The gag order lifted. And the mask came off with it.
After sentencing, Austin Metcalf’s father Jeff Metcalf went live on TikTok and was caught on a racist rant about Karmelo Anthony, including calling him a “watermelon felon,” saying Black people get “all the free sh*t we give you,” claiming “400 years ago someone sold you to us,” and attacking Black fathers for not being involved in their children’s lives.
This is the same man who stood in that courtroom and said “this was never about race.”
The prosecution struck every qualified Black juror from the panel. A gag order silenced public response for nearly a year. And the moment the muzzle came off, this is who he showed us he was.
Karmelo Anthony did not get a fair trial. And now the victim’s own father has confirmed in his own words what this community has known from the beginning.
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@ThomasLevis_@Haqiqatjou Having a gay thought isn’t a sin and you are not faulted for what’s beyond your control. Acting in it is a choice and sinful behavior. Sinful behavior should not be celebrated and kept to oneself certainly not causing parents undue stress by telling them about your desires.
@alwayzSuave@withthesource@marionumber4 Austin put his hands on Karmelo and cornered him with his brother. You don’t get to decide the outcome of a fight you start. Zimmerman followed Trayvon while armed with a gun. He started shit too but felt tough because he was armed
Everybody talks about how nothing is affordable anymore, but nobody talks about how cheaply everything is made now. Cars, appliances, clothes, and so much else are designed not to last. Part of the affordability crisis is that we’re constantly forced to buy the same things over and over again.
Israel could easily have a ceasefire everywhere and everyone knows it. There has been a deal on the table in Gaza for months to rebuild, there was a ceasefire in Lebanon that benefitted Israel and the JCPOA prevented Iranian nuclear weapons and a new deal is on the table for that. Israel scuttled all of it. It is therefore responsible for all the death and misery on all fronts directly.
Once again doing what he does best. Spread lies. ‘no-go zones’ in Paris and London have been repeatedly debunked, by journalists, local officials, and even fact-checkers from both sides of the Atlantic. There are neighborhoods with high immigrant populations, that happens, it happens here as well (China town in NYC?), but police and emergency services still respond, and non-Muslims go about their daily lives there without issue. This myth started as a scare tactic by people like you. If you want to worry about America’s future, worry about misinformation, not Muslim immigration. We’ve had enough of the Islamophobia.