Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett suggests jurors in Karmelo Anthony case were racist, says teen's killing was justified

Jasmine Crockett accused jurors of racism in the Karmelo Anthony verdict.

U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas is blasting jurors who convicted a Texas teen of murdering another teenager at a track meet last year, and sentenced him to 35 years in prison on Tuesday, suggesting racism played a role in the guilty verdict.

Crockett was asked by TMZ reporter Jacob Wasserman on Wednesday for her reaction to the verdict in which a Texas jury spent less than three hours deliberating and convicted 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf. Anthony was 17 at the time of the crime and faced a maximum of 99 years in prison. 

"What we saw with that verdict is evidence of a broken system," the congresswoman declared in an on-camera interview. Crockett then went on to recount the facts of the case, which were never in dispute -- that Anthony fatally stabbed Metcalf, who died in his twin brothers arms, following a verbal and physical altercation during a high school track meet. 

But Crocket obfuscated the fact that Anthony stabbed Metcalf with a knife, saying, "some refer to it as a tool," and then downplayed the severity of the crime because Anthony stabbed the victim only one time and not repeatedly. 

"He decided to go under a tent and simply didn't want to be put out on the rain by some kid he didn't know," Crockett said, all but justifying the murder. "There was no mercy seen when this black boy said 'I was scared.'" As if those remarks weren't shocking enough, Crockett went to to compare Anthony to a police officer who kills someone in the line of duty. Watch the truly startling reaction from Crockett.

When asked, Crockett suggested race played a role in the jury's verdict, and said "I would guarantee you" a white teenager facing the exact same charges that Anthony faced would have been acquitted, implying that the jurors on the case were racist. Meanwhile, lawyers for Anthony have filed to appeal the murder conviction.

Crockett's reaction to the verdict, now the second one she's made publicly, is among the most unhinged of the many reactions to the explosive case since jurors handed down a verdict.

On the Wednesday episode of The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin reviewed some of the shocking reactions Karmelo Anthony's supporters had to the verdict outside the courthouse on Tuesday, and addressed how applying a racial lens to every story in American culture, as has happened over the last decade or so due to woke ideology, has perverted people's perceptions of tragic crimes, like the killing of Austin Metcalf. Watch his commentary on the case below.