After he had the grace to forgive track meet stabber Karmelo Anthony for killing his son, Jeff Metcalf was thrown out of Anthony’s press conference, Thursday.
Anthony’s family held the presser at the headquarters of Next Generation Action Network (NGAN), a social justice advocacy nonprofit in Dallas founded by “Minister” Dominique Alexander. Someone from the group called the police and Metcalf, who had been standing with the press, was then forced out of the room.
Alexander delayed the press conference until Metcalf had been escorted out of the venue, and then began the proceeding by shaming the grieving father.
“I want to start off this press conference to say something as a deep note, a deep note that I can tell America,” he began.
“What we seen at this press conference—the father being at this press conference—deez are my words, don’t quote anybody—is a disrespect to the dignity of his son,” Alexander declared.
The activist went on to say that his group had from the beginning “respected the dignity of the loss of life” and not shared presumably negative information they had gathered on Austin Metcalf. “Because we respect the dignity of life,” he declared.
As an avowed abortion supporter who was once arrested for causing severe injury to a toddler, the minister’s claim of “respecting the dignity of life” lacks credibility.
NGAN proudly proclaims on its website that “women have the fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about their personal body and reproductive functions.”
This fundamental right includes access to affordable and quality contraception, including emergency contraception, without discrimination. Women also have the fundamental right to continue or terminate a pregnancy, and if she chooses to terminate the pregnancy they should have access to affordable medical care.
Far worse, in 2009, Alexander was arrested for injury causing severe bodily harm to a two-year-old child, the Dallas Observer reported.
Police reported he’d been babysitting his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son for the evening when he called her at 11 p.m. and told her “to get home now.” But he didn’t tell her why. When she arrived, she found her child unresponsive. Alexander told his girlfriend that he’d been watching a movie with her son on the couch. He paused the movie, police reported, and as he walked into the computer room, he heard the sound of her son, who was asleep on the couch, fall off the couch and onto the carpet.
But the doctor disagreed with his statement. He examined Alexander’s girlfriend’s son in the intensive care unit and reported that the child had a subdural hemorrhage between the halves of his brain and at the back of the brain. He also had retinal hemorrhages in both eyes.
“The severity of his injuries is not consistent with rolling off the couch,” the doctor said, according to the police report. “The injuries are acute and likely occurred around the time that [his girlfriend’s son] started to have symptoms (like being unresponsive.) Without more adequate history of trauma, complainant’s injuries are more consistent with abusive head trauma and child physical abuse.”
Not long after he was arrested for child abuse, he was reportedly also caught forging a check and ended up leading the police on a high-speed chase in a stolen car.
He was sentenced in August 2016 to two years in prison for repeatedly violating his probation for these crimes.
During the press conference Thursday, Alexander compared Karmelo Anthony to Kyle Rittenhouse, whom he falsely accused of shooting people in the back and Daniel Penny, who was acquitted in the accidental chokehold death of Jordan Neely, an agitated rider who was threatening people.
He went on to bemoan the struggles of “a black man in America” and President Trump.
“Black people in America, while the current occupant sits at 1600 Pennsylvania, black people in America don’t have to pull the race card,” Alexander said.
Anthony’s attorney Michael Howard said “there are two sides to every story and “every Texan has a right to defend themselves when they reasonably fear for their life. Self-defense is a protection that applies to each and every one of us.”
The lawyer was not ready to explain why Anthony had brought a knife to a track meet.
Anthony was able to be freed from jail after a judge lowered his bond from $1 million to $250,000. He’s facing first-degree murder charges for stabbing Austin Metcalf in the heart, instantly killing him. Per the terms of his release, Anthony is under house arrest and is required to wear an ankle monitor.
The GiveSendGo donation page for the teen’s legal defense has received more than $460,000 as of Thursday, with many donors claiming he is the real victim, and Metcalf had it coming.
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