Shirtless J6er spews white supremacist lies about Texas teen’s killing

White supremacists are attempting to make the tragic murder of a North Texas teenager about Black-on-white crime, and the grieving father of the white victim isn’t playing along.

What began as a bizarre tragedy that made headlines all across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is becoming a national story tied to January 6 rioters who were pardoned from prison by President Donald Trump.

The story begins on Wednesday, April 2, in Frisco, Texas, a far northern suburb of Dallas. Austin Metcalf, a 17-year-old white student from Memorial High School in Frisco, and 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, a Black student from Centennial High School in Frisco, ended up next to each other in a tent during a rainstorm.

This tent was for the Memorial High School team, not the Centennial High School team. According to reports from the scene, Anthony came under the other team’s tent because it was raining.

The two teens apparently did not know each other. However, by Anthony’s account, Metcalf told him he had to leave the tent and threatened him. The Black student reportedly replied: “Touch me and see what happens.” The white student persisted in trying to expel the Black student from the tent.

According to eyewitness accounts, Anthony pulled out a black knife from his backpack and stabbed Metcalf once in the chest before running away. Metcalf was pronounced dead soon after at a local hospital.

Locally, racial tensions accelerated because of the murder, which Anthony claims was not intended to be a murder and was his response to being bullied by Metcalf. By some accounts, Metcalf and his twin brother were known bullies. By other accounts, the victim was a model student.

Anthony told police as he was being escorted away: “He put his hands on me, I told him not to.”

Why did he have a knife?

Here’s a question no one seems to be asking: How is it possible for a high school junior to have a large knife at a track meet? Was there no security at the stadium? Texas is a state where the attorney general is suing cities to force them to allow guns in other public venues such as the state fair and theatrical performances. But still: Why was it possible for a high school student to bring a murder weapon to a track meet?

Instead, the national debate has turned to race, and that is being done by what might be called “outside agitators” sparked by local race baiting.

Locally, white folks complained loudly when Anthony was released on bail and put on house arrest with an ankle monitor. He had been arrested on a charge of first-degree murder and will face trial as an adult, by Texas law.

And then when Anthony’s family started a GiveSendGo account to pay for his legal expenses, they received significant financial support from the Black community and as of April 27 had raised $500,000.

Anthony and his family reportedly were the victims of so much harassment and threats they have moved out of their home to an undisclosed location. His father was forced to quit his job.

Then on April 17, Next Generation Action Network held a news conference with Anthony’s family to explain their side of the story. Metcalf’s father showed up at the event and 40 minutes later was asked to leave by the organizers and then escorted out by Dallas Police.

And then the white supremacists showed up.

‘Protect White Americans’

On April 19, a group called Protect White Americans held a protest at David Kuykendall Stadium, the place where Metcalf was stabbed.

That event was led by Jake Lang, who was among the J6 prisoners pardoned by Trump, and Phillip Anderson, whose January 6 case was dismissed. Lang is a Republican candidate for the Senate seat in Florida left vacant by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

At the poorly attended rally, Lang said white Americans today “are living in abject fear. This is the kind of tyranny the Founders warned us about.”

He called Jeff Metcalf, father of the deceased teen and put him on a speaker. Lang told the father his son’s stabbing was an act of anti-white violence.

Metcalf said he doesn’t condone politicizing his son’s death.

“You’re trying to create more race divide than bridging the gap,” the father said. “You are part of the fucking problem, my friend. You’re trying to create more race divide. I do not condone anything you do.

Lang replied: “You’re creating more Austin Metcalfs with your weakness, sir.”

Jeff Metcalf also demanded that his son’s portrait be removed from the Protect White Americans website. As of April 27, Metcalf’s portrait remains on the website.

The website declares in all-caps type: “GOD WILL RESTORE THE GOODWILL BETWEEN BLACK & WHITE AMERICANS, BUT ISSUES OF EGREGIOUS GANG CULTURE & VIOLENT HIP HOP OBSESSED BLACK YOUTHS NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED.”

The website links to Lang’s personal page on X, which also is a campaign page.

The site also features alleged crime statistics making a case the Black people are more violent and more likely to be criminals than white people.

Shirtless debate

In the latest publicity stunt, Lang “debated” a web personality named Patrick Reilly April 22 on a video podcast hosted by Lords of War. That episode of the podcast does not appear to be available online now, but excerpts of it remain visible in several places.

For that podcast, Lang appears shirtless, wearing a gold cross around his neck.

He calls Jeff Metcalf’s response to his son’s death a “fearful, weak, cuckold, spineless, jellyfish approach.”

He continues: “He is now by taking this approach continuing to say white people will stand back and stand by — no pun intended — stand back and stand by as our children are raped, robbed, humiliated, bullied and murdered.”

He accused Jeff Metcalf of “kicking dirt on his own son’s grave, getting disrespected in front of the world and acting like a weak, weak invertebrate. And it sets a standard that Black people can kill and maim us.”

Lang called the accused killer a “savage” and a “filthy, ridiculously minded degenerate Black young man.”

Lang also called Jeff Metcalf “as close to the bottom of a slug as you could possibly be” and “a disgusting, feckless spineless human being. … He is not a grieving father, he’s an animal.”

At the time of his pardon by Trump, Lang was in federal prison, awaiting trial on multiple charges of violent offenses related to altercations with Capitol police officers on January 6, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

He initially pleaded not guilty to the charges and said he is “not ashamed” of anything he did that day.

From jail, he kept in touch with 50,000 followers on X and ran his “anti-lawfare legal group,” Federal Watchdog. He announced plans to file a $50 billion class action lawsuit against the federal government for “the extensive harm inflicted” on the J6ers. He also attempted to create a national militia from his prison cell, the SPLC reports.

Campaign for white supremacy

Now, Lang is using the Frisco stabbing as fodder for his national campaign for white supremacy.

And he’s not alone.

Writing for Texas Monthly, Robert Downen explains:

“Hours after Metcalf’s death, ‘White Lives Matter’ started trending on X. Yuri Neves, who tracks domestic extremist groups at the violence-prevention company Moonshot, told me the rate of online posts about the Frisco incident has been on par with that of posts about the 2023 New York subway killing of Jordan Neely, a Black homeless man, by Daniel Penny, a white man who claimed Neely was a threat and was acquitted of murder. That was surprising — and telling, Neves said, given the high-profile nature of the Penny case and the massive differences in size and media attention paid between New York City and Frisco. ‘It shows that extremist rhetoric is infiltrating and being accepted in mainstream political rhetoric,’ he told me.”