A Texas jury did its job and convicted a killer. The family of Austin Metcalf finally got some measure of justice.
But a sitting member of Congress decided to use her podcast to tear that verdict apart — and what she said will make your blood boil.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) went on the air hours after the verdict and said something so reckless, so disconnected from the actual facts of this case, that people across the country are still shaking their heads.
What Actually Happened at That Track Meet
In April 2025, a rain shower during a Frisco, Texas high school track meet sent athletes scrambling for shelter. Karmelo Anthony, a student at Centennial High School, sought shelter in a tent that belonged to Memorial High School. A confrontation broke out.
Witnesses testified that Anthony told Metcalf, “Touch me, see what happens.” The verbal dispute turned physical when Metcalf reportedly shoved or touched Anthony, prompting Anthony to stand up and stab the high school captain. Witnesses described Anthony as “the aggressor,” noting Metcalf was “unwilling to fight.” Metcalf bled to death in the arms of his twin brother, Hunter.
Anthony killed Metcalf with a 5-inch blade, stabbing him after entering the tent Metcalf’s track team was using. Both Anthony and Metcalf were 17 at the time of the murder.
A jury heard all of it. They deliberated and came back with a guilty verdict. 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Then Crockett Got On Her Podcast
Crockett talked about the Texas case on her Clock It With Crockett podcast. She hosted a panel and proceeded to get just about every key fact wrong.
She built her defense of Anthony around a hypothetical that had nothing to do with what the evidence showed. “If a 300-pound man is beating me, like on top of me and beating me down, I’m not limited to fists,” Crockett said.
The problem? 17-year-old Metcalf was nowhere close to 300 pounds. As the New York Post reported, Metcalf was 6’0 and 200 pounds, and Anthony was listed at 5’11 and 162 pounds. Nobody was pinned down. Nobody was being beaten. Witnesses said the exact opposite.
Crockett kept going. “Cuz I’m telling you right now, if you were twice my weight and got way more strength than me and you got me pinned down, I don’t believe I’m going to survive,” she continued.
And then she brought up George Floyd. “And when you look at like George Floyd, like George Floyd died, and they never took out a quote-unquote weapon. So this idea you can’t die is wild, right?”
She also went after the murder weapon itself. “Was it a switch? I don’t even know what he had,” she asked. One of her guests said it was something similar to a Swiss army knife. “So it was small,” Crockett said.
Again, Crockett was way off. Anthony killed Metcalf with a 5-inch blade. A 5-inch blade is not small. A 5-inch blade is what killed a 17-year-old boy in front of his twin brother.
She Went After the Metcalf Family Too
If the factual errors weren’t enough, Crockett turned her fire on the victim’s family. The progressive lawmaker argued Metcalf’s family wouldn’t understand the pain Black women have to deal with on a daily basis, even though their son was murdered.
“Black women who have black male children live in fear and agony every single day. A fear and agony, that, I promise you, the Metcalfs probably never spent a day living that way,” she said.
Think about that for a moment. A family buried their son. They sat through a trial. They listened to witnesses describe how their boy bled to death in his brother’s arms. And a sitting United States Representative got on a podcast to tell them their grief doesn’t measure up.
Crockett asked why Metcalf was “rolling up on somebody and being like, ‘Get out!'” The lawmaker said Metcalf was emboldened to confront Anthony because “this is the culture that is being instigated,” where White people are “gettin’ real bold with us right now.”
She also told TMZ her own version of how the confrontation started. “He decided to go under a tent and simply didn’t want to be put out on the rain by some kid he didn’t know,” she told TMZ after the trial. “There was no mercy seen when this black boy said ‘I was scared.'”
But witnesses told a different story under oath. The jury heard that story. And they convicted.
The Scene Outside the Courthouse Was Already Ugly
Crockett’s comments came on the same day Fox News correspondent Brooke Taylor reported she heard “shocking racially-charged comments” from Anthony supporters in front of the McKinney, Texas courthouse. Fox News rolled a clip of a Black woman ranting into several TV cameras that the case was a “legal lynching.”
The woman accused Metcalf and his twin brother of being “domestic, racist terrorists” while waving her finger. Another woman nodded her approval behind her.
And then the cameras cut to Austin Metcalf’s father. “This was never about race or politics, but what you did was to choose to make it about both,” Metcalf said.
That’s a man who lost his son. Choosing his words carefully. Refusing to let the moment turn into something uglier than it already was.
What Crockett Is Actually Doing Here
Crockett is a lame duck. She lost her primary. She’s on her way out of Congress. But she still has a microphone and a podcast and an audience that feeds on this kind of racial grievance politics.
The Black Lives Matter political machine spent years teaching people to see every interaction between a Black person and a white person through one lens, and only one lens. It doesn’t matter what the witnesses said. It doesn’t matter what the evidence showed. It doesn’t matter that a jury of ordinary citizens sat through a week of testimony and concluded, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a young man was murdered. The narrative gets built first, and the facts get sorted to fit it afterward.
Crockett didn’t watch the trial closely. It’s obvious she hasn’t kept up with the case at all, which is clear not just by the use of words like “as I understand it,” but also when she misrepresents what happened at that track meet by suggesting Metcalf was on top of Anthony beating him up, which did not happen.
She’s not making a legal argument. She’s pouring fuel on a fire that was already burning outside a Texas courthouse, where people were calling a murdered white teenager a “racist terrorist” on live television.
And the father of that teenager stood up in a courtroom and said this was never about race. He was right. But the people who need to hear that the most are the last ones who will listen.
Austin Metcalf deserved better. His family deserved better. And the people of Texas who showed up for jury duty, listened to the evidence, and did their civic duty deserved better than having a United States Representative call their verdict into question from a podcast studio.
The jury got it right. Crockett got it wrong. And the facts of this case were never close.
Sources: Mediaite; New York Post; Fox News; TMZ; RedState; Townhall