Karmelo Anthony stabbed another teenager in his heart, and that is why he and his family have rewarded with more than $ 455,000.
Donors from all over the country, celebrating a 17 -year -old who took a knife at a track meeting, have Flooded a Giveendgo fund collection Established by the Anthony family with racially provocative contributions and comments.
“Keep doing what you do young,” wrote an anonymous donor or $ 100. “You are an antibullying hero, a scholar and a gentleman.”
Another $ 20 donor, referring to the fact that the perpetrator is black and the white victim, wrote: “We against them! Period!”
“We are the defenders of our lineage. This is America and plans immigrants from around the world has always opened enemies towards the fundamental black Americans of day 1 no more,” a donor comment with 23 likes it.
The greatest amount reached $ 3000, and more than 20 people have contributed at least $ 1,000 to Anthony, who faces first degree murder positions. According to the witnesses, Austin Metcalf, 17, tried to expel him in a duration of the store a track in Frisco, Texas, on April 2, leader of Anthony, to allegedly stable the other teenager in the heart.
Metcalf bleed in the arms of his twin brother, In accordance with a police report.
Given the facts availableThe effusion of support and valorization is frankly disturbing.
But it is nothing new for the “victim” industrial complex, facilitated by social networks and collective financing websites that encourage people adjacent to situations to continue advancing the flames.
Anthony was released from the prison on Monday with a reduced bonus of $ 250,000, which was released from the initial $ 1 million. Judicial procedures that day, your lawyers He clarified donations They were not “a fund of bond” and were being used by their parents to pay their rentals and invoices.
The family is As reported, now living In a house of $ 900,000 within a luxurious closed community in Frisco.
“There is a lot of pressure,” said lawyer Mike Howard. “I think at this point, living in a closed community, given everything, the safety of their younger children, is very justified.”
Anthony’s family is the only one who charges martyrdom.
Who can forget when Black Lives Matter leaders Donations used to buy Multimillionaire houses? Meanwhile, mothers or dead children have He begged the organization To stop using their names for fundraising.
Another Celobre of the moment are deportation -related fund collectors, with one for the student of Columbia Mahmoud Khalil Tallying about $ 557,000While Armando Abrego García’s wife was Erroneously deported to El SalvadorHas Received more than $ 235,000 In Gofundme.
But those are much less surprising. The true iony with Anthony is that he is the assumption author Or a crime with a real victim.
And yet donations continue to pour. “Let racist tears flow,” wrote a donor called American black lineage. “We have your back brother Karmelo.”
Each person has the right to due process. Something could leave Anthony’s trial that returns the case on his head. No one should reach absolute conclusions until they have their day in court.
But it is still an alarm that more than 13,000 donors have decided to reward him, stating that his alleged act is a kind of racial claim, as if Metcalf was a murdered symbol of white America.
“This is for justice and equity … This does not compensate the legacies of racism and white violence, but it is a small wave in a broader struggle for justice,” said an anonymous giver.
This is part of a larger and sick tendency or combines individual victims or violence with larger political problems. As well as the CEO of United Healthcare, Brian Thompson, supposedly killed by Luigi Mangione, who has become a folkloric hero for some, a personification of the health system, donors of Anthony Himning, celebrating celebrating celebrating celebrating celebrating the celebration of white supremacy.
And it is a racialized and politicized disaster on both sides.
Donors from the GOFUNDME Fund Colomer of the Metcalf Family, which has Accumulated more than $ 388,000 In gifts, comments have covered with anti-negral messages and tropes of white power.
That is the opposite of what Austin’s father asked. Days after the incident, Jeff Metcalf Tok A Fox NewsPlease, that people do not convert their son’s death into a racial war.
“This was not a racing thing. This was not something political,” Hey said. “Please, don’t comment if you don’t know what happened. Try not to turn this into something racial. It wasn’t. I don’t do it political.”
