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CNN says a Texas jury convicted Karmelo Anthony of murder in the fatal stabbing
of Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet, and that Anthony was sentenced to
35 years in prison. The part that sticks with me is not just the crime. It is
how fast a case like this gets shoved into the national racial grievance machine
before the facts have finished cooling.
A 17-year-old is dead. The jury heard the evidence and called it murder. That
should be the center of the story. Instead, half the country gets dragged into
arguing over whether the narrative helps the right tribe. That is rotten
politics. Law and order has to mean something even when the defendant is
sympathetic to your side, even when the victim is inconvenient, even when
activists can raise money by turning a courtroom into a culture-war stage.
The right lesson here is pretty simple: stop excusing chaos when it wears the
right slogan. Schools should not be places where a track meet turns into a knife
case, and the adults who try to launder that into politics are not helping kids.
They are protecting their own little industry.
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