U.S. Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) laid the verbal smackdown on Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) after she came to the defense of convicted killer Karmelo Anthony during an episode of her podcast, spreading a number of falsehoods about the case and suggesting that if she were in Anthony’s shoes, she would have stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalf as well.
Gill’s remarks were made while discussing reports that have emerged concerning harassment and death threats being made against the Metcalf family. Austin Metcalf, 17, was fatally stabbed in April 2025 at a track meet in Frisco, Texas. Karmelo Anthony, 18 at the time of the incident, now 19, was convicted of first-degree murder by a Collin County jury on June 9, 2026. He received a prison sentence of 35 years the following day.
The incident started when Anthony entered the tent being used by Metcalf’s Memorial High School track team during a competition. Witnesses reported that Metcalf, his twin brother, and several other teens asked Anthony to leave multiple times. Refusing to oblige the requests, Anthony then pulled a knife from his backpack and stabbed Metcalf in the chest.
According to a report from Trending Politics News, Crockett responded to the verdict and prison sentence during an episode of “Clock It With Crockett” and in several interviews following the announcement of the guilty verdict, expressing sympathy for the murderer and slamming the outcome. She then referred to the murder weapon as a small “Swiss Army knife” in an attempt to downplay its lethality.
“Wait a minute, it was this? … Yeah, like with the little scissors and everything and whatever. So it was small. Well, I would argue the size of it alone, you wouldn’t even think it’s a deadly weapon,” Crockett said. She then called into question the integrity of the jury by claiming it was “all-white,” which was a complete lie as both Hispanic and Indian individuals were part of it.
“I’m not necessarily convinced — not that I could tell you the name of one person on this jury — that we had 12 impartial White folk out of Collin County sitting on a jury for this young black man,” she went on to say. The Texas Democrat then described the verdict as “evidence of a broken system” and suggested that the reason Anthony was found guilty was due to race, stating that if the roles in the tragedy were reversed, the outcome would have been different.
“Black women, especially black women who have black male children, live in fear and agony every single day. A fear and agony that I promise you the Metcalfs probably never spent a day living that way. We’re gonna have some real conversations about race in this country,” the congresswoman said, referencing the victim’s family.
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Gill responded to Crockett’s disturbing comments during an interview with Fox News, saying, “I mean, this is absolutely despicable. I mean, imagine if that was your son, he was at a track meet and was stabbed in cold blood, stabbed to death, and instead of getting sympathy for many people in your community, you have a bunch of hooligans and thugs and race-baiters calling you up and telling you that you should be next — that your family should suffer, the rest of your family should suffer the same fate. That is so antithetical to everything that this country stands for. It’s absolutely gross.”
“But what disappoints me the most is that you’ve got people in power — Jasmine Crockett, for instance, one of my fellow congresswomen, who is a race-baiting thug, who is stating quite plainly, very recently, that the American people ought to have sympathy for Karmelo Anthony because he’s black — not for any other reason, but because he’s black,” the congressman added. “That’s the kind of stuff that leads to this racial divisiveness.”
Watch Gill here:
WOW! Rep. Brandon Gill OBLITERATES people like ghetto Rep. Jasmine Crockett defending Karmelo Anthony’s murder of Austin Metcalf because the victim is white, killer is black
“We believe murderers are barbaric, evil and wrong, we do NOT have sympathy for MURDERERS because of… pic.twitter.com/fA1HhNqH2Y
— Roy Rogue (@rogue185263) June 13, 2026