A Texas congresswoman is leading the voice of online activists enraged over the guilty verdict in Karmelo Anthony’s murder trial, and is spreading outright lies and racially inflammatory rhetoric after the 19-year-old was sentenced to 35 years in prison for stabbing Austin Metcalf to death.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a rare radical Democrat elected in deep red Texas, took to her podcast after Tuesday’s verdict to make false claims about the trial and its jury as she continues to stir up racial hatred.

«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 said, exhibiting her empathy for the convicted murderer.

Her claim about the jury is patently false.

Sources close to the trial confirmed to Fox News Digital that the jury was not made up only of white people, despite Crockett’s claim, which has been parroted by activists online.

Of the 12 jurors, three were racial minorities, including Asian and Indian, eight were women and four were men. They confirmed that of the 18 total jurors, including alternates, six were minorities.

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The jury in the trial, which spanned nine days in a Collin County, Texas, courtroom this month, found that Anthony intentionally stabbed Metcalf, then 18, to death on April 2, 2025.

The murder took place after Anthony entered the Memorial High School track team’s tent at a meet in Frisco, and refused 15 times to leave when asked. Witnesses testified that Metcalf lightly shoved Anthony in an attempt to remove him from the tent, after which the teen reached into his bag, pulled out a knife, and stabbed Metcalf in the chest.

The victim bled to death in front of his twin brother and teammates, many of whom testified at the trial.

Karmelo Anthony is accused of stabbing Austin Metcalf to death during a track meet in Frisco, Texas, on April 2, 2025. (Jeff Metcalf/FOX4)

Crockett surmised the jury likely convicted Anthony because residents of Collin County are upset that, «so many black folk are moving up there in the first place.»

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The congresswoman, who will not retain her seat in the House after redistricting in Texas pushed her district red, bizarrely compared black women in America to the victim’s family.

«Black women, especially black women who have black male children, live in fear and agony every single day,» she lamented. «A fear and agony that I promise you the Metcalfs probably had never spend a day living that way.» 

That comment was branded as «psychotic» by White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller on X.

A New Black Panther Party member stands outside Collin County Courthouse in McKinney, Texas, where Karmelo Anthony is on trial for first-degree murder on June 8, 2026. Anthony faces charges in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a track meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. (AJ Skuy for Fox News Digital)

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Crockett, an attorney, also claimed that the knife Anthony used to kill Metcalf was not a deadly weapon, and downplayed its size.

Activists outside the courthouse sounded off after the verdict was handed down.

Dominique Alexander, a local Black Lives Matter activist who has been involved with the Anthony family since Karmelo’s arrest, slammed injected racial rhetoric into the conversation.

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«What this process did is show that black lives do not matter in Collin County,» he said. «This trial showed that it put emotions over the law. After Trayvon Martin and so many countless names, it has shown us that Black life is not safe in Collin County.»

Martin was killed by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, in 2012. A jury in that case found that Zimmerman acted in self-defense.

Alexander also claimed without evidence that the judge in the case «interfered in this process,» and repeated the false claim that the jury was «all white.»

People outside Collin County Courthouse react as a verdict is announced in the Karmelo Anthony murder trial in McKinney, Texas, on June 9, 2026. Anthony faces a potential life sentence for the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Metcalf at a track meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. (AJ Skuy for Fox News Digital)

Bree Newsome, an online far-leftist, insisted that race was a factor in the case.

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«Karmelo Anthony would be treated totally different by the legal system were he a white boy killing a black boy,» she said. «That’s the whole point. That’s what matters. Stop pretending there’s anything Black people can do in our behavior to prevent racism. Racism defines the entire system.»

Crockett’s office did not return Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Razón y fe, ¿un choque inevitable, o una alianza necesaria entre conceptos que tienden a excluirse mutuamente? Ese fue el eje del extraordinario debate que protagonizaron Josep Ratzinger y Jürgen Habermas en 2004. El filósofo más influyente de nuestro tiempo, como garante de la razón secular, y al otro lado, la razón teológica que defendía el gran teórico de la teología, convertido poco después en Papa. Y así, en la sala noble de la Academia Católica de Baviera volvía a escenificarse el pulso que fluctuaba desde la Ilustración, responsable de la expulsión de la fe, sustituida por la razón como eje del pensamiento. Pero lejos de protagonizar un pulso frontal, ambos pensadores llegaron a una especie de contrato que Ratzinger resumió en una idea luminosa: la mutua purificación.

En síntesis, ante el Estado autosuficiente, basado en el derecho y la autorregulación democrática que defendía Habermas, Ratzinger le recordaba que cuando la razón se cierra en ella misma engendra monstruos como el totalitarismo. Si Ratzinger argumentaba que la religión puede aportar el grosor moral que la sociedad moderna está perdiendo, Habermas le recordaba que la religión también engendra monstruos, como el fanatismo. Reconocidos los monstruos de ambas razones, la secular y la teológica, la conclusión resultó grandiosa: razón y fe necesitaban escucharse y respetarse. Es decir, se necesitaban mutuamente porque la ciencia no puede dar respuesta a todas las necesidades morales del ser humano, ni la fe tiene respuesta para los enigmas científicos. De ahí surgió el concepto que Ratzinger planteó y Habermas asumió: la fe y la razón debían establecer un diálogo sanador porque pueden actuar como “purificadoras mutuas”: la razón evita el fanatismo y el fundamentalismo religioso, y la fe evita que la razón pierda la brújula moral y no se aleje de los valores humanos.

Ese contrato de entendimiento conllevaba deberes: los laicos debían dejar de percibir a la religión como una irracionalidad, y entender que la razón religiosa preserva verdades morales, que la ciencia no sabe precisar; y los creyentes, debían aceptar que era necesario adecuar sus creencias religiosas a los preceptos legales y que la fe no podía imponerse por “razón de Dios”. De este ‘contrato’ entre razón y fe saldría la sociedad postsecular, que aceptaba que la religión es una fuerza viva que la política no puede ignorar.

Veintidós años después, un nuevo Pontífice, León XIV, parece recoger el pulso que los dos grandes pensadores legaron a la sociedad. A diferencia del papa Francisco, cuyo perfil peronista lo llevó a menudo a la tentación política (es decir, al activismo político, más allá del mensaje evangélico), y a la práctica de un cierto populismo, Prevost da muestras de un perfil intelectual más profundo. Su encíclica Magnifica Humanitas es una reflexión de fondo que reclama el retorno al humanismo frente a lo que él llama la “deshumanización tecnológica”: la dignidad humana atacada no solo por la injusticia social, o los diversos males del mundo, sino también por el “tecnofascismo” que sitúa a los seres humanos bajo el control de algoritmos corporativos y ejerce un nuevo colonialismo, el digital. Desde esta perspectiva, alza la voz en favor de la educación como garante del pensamiento, y del arte como guardián de la empatía y la sensibilidad. Lo humano contra lo artificial.

¿Es la inteligencia artificial el nuevo “monstruo” que ha creado la razón?, como parece sugerir Prevost, ¿es la fe, la brújula moral que puede contenerlo?, ¿o es el refugio tramposo para huir del miedo? Lo cierto es que, dos décadas después del debate de Habermas y Ratzinger, los “monstruos” de ambas razones han crecido exponencialmente. Por un lado, el fundamentalismo religioso ha aumentado, inspirado por el miedo y por el vacío de una sociedad sumida en el relativismo moral. Por el otro lado, “la sequedad moral” (según el término que usó Habermas) de nuestra sociedad ha alimentado las posiciones ideológicas más extremas y ha sustituido los debates y las ideas por las pancartas y las consignas, hasta el punto de que ser un librepensador, en la época dorada de las falsedades virales, se ha convertido en un anatema. Son tiempos de pensamientos fast food y dogmas ideológicos (los monstruos de la razón), y de fanatismos religiosos (los monstruos de la fe), y ni unos ni otros dan sentido a la razón secular y a la teológica: al contrario, las niegan. En ese tiempo convulso, la defensa de la “purificación mutua” entre la razón y la fe resulta más urgente que nunca. Lo dijo Ratzinger en una bella frase: “La razón no se salvará sin la fe; pero la fe sin la razón no será humana”. Prevost parece ir en esa dirección.

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Senate Republicans are warning that scandal-plagued oysterman Graham Platner could still defeat Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, if the party fails to take the race seriously.

Republicans are defending several seats in expectedly close races, including Nebraska, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas, while seeking to flip Georgia. Maine is different: Sen. Susan Collins’ seat is the only Republican-held Senate seat in a state won by Kamala Harris in 2024, making it Democrats’ most direct path to returning Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., to the majority leader’s office, Republicans said in a memo circulated Wednesday.

«It is a fatal mistake to assume Platner is too damaged to win,» the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) memo obtained by Fox News — addressed to «Interested Parties» — read.

The NRSC agreed that Maine is the «linchpin» of the 35 seats up this year and that despite Platner’s Nazi tattoo, allegations of misogynist violence, arousal from biocide in port-a-johns, and his socialist policy platform, he remains a credible threat to the middle-of-the-road Collins.

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«Senator Collins has won tough races before and can win this one, but only if we meet this moment with total urgency,» the NRSC said.

«Because Democrats cannot win the majority without [Collins’ seat], they have fully rallied around Graham Platner, an extremely flawed, far-left candidate who secured the nomination last night. Platner has captured his party’s financial backing, outraising Senator Collins in every quarter since entering the race. We must match both the energy and the money to retain the seat,» the memo said.

The NRSC said Democrats don’t view Platner’s race as being about the flawed candidate but rather about usurping power.

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The committee said any one of Platner’s multiple scandals would have ended most campaigns, but Democrats remain united around him. The NRSC reported that after former girlfriend Lyndsey Fifield’s allegations against Platner broke, Platner raised $200,000 in one day in what the campaign said was its best haul of the cycle.

«The political fundamentals in Maine remain challenging, and it is a fatal mistake to assume Platner is too damaged to win,» the NRSC said.

Collins is the last remaining federal Republican in New England and the only Republican in the Senate north or east of Pennsylvania.

The NRSC reported that Platner is beating Harris’ own margins by seven points while noting Collins has won tough races in the past, but this one is different.

Collins won her last race against former Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon by about eight points, and her last electoral loss was way back in 1994 when now-Sen. Angus King Jr., I-Maine, won the governorship in a four-way contest.

Republicans said in the memo that the biggest story in the past week about Platner is not his latest scandal, but the fact that Democrats are circling the wagons around him even more tightly and «propping him up.»

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Graham Platner addresses the crowd at his watch party after winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate at a YMCA in Blue Hill, Maine, on June 9, 2026. Platner will face Republican Sen. Susan Collins in the election for the seat. (Matthew Symons for Fox News Digital)

They cited Silicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna visiting Maine to hold a gushy interview-slash-ad with Platner and the fact that Democrats keep claiming Collins and Trump are worse than the left-winger.

«Gotta do what you gotta do,» the NRSC quoted former Biden deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty, while noting that Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse publicly claimed Platner’s foibles are a «lot of nothing.»

They also pointed to one of the most influential Democratic operatives claiming that Platner’s flaws actually bolster his qualifications.

Platner had disparaged former Pennsylvania lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Teddy Daniels after video of the Purple Heart recipient being besieged and gravely wounded by the Taliban surfaced several years ago.

«We’ve got a f—ed up guy who could be 100 times more f—ed up than he is and he’d never be as f—ed up as what we’ve got in Washington,» said 1992 Bill Clinton campaign architect James Carville, who suggested that Platner’s apparent PTSD should be a symbol on the Hill as to why neoconservatives have been wrong about war powers.

«This is not a party abandoning its nominee. This is a party rationalizing, accepting, and preparing to fight,» the NRSC said.

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«Republicans need to match that urgency immediately. Define Platner. Defend Collins. Resource Maine,» they said. «Senator Collins has proven time and time again, through her work ethic and commitment to the people of Maine and America, that she will prevail.»

«This race can be won, but it will not win itself.»

NRSC national press secretary Bernadette Breslin exclusively told Fox News Digital that Platner «has become the new face of the Democratic Party, forcing Democrats to own his mounting scandals and socialist wish list.»

«Come November, Mainers will see through his fraudulent working-class persona and reject the political baggage Democrats are now stuck defending,» Breslin said.

Fox News Digital reached out to the DSCC, Platner campaign and Collins campaign for further comment.