The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 80 — Karmelo Anthony "Race War?" AI Action Figures? Charlie Gets High?
Sat, 19 Apr 2025
Charlie, Jack, Andrew, and Blake dig into the week's biggest topics, including: -Is the Karmelo Anthony drama throwing the whole country into racial turmoil? -Did Charlie accidentally get secondhand high while going on Bill Maher's podcast? -How damning is it that the "Maryland Dad" is a fairweather Chiefs fan? Become a member at members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What is the Carmelo Anthony 'Race War' controversy about?
I'm like, Blake, what am I missing here? What am I missing here? What am I missing here? So, Blake, go through the facts that we know about Austin Metcalf and Carmelo Anthony and then all the recent developments today. Am I missing something? Because this certainly seems like murder.
Yeah, sure thing, Charlie. So first of all, this all happened, I think it started about two weeks ago. And there was a tragic murder that took place in Texas and in Dallas. And the situation was, initially it was young man, Austin Metcalf, stabbed to death, stabbed in the heart in an altercation with Carmelo Anthony. And the original report was that it was over like a seating dispute.
What came out once we got the police report and so on was that it sounds like there was there was a track meet. And Carmelo was the description was that he was under the other team's tent. So they have these different tents, different booth areas for different competing teams. And he was under the one for another team. We still don't really know why.
I haven't seen that reported out in detail so far, why he was maybe there, because it could have been he was hanging out with someone. It could have been he was causing trouble in some other way. We don't know the details there yet. And then the report in the police report is that Austin Netcalf approached and said that Carmelo had to leave.
He had to get out of there and that he may have touched him in some capacity to say, hey, get out. And Carmelo said something to the extent of if you touch me again, you will regret it. And then according to the report, it's that Austin grabbed him. It doesn't say he tackled him or punched him. It says he grabbed him. So that's believable.
Like if he was trying to say get out, like grab him, try to hoist him away. And then what the account says is that Carmelo pulled out a knife and stabbed him right in the heart, and he basically died on the spot. He had a twin brother. He died in his twin brother's arms. And so this has become a...
It sounds like it should just be a tragic teenage murder to me, but it has become a big cause celeb that Carmelo, his family put up a GoFundMe for his legal expenses, which I think we all agreed last week. And I think you'd agree, Charlie, like he has the right to a legal defense. He has the right to fundraise for it. We've seen that be an issue in the past, but.
It raised many hundreds of thousands of dollars. And I think what really caught people's attention was the lines that were being used on that GoFundMe and on Twitter, where it's like variations of that Carmelo was engaged in self-defense, basically because he was grabbed. But also these takes where... It's almost like Austin was disrespecting him.
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Chapter 2: What are the facts and timeline of the Carmelo Anthony case?
He was standing his ground because it wasn't right that anyone should tell him to go somewhere else or that if he shoved him, that was somehow justifying a lethal response. This has continued to gain steam because in the past week, a judge drastically lowered the bail requirement for Carmelo to get out of jail.
It was a million dollars and it was lowered to, I believe, $250,000, making it a lot easier to meet. And then they made a big spectacle that he came home and they were tweeting and stuff, you know, Carmelo is home now. And then that leads up to today where this is why we have a good reason to continue talking about it. Press conference. Now, two things happened at that first.
Austin Metcalf's father was at this press conference. We don't really know why yet. We're seeing B-roll on screen right now. He showed up and the family was not the family of Carmelo Anthony was not happy about this. And it seems that police or security spoke to him and basically said, please leave. And he so he did leave. There was not a fight or anything.
And then the family proceeded – Wait, like nobody got stabbed?
Nobody got stabbed. He did not pull out a knife and use it on any of the officers. I think that would have been frowned upon.
Nobody tried to stab Jeff Metcalf?
No, nobody tried to stab him. And then – this is really wild. The family and their supporters, their attorney – or not their attorney. There was like an activist leader who was with them. They Dominique Alexander, Dominique Alexander. They gave this address where they basically said it was highly disrespectful of Jeff Metcalf to be present at this press conference.
I mean, it was probably maybe inflammatory. I don't know. Disrespectful is the term I would use. But this is where you wanted a defense of the best steel man defense of the family. The mother of Carmelo Anthony gave a statement and I think maybe we have, do we have selections from that video? What would the number of it be?
We've got Dominique Alexander saying that Jeff Metcalf was being disrespectful.
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Chapter 3: How has the family and public reacted to the Carmelo Anthony incident?
with certain types of politics typically found on the far left or in grievance politics where it goes through deny attack and then reverse victim and offender this is also by the way that they threw the father of austin metcalf out of the room because of course you cannot play the victim card when an actual victim is present and so not only did they you know kind of ironically
demand that the father of Austin Metcalf move from his seat. But when he refused to move from his seat, well, they called the police on the father of the boy who was stabbed to death and bled out in his twin brother's arms at a track meet.
Yeah, okay, you raised the crux of the point here. Oh, and those clips were just deleted from my chat. The point is here, this family member, this mom actually seemed earnest in her remarks. It felt sincere to me, like maybe she is a good Christian woman. And listen, great parents can sometimes have wayward kids, okay? That happens. It's not always the parent's fault. It isn't.
They may not be guilty of anything here. What I will tell you they are guilty of is hiring this clown named Dominique Alexander, an absolute clown show. And this clip, Jack, that's 317. You guys get it ready. Of him... Basically, castigating the father for showing up at this press conference is something that made my jaw absolutely drop to the floor. I couldn't believe it when I saw it.
I think it shook the Internet. This guy is a clown. He's an imposter. He's a fraud. He's a con man. This family is guilty so far of one thing, and that is hiring this man. And I absolutely judge them for hiring this man. Now, I get it. They're disoriented. Nobody knows what to do in a situation like this. I can tell you one thing you don't do. Hire this man. We should play it. 3-1-7.
And all I'm going to say, so it don't be asked later, is that was disrespectful and just shows you all the character who was not invited He knows that it's inappropriate to be near this family. But he did it. And so I say to people, actions speak louder than words. Okay?
What he has failed into is the political operatives that wanna make this thing a political thing of hate, yet bigotry, and yet racism. We have conservative operatives that have been posting nonstop about this case.
Okay. Charlie, go for it. I really don't like this person. I mean, I don't know really what to say that I can say, but I'll just say that this is the worst. There's like an entire industry of people like this. Benjamin Crump is like this, where they are just... They're, they're not just ambulance. They're not ambulance chasers.
They are, they are crisis chasers and they get in front of the cameras. And in fact, the media is giving this any sort of hearing the Dallas morning news family of Frisco stabbing suspect under attack with harassment threats. Mothers say, Oh really? Your son murdered somebody. Oh really? And now you hire this clown to go on and on about this is racism. This is racism.
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Chapter 4: Who is Dominique Alexander and what role does he play in the controversy?
Chapter 5: What are the perspectives on race and media coverage in the Carmelo Anthony case?
So my my general disposition, this will get me called, you know, probably a cuck by the comments or something. But I'm not going to get really angry at the family other than, yeah, they they hired this like local activist parasite who you Google his name and you get the 2016 article where he goes to jail for breaking probation.
And it's his like eighth time in jail because he previously beat a child and done all this bad stuff. I suspect they don't know about all of that. These people ooze. They're disgusting individuals. They very obviously are so. I wish they hadn't done that, but I will not get as angry as a lot of people do that they support their son. People support their kids. That is how the world is.
Well, well, Blake, I mean, we need to there was a graphic that just came up there. These are all of Dominique Alexander, the real clown in this whole story. I mean, Carmelo Anthony deserves to be, you know, criminal number one. But criminal number two here, one B really is Dominique Alexander. These are all his mugshots. Go to 329. This is somehow he's he's also a crossdresser.
So I'm not exactly sure in the tank of that photo.
Yeah. So just to give you a smattering of this guy's rap sheet, 2009 arrested, convicted in 2011, charged with causing serious bodily injury to a child, a two year old first degree felony. He pleaded guilty in 2011, received 10 years of deferred adjudication probation.
2011-2013 probation violations violated probation terms from the 2011 child injury case multiple times, including stealing a car, check forgery, and involvement in a domestic disturbance leading to a police chase in Carrollton. 2015, cited by Arlington Police for offensive physical contact against a family member.
2016, sentenced to two years in prison in August 2016 for multiple probation violations and the 2011 child injury case. 2017, arrested in Denton County and on and on and on. So this guy is a real swindler, a real con artist. And somehow he's locked arms with this family. And so, like, while I'm tempted to be sympathetic to this mom who said they put God first.
Okay, you're speaking my love language, lady. I get it. Like, I want to have sympathy for you. What on earth are you doing with this guy?
how did he show up where did he come from is there like a ben crump backup like call center somewhere where these guys like i'll bend not available so this guy just slides right in like this is insane to me and the fact that they when you're sitting there letting him do his thing is insane revolting when you order ben crump on timu you end up you end up with this guy
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Chapter 6: What are the challenges of parenting and family support in tragic cases?
Oh, 100%. I have reporters calling me all the time. They want to know you do all these features on Turning Point and Charlie and, like, this movement that we've built and the influence. And they've even – I got a call this week. We actually might participate in the story. It's a fun story. But these –
You know, people have done studies on political movements and they're saying the turning point is the most successful modern example of building a political movement and all this kind of thing. They think we're amazing at it. I will tell you. So for what it's worth. We are good at that.
I totally agree with you, Charlie. Yeah.
So here's an idea. Here's an idea. A friend of mine actually just gave this to me. So the president, you have to confirm ambassadors to countries and a lot of other things, but you can have the president send special envoys. Special envoys can be appointed without Senate confirmation.
So President Trump, he could appoint anyone as his special envoy to El Salvador for this case and say, you have to go to Bukele and make the case on behalf of the U.S. government for sending him back. And you could either you could send a Trump supporter or you could send you could send a Democrat. You could send anyone. Send someone you actively want to humiliate. Send them to Bukele.
El Salvador and say make the case. And they can go and they can make the sale. Do it in private. Put it on live TV. I don't care. But then you can make it clear. We are sending someone to do this. And then Bukele can respond however he wants because he is in fact...
a foreign president, he could say, yeah, I'm not going to extradite a Salvadoran citizen to a country he's not a citizen of, especially when we think he's a gang member. He could say, I think that sending this likely MS-13 member to the U.S. would hurt El Salvador's reputation. It would intensify the gang connections between here and America that have damaged my country so much.
He can come up with any number of possible things. But that's one idea for how they could resolve this. I think they have a lot of ideas bouncing around right now.
Can I just do a quick fact check on this guy?
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