Fundraiser set up for Austin Metcalf’s alleged killer shows how inhumane society has become

Karmelo Anthony allegedly stabbed different teen successful the bosom — and for that helium and his household person been rewarded with $455,000. 

Donors from crossed the country, celebrating a 17-year-old who pulled retired a weapon astatine a way meet, person flooded a GiveSendGo fund­raiser acceptable up by the Anthony household with contributions and racially provocative comments. 

“Keep doing what you bash young man,” 1 anonymous donor of $100 wrote.

“You are a antibullying hero, a scholar, and a gentleman.” 

Another $20 donor, alluding to the information that the perpetrator is achromatic and the unfortunate white, wrote, “US AGAINST THEM! PERIOD!” 

“We are the defenders of our LINEAGE. This is America and these flat-whiteness immigrants from each implicit the satellite has ever been unfastened ENEMIES towards FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICANS from Day 1 NO MORE,” a donor remark with 23 likes reads. 

The largest magnitude came successful astatine $3,000, and much than 20 radical person contributed astatine slightest $1,000 to Anthony, who is facing first-degree execution charges. 

According to witnesses, 17-year-old Austin Metcalf tried to propulsion him retired of a structure during a way conscionable successful Frisco, Texas, connected April 2 — starring Anthony to allegedly stab the different teen successful the heart.

Metcalf bled retired successful his duplicate brother’s arms, according to a constabulary report. 

Given the disposable facts, the outpouring of enactment and valorization is downright disturbing. 

Karmelo Anthony’s GiveSendGo fundraiser updated full arsenic of April 18, 2025. Givesendgo

But it’s thing caller for the “victim” concern complex, facilitated by societal media and crowd-funding websites that incentivize radical adjacent to the situations to support fanning the flames. 

Anthony was released from jailhouse Monday connected a $250,000 bond, which was lowered from the archetypal $1 million.

During tribunal proceedings that day, his attorneys clarified the donations were “not a enslaved fund” and were being utilized by his parents to wage their rent and bills. 

The household is reportedly present renting a $900,000 location wrong a luxurious gated assemblage successful Frisco. 

‘Tremendous pressure’ 

“There’s been a tremendous magnitude of pressure,” lawyer Mike Howard said.

“I deliberation astatine this point, surviving successful a gated community, fixed everything, the information of their younger children, is precise warranted.” 

Anthony’s household isn’t the lone 1 cashing successful connected martyrdom. 

Who tin hide erstwhile Black Lives Matter leaders utilized donations to bargain multimillion-dollar homes?

Meanwhile, mothers of dormant children person begged the enactment to halt utilizing their names for fundraising. 

Another origin célèbre of the infinitesimal are fundraisers related to deportations — with 1 for detained Columbia pupil Mahmoud Khalil tallying immoderate $557,000, portion the woman of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was erroneously deported to El Salvador, has received much than $235,000 connected GoFundMe. 

But those are acold little surprising.

The existent irony with Anthony is that helium is the alleged perpetrator of a transgression with an existent victim. 

Yet the donations support pouring in.

“Let the racist tears flow,” a donor who called themselves Black American Lineage wrote.

“WE GOT YOUR BACK BROTHER KARMELO.” 

‘Was not a contention thing’ 

Every idiosyncratic is entitled to owed process.

Something could travel retired of Anthony’s proceedings that turns the lawsuit connected its head.

Nobody should beryllium jumping to implicit conclusions until helium has his time successful court. 

But it’s inactive alarming that much than 13,000 donors person decided to reward him, declaring his alleged enactment a benignant of radical vindication — arsenic though Metcalf is simply a slain awesome of achromatic America. 

“This is for justness and equity . . . This does not marque up for legacies of racism and achromatic violence, but it is simply a tiny ripple successful a larger combat for justice,” 1 anonymous giver commented. 

This is portion of a larger, sick inclination of conflating idiosyncratic victims of unit with larger governmental issues.

Just arsenic UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was seen arsenic a personification of the health-care system, donors to Anthony’s run warrant celebrating Austin Metcalf’s execution by turning him into the look of achromatic supremacy. 

And it’s a racialized, politicized messiness connected some sides. 

Donors to the Metcalf family’s ain GoFundMe fundraiser, which has amassed much than $388,000 successful gifts, person littered the comments with anti-black messaging and achromatic powerfulness tropes. 

That’s conscionable the other of what Austin’s begetter asked for.

Days aft the incident, Jeff Metcalf took to Fox News, pleading that radical don’t crook his child’s decease into a contention war. 

“This was not a contention thing. This was not a governmental thing,” helium said.

“Please bash not remark if you bash not cognize what happened. Try not to crook this into a radical thing. It was not. Do not politicize it.”