It has been a fortnight since Karmelo Anthony was convicted of murder, yet a barrage of falsehoods continues to emerge.
In April 2025, at a school track event in Frisco, Texas, the 19-year-old Anthony fatally stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalf with a three-and-a-half-inch blade, piercing his heart. Austin died in the embrace of his twin brother, Hunter. Anthony even confessed to the responding officer at the scene.
During the trial, Anthony pleaded self-defense, but the jury dismissed his claim. Consequently, he received a 35-year prison sentence.
However, that outcome does not satisfy Sunny Hostin from “The View,” who persistently interprets events through a racial framework. She firmly maintains the narrative that Anthony’s trial was unjust due to an alleged dual justice system in the United States.
Indeed, on Monday, she built her argument on a foundation of blatant inaccuracies. Has she even bothered to read a single piece of coverage concerning the trial?
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First off, Hostin said Anthony was not judged by a jury of his peers because there were no black people on the jury. But a peer does not mean shared skin color.
To quote the old lady in that gem of an Esurance commercial, “That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.”
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 were reportedly struck because they admitted they could not be impartial or were educators who come with some level of insight into how a school event might function.
Hostin then told a whopper about the victim and assailant’s weight disparities. She claimed that Metcalf, who weighed 200 pounds, was far more physically imposing that poor wee Anthony, weighing in at a mere 130.
Look, I never worked at a carnival guessing people’s weights, but Anthony was obviously much larger than that.
His online recruitment profiles list his height as 5-foot-11 and weight as 162 pounds.
The facts be damned, Hostin needed to recast Anthony as a meek victim, removing agency from him.
Witnesses testified that Anthony had provoked Metcalf, saying, “Touch me and see what happens” before pulling the murder weapon from his bag. If he was so frightened of Metcalf, why didn’t he just walk away when he was asked to leave? And then grab an adult?
Instead, he met a shove with a deadly stab. Why did he even have a weapon at a school event?
Hostin also falsely claimed Anthony was the lone black person under Metcalf’s team’s tent when the stabbing happened. But other black students present testified for the prosecution.
Keep in mind, Hostin was actually a federal prosecutor. And like Rep. Jasmine Crockett — who is also an attorney and who has also spread outright lies about this story — Hostin was willfully engaging in falsehoods to bolster her race case.
It’s a sad state of affairs that a teenager murdered at a track meet has become the punching bag for cynical media figures.
I’ll give Hostin this. She and her “View” crew aren’t as bad as the ghouls posting AI images of themselves urinating on Metcalf’s grave. Nor are they as depraved as the disgusting teens on TikTok doing the “Austin Bop”, where they dance around pretending to stab themselves in the heart.
However, she is still giving these cretins the fuel to dehumanize Metcalf — and the material to build a fictional narrative that he was some brute bully who got what he deserved.
Hostin so desperately wants to be a story about race, when it’s really a two-part tragedy. One innocent boy unnecessarily lost his life at the hands of another boy who has terrible emotional regulation and impulse control. Perhaps we can blame his parents, whose first order of business was to hire a felon as a family representative. That guy immediately played the race card.
With the exception of Anthony’s mother telling the jury, her son was “sorry,” no one from their camp has expressed any remorse. As soon as he was found guilty, his family split from the courtroom.
This is all unfolding as team of pro-bono attorneys have assembled to work on Anthony’s appeal.
Meanwhile, Austin’s father, Jeff, who was under a gag order until the end of the trial, is finally free to speak. He’s mourning one son and comforting his other — a kid who held his twin brother as he bled out. He’s fighting lies about his precious slain boy.
It’s a heavy lift to have to correct the record of idiots on the internet, never mind ABC talent — which is supposedly bound by standards.
“People had their own opinions without even seeing the facts, and that’s the part I have trouble with,” Jeff told Fox News’ Will Cain Monday.
The father has challenged “The View” to put him on the air. But no one is holding their breath.