Supporters of Karmelo Anthony gather outside the Collin County Courthouse in McKinney, Texas, during Anthony’s murder trial, June 6, 2026.(Juan Figueroa/The Dallas Morning News via Getty Images)
Stabbing people and showing no remorse are bad no matter what color your skin is. These should not be controversial points.
There has been a lot of insane commentary about the Karmelo Anthony case, largely emanating from people who simply cannot emotionally process or publicly admit that there might ever be a situation in which a black teenager is legitimately at fault for murdering a white person, and is justly punished for doing so. As our editorial on the case recited the evidence:
The facts of the case were not seriously disputed during the trial. On April 2, 2025, while it was raining at a high-school track meet in Frisco, Texas, 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony of Centennial High School took shelter under a
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