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The one thing that played no role in Karmelo Anthony’s murder of Austin Metcalf

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The system failed Karmelo Anthony — he stabbed someone to death and is going to jail for it. 

If this doesn’t strike you as an injustice, you haven’t been paying attention to the voices defending the 19-year-old who was just sentenced to 35 years in prison for murdering another teenager at a high school track meet in Texas two years ago. 

The case has garnered national attention entirely for its racial angle. Anthony is black, and his victim, Austin Metcalf, was white.

But there is no evidence that race played a role in the incident, and if both young men had been white or both black, no one would try to pile political or social meaning on top of a senseless crime. 

Both Anthony and Metcalf were football players who competed in track and attended different high schools.

At the meet, Anthony went inside the tent set up for Metcalf’s school. Athletes don’t ordinarily go into the tents of competing schools, and Metcalf and others asked him to leave.

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