Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett claimed that black women suffer more “agony every single day” than the family of murdered high school athlete Austin Metcalf.
Crockett made the remark during an unhinged two-hour stream after 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison for murdering the 17-year-old Metcalf. Anthony fatally stabbed Metcalf during a track meet in April 2025 in Frisco, Texas, and the case quickly garnered national attention.
Responding to the murder sentence, Crockett turned to race, arguing that the Metcalf family, who are white, don’t understand the alleged pain of black women.
“Black women, especially black women who have black male children live in fear and agony every single day … fear and agony that I promise you the Metcalfs probably never spent a day living that way and we’re going to have to have just some real conversations about race in this country,” Crockett said during her stream.
Rep. Crockett: “Black women live in agony every day that I promise the Metcalfs had never lived through” pic.twitter.com/GVielzMf51
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Crockett, who will leave Congress at the end of her current term after a failed run for Senate, added during the stream that she didn’t think the knife carried by Anthony at the track meet qualified as a “deadly weapon.”
“Well, I would have argued the size of it alone, you wouldn’t even think it’s a deadly weapon,” she said as the panel she hosted argued that the knife used in the murder was a multi-tool and it only killed Metcalf because of where he was stabbed.
Rep. Crockett (D) says the knife used to kill Metcalf “was not a deadly weapon” pic.twitter.com/evYfecEhqW
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She also claimed the jury should have considered whether it was “one stab versus a gazillion” that led to Metcalf’s death.
“Because those are the ways that you look at intent, right? Like if you got a machete, bro, it’s a wrap, right? Like I mean, like the size and even in arguing these are the things that you argue right, like, is like what do you expect will happen if somebody got a machete versus what do you expect will happen if somebody has like a switchblade, like, or a Swiss Army Knife,” Crockett said.
Crockett added that the jury should have considered the size of Metcalf compared to Anthony. She claimed the size differential could have strengthened Anthony’s self-defense claims.
“If a 300 pound man is beating me, like, on top of me and beating me down, I’m not limited to fist,” she said. “You know, I would argue that even, the only time we go into things like people’s hands being considered deadly weapons, is typically, like, if they’re a professional boxer, that kind of stuff, but I think by the time you start getting to, like, football player, good argument. Good, freaking arguments. We are not talking about, like, the golfers. We’re talking about football players, right?”
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D) suggests that she also would have stabbed Austin Metcalf: pic.twitter.com/TBn3txFSAi
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At the end of the stream, Crockett claimed one of her takeaways from the trial was that more black people needed to be on juries.
“So, black people, stop walking yourself off the juries. First of all, make sure you show up,” she said. “Stop wondering why our kids are not being saved when you literally have people that don’t even see their humanity nine out of 10 times pulling up to jury duty and you saying you got other things to do and you trying to come up with every excuse for not showing up. You got to pay it forward.”
Contradicting Crockett’s racial narrative, a number of black teen witnesses testified during the trial that Anthony was in the wrong and praised Metcalf’s character.
The high-profile trial started on June 1 with jury selection and wrapped in a matter of nine days. Video footage and witness testimony — even from defense witnesses — generally indicated that Anthony provoked the situation with Metcalf and deadly force was not needed, contradicting the self-defense argument from Anthony’s team.
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