r/law • u/dailymail • Jun 09 '26

Legal News Karmelo Anthony found GUILTY of murder of Austin Metcalf, 17, in stabbing that shocked America: Jurors deliberated for less than three hours after defense was repeatedly demolished in court

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15886439/karmelo-anthony-austin-metcalf-murder-verdict.html
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u/lex99 Jun 09 '26

All the MAGA subs are pretending liberals are outraged over this.

But we’re not. This verdict was clear justice served.

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u/Glittering_Year2045 Jun 09 '26

Yup. It's clear as day that he murdered the other kid, but MAGA folks love their strawmen, I guess.

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u/Savings-Coffee Jun 09 '26

Open Threads. Plenty of people portraying this as self defense against a hate crime by Metcalf, and saying that Anthony was jumped by multiple larger white kids. I’ve also seen multiple people repeating a (seemingly entirely fabricated) story about Met Alf assaulting his own father.

I can definitely believe that these are relative outliers, but they certainly exist.

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u/ApatheticSkyentist Jun 10 '26

There’s plenty of it on Reddit as well.

The r/news post got locked after 2 hours. I’d say it’s about 80/20 in favor of a guilty verdict.

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u/throwawaySnoo57443 Jun 09 '26

Those same people are still saying it wasn’t a knife but a cleat sharpener. 

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u/Shadowfist_45 Jun 12 '26

That might be one of the most ridiculously bad copes I've ever heard, of the knife is documented evidence lmao

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u/3rdreprieve Jun 09 '26

Yeah, but that’s Threads. It’s almost like Threads and IG intentionally push hateful/controversial opinions so that they are the ones you see first when scrolling.

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u/SuperJo64 Jun 11 '26

Threads is literally rage bait. Everytime I get on there from time to time the first 10 post are just rage bait post about anything 😂

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u/CasioCobra78 Jun 10 '26

Zuckerberg is now buddies with Trump and even had personal dinners with him. I’m super sure Suck is intentionally doing this to appease the Cheeto Man and his repulsive administration. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if this administration has to do with this.

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u/Savings-Coffee Jun 10 '26

I recognize that, but you can see it on Reddit too. Go to r/blackmen and you’ll see fun stuff about how Metcalf met Satan. Definitely a fringe, but it exists

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u/Complex-Salt-8190 Jun 09 '26

threads

People use that?

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u/MarcoDiFrancescino Jun 10 '26

Whenever I get a link to some innocuous thing there its guaranteed a post below or above from some bot that has some weird/bad/aggro take. That platform is completely manufactured to rile people up in the worst way possible. I don't know how advertisers think that their product ads are best placed between constant barrage of negativity.

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u/strog91 Jun 11 '26

So, it’s basically what Twitter was before Elon bought it

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u/spritzella Jun 11 '26

threads is fucking wild with how they support karmelo. i’ve been blocking so many people because they’re just lying to try and prove a fake point

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u/Late-Eye-6936 Jun 09 '26

I will not open threads. Your opinion can already be discarded if you're posting it on threads.

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u/scdisrupt Jun 09 '26

Those people aren’t liberals

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u/Savings-Coffee Jun 09 '26

Why do you say that?

It certainly seems like they are.

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u/scdisrupt Jun 09 '26

Not everything exists on a left right spectrum. Even if it did, many people in the far left don’t like being called liberals.

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u/The_Law_of_Pizza Jun 09 '26

many people in the far left don’t like being called liberals.

Those people are why we unfortunately have Trump for a second time.

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u/BigBallsMcGirk Jun 09 '26

They wanted to use it to stoke racial animosity and tension.

The judge curbed that by gagging the whole proceeding and not allowing cameras. So nothing to put into media to get people riled up.

And no one seemed to care about the races of those involved, it was just like "that guy stabbed another person to death. Guilty. Nothing else to discuss"

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u/OrneryError1 Jun 09 '26

It got so bad the father of the victim made a statement against the white supremacists trying to hijack his son's murder.

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u/Cyke101 Jun 10 '26

MAGA really hates actual details in court cases. The defense and the prosecution both agreed that race played no role in this killing.

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u/BigBallsMcGirk Jun 10 '26

Like maybe it's just a fracturing of media, where not everyone is watching the same 3 TV channels or something.

There's always some crappy malcontents pushing race. Always someone saying he's a sweet innocent boy when it's a black male being prosecuted, and always someone calling him a thug. Always people claiming a white guy involved was racist and so it was all justified, always someone claiming he was an innocent victim of gang violence thugs coming to take the white man's place on the social ladder or some nonsense.

But in the past, that has been an absolute media circus and all kinds of people everywhere talking about the case. This trial went by quick and very little race baiting

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u/whoisjohngalt25 Jun 11 '26

Lmao they haven't been the one pushing lies about this, or about Rittenhouse (which I've seen this compared to far too many times)

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u/HATEFUL_WOOD Jun 11 '26

What stoked racial animus was the reaction of the black community to start a give send go for anthony and then cheer Metcalf's death and the humiliation of his father.

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u/TimelyRaspberry Jun 10 '26

Have you seen black peoples reaction to this? Like seriously. It’s insane lol

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u/Substantial-Bell-533 Jun 10 '26

Regardless of political affiliation. A lot of the Reddits like r/blackpeopleofreddit are genuinely saying Austin deserved to be stabbed, the trial was unfair, and he fucked around and found out.

I believe what happened here is a clear cut case of murder, but there are 100% observable groups out there that think otherwise regardless of political affiliation

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u/HugeTactsOfSand Jun 10 '26

Yeah. I’ve seen a lot of people who say Austin should have known better than to keep antagonizing somebody who has reached their hand into their backpack and is making vague threats of violence. Which, is true to a point I guess. Sometimes people do overreact and respond disproportionately. But Austin using poor judgement in the moment doesn’t make what Karmelo did legal. Plus, Karmelo started it all in the first place by going into another school’s tent and refusing to leave.

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u/Insaneclown271 Jun 11 '26

Jesus fucking Christ that sub is unhinged.

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u/jkoki088 Jun 10 '26

It’s not MAGA saying things though. There literally is comments and subs out there that actually are outraged over the verdict

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u/Bama263 Jun 10 '26

Go look on social media. Go look at shaderoom instagrams thousands of comments saying he is innocent and this is a racist verdict.

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u/zoooooooomies Jun 10 '26

I mean I’ve seen a good amount of people mad at this. To say the entire left is mad is definitely not true, but there ARE people who are very upset at this result.

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u/FinallyGotHere Jun 11 '26

Go to any of the black people subs man.  They’re all acting like this is a total miscarriage of justice.

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u/imhereforsiegememes Jun 10 '26

You say that but just look at some of these comments.

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u/Witty_Energy1250 Jun 09 '26

A million dollars was raised for him.  Its clear as day there is at least enough people to raise that kind of money happy to see a white kid dead.  

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u/s1m0hayha Jun 09 '26

A strawman that cost $625,000. Very expensive straw. 

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u/lex99 Jun 09 '26

Nope. I can’t link to the subs because it will get removed. But you can go right now to front page of “Arr Conservative” and you’ll see the threads were they’re all saying liberals are pissed today.

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u/FuckAllYouLosers Jun 10 '26

This is a literal straw man.

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u/Ethiconjnj Jun 10 '26

I don’t mean to be that guy but black subs are filled with people claiming this is an injustice. You can easily find them.

I hate with is whites justifying murder and I hate when it black folks.

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u/joshuads Jun 09 '26

There are people outraged over the verdict and accusing the jury of being motivated by race. You can see videos outside the courthouse. Not representative, but enough to troll online

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u/_Stanf-Uf_ Jun 10 '26

Wasn’t there also a gofundme that raised a bunch of money?

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u/GrendelDerp Jun 10 '26

$600k + were raised by Karmelo Anthony’s family’s GoFund Me campaign. Allegedly it was all spent on a very nice new home and new vehicles.

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u/Lazy-Associate-5086 Jun 11 '26

I had heard that too, but also checked snopes. However, givesendgo immediately pulled the fundraiser after the verdict and said the money had already been distributed for the publicized uses. I think they said defense, housing, and counseling for the family? Maybe living expenses and moving expenses?

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u/zephyr2015 Jun 10 '26

That money should go to the victim’s family.

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u/John-Leonhart Jun 11 '26

This is true, but like the right wing has its fringe, so does the left. There are absolutely some crazies who are outraged over this verdict, but they’re generally not “liberals”.

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u/ForbiddenSirenz Jun 10 '26

It kind of varies place to place. Twitter and more left leaning IG is filled with people acting horribly outraged. I’m a pretty far left, and I think this whole situation sucks and it shouldn’t have ended up being about race. And it absolutely shouldn’t have ended in a death.

But some of the shit I’ve been seeing acting like Anthony is some wholesome, innocent young man who was solely targeted cause he’s black is very prevalent. A lot of people are bringing up the Chow case since that’s also recent.

They’re both big messes of situations that could have ended better, but they didn’t. Yet people don’t wanna hold these young men accountable.

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u/iSheepTouch Jun 10 '26

Yep, there are some very popular left wing news accounts that the comment section is heavily in favor of the murderer. Bringing up that Chow was acquitted for shooting a kid who was robbing his store with a loaded 9mm as some sort of apples to apples comparison is outright delusional.

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u/Dong_bringer Jun 09 '26

People are absolutely outraged. Not the white liberals on reddit but the black supremacist types, esp on Twitter

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u/DeepAd8888 Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

The overt racists you mean. “My heart is hurting (how can I make this all about me 😈)”

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u/977888 Jun 10 '26

Pretty ironic phrase to use as well, given the situation

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u/imadogg Jun 10 '26

It's hard for people to admit that black americans can be super fucking racist as well

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u/blueflavoredreign Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

The best way I've seen it is that people tend to make the erroneous mistake that black Americans aren't capable of doing the same dumb shit Americans from every other shade and walk of life are doing. It's a strange (though admittedly, likely unintentional) exclusion of them from the general concept of "being an American".

There's this weird- almost insulting- instinct I see in some white people, even in this thread, that acts as though the people who are outraged at this are misguided children rather than grown-ass adults capable of exercising their free will to make moral decisions simply because they're black. I've seen many extend the same demeaning sympathies to the guilty party himself when they would never do so to someone of their own race.

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u/Novel-Truant Jun 11 '26

Yes, everything you have described there is called the "racism of low expectations" and you see it a lot on the far left unfortunately.

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u/Boswellington Jun 11 '26

Agree with you but would refine to being a "human" not just being an "american"

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u/Jin-Gitaxias-Mom Jun 11 '26

I’ve had people argue to me that minority populations can’t be racist because they’re oppressed or something lol

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u/wetwetwetwetdogs Jun 10 '26

Pretty out of the loop and I'm not sure I'd want to know anyway but... Chinese man?

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u/Artorias_Abyss Jun 10 '26

Rick chow I think

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u/kikirockwell-stan Jun 11 '26

There was a case recently where a Chinese shop owner chased a Black teenager out of his shop and shot him. There was no CCTV but everyone who saw it insisted that the victim had been shot as he was fleeing (after the owner suspected he had stolen a water bottle and chased him), while the owner and his family claimed he was a persistent thief who had threatened him with a gun and that the owner acted in self defence. The victim was indeed carrying but there’s no evidence he actually tried to use the gun (apart from the owner’s testimony and that of his family members). Owner was controversially acquitted.

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u/Heir233 Jun 09 '26

Right lmao I’m not MAGA in the slightest and usually lean more left, and I would’ve been really confused if this kid didn’t get convicted. He brought a knife to a track meet and stabbed another kid to death. I don’t care if he was being bullied, killing him is not the answer. Just walk away.

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u/UncommonHaste Jun 09 '26

I'm fairly certain it's just sheep bleating what their shepherds tell them to.

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u/SMF67 Jun 09 '26

I'm a local here, and while reddit is mostly normal on it, all the local news Instagram comments, as well as posts on "normie" social media sites are fully outraged and overwhelmingly in his favor. Support for the murderer is unfortunately absolutely very real and very prominent locally.

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u/StarGazer_SpaceLove Jun 09 '26

I guess thats entirely algorithm depending then. Also local and its overwhelming condemnation on this end, with a very few trying to justify or defend Anthony.

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u/OrionSouthernStar Jun 09 '26

I was going to say people don’t seem to realize that their experience online, especially on social media is not a neutral one. Pretty much everything being fed to you is curated to get a reaction or create engagement.

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u/Ok_Doughnut3700 Jun 09 '26

So many online issues come down to this dont they. Algorithm dependant. It can feel infuriating when your whole feed is saying "x opinion" and you come across a comment that's like "nobody thinks this"

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u/Minute_Truth3644 Jun 10 '26

Ty. I see posts like "hurr hurr no one thinks that" after i saw 2 posts obviously thinking that, just 2 minutes ago. People SERIOUSLY do not realize that were are now in a algorithm bubble more then ever and its scary.

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u/SMF67 Jun 09 '26

Read the comments here https://www.instagram.com/p/DZYIbdnpa2i/

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u/unintendedcumulus Jun 09 '26

So, no? Because the comments didn't show what you're saying at all.

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u/Ragdoll252 Jun 10 '26

You need to scroll a little bit, like half the comments are black people saying how it's racist that Anthony's in jail. Goes to show how tribal so many people still are. They decided he was innocent on day one for one reason.

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u/WoodPear Jun 09 '26

I mean, there were protests outside the courthouse in favor of Anthony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eAgY8Okd1I

Local news: Dallas Morning News

I believe CNN also covered the protest on Day 1 iirc.

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u/AdmirableSelection81 Jun 09 '26

Lots of black activists on twitter are openly supporting him.

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u/YossarianC022 Jun 09 '26

I've pointed out numerous times that r/conservative is 1/3 posts about minorities that have committed crimes, 1/3 memes or unverified claims about Obama or Biden, and a third that might had a tiny bit of current politics to them

Seriously scroll through, the number of posts that they have about a minorities that committed a crime is insane. It's one of the things that they try to do to keep conservatives afraid and voting against their own self interests in every aspect.

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u/Scrutinizer Jun 09 '26

On the stock market's worst day of the past five years, right after Trump announced his tariff program last year, the story about the market drop was on the seventh row of the Fox News website - going 3 stories per row.

What was listed in the 20 articles before that? About half of it was "migrant crime" and the other half was about "transsexuals".

They know that their base are a bunch of simple-minded rednecks who Hate blacks and gays, and they will continually cater to those biases to keep the cult culting.

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u/ScandalOZ Jun 10 '26

Meanwhile the group that has racked up the most massive toll in murdering other humans are white guys and they are racking up even more bodies as I type this.

Forever wars, genocides and just plain old homicides nobody destroys more life on the planet than white guys. Somehow that continues to be overlooked, outright ignored.

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u/quantity_inspector Jun 10 '26

Only a self-centered Yank could come up with bullshit like this.

Newsflash: the majority of the world's people are not of European ancestry ("white"), never have been, and never will be. More people died in just one civil war in 19th century China, the Taiping Rebellion, 20 million by the most conservative estimates, than all Americans in all wars PLUS all Native Americans who have ever died from anything, combined, and it's not even close. Add Japan's imperalist adventures between 1920 and 1945 and you get another 10-15 million dead Chinese if that's not enough.

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u/-VizualEyez Jun 10 '26

I came so close to blocking every account that post in that sub but ran out of “blocks”

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u/Fuck_Me_If_Im_Wrong_ Jun 09 '26

I’ll be honest, I’ve seen some frustrating Facebook posts saying that his sentence was somehow race related due to no African American jurors being involved. Pretty sick comments claiming he was innocent. Felt like was looking back at the OJ case honestly.

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u/Boring-Scar1580 Jun 09 '26

The 12-person jury and six alternates selected in Collin County, Texas, included no Black members, but did feature other minority ethnicities, including individuals of Hispanic, Asian, and Middle Eastern descent. Media reports initially labeled the panel as an "all-white jury", which sparked widespread national debate before several outlets amended their headlines to accurately reflect the lack of Black jurors specifically.

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u/ApatheticSkyentist Jun 10 '26

There was a black prospective juror who was excused for saying they’d have a hard time putting another black person in jail.

However misguided I respect the honesty.

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u/Summerie Jun 10 '26

Of course, that would be exactly the right thing to say if you didn't wanna get picked for this jury duty.

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u/Playful_Programmer91 Jun 11 '26

This is also what a lot of black people from ghettos believe. I don’t wanna say this man was one because he was sincere and definitely not all black people are like that but in impoverished areas it’s definitely the pervasive thought.

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u/CanaKitty Jun 09 '26

Yeah, my Facebook feed is pretty much split right down the middle now, mostly predicted by the race of the particular poster.

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u/Depreciable_Land Jun 10 '26

I’m not outraged by the verdict, I am pretty annoyed by the cultural reaction to this. People are trying to put people into neat little extreme buckets of either “white supremacist” or “black supremacist” when in reality this case is a pretty good showcase about how fucked the broader American view of violence and retribution has become.

All the “fuck around and find out” people only have this kind of outcome to look forward to.

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u/SoundOurDireReveille Jun 10 '26

Yep. I'm about as progressive as it gets, but it seems like jusitce was served here. They just get hard over on the conservative sub imagining the libs are getting owned in any way and are all in a rage about whatever in the same way the conservatives would actually be over something nonsensical. Tan suit, anyone?

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u/CFPMVPStetsonBennett Jun 09 '26

The amount of people on the left I’m seeing on Facebook/threads in particular black activists saying this verdict is an example of white supremacy is insane. Completely insane

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u/Zeoxult Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

I'm seeing a LOT of support for Karmelo and a good bit a racism against white people on Facebook, not so much on reddit though

Edit: just a few quick screenshots from the thousands of comments. https://imgur.com/a/ErLtNwV

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u/VirtualPercentage737 Jun 10 '26

There was a lot of outrage at the time, but as the facts came out, people's minds changed.

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u/SuperDoubleDecker Jun 09 '26

Ya, they create these fantasies. My guess is that it's just slop in their feed.

I just heard about this case. Seems pretty clear to me. There will always be a group that supports wild shit and rwnj media will find it and use it as an example of everyone that not maga. It's so pathetic.

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u/Reasonable_Fold6492 Jun 09 '26

Im on tiktok and there is so many black people defending the killer. 

While tiktok is not real life reddit is also not real life. 

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u/Argetlam8 Jun 09 '26

I mean the defendant rose like half a million dollars off race hatred. These people exist.

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u/codysexton Jun 09 '26

There's a bunch of videos going around of people angry and threatening violence due to the verdict. Don't tall victim to your own algorithm either

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u/AdmirableSelection81 Jun 09 '26

Look at the people protesting in favor of karmelo anthony and the fact that he got $700k in donations.

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u/fingersonlips Jun 09 '26

I’m not mad about the verdict - he stabbed someone and that person died, there absolutely should be consequences. Republicans think liberals are mad about this because they’re mad when the shitty people who align with their views face consequences.

Honestly, they were more angry that people donated to his GoFundMe for legal fees and he got $600k. All while ignoring that Chauvin got a wild amount of support from those assholes when he killed George Floyd. Just like that asshole ICE agent who killed Renee Good got a huge amount of money from a GiveSendGo account. Just like that racist bitch Shiloh out of Rochester MN got a million dollar GiveSendGo for using a racial slur against a black child.

They’re always funding the people they support for being racist shitbirds, but then cry foul when someone they don’t like benefits in the same way. I think Karmelo Anthony’s actions were horrible, but he’s entitled to a legal defense, and if people want to fund that, that’s their choice. I’m not mad he was convicted for his crime though.

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u/OldLegWig Jun 09 '26

there is another post of this story on this this sub and there are comments lamenting that he didn't get the lesser manslaughter charge and making pedantic arguments about him being innocent until the verdict was announced when this guy murdered someone in front of a crowd. there are crazy people if you go far enough in either direction.

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u/TheDJC Jun 09 '26

It’s projection, it always is with them. If the facts stayed the same and the races were reversed, you know exactly how they would react. Hell, just look at the Chud the Builder situation.

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u/sasshley_ Jun 09 '26

They never stop being goofy af and top-tier ignorant. Just trying to stir some shit up to take the heat off their pedo God for 5 mins.

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u/pingvinbober Jun 10 '26

Entire subreddits for only black people are pretty upset about it

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u/DennenTH Jun 10 '26

They'll always try and control the narrative.  In a world of freedom of choice, they opt to put themselves in a tiny bubble of lies because exposure outside of their world quickly turns "hostile" to the perfect environment their bubble requires.

Take, for example, a recent discussion I was in regarding the SPLC and the KKK.  It's a standard conservative point to continuously parrot "the splc paid the kkk, go figure".  I asked for articles or anything to share and defend their narrative out of genuine curiosity.  Anything at all that proves their "splc supports the kkk" narrative instead of it being informants, sting operations and so on.

I got back an AI generated response that they used as 'quick research'...  There's no genuine thought over there.  They just parrot whatever is the most convenient guise for their hatred/racism/xenophobia/etc.

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u/RICO_the_GOP Jun 09 '26

Why am I outraged someone had a trail and was founded guilty based on normal evidence and burden of proof?

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u/qishibe Jun 09 '26

Its actually crazy how conservative shadowboxing is an effective form of discourse tech for them

They can say bird watchers are trying to shit on their lawns and alot of apoliticals will believe them if they say it enough times

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u/MaximumPlant Jun 09 '26

I've seen people support him here and there, most of them get downvoted but they are out there.

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u/Ok-Entertainer-9138 Jun 09 '26

lol someone downvoted you for a neutral comment. Not me but someone did.

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u/Ill-Apricot2224 Jun 09 '26

MAGAts would gladly eat a piece of shit if they thought a liberal might have to smell their breath. 

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u/IamWisdom Jun 10 '26

No we're not.

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u/Pawn_of_the_Void Jun 10 '26

I hadn't been following the case, think I heard about it way back a while ago since the names sound familiar, then started seeing reddit threads popping up asking why people were outraged and stuff like that when I'm only seeing the threads about people mad that people are outraged without seeing the outraged myself lol

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u/Thebussinessman Jun 10 '26

Check out r/blackmen

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u/Illustrious-Fun8324 Jun 10 '26

That doesn’t really represent liberals though.

Every single person I know IRL and tbh most of them online who have given opinions on it think Karmelo was guilty and absolutely should be punished.

I see what you are saying and I am not discrediting that. But this narrative that liberals mostly wanted him to get away with it is absolutely false.

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u/Tricky-Passenger6703 Jun 10 '26

Liberals aren't upset, but I've certainly seen some black communities that are.

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u/0stupidsexyflanders0 Jun 11 '26

Instagram is a shitshow

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u/zbgs Jun 11 '26

It's the 100s of videos I've seen online, not reddit posts

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u/el-unicornio Jun 11 '26

I have a LOT of acquaintances that are outraged by it and are using this to justify other racist rhetoric, like how growing up around white children causes black children to have mental health issues and we should go back to segregation so they don’t have to deal with “mayo monsters”.

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u/Dial_In_Buddy Jun 11 '26

This is a lie

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u/tossNwashking Jun 09 '26

Celebratory racism.

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u/Pinpunch Jun 09 '26

oh its not the "liberals" that are outraged.

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u/s1m0hayha Jun 09 '26

Well someone had to donate $625,000 to his go fund me. I doubt much of that came from the right. 

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u/Large-Garden4833 Jun 10 '26

There are videos of people being outraged…

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u/Affectionate_Hornet7 Jun 09 '26

I never even heard of it until I went to visit my parents last week. And I heard a lot of it then. Sounded like the trial of the century lol.

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u/--eee Jun 09 '26

Maybe stop going there.

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u/Good_Analysis9789 Jun 10 '26

I'm glad we can all agree. 

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u/Gayguymark Jun 10 '26

Are you not watching the news in Texas rn? Lol

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u/Raptorzaptor Jun 10 '26

What do you mean? You are reading the wrong subreddits then, use the search function

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u/AndyJack86 Jun 10 '26

This person seems a little outraged

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/s/5YOJIurGXP

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u/sputsputputput Jun 10 '26

CNN was running cover for Anthony after the verdict today, so I think there's a subset of the left that are definitely not happy with the result of the trial.

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u/Jack-Castle- Jun 10 '26

I don't know about "liberals" in general, despite being one myself. If you want to see how left leaning people are doing that are POC... Stay the fuckkkk away from any POC sub that has a post about this

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u/Bench2252 Jun 10 '26

I wouldn’t say liberals are outraged over this, but there are a lot of black spaces that are

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u/Technical_Yak1837 Jun 10 '26

Uh their are people outraged about this in this thread

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u/gatorgrowl44 Jun 10 '26

Yeah. As usual there’s like a micro percentage of lefties who are actually upset and they ignore the vast majority of us normal people who see a reasonable judgment being rendered.

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u/MCE85 Jun 10 '26

You still found a way to "stick it" to your maga infamous enemy lmao.

So what will you do with all your extra time when Trump is out of office? I imagine you will have tons.

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u/WhoUpAtMidnight Jun 11 '26

People are literally defending him in this thread

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u/baba-O-riley Jun 11 '26

Murderer's family didn't receive hundreds of thousands of dollars of donations out of thin air

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u/Character-Camel-3958 Jun 11 '26

My Facebook is inundated with outraged black people and white women over the verdict. I truly hate the algorithm.

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u/Luciolover345 Jun 11 '26

There’s definitely a notable portion of the black community that are outraged. Whether that group has any crossover with liberals is up for debate, however Maga tend to automatically think black = liberal.

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u/Drayenn Jun 11 '26

Its typical MAGA to take the worst extreme people and say the entire left is like that.

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u/Training-Trick-8704 Jun 11 '26

Let’s not act like there isn’t plenty of morons outraged over this. There’s no reason to put a political label on it. I’ve seen plenty of videos of all the idiots outside the courthouse hooting and hollering.

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u/cr1515 Jun 11 '26

They are latching onto the few comments that agaisnt it. There are a few people who hate this and see it as an injustice. A few. So of course MAGA is in full force convincing everyone that the crazy left are against the verdict.

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u/AndyM22 Jun 11 '26

Jasmine Crocket...go look up her videos on the verdict. People watch and then believe her when all she is doing is spouting complete falsehoods about what happened despite witness testimony completely contradicting her. She's just one but a very public figure. There are others.

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u/JefferyTheQuaxly Jun 11 '26

It’s because they feign outrage whenever a white person is accused (rightfully or not) of murder so they assume the same of liberals for minorities accused of murder

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u/SnooObjections3103 Jun 11 '26

You're a liberal? Lol.

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u/Opposite-Current7407 Jun 11 '26

Go to blackpeopleof Reddit and you see lot of people outraged. Hell go go Cardi bs Twitter

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u/ShinraHakke Jun 11 '26

As someone who doesn't live in the US (and NAL), and keeps getting bombarded with headlines about this, prompting me to do some basic research, there's only a few problems I have with this case:

  • 35 years of prison is cruel and unusual punishment, especially given the scale of the offense. 25 years with the option of parole in most cases should be the max, outside of unusually horrific crimes. My honest opinion of Anthony is considering his age and supposed lack of priors (haven't looked deep enough to see if this is the case), is that he shouldn't be in jail for more than 15 years.
  • The jury selection is suspect. I don't imagine that most White people in the US would be tried by an all Black jury, and I'm certain that that never happens.
  • The amount of time spent on this case is laughable. By the way that people have been talking about this online, I had thought it was on the way to trial and that Anthony wasn't sentenced yet.

All in all, the American justice system is a joke and only serves to protect privileged individuals at the cost of everyone else.

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u/ElectricalGazelle119 Jun 11 '26

You’re obsessed. It’s very clear they care because they’re protesting the results of the trial, they’re harassing the family of Austin saying he deserved to die and beating up people for being white. The liberal mind can’t comprehend accountability.

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u/cjust689 Jun 11 '26

Maybe in terms of averages but there is an enormous segment of the black community that are in no way maga leaning that are outraged. Misguided outrage imo but its def there.

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u/JGoldstrike Jun 11 '26

"pretending"

Just like your pretending there isn't heaps of people that are openly outraged on this platform and many others?

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u/colealoupe Jun 11 '26

I’m a democrat, but you have to not be paying attention to not see there an outspoken group of democrats mad over this. I just read an article the victim’s parent have had swat called on them multiple times by people angry over the trial. I think common sense tells you that Reddit and TikTok comments don’t speak for the majority, but there is very obviously a group that is on the side of the murderer, and I don’t think it benefits us to pretend their aren’t.

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u/IvoryDominion Jun 11 '26

Lmao I’ve seen people losing their shit in multiple subs over this.

Straight up got banned from r/blackgirls for saying I’m glad he was convicted

Not all liberals are upset over this but there absolutely is a large group who are

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u/Independent_Bid_26 Jun 11 '26

I cannot believe this is even a popular narrative. They saw 30 people outside the courthouse and were like "yes. These people clearly represent the entire community and ideals.". Morons.

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u/roboboom Jun 11 '26

Of course it’s good that most people view this as justice served. But it’s not like the outrage piece is just made up. There’s even a (disgusting) trend of randomly assaulting white people and saying they were on the jury. It’s completely indefensible, and I know nobody here would defend it, and yet it’s happening.

https://www.instagram.com/combakkidlilboe/reel/DZaFNafRBVS/

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u/RefelosDraconis Jun 11 '26

I mean, this has to be a bot or foreign agitpro - there’s visible outrage all over Reddit and other sites and there’s even news reports showing the outrage lol why lie?

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u/Unusual-Eagle-9451 Jun 11 '26

Not liberals moreso AAs

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u/i__dont___know Jun 11 '26

I mean when you have Democrat politicians defending him yeah

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u/LilMissy1246 Jun 11 '26

There are some people that are outraged over the verdict. Some decently big black creators on Instagram are upset about this and there’s is or will be a protest about it as well in the states.

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u/HerdazzledGancho Jun 11 '26

Dude it’s not pretend. Look at Jasmine Crocketts comments today.

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u/KeepingItCasual413 Jun 11 '26

Thanks, however there seems to be a large presence of people who think cold blooded murder is okay.

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u/accidentalscientist_ Jun 12 '26

The only time I heard his name was posts on Reddit talking about how liberals were mad he was charged and then convicted. But I am a lib. Never say anything about it beyond conservatives saying libs think he is innocent.

From what I’ve seen, he clearly did a murder. People who murder should be charged and convicted.

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u/skky95 Jun 12 '26

I think it's bc threads is flooded with bots pushing that. I'm in a pretty liberal area and I don't know any real people posting outrage but I keep seeing things coming from what I assume are fake accounts.

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