Failed Senate candidate and current U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) is under fire after publicly suggesting that convicted killer Karmelo Anthony was justified in stabbing 16-year-old student-athlete Austin Metcalf to death and indicating she might have done the same in his place.
Anthony, now 19, was sentenced to 35 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of murdering Metcalf, a standout track and football star, during a 2025 championship meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas. According to Gateway Pundit, Anthonys supporters have insisted without credible evidence that he acted in self-defense, even as multiple eyewitnesses testified that Anthony was the aggressor and the one who initiated the fatal confrontation.
During a livestream of her Clock it with Crockett podcast, Crockett brushed aside the trial evidence and instead argued that Metcalfs status as a football player meant his hands could be treated as deadly weapons. She framed the case as a murky self-defense scenario, asserting, me, as a 53? woman, if a 300B man is beating me like on top of me and beating me down, Im not limited to fists, a comparison that bears no resemblance to the actual facts, given that Anthony himself was a football player and Metcalf was not a 300-pound assailant.
Her comments raise an obvious question: would Crockett extend the same logic to a 53 white woman who killed an unarmed 300-pound black man under similarly disputed circumstances? Instead of addressing such racial double standards, she doubled down on her theory, saying, You know, I would argue that even the only time we go into things like peoples hands being um considered deadly weapons is typically like if theyre a professional boxer or that kind of stuff. But I think by the time you start getting to like football player, good argument. Good freaking argument!
Crockett went further, drawing a sweeping distinction between football players and other athletes to justify her stance. We not talking about like the golfers. Were talking about football players, right? Like this is what they are trained to do is to inflict like serious physical contact, she said, adding, And its my understanding the decedent was that, even though Anthony himself, the killer, was also a football player trained to do is to inflict like serious physical contact.
Pivoting into familiar Black Lives Matter rhetoric, Crockett claimed that black Americans have different levels of force, which is why us most of the time as black people feel a way. She continued, Cuz like black people just be walking down the street, and they be like, But I feared for my life. And you are a whole trained officer, and you were scared? You were scared as a whole, fully trained, licensed officer, and somehow you get to use deadly force?
She then invoked one of the lefts most frequently cited cases, arguing, And when you look at even like George Floyd, like George Floyd died, and they never took out a quote unquote weapon, right? Rather than acknowledging the jurys verdict in the Metcalf case or the testimony that Anthony initiated the violence, Crockett chose to fold the killing into a broader narrative of racial grievance and systemic oppression.
Her remarks, which many see as openly hostile toward white Americans, came just hours after she launched into what observers described as an unhinged tirade about White men during a House Judiciary Committee hearing examining the Southern Poverty Law Center. At a time when President Trumps second administration is attempting to restore equal justice under the law, Crocketts rhetoric underscores how deeply identity politics and race-based double standards have penetrated the Democratic Partys approach to crime, punishment, and public discourse.
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