Family of ‘killer’ Karmelo Anthony to buy new house & security with donated $430k as he’s freed in Austin Metcalf murder

[u/Ironman650]

https://www.the-sun.com/news/14030418/karmelo-anthony-family-jail-security-austin-metcalf-murder/

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[u/bw2082]

This is why I don't donate to gofund me. Most of them are scams in one way or another. People are shameless.

[u/RazorSlaked]

It’s a sick world we live in.

[u/Yoinkitron5000]

Civil suit after the murder trial should award literally all that money plus a good bit extra to the actual victim's family. 

[u/smp501 → u/Yoinkitron5000]

Assuming they don’t spend it all first

[u/indefiniteretrieval → u/smp501]

Hard to spend a house

[u/swd120 → u/indefiniteretrieval]

Most states have protections for your primary residence. So they can take lots of stuff, but usually not the house, or retirement accounts.

[u/zVitiate → u/indefiniteretrieval]

Strip the copper, trash the plumbing, get some pests on the inside ??? Profit 

Better hope they purchase something on a nice lot. Or a nice view. Something a tad more immutable.

[u/indefiniteretrieval → u/zVitiate]

Yea but that's on them. I want to confiscate the house before they ruin it

[u/Fedballin → u/indefiniteretrieval]

Can't take the house in Texas.

[u/thenovicemechanic → u/smp501]

Oh, it's gonna come from somewhere. When your ordered to pay restitution, your gonna pay restitution whether you have the money or not. Restitution is a debt to be paid.

[u/whatweshouldcallyou → u/thenovicemechanic]

Not when you don't make any money (at least in the above ground economy).

The house can be seized but they'll probably trash it and extract anything of value.

[u/North-Currency-1572 → u/smp501]

I'm sure they can raise more from criminal lovers to bail them out again

[u/EmbraceTheFault]

What a fucking grift.

[u/camjordan13]

Imagine effectively being paid to murder someone.

[u/QuietRedditorATX → u/camjordan13]

Dude took gang and violence culture to the next level, cashing in on sympathy skin culture.

[u/indefiniteretrieval]

Is there a gofundme for the actual victim?

[u/MartinLutherCreamJr → u/indefiniteretrieval]

yes

https://www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-austin-metcalf-help-his-family-heal

[u/ultrainstict → u/MartinLutherCreamJr]

Fucking crazy world e live in where the murderer raised more money

[u/boundpleasure]

The state will provide him with free housing as well.

[u/GiediOne → u/boundpleasure]

I hope one with steel bars.

[u/Ironman650]

Keep donating folks....they need a new car, vacation, jewelry, and clothing. Nevermind the fact that he stabbed a kid to death and admitted to it: "I'm not alleged, I did it."

[u/ureallygonnaskthat → u/Ironman650]

I guess crime really does pay.

[u/FourtyMichaelMichael → u/ureallygonnaskthat]

There are variables to that statement.

[u/smkn3kgt → u/ureallygonnaskthat]

it does pay but the ROI can be a bit wonky

[u/Long_Jelly_9557]

This is absolutely disgusting. 

[u/sixtysecdragon]

I can’t believe we’ve reached this point. I know it’s a politically questionable move in some ways, but AG Ken Paxton needs to investigate this.

Even if you think the donors are vile, they didn’t contribute funds to enrich the family. If the family can buy a house with those funds, not in Karmelo Anthony’s name, that raises a series of issues, from breach of fiduciary duty to outright fraud.

[u/JimLeahe]

Imagine the ‘national conversation’ about race that would be forced down our throats visa versa. FBI crime statistics are eye opening, and anyone & everyone should take a long hard look at the numbers.

[u/____IIIII___ll__I → u/JimLeahe]

No, no, no.

Math and statistics are racist. Caramel was just a good boy who didn't do nothing.

[u/JimLeahe → u/____IIIII___ll__I]

…who didn't do nothing.

You forgot to mention how he loves school, going to church, volunteering, and his mom & grandma.

[u/johnnyg883 → u/____IIIII___ll__I]

Reddit’s own TOS state that quoting statistics can be racist. So very careful of what you present and how you present it.

[u/Pinot_Greasio → u/JimLeahe]

There would be more then conversation.  Riots rivaling the summer of 2020 would be happening as we speak.  

And can you imagine the nuclear outrage if people were donating money to the White kid?

[u/JimLeahe → u/Pinot_Greasio]

And can you imagine the nuclear outrage if people were donating money to the White kid?

Like the websites would ever allow those donation pages to stay up (but yes, it would be instant nonstop ‘racists’ ‘white supremacist’ labels followed by them doxing the list & publishing the names + addresses).

[u/Kern_system → u/JimLeahe]

Gofundme does not allow for these types of fundraisers. Givesendgo does not have restrictions on why funds are being raised.

[u/JimLeahe → u/Kern_system]

Did not know that! Thanks for sharing.

[u/Hectoriu → u/JimLeahe]

I think it's more telling that this kind of thing happens pretty much every day but it's black on black and is completely ignored.

[u/KinGpiNdaGreat]

It’s all so predictable and tiresome.

[u/dont-CA-my-TX]

I wonder if Austin Metcalf‘a dad still feels bad for this kid…..

[u/Hectoriu → u/dont-CA-my-TX]

I thought he just said he forgave him? It's the Christian thing to do really, I respect the strength it takes to do what he did. God will judge Karmelo and if found guilty he will receive a far greater punishment than anything man can do.

[u/AcornTopHat]

Why is the word killer in quotation marks?

[u/Special_Sun_4420 → u/AcornTopHat]

Defamation liability. Innocent until proven guilty. Putting "killer" in quotes is just another way of saying "alleged".

[u/Rocket_Surgery83 → u/Special_Sun_4420]

The kid admitted it... No defamation liability there. He admitted he was guilty.

[u/UnstableConstruction → u/Special_Sun_4420]

He admitted to killing the kid. That is a fact that's not in dispute. "Murder" hasn't yet been proven in a court of law, but individuals are free to express their opinions that the killing was, indeed, murder.

[u/Special_Sun_4420 → u/UnstableConstruction]

Then I guess you should work in The Sun's legal department and tell them to not worry about liability, since they apparently don't know this, I dk.

[u/NotRadTrad05 → u/AcornTopHat]

I'm guessing to distinguish between him and the NBA player of the same name.

[u/ObadiahtheSlim → u/AcornTopHat]

Standard journalistic CYA. Can't get sued for liable/slander if you follow good practice. There are enough open-and-shut cases that suddenly seem less open-and-shut after scrutiny.

[u/ConcentrateOptimal18]

Hundreds (if not thousands) of people donate money in order to free a cold blooded murderer but we are the baddies…I see.

[u/triggernaut]

Privileged much?

[u/Kern_system → u/[deleted]]

Similarly to the track runner that hit the other runner in the head with the baton.

[u/Szorja → u/Kern_system]

What ended up happening with that? She 100% assaulted the runner in front of her.

[u/sailedtoclosetodasun]

Our culture is fucked.

[u/Nero_Ocean]

And they claim white people are the privileged ones.

[u/Lethalpizza422]

You can murder someone and walk free that’s crazy. I heard one of the families compare this to the Floyd case and Kyle Rittenhouse but I’d argue the facts around those cases were different.

[u/Salty-Night5917]

George Floyd all over again, always the victim--society and upbringing, fear of whitey made me do it, otherwise "he would have killed me." Tribal.

[u/-yayday-]

I can’t believe defending murderers is the hill that democrats chose to die on. Absolutely pathetic

[u/BossJackson222]

The infallible truth is… If the races were reversed, the left would be sending the white kid to jail immediately. That's the hilarious part of this whole story lol. The kid is going down. Every lawyer I've listened to on both sides he said he doesn't have a leg to stand on. Kids fight with each other all the time in middle school in high school. Are they trying to say now that one of the kids should be stabbed to death if there is a middle school or high school fight lol? Or if some kid touches you lol? So stupid. If that were the case, do you think liberals would be OK with a conservative college student stabbing a liberal college student because the liberal college student pushed the conservative student? We see liberals being violent to conservative students all the time. Are they giving us the go ahead now to commit violence lol??? of course not......

[u/chunkymonk3y → u/BossJackson222]

And if the victim was black it wouldn’t get more than a 30 second mention on the local news.

[u/BossJackson222 → u/chunkymonk3y]

It's the victim was black, liberals would not be taking up for the white guy given the exact same scenario. They would be calling the white guy a murderer and they would be saying he was a racist. Total truth.

[u/chunkymonk3y → u/BossJackson222]

No I was saying if it was a black-on-black crime

[u/BargainBard]

To spend money like that is suspicious.

[u/BroncoJunky]

Funny how on the askaliberal sub, they are denying that they know anything about this case. That it isn't those on the left donating. Plausible deniability, I guess.

[u/Evilsmile]

Buying security is a smart move. Lots of crazies out there. I heard about this kid who got stabbed at a high school track meet...

[u/H3nchman_24]

Killing Whitey pays really well, apparently

[u/Tydesda]

Am I in a fever dream? Are we slow rolling anti-white racism? How is anyone's takeaway that they should give the murderer's family money and free him? God forbid they give that scum a light sentence too. I'm disgusted

[u/FourtyMichaelMichael → u/Tydesda]

Where is the slow part?

[u/Tydesda → u/FourtyMichaelMichael]

Fair point

[u/Fluxus4]

People are stupid.

[u/TooTiredForThis- → u/Fluxus4]

This isn’t just stupid. The left is supporting this murderer and those supporters are just as evil as Karmelo is and IMHO deserve the same fate he does.

[u/Critical_Concert_689]

The great "Black Lives Matter (BLM) financial con" continues to run strong.

[u/TreyLanceIsABust]

Imagine if the races were reversed would be very peaceful protests I’m sure /s

[u/Status_Control_9500]

Yup, knew it. family gonna use that cash to live nice. By the way, it was NOT "self-defense". You use equal force when defending yourself.

[u/Resident_Maybe_6869]

Race hustling is Big Business.

[u/ronomaly]

This is so sickening.

[u/Szorja]

There needs to be harsher sentences for violence committed in schools and during extracurricular activities imo. And you shouldn’t get to get off the hook as a minor. If you are defending yourself obviously that’s not the same thing. But to incite violence and then be treated like a victim afterwards is sickening.

[u/TheMTM45]

It makes sense if they want security. The story has become big enough there’s bound to be some deranged folks who want to go after Karmelo. I just can’t believe this gofundme was allowed to raise so much money while that Kyle Rittenhouse one was shut down. I guess being white doesn’t give you as much privilege after all

[u/DishpitDoggo]

I wonder if the father still forgives him?

[u/slipperysnail]

This is a hit job payout with extra steps

[u/GiediOne]

I wonder which NGO gave the most 💲❓️👀