The Watermelon Felon: What a Disgusting Spectacle the Karmelo Anthony Trial Has Been

It was obvious Karmelo Anthony was guilty of the murder of Austin Metcalf as soon as a) we knew there was copious footage of the incident and b) the authorities refused to release it.

I hate to be the “what if the roles were reversed” guy, but we all know that if Austin Metcalf had been the killer and not the victim, the footage would have been played on loop, 24/7. They’d have played it on The View. It would probably have popped up in the ad breaks on YouTube and Netflix. And of course there would have been protests and marches and race-grifters whooping and hollering about lynchings and Emmett Till and Stuka divebombers over Tulsa strafing black businessmen and their families. We actually got plenty of that anyway—the insane self-aggrandising racial theater, I mean. More on that in a moment.

Instead, there was nothing for a full year. No footage. We still haven’t seen it. We’ve been told what’s in it, and we had some early intimations of its content when a select group of journalists saw a curated selection months ago, behind closed doors—but the public will probably never see it.

I’m not saying I want to see the footage, by the way. As Bartleby protested more than once, I’d prefer not to. I’m sick of atrocity porn on my X timeline. It’s every day. An endless procession of horror. Murder upon murder upon murder.

Just this week, I woke up, logged on and, bleary-eyed, was confronted with video of a Sudanese migrant attempting to saw the head off a man in the street in Northern Ireland. I hadn’t even eaten my breakfast; although maybe, on reflection, that was a good thing.

Honestly: I’m so sick of this shit. Give me cat videos and seals making that absurd ARPARPARPARPARPARP noise all day long—maybe some videos of pretty Spanish girls attempting to say “potato” too—and I’ll be a happy man. Po-DAY-do!

What I am saying is had the footage been released, we could have avoided so much bullshit. Instead, we got a hideous freakshow spectacle that’s lasted 365 days and counting, and only brought more sadness and suffering to the victim’s family.

Perhaps worst of all was the poor father debasing himself in front of the world, attempting to call for calm and understanding—“This was not a race thing… this is a human being thing. This person made a bad choice and it affected both his family and my family forever”—only to be heckled and ejected from a press conference organised by the Anthony family, before their supporters SWATted him at least half a dozen times.

It was a bizarre set piece that could have been scripted by the DoJ’s Community Relations Service, so utterly did it fly in the face of every basic paternal instinct.

Then again, who am I to question Jeff Metcalf’s grief for his dead son?

Jeff Metcalf publicly forgave Karmelo Anthony for killing his son. He literally said, "This is not a race issue."

After EVERYTHING the Anthony family has said and done: repeatedly shouting "biased, prejudiced, and racist," claiming every witness lied, and insisting the jury was… https://t.co/bAwF9Y6bWB pic.twitter.com/3QZU3ZkYE5

— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) June 12, 2026

But still, anybody with a brain and eyes to “notice” could see exactly what was up the moment we knew the footage was not going to be released and a gag order was issued by the judge.

As we finally learned, at long last, this really was an open-and-shut case, just as we suspected. Karmelo Anthony entered an opposing team’s tent to make a nuisance of himself, refused to leave after being asked to—fifteen times—threatened those asking him to leave, and then stabbed Austin Metcalf through the heart with a folding knife he produced from his bag. Members of the jury gasped and covered their eyes when they saw the damage Karmelo Anthony did to his victim, punching a hole right through his sternum like a butcher.

There’s a law dubbed “Coulter’s Law” after my favourite political cougar. It goes like this: The longer it takes to identify the suspect in a mass shooting, the more likely it is they’re not white. (There’s a variant of this, attributed to Steve Sailer, I think: The more victims of a mass shooting are injured rather than killed, the more likely it is the shooter is black.)

So how about another law? Let’s call it Karmelo’s Law: The longer the authorities refuse to release the security tape, the more likely it is the suspect—if they’re not white—is guilty.

Let’s apply Karmelo’s Law scrupulously, without fail, every time a similar case arises, and see how many times we’re wrong. I bet we’ll be able to count the number on a badly mutilated hand.

The case has shown the American black community at its worst and most tribal: obsessed with its own misplaced sense of grievance, battling phantoms of a racist past long-since dead and simply unable to grasp the possibility that one of their own wasn’t justified in killing a white boy. The Anthony family used the case as an opportunity to enrich itself with the lavish proceeds of crowdfunding, and no doubt will try to do the same again with the inevitable appeal.Supporters are already posting photoshopped images of themselves urinating on Austin Metcalf’s grave. I’m sure they’ll move beyond digital desecrations to actual ones soon enough. There are calls for African Americans to emigrate from the US back to Africa and take all their gifts and talents with them—Wakanda surely awaits—and there are also calls for more white people to be killed to teach them the valuable lesson not to pick on black boys like Austin Metcalf did.

Karmelo Anthony supporter:

"I don't give a f*ck about White lives… F*ck dat cracker. We smokin that Austin pack, pu**y!" pic.twitter.com/35wm5bSWiw

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 12, 2026

What can be done in the face of such utterly juvenile behaviour, such monstrous collective delusion?

Even poor Jeff Metcalf appears to have been radicalised by the whole experience. Since the verdict, he’s spoken out in terms that couldn’t be more different from his clumsy pre-trial attempts at peacemaking. He’s even called Karmelo Anthony “the watermelon felon,” which may also be very childish, but certainly has a ring to it.

Austin Metcalf's dad calls Karmelo Anthony "watermelon felon" …

Credit: JinxedSip pic.twitter.com/QAe6yaXUBD

— TMZ (@TMZ) June 12, 2026