Right now, as I write this, there are a bunch of angry people outside the courthouse in McKinney, Texas where Karmelo Anthony was just found guilty of murder.
Scene outside the Collin County Courthouse after guilty verdict in Karmelo Anthony murder trial pic.twitter.com/UcRK64OEXu
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Based on some individual clips of people in that crowd, there are a number of people who believe that the outcome of the trial isn’t the result of a jury weighing the evidence but instead is a result of there being no black jurors. In short, they believe the problem isn’t Anthony’s behavior but some kind of white supremacy inherent in the system.
A Black woman outside the courthouse where Karmelo Anthony was convicted angrily asked, “What do you want us to do?” saying she has nothing to tell her 5 boys anymore.
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And in the midst of this situation, the Washington Post has just published a story about Frisco, Texas where the crime took place. It’s titled “A Texas city was already struggling with racial divisions. Then came a bitter murder trial.” Here’s how it originally opened.
The prosecutor in a controversial North Texas murder trial wanted to make one thing clear to the jury: “This case,” he said during opening statements, “has nothing to do with race.”
But soon after the jury began to hear the case against Karmelo Anthony, 19, last week, right-wing provocateur Jake Lang appeared outside the courthouse shouting that Anthony, who is Black, should be “lynched.” Anthony is charged with murder in the stabbing death of a White teen at a track meet last year. He has pleaded not guilty, claiming self-defense.
Lang is not a resident of Frisco — he lives in Florida — but he has repeatedly used the April 2025 killing of high school student Austin Metcalf, 17, to promote racial divisions in the fast-growing city of 250,000 north of Dallas. Lang first gained notoriety as part of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and since then has injected himself and his racialized rhetoric into high-profile national news events. In Frisco, he found a community that was already dealing with ethnic and racial divisions before the Metcalf killing.
The story has since been edited with a new paragraph announcing that Anthony was just found guilty of murder. I’m guessing the Post was hoping they’d have more time to slide this story in about Texas before the verdict. The new paragraph sort of interrupts the flow, which is about racism in Frisco as opposed to murder by a black teen from Frisco.
Trey Snider, a local small-business owner, said he came to the courthouse because he feared Black Lives Matter activists would use the trial as an excuse to riot. He also said that he opposes illegal immigration and fears Muslim extremism.
“We love legal immigrants and immigrants who want to be part of America,” said Snider, 58. “But we don’t want to be taken over like Europe.”
If this man is a local small business owner, then he’s from McKinney, Texas not from Frisco. The story doesn’t really explain any of that, intentionally I think. Frisco is about 15 miles west of McKinney.
Marlana Christopher, another local business owner, said she was drawn to the courthouse as a mother of six Black sons, concerned that Anthony receive a fair trial amid the racist backlash that she says has overshadowed the case.
“Collin County is a 100-percent red county and they see that changing,” said Christopher, 46. “There’s a lot of fearmongering, political propaganda.”
There is a lot of fearmongering and political propaganda happening at the courthouse, but its not coming from racists from Frisco. It’s coming from the Black Panthers and other assorted groups demanding the murderer be set free…or something.
Insanity outside of the Collin County Courthouse earlier where the Karmelo Anthony trial was taking place pic.twitter.com/nivAaKviZJ
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Anyway, the story goes back to Jake Lang and in this oddly phrased paragraph seem to connect him to Austin Metcalf’s father.
Initially, Metcalf’s father disavowed those who focused on race as a contributing factor. But Lang, 30, and other conservative influencers began attending city council meetings in what Lang called “Frisco-istan,” using the public comment period to disparage South Asian and Muslim immigrants they said were “taking over Texas,” accusing them of pedophilia, visa fraud and refusing to assimilate.
Consider the structure of this: “Initially, Metcalf’s father disavowed…But Lang…” Did Metcalf’s father ever not disavow racism? Is Lang’s one-man crusade connected to what Metcalf said? It’s just a very odd way to phrase this, as if Metcalf’s disavowal was rebutted by someone he doesn’t even know.
The article goes on to rehash some comments made by a candidate for mayor of Frisco. What does this have to do with the Karmelo Anthony murder case? That’s the unanswered question. The author, Molly Hennessy-Fiske, never makes a connection at all. She just sort of runs everything together the way she did in that paragraph above and thereby suggests that there is some connection.
Here’s the reality. There’s no evidence race played a role in this trial at all. Karmelo Anthony admitted to the murder moments after it happened. He claimed it was self-defense but at trial his handful of witnesses couldn’t back that up with anything at all.
If there is some underlying current of racism here, then it’s probably not the one the Post is struggling to imply. The racism here comes from the nuts who donated nearly $600,000 to Anthony’s family after he confessed. These are some of the same people trying to whip up a mob outside the courthouse tonight. But of course the Post isn’t interested in looking into that kind of racism.
Finally, if you have any doubt what the takeaway was supposed to be from this article, just read the comments. Here’s the Post’s own AI summary:
The comments reflect a heated discussion on issues of racism, violence, and political extremism, particularly in Texas. Many commenters express concern over the influence of MAGA and white supremacy, with some linking these to broader societal issues such as immigration and racial tensions. The trial of a high school student for murder is also a focal point, with debates on whether the incident was racially motivated or simply a criminal act.
Never mind the black teen just convicted of murdering a white teen, let’s talk about the racist from Florida who commented about the case. The Post should be ashamed for publishing this trash.
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