After this case, I can’t imagine many people rushing to hire Mike Howard or Tony Shook. In my opinion, they failed their client when it mattered most. Maybe it’s time for them to step away from the courtroom because this wasn’t the outcome many believed they were fighting for. #believekarmelo
Please unfollow this pathetic piece of trash. It’s heartbreaking to watch a Black woman dismiss legitimate concerns about fairness and equal treatment under the law as if asking questions is somehow wrong. Wanting accountability, consistency, and justice for everyone doesn’t make us divisive… it makes us human. Black Americans have every right to question systems that have not always treated us equally. Seeking fairness isn’t self-serving, and it certainly isn’t anti-American. It’s about ensuring that justice truly means justice for all.
#BelieveKarmelo
I grew up in a Black neighborhood and currently live in a white neighborhood because that’s where I bought my home. There are aspects of that decision I regret, but my address doesn’t define my identity or how I feel about Black people. I will always speak up for who I am and where I come from. Living around white people doesn’t make whiteness superior, and growing up around Black people doesn’t make Blackness inferior.
Karmelo Anthony’s mother and father left the courthouse today. His mother was screaming “RACIST! BIAS! RACIST! BIAS!”
Even after a guilty verdict and a 35-year sentence for murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, they still refuse to accept responsibility — instead crying racism and bias.
No accountability. No remorse. Just more excuses. Austin’s family deserves better than this circus. 🇺🇸
#JusticeForAustinMetcalf #KarmeloAnthony
Dallas attorney Thelma Anderson reacts to the Karmelo Anthony verdict:
"Pray for the Anthony family, because they have been legally lynched for the last year and moreso by this slaughterhouse of a courthouse, as well as the family of the Metcalfs.
The energy right now is very white supremacy. They have shown up to be the pigs that they display with hate. They are celebrating the loss of life and a loss of freedom."
"We have an overzealous prosecutor who lied throughout this trial, who put on liars as witnesses in order to be a saving grace for the white community so that they can win an election."
"What I heard from this man today is indicative of why it's important that it's people that look like us that are in courtrooms like that. This man disregarded human life the entire trial. He invoked race. He equated Dallas County as being the ghetto opposed to Frisco being safe.
They propaganda'd a photo of the deceased with black people around praying, saying, 'This is community.' They used us as a prop in order to pitch their lynching.
This man has been known to be an overzealous prosecutor when it comes to us. He see[s] us as free labor. That's what he see[s] us as. So I'm not surprised that this prosecutor who has unethical background would get up there and ask for the max [sentence] when he know that this was self-defense."
@VivaLaAmes11 Black people are not a monolith. We are doctors and teachers, entrepreneurs and artists, fathers and mothers, activists and mentors. We are people. Yet somehow, when one person has a negative experience with Black people, it becomes an indictment of all of us.
There's a lot of lessons to be learned from the Karmelo Anthony case, especially for our children.... But one I hope doesn't go overlooked is WATCH WHO YOU CALL YOUR FRIENDS!!!! Karmelo was called to that tent by someone he THOUGHT was his friend. Defense attorney showed multiple pictures of them together... But he came to testify AGAINST KARMELO. He "allegedly" recorded the whole thing. But then said he was only "pretending to record* and when he was showing his phone to everyone for them to see "He was only showing Karmelo ig page" be fucking fr. This young man you think is your friend, you've been around kicking it multiple times, call you to come sit with him. He's first laughing at you when you're getting bullied. He pulls out his phone to record you getting bullied. Then when you protect yourself AND HE HAS THE EVIDENCE THAT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE he deletes it and then testify against you. Because the bullies are more popular and goes to the same school..... Please be careful who you call your friends YOUR LIFE COULD LITERALLY DEPEND ON IT!!!
@HamzaMustafic21@VivaLaAmes11 Respectfully, the moment you say you can identify a “good Black man” in five seconds, you’ve already reduced Black people to stereotypes that need to be disproven. That’s not discernment. That’s bias dressed up as common sense.
“You spoke so eloquent” shouldn’t feel groundbreaking when Black people speak thoughtfully. Maybe ask yourself why you found it surprising in the first place. And while everyone can have an opinion, not everyone has lived the Black experience. There’s a difference between observing something and carrying it.