It’s been two weeks since Karmelo Anthony has been found guilty of murder, and the lies keep rolling out.
The 19-year-old fatally stabbed Austin Metcalf in April of 2025, plunging a 3-and-a-half-inch blade into his heart at a school track meet in Frisco, Texas. Austin, who was 17, died in the arms of his twin brother, Hunter. Anthony even admitted to a cop at the scene that he was the one who did it.
At trial, Anthony claimed self-defense, but a jury rejected it. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
But that’s not good enough for Sunny Hostin of “The View,” who always sees the world through a racial lens. Now she is clinging so tightly to the fantasy that Anthony was denied a fair trial because our country has a two-tiered system.
Yup, on Monday, she propped up her argument on a pedestal of outright falsehoods. Did this lady even read one single article about the trial?
First off, Hostin said Anthony was not judged by a jury of his peers because there were no black people on the jury. But a peer does not mean shared skin color.
To quote the old lady in that gem of an Esurance commercial, “That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.”
But Hostin argued: “You’re supposed to have a jury of your peers. And you’re not supposed to just strike someone because they’re black.”
However, potential black jurors were reportedly struck because they admitted they could not be impartial or were educators who come with some level of insight into how a school event might function.
Hostin then told a whopper about the victim and assailant’s weight disparities. She claimed that Metcalf, who weighed 200 pounds, was far more physically imposing that poor wee Anthony, weighing in at a mere 130.
Look, I never worked at a carnival guessing people’s weights, but Anthony was obviously much larger than that.
His online recruitment profiles list his height as 5-foot-11 and weight as 162 pounds.
The facts be damned, Hostin needed to recast Anthony as a meek victim, removing agency from him.
Witnesses testified that Anthony had provoked Metcalf, saying, “Touch me and see what happens” before pulling the murder weapon from his bag. If he was so frightened of Metcalf, why didn’t he just walk away when he was asked to leave? And then grab an adult?
Instead, he met a shove with a deadly stab. Why did he even have a weapon at a school event?
Hostin also falsely claimed Anthony was the lone black person under Metcalf’s team’s tent when the stabbing happened. But other black students present testified for the prosecution.
Keep in mind, Hostin was actually a federal prosecutor. And like Rep. Jasmine Crockett — who is also an attorney and who has also spread outright lies about this story — Hostin was willfully engaging in falsehoods to bolster her race case.
It’s a sad state of affairs that a teenager murdered at a track meet has become the punching bag for cynical media figures.
I’ll give Hostin this. She and her “View” crew aren’t as bad as the ghouls posting AI images of themselves urinating on Metcalf’s grave. Nor are they as depraved as the disgusting teens on TikTok doing the “Austin Bop”, where they dance around pretending to stab themselves in the heart.
However, she is still giving these cretins the fuel to dehumanize Metcalf — and the material to build a fictional narrative that he was some brute bully who got what he deserved.
Hostin so desperately wants to be a story about race, when it’s really a two-part tragedy. One innocent boy unnecessarily lost his life at the hands of another boy who has terrible emotional regulation and impulse control. Perhaps we can blame his parents, whose first order of business was to hire a felon as a family representative. That guy immediately played the race card.
With the exception of Anthony’s mother telling the jury, her son was “sorry,” no one from their camp has expressed any remorse. As soon as he was found guilty, his family split from the courtroom.
This is all unfolding as team of pro-bono attorneys have assembled to work on Anthony’s appeal.
Meanwhile, Austin’s father, Jeff, who was under a gag order until the end of the trial, is finally free to speak. He’s mourning one son and comforting his other — a kid who held his twin brother as he bled out. He’s fighting lies about his precious slain boy.
It’s a heavy lift to have to correct the record of idiots on the internet, never mind ABC talent — which is supposedly bound by standards.
“People had their own opinions without even seeing the facts, and that’s the part I have trouble with,” Jeff told Fox News’ Will Cain Monday.
The father has challenged “The View” to put him on the air. But no one is holding their breath.