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It’s been two weeks since Karmelo Anthony has been discovered guilty of homicide, and the lies keep rolling out.
The 19-year-old fatally stabbed Austin Metcalf in April of 2025, plunging a 3-and-a-half-inch blade into his coronary heart at a college observe meet in Frisco, Texas. Austin, who was 17, died within the arms of his twin brother, Hunter. Anthony even admitted to a cop on the scene that he was the one who did it.
At trial, Anthony claimed self-defense, however a jury rejected it. He was sentenced to 35 years in jail.
While arguing that Karmelo Anthony didn’t get a honest trial, Sunny Hostin (left) of “The View” has spread a number of falsehoods about the case. @TheView/X
But that’s not good enough for Sunny Hostin of “The View,” who all the time sees the world by means of a racial lens. Now she is clinging so tightly to the fantasy that Anthony was denied a honest trial as a result of our nation has a two-tiered system.
Yup, on Monday, she propped up her argument on a pedestal of outright falsehoods. Did this woman even learn one single article about the trial?
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First off, Hostin mentioned Anthony was not judged by a jury of his friends as a result of there have been no black people on the jury. But a peer doesn’t imply shared pores and skin colour.
To quote the previous woman in that gem of an Esurance business, “That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.”
Karmelo Anthony’s mugshot after he was arrested for the homicide of Austin Metcalf. He claimed self-defense, however a jury discovered him guilty. Frisco Police Department
But Hostin argued: “You’re supposed to have a jury of your peers. And you’re not supposed to just strike someone because they’re black.”
However, potential black jurors had been reportedly struck as a result of they admitted they may not be neutral or had been educators who include some degree of insight into how a college occasion would possibly operate.
Hostin then advised a whopper about the sufferer and assailant’s weight disparities. She claimed that Metcalf, who weighed 200 kilos, was far more bodily imposing that poor wee Anthony, weighing in at a mere 130.
During a observe meet in 2025, Austin Metcalf was killed when Karmelo Anthony plunged a knife into his coronary heart. Meghan Prall Metcalf/Facebook
Look, I by no means labored at a carnival guessing people’s weights, however Anthony was clearly a lot bigger than that.
His online recruitment profiles listing his top as 5-foot-11 and weight as 162 kilos.
The information be damned, Hostin needed to recast Anthony as a meek sufferer, eradicating company from him.
Witnesses testified that Anthony had provoked Metcalf, saying, “Touch me and see what happens” earlier than pulling the homicide weapon from his bag. If he was so frightened of Metcalf, why didn’t he simply stroll away when he was requested to depart? And then grab an grownup?
Instead, he met a shove with a lethal stab. Why did he even have a weapon at a college occasion?
One of a number of disgusting examples of teenagers mocking Austin Metcalf’s death on Tiktok with the “Austin bop.” @ImMeme0/X
Hostin additionally falsely claimed Anthony was the lone black individual below Metcalf’s group’s tent when the stabbing occurred. But different black college students current testified for the prosecution.
Keep in thoughts, Hostin was really a federal prosecutor. And like Rep. Jasmine Crockett — who can also be an legal professional and who has additionally spread outright lies about this story — Hostin was willfully participating in falsehoods to bolster her race case.
It’s a unhappy state of affairs that a teenager murdered at a observe meet has develop into the punching bag for cynical media figures.
I’ll give Hostin this. She and her “View” crew aren’t as dangerous because the ghouls posting AI photographs of themselves urinating on Metcalf’s grave. Nor are they as wicked because the disgusting teenagers on TikTook doing the “Austin Bop”, the place they dance round pretending to stab themselves within the coronary heart.
Austin Metcalf (left) together with his twin brother, Hunter. Austin died his in brother’s arms after being stabbed within the coronary heart by Karmelo Anthony. Jeff Metcalf / Facebook
However, she continues to be giving these cretins the fuel to dehumanize Metcalf — and the fabric to construct a fictional narrative that he was some brute bully who acquired what he deserved.
Hostin so desperately desires to be a story about race, when it’s actually a two-part tragedy. One harmless boy unnecessarily misplaced his life by the hands of one other boy who has horrible emotional regulation and impulse control. Perhaps we are able to blame his mother and father, whose first order of business was to rent a felon as a household consultant. That man instantly performed the race card.
With the exception of Anthony’s mom telling the jury, her son was “sorry,” no one from their camp has expressed any regret. As quickly as he was discovered guilty, his household break up from the courtroom.
This is all unfolding as group of pro-bono attorneys have assembled to work on Anthony’s appeal.
Austin Metcalf’s father, Jeff, was below a gag order till the conclusion of the trial. He is now doing interviews to fight many of the lies being spread about his household. Will Cain Country and Fox News/Youtube
Meanwhile, Austin’s father, Jeff, who was below a gag order till the top of the trial, is lastly free to talk. He’s mourning one son and comforting his different — a child who held his twin brother as he bled out. He’s combating lies about his treasured slain boy.
It’s a heavy elevate to need to appropriate the file of idiots on the web, by no means thoughts ABC expertise — which is supposedly certain by requirements.
“People had their own opinions without even seeing the facts, and that’s the part I have trouble with,” Jeff advised Fox News’ Will Cain Monday.
The father has challenged “The View” to put him on the air. But no one is holding their breath.
