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Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Staggering sum family of teen 'killer' Karmelo Anthony has received from strangers...and they still want more
More than half a million dollars have been donated online to help confessed teen killer Karmelo Anthony, who is charged with stabbing and killing Austin Metcalf at a track meet in Texas. Through an online platform called GiveSendGo, supporters of the murder suspect have raised $533,452 as of Tuesday. However, Anthony's embattled family is still hoping to get even more money, raising the goal threshold several times to its current amount of $600,000. Donations- most ranging from $20 to $100- have poured in from come across the country as the case has garnered national attention, becoming a flashpoint about race and privilege. At an April 2 high school track meet in Frisco, a wealthy Dallas suburb, Anthony and Metcalf argued because Anthony was sitting under the team tent of a school he didn't attend. Then a student at Centennial High School, Anthony seated himself under the tent for Memorial High School athletes who left their personal belongings, like money and phones, under the tent for security while the students participated in events. Metcalf, 17, a Memorial High junior, asked Anthony to leave. The confrontation escalated until Anthony pulled out a knife and drove it through Metcalf's chest, leaving the teen to bleed out in his twin brother's arms. The 18-year-old confessed to killing Metcalf, telling arresting officers 'I'm not alleged. I did it,' although now he is claiming self defense. The finances of the Anthony family have been under public scrutiny since the teen's dad claimed to be struggling financially at an April 15 bond hearing, where they asked a judge to reduce the $1 million bail to $250,000 so they could get the then 17-year-old out of jail. At the time, Anthony's parents claimed they have not received any of the money that had been raised for them online, and that the funds had been earmarked for their son's legal defense, not to pay the bond. However, as exclusively reported, the mom, dad mom, Anthony and several younger siblings were living behind the luxury of a gated community in a $900,000 home in Frisco while crying poor to the court. The online fundraiser now says, the money will be used for several purposes. '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,' Anthony's mom, Kala Hayes, who administers the account posted. '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.' After being freed from jail. Anthony returned to his gated community, but his spokesman later claimed he had to be relocated due to racist threats on his life. Anthony's family (pictured) said they were forced to move to a new home in an 'undisclosed location' due to threats they have received In a controversial decision, the school district allowed the first-degree murder suspect to get his high school diploma, but not to take part in the Centennial High graduation ceremony last week, DailyMail broke the news. The teen has been checking in with court officials via telephone, as part of his house arrest conditions, public records show. He has left the gated community is now staying at an undisclosed location. Meanwhile, a GoFundMe account for Metcalf has raised even more money than Anthony's. $558,789 has been donated by over 12,000 people for the slain boy's family.
Daily Mail
24-05-2025
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Father of slain Austin Metcalf makes desperate last-ditch attempt to stop high school REWARDING his killer
The father of a teen football star who was stabbed to death at a college track meet has challenged a school's decision to let his killer graduate. Jeffrey Metcalf has filed a formal complaint about Centennial High School awarding Karmelo Anthony his diploma - despite being accused of murdering his son Austin. Anthony, 18, is alleged to have pulled the knife on 17-year-old Austin at the stadium in Frisco, Texas, on April 2, before his victim bled out in his twin brother's arms. The sickening attack has since sparked a toxic culture war as some rowed in behind the attacker and raised over $500,000 for his defense. The killer's spokesman confirmed to Jeffrey had challenged the school's decision to award him a diploma despite confessing to the horrific crime. Dominque Alexander continued: 'Now you have a father filing a complaint to the TEA (Texas Education Agency).' It is unclear what the filing means in practice, but it is understood to be one of few ways the grieving father can contest the graduation. The confrontation between Anthony and Metcalf stemmed from Anthony sitting under the team tent of a school he did not belong to. When Metcalf, who attended Memorial High School. asked Anthony to move, the murder suspect pulled out a knife and stabbed Metcalf in the chest Frisco Independent School District had wanted to expel Anthony over the killing of Austin, a student at nearby Memorial High School. An expulsion would have automatically meant he would not graduate. But hours after a dramatic press conference last month Alexander said the school reversed the move. It is understood Anthony will still not be allowed to participate in the ceremony or walk on the stage as he remains under house arrest. Frisco ISD declined to comment. Alexander said last week: 'We are in arrangements of doing an early gradation. They have agreed to allow him to graduate. They were literally trying to expel him - period.' Anthony fled the track scene after the horrific attack, leaving Austin to bleed out in his twin brother's arms in the stands. He was arrested by officers and confessed 'I did it' when he was taken into custody. He has since tried to claim self-defense. Outrage spread after the teen's bond was lowered from $1million to $250,000, securing Anthony's release from jail. During the bond hearing, Anthony's father testified about their financial hardship since he son became a murder suspect. exclusively reported on the $900,000 home in a gated community the Anthony's were renting while claiming to be poor. One neighbor said: 'Not good. Not good. I don't think he should be out. I don't understand why he had a knife? 'My kids were in track. Your tents, for you school, you don't sit under another school's tent. 'That is not done because everyone leaves their stuff there while they're out on events. 'Why would you stab someone? And now he's a few doors down. It's very scary. Like could he rob houses? I don't know.' The neighbors told that they did not want Anthony living in their exclusive enclave. 'The best thing they can do is move,' one said. 'I think that would be best for everyone.' Anthony eventually did leave the house, claiming his address had been leaked online and he was no longer safe. He is now at an undisclosed location.
Black America Web
23-05-2025
- General
- Black America Web
White Folks Gave Us ‘Black Fatigue,' Now They're Trying to Steal That Too
Source: RgStudio / Getty Deep, ancestral sigh. First, they said they 'don't see race.' Then came the 'reverse racism' crowd. Then 'white lives matter.' Then 'stop playing the race card,' 'DEI is divisive,' and 'Black people are the real racists keeping us divided.' And now, because white fragility is a snowflake-infused renewable energy source, the descendants of Europe's criminals and failures, colonizers, enslavers, and segregationists have taken to TikTok and other social media platforms to announce that they have come down with a collective case of—wait for it … 'Black fatigue.' Don't squint. Your face might get stuck like that. Yes, chile, the very people who've spent whole centuries exhausting the hell out of Black bodies, minds, and spirits now claim they're so tired of us . And yet, they're so intellectually bankrupt that to explain their so-called exhaustion, they had to steal the very language we created to describe surviving them . The term Black fatigue was originally coined by Mary-Frances Winters in her 2020 book, where she describes how structural racism takes a relentless toll on Black lives every day. But apparently, witnessing free Black people exist unbothered, unbowed, and at full volume near the seasoning aisle is just too much for the fragile spirit of white America. The controversy was ignited by a white TikToker who posted a now deleted viral video ranting that white people are absolutely fed up with Black folks' 'ghetto ratchet behavior,' entitlement, victimhood, acting 'animalistic,' fighting or dancing in public, being loud in Walmart while surrounded by a bunch of misbehaving kids, blaming slavery for our current problems, and supporting fundraising campaigns for Karmelo Anthony, Rodney Hinton, Jr. and his murdered son. (Feel free to click those links and donate to prove her point.) Since then, TikTok has exploded with videos from creators clarifying what Black fatigue really means. Meanwhile, other racist users have shared their own anecdotal stories about encounters with insufferable Black people. These videos have ignited a broader conversation about cultural appropriation and white people's irksome habit of colonizing the language of oppression to re-center themselves as victims in conversations about race, power, and oppression. The Root , Daily Kos , and BIN New s have all published solid think pieces calling out the harms of white folks misappropriating the language of Black suffering. But I'm not interested in playing DEI doula by correcting or educating racists who are fully committed to their epigenetic foolishness. That would not be a good use of my time. Be clear, this latest TikTok trend is not new. In fact, it is the continuation of a long heritage of cultural parasitism, narrative theft, and inversion of victimhood that has been a core feature of white grievance politics ever since the first colonizers showed up empty-handed and thanked the gracious Indigenous people with genocide. In other words, that TikToker and all the others who've followed aren't just misusing a phrase out of ignorance or because they are misguided or tone-deaf. No, their confusion is an act of domination . What we are witnessing is ideological warfare and a sleight of hand where Black folks are being reframed as the source of white suffering. They are casting us as exhausting, aggressive, burdens, menaces, and threats to white lives. This isn't just rhetorical lynching cloaked in flipped language, this is a propaganda campaign where racists are rehearsing for real-world violence, just like they did to excuse everything from genocidal violence to slavery, medical neglect and displacement, and segregation to mass incarceration. History has shown us that when enough racist people are primed to believe that a marginalized group is the problem, lethal violence isn't far behind. Social media platforms, especially TikTok, X, and Facebook, have become fertile ground for this kind of racist rot. These platforms aren't just passive hosts; they provide the algorithmic fertilizer that helps racism trend and monetize. And ever since Donald Trump crawled back into the White House on a red wave of delusion, gerrymandering, and grievance, white folks have felt emboldened to storm digital spaces with racial slurs, dog whistles, memes, and performative victimhood under the guise of free speech. They're not just trolling us. This is coordinated narrative warfare we're seeing on social media platforms is part of a full-scale cultural offensive against Black folks and other marginalized communities. It's a war on memory, language, education, and truth. And this white panic is all connected to the rollback of DEI programs, the whitewashing of textbooks, the attacks on public education, the government-sanctioned pity for white South African 'refugees', and the public mourning of a burned-down plantation. There's a deep psychosis at play. Whiteness is an identity that constantly demands emotional resources from the people it oppresses. It needs attention and validation from the very people it claims to hate. These white TikTokers didn't steal 'Black fatigue' because they like the phrase. They jacked it because deep down they envy our ability to name pain and they want access to the moral architecture of our suffering, grief, resilience, and survival. But they want all of that stripped of its original context and truth and recast in service to their own imagined victimization by immigrants, Black folks, LGBTQ+ folks, 'the libs,' globalization, and their own low birth rates. In their fragile minds, Black visibility is a prelude to white erasure, be it a statue of a Black woman in Times Square or HBCU students flexing at graduation. Let's just call it white fragility weaponized through cultural and linguistic mimicry. What's especially weird is that they're so tired of Black people, but they can't seem to stop orbiting us. Because most white people in America don't have Black friends or casual Black acquaintances they talk to regularly, they're obsessed with monitoring, mocking, and mimicking us on social media platforms. Parasocial engagement on social media lets them lurk, leech, and spew racist filth from the safety of their echo chambers. So 'Black fatigue' isn't coming from white folks' real-life interactions with us or their overexposure to blackness. It's coming from their compulsive digital orbiting around us, their addictive consumption of our culture, language, humor, style, trauma, and our joy. It's not fatigue from us , it's fatigue from being shut out of the intimacy, brilliance, and community we've built without them. These racists are tired of watching Black people staying hydrated, minding our business, caring for each other, and not centering whiteness. This is the resistance and the existential threat. And because whiteness under Trump can't stand being decentered or not being the protagonist, it must steal the story and repackage their discomfort and envy as weariness. SEE ALSO: America Welcomes Afrikaner 'Refugees' to Rescue Whiteness The Supreme Court: A True Maestro Of Regression SEE ALSO White Folks Gave Us 'Black Fatigue,' Now They're Trying to Steal That Too was originally published on Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE
Daily Mail
18-05-2025
- Daily Mail
Mouthpiece 'minister' for teen at heart of explosive murder case defends his OWN criminal past in 13-minute rant
The man who has become the spokesman for Texas teen murder suspect, Karmelo Anthony, is defending his previous run-ins with the law. In an unhinged, nearly 13-minute video rant, Anthony's representative Dominique Alexander, 36, complained he's become the target of online attacks, dredging up his rap sheet, which includes a felony conviction. Anthony, 17, has been charged with first degree murder in the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet April 2. Anthony, who initially fled the track meet after the stabbing, later told arresting officers 'I did it,' when he was taken into custody. He is now claiming self defense. Anthony had not been indicted yet. But it's the criminal history of his advisor, Alexander, who has taken center stage as the case becomes a national flashpoint about race and privilege. 'These cases are old as hell; they old as hell,' Alexander told in a phone interview Tuesday. 'Did you just post an article from 2015, and you're literally holding this up like you got the golden ticket? It's laughable to anybody in North Texas.' The activist's many arrests are well-known in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Long before he attached himself to the high-profile Metcalf/Anthony murder case, Alexander inserted himself to other high-profile cases about race or police shootings in the metroplex - hosting the Black Lives Matter march where seven Dallas Police officers were ambushed and killed by a black man who was not taking part in the march in July 2017. Alexander has been a well-known in the black community in Dallas for over a decade, has been acting as the spokesman for the embattled Anthony. Anthony and Metcalf were attending a track meet on April 2 in Frisco, Texas. Metcalf, a student at Memorial High, confronted Anthony, a student at Centennial High school, who was sitting under the Memorial team tent in the stands and asked him to leave. After words were exchanged by the boys, Anthony pulled out a knife and stabbed Metcalf in the chest, according to the Frisco Police Department. Under Alexander's advice, the Anthony family has gone public about the threats they claim to be getting, hosting a press conference April 17 to talk about their hardships since their son killed another teen. Metcalf's father, Jeff, crashed the press conference and was escorted out by police after reporters recognized him. While claiming he wanted to set the records straight about why Metcalf's father was kicked out, Alexander spent most much of a Monday night video posted to X talking about himself and attacks on him. 'Your attacks towards me only do one thing: boost my ego,' the co-founder of Dallas's Next Generation Action Network railed in the Twitter clip. 'At the end of the day, I was the most-talked about individual over the course of 10 years so trying to use a moment to yet come out and say stuff about my background that I've never hidden,' the convicted felon declared. 'You ain't gotta tell that story. At the end of the day, there's more mug shots than what you actually posted. Let me make that very clear.' Most recently, Alexander spent two days in jail after he pleaded guilty in December 2021 in a felony theft conviction out of Denton County, according to the Dallas Morning News. The case originated from a financial dispute with a company from 2016, where the firm claimed they were owed between $2,500 and $30,000. In April 2019, he was in arrested by Dallas Police after his then-girlfriend Keyaira D. Saunders told police he head-butted and shoved her, causing a broken toe. Those charges were later dismissed, as were charge of 'continuous violence against the family' the same year. 'They want to talk about the family violence... look at it said dismissed. If you find any picture, anything credible that I hit somebody, I would resign as NGAN president,' the activist added about the Next Generation Action Network. He says he co-founded the organization in 2014 while he was on probation. In 2011, Alexander was found guilty of felony injury to a child, according to the local outlet, for violently shaking a boy. Additionally, he convicted of stealing a car, forging a check, making a false report and evading arrest,' the Dallas paper reported. In a recent Facebook post, Karmelo Anthony fixer Dominique Alexander claimed he would not be shamed over his criminal history In the interview with Tuesday, Alexander doubled down, calling himself 'an open book' about being a convicted felon. 'If you're going to look at them, look at the entirety of the case. I didn't seal those records, I didn't seal for a reason. MaryAnn, if you ask me, 'Did I evade from a police officer, yes I did. I'm an open book. The public didn't find out about my background when I founded NGAN in 2014. I told it.' He recently took to Facebook to say he wasn't going to be shamed for his rap sheet, an sentiment he echoed while speaking with DM. 'I've been the most talked about individual in a long time,' he said, prompting us to download the app for local TV station WFAA. 'You'll literally see my image on there. I didn't grow out yesterday. Nobody found out about me yesterday. Ain't no body found out about that background yesterday. It's been well documented.' He also bragged about the many national cases he's being involved with, including the Botham Jean case, where a black man was shot in his own apartment after a white, female Dallas police officer claims she mistakenly shot him after thinking she a stranger was in her apartment. A jury didn't buy Officer Amber Guyger's story and convicted her of murder in the 2018 deadly shooting and sentenced to 10 years in prison. 'The Dallas Observer article when they made me Person of the Year in 2015, I literally talked about my background because that's my story. When I founded this organization, I was literally on probation. MaryAnn, don't look like I was trying to hide it.' Alexander also claims to be a minister, with the title included before his name on his Twitter account. When asked about it, he first claimed he was a minister at Friendship West Baptist Church. The church told us he was a member there, not a minister. When pressed on the matter, Alexander said he was a member of True Love Missionary Baptist Church and but couldn't provide a year or any proof that he's an ordained minister. 'At the end of the day, when you are trying to challenge a stereotype in a system and when you are trying to tell a story of the struggle of black people and opposed people in America, you also got to tell your story transparently and authentically,' Alexander stated.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Yahoo
Texas teen accused of fatal track meet stabbing set to graduate high school
Karmelo Anthony, the Texas high schooler accused of fatally stabbing another student at a track meet in Frisco, Texas will graduate high school and receive his diploma, social justice organization Next Generation Action Network (NGAN) told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. 'We are proud to share that Karmelo Anthony will graduate and receive his high school diploma, and that his academic achievements will not be disrupted,' NGAN president Dominique Alexander said in a statement to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. The nonprofit organization working with Anthony's family announced that the 17-year-old met all the academic requirements for graduation, with the necessary amount of credits and maintaining a 3.7 GPA, according to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. Anthony will not be allowed to participate in any senior graduation activities, NGAN told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. The teen was arrested on April 2 in connection with the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf. Metcalf was stabbed in the chest at a track meet and reportedly died in his twin brother's circulating on social media and media outlets about the Centennial High School graduation ceremony was addressed by Frisco Independent School District (ISD) superintendent Dr. Mike Waldrip in an email to students, staff and families of the school, WFAA reported. Waldrip stated that no student who commits a Title V felony, or serious criminal offense, would be allowed to participate in the graduation ceremony, WFAA said. 'Frisco ISD does not condone violence or crime in our schools or at our events and will not reward or celebrate those who hurt others," Waldrip said, according to WFAA. Frisco ISD did not immediately respond to an NBC News request for comment. Anthony's parents spoke publicly at a press conference hosted by NGAN on April 17, after the organization asked police to remove Metcalf's father, Jeff Metcalf, from the event, calling his presence 'inappropriate.' Kala Hayes, Anthony's mother, said her family has faced death threats and harassment since her son's arrest, leading the family to relocate to a rental home over security concerns. She also addressed backlash over the crowdfunding page — which has now raised more than $500,000 — the family established to help with legal and moving costs. Anthony posted the $250,000 bond for his release on April 14, required to wear an ankle monitor under house arrest and check in with a bailiff every Friday, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported. This article was originally published on
