Black teen Karmelo Anthony, 19, was found guilty of murder today in the fatal stabbing of an unarmed white teen, 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, at a high school track meet last year in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. Ahead of closing arguments today, the judge decided that jurors could also consider manslaughter, which carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison. Jurors were not moved. The jury began deliberating today before and reached a verdict in only three hours, the mark of an open-and-shut case.

It always seemed like one. The victim was unarmed. Apparently he touched or pushed Anthony, and the defense argued that Anthony stabbed him in the heart in self-defense. None of the witnesses felt that Anthony’s actions were justified.

However, the news media and conservative pundits have been suggesting ominously that a guilty verdict would be likely to set off George Floyd or Michael Brown level, Black Lives Matter rioting. A recent piece in Red State is typical. Teri Cristophe writes in “Is This How Democrats Will Solve Their Graham Platner Problem?”: