Karmelo Anthony Found Guilty

~ Clarissa

Good news, people. Karmelo Anthony has been found guilty of murdering Austin Metcalf. This was very expected because the killer had absolutely no defense and barely put on any witnesses. If his parents had an ounce of concern for their son, they would have hired a serious lawyer with all of the money that had been donated to them and that lawyer would have pled Karmelo down. Of course, if Karmelo had this kind of caring parents, his story might have been very different.

I hope he gets the maximum possible term in jail.

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            1. –and after that, in order to keep him in jail, the family will have to show up in court every year and rehash the whole thing.

              My grandparents lived next to an empty house for many years. Granddad used to mow the lawn over there, so it wouldn’t look abandoned and attract squatters. It was empty because the lady who lived there was murdered by a construction worker (guess what color?) building a subsidized apartment complex out back. Dude took a lunch break, busted into her back door, killed her, went back to work. The woman had no kids– family was parents, maybe a sibling. Their right to be notified of upcoming parole hearings for the murderer, and attend and testify at them, was tied to the estate of the murdered woman. If they sold the house, there would no longer be an open estate, and they wouldn’t be able to show up and ask for this guy to remain in jail anymore. House wasn’t sold until her parents died, IIRC.

              Assuming something like this is still the case, in order to keep this dude locked up past the 17yr mark, his family will not be able to move away (or if they do, they’ll have to travel back every time there’s a hearing), or rest, for the rest of the sentence.

              It shouldn’t be the family’s job to make sure murderers stay in jail.

              ethyl

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              1. I personally would support the death penalty for this, or at least a life sentence with no parole. This is a person who should not be released into society. He’s a stone-cold killer. There hasn’t been any remorse whatsoever. He packed a knife to attract meat. He did everything to provoke a confrontation. He applied enough force to murder his victim on the spot. I don’t understand why we are even discussing a potential future release at this point.

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  3. OT, but interesting observing the Belfast activities on socmed. Don’t reckon anything will come of it– population’s been disarmed already.

    More interesting that there seems to be a blackout on new footage for… better part of the last hour. Tons of new posts recycling earlier ‘news’. Nothing new. Trying to work out whether the blockade/censoring is happening at the social media company level, or the country level.

    I’m very curious to see what, if anything, this tells us about the progress of the surveillance/censorship state in the UK.

    ethyl

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    1. What a horrible thing to happen. And it’s also horrible that nobody is surprised. It’s now a daily occurrence that something horrific like this happens and authorities try to cover it up.

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      1. Not talking about the initial attack. Talking about tonight. I’ve been compulsively refreshing X news for “belfast”, poking at a few other platforms, and we’re now over four hours without even the tiniest scrap of fresh news– same footage, same news blurbs, same pics, recycled endlessly. Total information blackout.

        The only thing that’s changed in the last four plus hours is the talking point memo: we’ve gone from “Belfast burning itself down, the stupids” to “Belfast rioters targeting immigrant homes/businesses” (So we went from trying to claim random violence, to admitting targeted arson).

        What level is that happening at? Is the UK govt censoring comms coming from the UK? Is that happening at the social-media-company level? It seems like if that were just really great OpSec from the rioters, you’d still be seeing fresh media reels from news orgs, but so far nothing.

        Considering the implications of that…

        ethyl

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        1. Still looking. Haven’t found any evidence that anybody in Belfast has even been on X in the last seven hours. Maybe I’m using the wrong search terms, but usually the internet is easier to squeeze info out of than this.

          ethyl

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        2. I’ve seen footage from 2 years ago that people try to pass off as from earlier today. This happens when there’s no fresh footage for some mysterious reason. Fascinating.

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          1. Checking this morning and *still* locked down. There are a few official UK media propaganda bits now: 1)a statement from the vic’s family that was obviously written for them because it sounds exactly like every other vic family statement given after a horrifying migrant atrocity in the last three years. “Please don’t let this cause division” 2)Exactly *one* photo of fire damage from this morning, from an official outlet– which means either private people are being blocked from the internet, the streets are still being blockaded, or both. Because nobody can resist taking gawker damaged-building pics. 3) GBN story about a UKR family moving out after apartment damaged by the fires (clearly shows their apt was not targeted, but implies it was).

            And NOTHING else. Everything else going up is just people talking *about* stale news from yesterday afternoon because nobody knows anything since then.

            That is a a scary level of info lockdown, and it has to be originating at the govt/telecomm level.

            Are they disappearing people yet?

            ethyl

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            1. I keep hearing Ukrainians mentioned in this context which screams “propaganda”. The idea is that all immigrants are the same and white immigrants have to be turned into the face of this issue to erase the racial component.

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              1. Very much my thoughts. MSM rounded up ONE white resident this morning whose house was damaged by a car fire (also not targeted).

                No word from any of the other people burned out. We assume they are all migrants. Which suggests pre-planning and surprising amount of coordination from rioters. But nothing on that. Still busy portraying them as brainless hooligans. Suspect they are rather more organized and focused than that– and that UK.gov has a vested interest in not allowing them to be portrayed that way.

                The total lack of just regular people posting “this crazy thing happened on my street last night” candid stuff is revealing. I’m also gobsmacked by the lack of commentary *on the info blockade*. I don’t for a second believe I’m the only person to have noticed it. So is X or other socmed censoring people who are talking about the censorship? The lack of man-on-the-street posts in Belfast points to intense govt censorship in the UK. The lack of anybody mentioning the censorship on social media says the platforms are in on the censorship. This is worrisome, but also useful information to tuck in one’s pocket.

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              2. The beheading coming so soon after the revelations about Henry Nowak and the rape trial in Belfast. The authorities know that the house of cards of their ideology is about to fall apart. Elon Musk is being openly threatened for the so-called incitement of racial hatred. I don’t know how far he’s willing to go to protect himself and his companies from these accusations.

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              3. “The lack of anybody mentioning the censorship on social media says the platforms are in on the censorship.”

                Yeah, there were a few strange images briefly of hooded figures around the burnings but no media mentioned that and more importantly did not question those figures. Organized vigilante action?

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              7. “Organized vigilante action?”

                I think yes, very much so, and probably in the planning long before the attack two nights ago. Just needed a “go” signal.

                I’m not seeing any indicators that the violence was random, or “rioting”. It’s violence with a very definite agenda.

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        3. ethyl:

          This was published on Tuesday by Ofcom, the UK’s regulatory authority for media communication.

          I was also stumped for not being able to get info about the Belfast incident over the past two days. I suspected foul play but know I have proof. We’ve got Big Brother in the world’s oldest democracy:

          Published: 9 June 2026

          Ofcom is strengthening its online safety codes of practice by telling platforms they should have protocols in place to respond to spikes in illegal content during a crisis. 

          If illegal content spreads rapidly online, it can pose a serious threat to public safety, as seen when online content fuelled violent riots following the 2024 Southport murders. Alternatively, a real-world crisis can cause a surge in illegal content online – for example, if a terrorist attack is livestreamed.

          Such crises are exceptional and occur infrequently, which means that tech firms’ usual moderation processes may not be sufficient in these circumstances.

          To address this, Ofcom is adding new measures to its online safety codes of practice, under which platforms should have protocols in place to respond to spikes in illegal content during a crisis.

          Ofcom’s new safety measures means that tech firms should act promptly and effectively during a crisis, to manage a significant increase in illegal content appearing and address the risk of their platform being used to commit or facilitate criminal offences.

          We would expect providers to deploy a temporary response team as soon as possible when a crisis occurs. They should also conduct a post-crisis analysis and keep a record of this, which we can formally request. This should include key decisions and evaluate the protocol’s effectiveness, so that lessons can be learned each time.  

          Additionally, large platforms should establish a dedicated communication channel through which crisis-related information may be shared by law enforcement agencies, to support faster and more coordinated public safety efforts.

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          1. Yass, yass, of course, it is not government control of news. We just expect providers to censor information deploy a temporary response team as soon as possible when a crisis occurs.  We are simply just adding new measures to its online safety codes of practice for public safety, and really, we are just thinking about the childruns ;-D

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          2. Saw that one. Remarkable bit of obfuscatory language, isn’t it?

            It looks like a giant heap of “you know what you have to do, but we’re maintaining plausible deniability.”

            ethyl

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            1. Yes, it was definitely horseshit²— have heard several guys suggesting that the Northern Ireland sectarian groups may now be unifying against migrants. That possibility may be why governments are so frightened of open discussion.

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