A representative for the Karmelo Anthony family, Dominique Alexander, blamed Anthony’s guilty murder verdict on the race of the jurors after the guilty verdict came down just a couple hours of deliberations. The jury pool did not have any black jurors in it. 

“It showed very clearly that a black boy was allowed not one black soul on a jury, an all-white jury convicted him in two to three hours. We know that they did not prove their case,” Alexander said. “They are currently sentencing Carmelo Anthony, but we know that the Next Generation Action Network put the first $10,000 towards an appellate attorney, and we will fight Collin County like hell.”

Anthony was charged and then found guilty for the murder of Austin Metcalf. Anthony’s defense claimed that he was acting in self-defense when he stabbed Metcalf in the April 2025. Jury selection in the case began on June 1, and supporters of Anthony had expressed outrage that there were no black jurors in the case.

Alexander claimed that “black America should be very upset about what went on today.”

He later said that the trial that they saw was “flawed” as well as “unjust.”

“Right now what we are seeing is a travesty. It lets us know that black lives do not matter in the criminal justice system. It lets us know that we are not going to be afforded the same laws as anybody else, and I give a damn about nobody that feels like I’m playing the race card here,” Alexander continued.

He then referenced slavery and said that he was not playing the “race card” but that he is just a “black man living in America.”

“The facts supports that you say I’m upset. Hell yeah, I’m upset. I respected this process, but we’re going to fight like Hell to make sure that Collin County know that Carmelo Anthony is not going to go away,” he added.