- Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) continues her “apology tour” for convicted killer Karmelo Anthony.
- Anthony bought 35 years for stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Texas highschool occasion.
- Crockett made false claims on her podcast, even suggesting she’d stab Metcalf herself.
Failed Senate candidate Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) continued her apology tour for convicted killer Karmelo Anthony, claiming he was only a “scared black boy” and that he wasn’t given sufficient “mercy.”
Crockett has gone viral a number of occasions for oafish statements since Anthony was handed a 35-year jail time period this week for stabbing the 17-year-old within the coronary heart in a dispute over his presence in a tent at a monitor and subject occasion at a Texas highschool, downplaying or excusing his actions each time.
“Thirty-five years for a child who had determined to go below a tent that was not his staff’s tent because it was raining? And easily didn’t wish to be put out within the rain by some random child that he didn’t know who was bigger than him?” she advised TMZ — in reference to Anthony’s sentence for first-degree homicide.
She then tried to narrate Anthony — who was armed with a knife — to the police capturing of unarmed black teenagers.
“Pay attention, lots of people don’t know what it’s to dwell as a black individual on this nation, however identical to you can provide the advantage of the doubt to so many law enforcement officials once they exit and shoot some unarmed black individual though they’re skilled, there was little to no mercy seen or humanity seen when this black boy mentioned that [he] was scared,” she mentioned.
Crockett was ripped to shreds by commenters on a clip of her interview with a TMZ reporter exterior her congressional workplace
“This isn’t about black vs white…that is a few assassin….who the f–ok cares if you happen to stand out within the rain….Im an previous white lady that has stood within the rattling rain and by no means killed anybody over it,” one commenter wrote.
Right here’s the most recent on Karmelo Anthony’s homicide conviction:
“Jasmine is all the time a part of the issue and by no means a part of the answer. A whole shame,” mentioned one other.
Others identified that Anthony obtained a comparatively mild sentence in comparison with the 99 years with out parole the jury that convicted him might have imposed.
“Lady please, he solely bought 35 years for homicide. She’s such an fool.”
A day earlier, on an episode of her podcast “Clock It with Crockett,” the lame-duck Rep. carelessly tossed round falsehoods and cynically injected doubts concerning the homicide itself, astonishingly even suggesting she would have stabbed Metcalf herself if she had been in Anthony’s place.
Within the span of some minutes, she downplayed the scale of the knife used within the April 2, 2025 assault, implied it wasn’t a “lethal weapon” and grossly exaggerated Metcalf’s weight as 300 kilos, when in truth he weighs 200 kilos.
She additionally falsely recommended Metcalf had gotten “on prime” of Anthony and was “beating him down,” leaving him with no alternative however to defend himself with lethal pressure.
The truth is, Anthony pulled out the knife and plunged it into Metcalf’s chest after a short confrontation involving little greater than a light-weight shove, with even a protection witness conceding the killer was “within the improper” in how he acted on the day of the killing.
“If a 300-pound man is thrashing me, like on prime of me and beating me down, I’m not restricted to fists,” she mentioned, seemingly implying she too would have stabbed the highschool athlete.
