The Race Card Karmelo Anthony’s Father Is Playing Gets Scorched By Facts

The father of convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony claimed that the jury that sentenced his son to 35 years in prison was “all-white” despite the fact that it was composed of multiple racial minorities. 

Andrew Anthony spoke with CBS News after his son was convicted for stabbing to death 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during a track event in Texas in April 2025. He told the outlet that said that “what stuck out to me, No. 1, was the all-white jury.” 

That directly contradicts numerous reports indicating that racial minorities, including Asian, Indian, and Hispanic, were all on the jury pool. The New York Post reported that Asian and Hispanic people were on the jury while Fox News confirmed that Asian and Indian people were in the jury pool. 

The claim of an all-white jury has been repeated by Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), who has claimed that Anthony would not have been convicted of murder had he been white. 

“I’m not necessarily convinced — not that I could tell you the name of one person on this jury — that we had 12 impartial white folk out of Collin County sitting on a jury for this young black man,” said Crockett, who has repeatedly defended Anthony and downplayed the murder. 

While there were no black jurors on the case, the judge who oversaw the case determined that was not because of race. In one instance, prosecutors struck three black females from the jury pool because of their jobs as educators, and there were concerns about impartiality because the stabbing took place at a school. 

The defense’s attempts to file a Batson challenge, arguing that jurors were removed because of race, were denied by the judge. 

At least one person was removed from the jury pool over a comment saying they didn’t know if they could vote to convict a fellow black person. “I don’t know if I feel right putting a brother in jail,” the person said, according to local reports. 

Multiple other jurors were removed after saying that they couldn’t sentence Anthony to prison because of his appearance. “He looks like a child,” one said. “I can’t send him to jail. He could learn from his mistake.”

“Hard to look at a kid and send him to prison for life,” another added. 

Anthony’s family has appealed the conviction and sentencing, claiming that witnesses who said their son was in the wrong lied.