for example) Verses the state are wrong, because the state was not harmed and suffed no loss.
The family diod.
They asked the judge to sentence the accused to time served and let him go the next morning at dawn.
They just asked to be told which door the assailant would emerge from
The other is to ask what the guidline for sentencing are, and what the judge can do.
I have seen judges decide the “Life” was not a specific enough sentence due to the circumstances, and then sentence the assailant to 200 or even 300 years and 1 day.
Then half the sentence may be a fair amount.
What can the judge do to see that justice really is done?
Prisons need to be self sufficient. Grow their own food , daily work assignments. Don’t work, don’t produce, don’t eat.
I will not be surprised if they come back with a not guilty verdict, or very light sentence.
Unless there is a plant on the jury, upthread, I posted the demographics, loosely obtained from AI, of Frisco, TX….
One would think a different verdict…?
No one would stand for death penalty for a 17 yr old that would creat such chaos.But he should spend his life in Solitary. If hes conviced this will be a bigger mess than Geo Floyd he has a Cult following from what ive seen and his family is getting dollars from Go Fund Me
I have no problem with the death penalty for blatent first degree murder if he’s 17.
Maybe it would get through to his peers?
Nothing else has seemed to yet.
He was basically REWARDED with the GoFundMe for murdering a white kid.
His peers probably think that’s cool.
Guilty verdict portends widespread riots in 3,2,1…
How many cities will burn when the all white jury convicts this obviously guilty miscreant?
It isn’t an all white jury. There are at least two Asians and a Muslim on the jury.
Was Anthonybever asked where he got the knife? Did felon daddy get it for him? I hope a civil wrongful death suite is ready to drop to get all the money they made off of murder.
They blew it all. That’s why he has a court appointed attorney, no?
Was Anthony ever asked where he got the knife? Did felon daddy get it for him? I hope a civil wrongful death suite is ready to drop to get all the money they made off of murder.
Lets all say a prayer for the first responders that are going to have to deal with the (likely) adverse fallout from what is sure to be a (quick) guilty verdict. Im sure the sentencing phase will take several days so, things will be protracted…
I am telling you, Dude, instead of blowing all of that GoFundMe money on a house and luxury car you should have used it for what it is intended; Hiring a good attorney.
They didn’t think of that.
Keep in mind if Karmelo Anthony had taken a plea agreement before the trial, his family would not have been able to fundraise from the process. The decision to push the case to trial was as much for financial gain as it was a roll of the dice on whether their attempted racist narrative would work.
Help Karmelo Official Fund | GiveSendGo
Current:$625,295.01 USD
Purpose of the Fund
While legal defense is a critical part of this journey, we want to make it clear that this fund is not solely dedicated to legal expenses. The funds raised will also support a range of urgent and necessary needs that have emerged as a result of this situation, including — but not limited to — the safe relocation of the Anthony family due to escalating threats to their safety and well-being, as well as basic living costs, transportation, counseling, and other security measures.
We ask for your continued prayers, support, and solidarity. Your contribution not only helps protect and stabilize the family, but also serves as a powerful message of community care and resistance in the face of injustice.
Thank you for standing with the Anthonys.
Get ready for the riots to come hot and heavy if convicted. But this jury will not convict.
I’ve been seeing lots of concerns about riots. Any riots that happen will not last long in wealthy Frisco. If local LEO cannot handle, the Tx Rangers will be sent in. In the unlikely event it continues after that Abbot will assuredly send the NG.
Sure looks a ‘nice and clean’ young murderer.
This seemed like an accurate summary to me when I watched it today
I watched Matt Walsh’s one-hour show on youtube yesterday.
It was quite saddening when he talked about how a few generations of black kids were not, by design, subjected to any kind of disciplinary actions while in school, thus creating a sub-population of feral people who feel that if they are ‘disrespected,’ they are warranted to kill you.
He used an example of confronting a black person who cuts in line in front of you, and how that decision to confront soul-brother (not his words) will get you room temperature.
Chilling, but true.
“Every white father has to have the conversation about”…statistics.
That’s the BS when the Supreme Court discovered that capital punishment was unconstitutional for people under 18. Mind you the people who wrote the constitution supported the death penalty for people under 18.
At the time of that BS, they pretended they would keep teen murderers in prison for life then it was that’s not fair to the kids.
That’s how teens murder and do a few years at most.
This little scumbag should be facing execution.
Self-control and delayed gratification and The Ten Commandments are no longer taught by some/many segments of society. These values are deemed to be old-fashioned, and Karmelo would not be in this situation if his family had imbued him with these values. He will suffer the rest of his life if he is convicted due to his family’s failures and possibly his school and the low expectations that society has or expects or demands.