Jasmine Crockett Reared Her Head After the Karmelo Anthony Verdict and Suggested an Unthinkable Reaction

Jasmine Crockett built her entire political brand on growing up Black and afraid in America.

The Karmelo Anthony verdict came down Wednesday – and Crockett went straight to her podcast to defend him.

What she said on that podcast is something you need to hear for yourself.

What Crockett Actually Said

The jury had been back less than three hours.

Crockett – a lame-duck Texas Democrat who gave up her House seat in March to run for Senate and lost – went straight to her Clock It With Crockett podcast and started dismantling the verdict piece by piece.

She invented a version of the fight that witnesses and a jury both rejected – suggesting Anthony was pinned down and outweighed, left with no choice.

Then she made it personal.

"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.

"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."

Austin Metcalf was 6'0 and 200 pounds.

Karmelo Anthony was 5'11 and 162 pounds.

Metcalf was unarmed.

Anthony pulled a knife.

Crockett then turned to the weapon.

"Was it a switch? I don't even know what he had," she said.

A guest told her it resembled a Swiss army knife.

"So it was small," Crockett said.

She then argued the stab count exonerated Anthony: "He ended up hitting Austin one time… two inches. This wasn't someone who said, 'Hey, let me stab you, five, six, seven times.'"

One stab through the chest killed a 17-year-old at a high school track meet.

The Family That Was There

While Crockett was podcasting, Austin's mother Meghan was still in the courthouse.

She had just told the courtroom her son's bedroom sits empty every morning and that her conversations with him now happen at his grave.

"My son was murdered," Meghan Metcalf said. "He didn't just die."

Austin's twin brother Hunter took the stand and asked Anthony directly to look at him.

Their father Jeff addressed the cameras before leaving and said the national response left him sick.

"The moral decay is frightening," Jeff Metcalf said.

He told the country the case was "never about race" and pleaded: "Please don't make it about race."

Crockett made it about race the same afternoon.

She told TMZ the verdict was "evidence of a broken system" and that race and venue "absolutely" played a role.

"Collin County is right north of Dallas County, and I can tell you that I have had cases that I felt like played out differently because of the counties that they were in," she said, "and unfortunately that was not the county for a Black boy."

The $35,000 a Year Street Fighter

Here is what Jasmine Crockett actually knows about growing up Black and afraid in America: nothing from personal experience.

She grew up in the Republican suburbs outside St. Louis – mansions, country clubs, private schools.

Her parents sent her to Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School, a prep academy where tuition now tops $35,000 a year.

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That is in the official congressional record – from the U.S. House of Representatives biographical directory.

She went on to Rhodes College, a private liberal arts school in Memphis where tuition now approaches $55,000 a year.

Then law school.

Then a sorority.

Then Congress.

Then a Senate primary loss so bad that her own party called her campaign "f—ing terrible."

She built her entire political brand around the persona of a girl who grew up in the hood – a characterization commentator Benny Johnson traveled to St. Louis to personally debunk on camera, filming the mansions, the country clubs, and the school itself.

He called it working class stolen valor.

Karmelo Anthony, for his part, grew up in Frisco – one of the wealthiest suburbs in Texas.

His family raised over $600,000 through a crowdfunding campaign after his arrest.

Two suburban kids.

One dead.

One doing 35 years.

And a failed political candidate invoking the full weight of Black urban suffering to argue the jury got it wrong.

Jeff Metcalf said it best from that courtroom podium – aimed at Anthony, but landing on everyone who spent the last 24 hours turning his son's murder into a racial grievance:

"You failed your parents. You failed yourself. You failed society."

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Sources:

• "CROCKETT, Jasmine," U.S. House of Representatives History, Art & Archives, history.house.gov.
• "Jasmine Crockett Delivers Bonkers Defense of Karmelo Anthony After Guilty Verdict: I Wouldn't Be 'Limited to Fists,'" Mediaite, June 10, 2026.
• "Rep. Jasmine Crockett Says Race Impacted Karmelo Anthony Murder Conviction," TMZ, June 10, 2026.
• "Metcalf Family Delivers Victim Impact Statements Following Sentencing of Karmelo Anthony," One America News Network, June 10, 2026.
• "Austin Metcalf's Father Speaks Out After Karmelo Anthony Verdict," CBS Texas, June 11, 2026.
• "Straight Outta Congress: Top Progressive Concedes Race After Viral Mockery for Embarrassing Defeat," Fox News, March 4, 2026.
• "Karmelo Anthony Sentenced to 35 Years for Murder," Fox 26 Houston, June 10, 2026.