Failed Senate candidate Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) continued her apology tour for convicted killer Karmelo Anthony, claiming he was just a “scared black boy” and that he wasn’t given enough “mercy.”

Crockett has gone viral several times for oafish statements since Anthony was handed a 35-year prison term this week for stabbing the 17-year-old in the heart in a dispute over his presence in a tent at a track and field event at a Texas high school, downplaying or excusing his actions every time.

“Thirty-five years for a kid who had decided to go under a tent that was not his team’s tent as it was raining? And simply didn’t want to be put out in the rain by some random kid that he didn’t know who was larger than him?” she told TMZ — in reference to Anthony’s sentence for first-degree murder.

Representative Jasmine Crockett speaks to media with other people and microphones in front of her.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett has made a series of insensitive, ponderous remarks about Karmelo Anthony’s murder of high school athlete Austin Metcalf.Getty Images
She then tried to relate Anthony — who was armed with a knife — to the police shooting of unarmed black teens.

“Listen, a lot of people don’t know what it is to live as a black person in this country, but just like you can give the benefit of the doubt to so many police officers when they go out and shoot some unarmed black person even though they are trained, there was little to no mercy seen or humanity seen when this black boy said that [he] was scared,” she said.

Crockett was ripped to shreds by commenters on a clip of her interview with a TMZ reporter outside her congressional office

“This is not about black vs white…this is about a murderer….who the f–k cares if you stand out in the rain….Im an old white woman that has stood in the damn rain and never killed anyone over it,” one commenter wrote.

“Jasmine is always part of the problem and never part of the solution. A complete disgrace,” said another.

Others pointed out that Anthony received a relatively light sentence compared to the 99 years without parole the jury that convicted him could have imposed.

“Girl please, he only got 35 years for murder. She’s such an idiot.”

Karmelo Anthony in a mugshot.
Karmelo Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison for first-degree murder, but he could have gotten as many as 99 years.Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice

A day earlier, on an episode of her podcast “Clock It with Crockett,” the lame-duck Rep. carelessly tossed around falsehoods and cynically injected doubts about the murder itself, astonishingly even suggesting she would have stabbed Metcalf herself if she had been in Anthony’s position.

In the span of a few minutes, she downplayed the size of the knife used in the April 2, 2025 attack, implied it wasn’t a “deadly weapon” and grossly exaggerated Metcalf’s weight as 300 pounds, when in fact he weighs 200 pounds.

She also falsely suggested Metcalf had gotten “on top” of Anthony and was “beating him down,” leaving him with no choice but to defend himself with deadly force.

In fact, Anthony pulled out the knife and plunged it into Metcalf’s chest after a brief confrontation involving little more than a light shove, with even a defense witness conceding the killer was “in the wrong” in how he acted on the day of the killing.

“If a 300-pound man is beating me, like on top of me and beating me down, I’m not limited to fists,” she said, seemingly implying she too would have stabbed the high school athlete.

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