Karmelo Anthony has been evacuated from his dwelling and moved to an undisclosed location for his safety on account of repeated and escalating threats, harassment, and intimidation techniques his household faces at their residence.
In a press launch despatched to NewsOne on Monday, the Subsequent Technology Motion Community (NGAN) stated it was “gravely involved” as a result of over the previous couple of days, the household has obtained an elevated variety of “dying threats, continued harassment, and bodily intimidation focused on the household’s dwelling.”
These actions have included:
● People are bodily visiting the Anthony household dwelling, loitering, and taking pictures of the property.
● False meals deliveries, together with pizzas and different orders made to disturb and harass the household.
● Disturbing mailings had been obtained by way of the U.S. Postal Service, together with an obituary of Austin Metcalf despatched on to their tackle.
● Unidentified people repeatedly circling the household dwelling, capturing photographs, and making an attempt to impress worry and intimidation.
NGAN says that these credible threats, together with the surroundings created by the “Defend White People” rally that happened in Frisco, Texas, on Saturday, Karmelo Anthony’s household moved him from their dwelling to an undisclosed location, with court docket approval, to guard his security.
Anthony, 17, was arrested April 2 and charged with first-degree homicide within the dying of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf. Karmelo Anthony, who’s Black, is being prosecuted beneath Texas’s “concurrent jurisdiction” legal guidelines that enable prosecutors to cost minors as adults with out judicial oversight, and as Capital B notes, these legal guidelines disproportionately have an effect on Black and brown youth.
Austin Metcalf was white, and that alone has been sufficient to make this case and the media protection round it a racist powder keg simply ready to be ignited.
Choose Angela Tucker, who lowered Karmelo Anthony’s bond from $1 million to $250,000, is a Black lady, and she or he has additionally been subjected to threats and had her private and personal data launched to the general public.
“It’s each heartbreaking and infuriating to see the depths of hate and bigotry nonetheless alive and nicely in our society,” Minister Dominique Alexander, President of the Subsequent Technology Motion Community, stated within the press launch.
“No household ought to should stay beneath siege just because they’re demanding their constitutional rights. We is not going to be silent, and we is not going to again down. We’re dedicated to doing no matter is important to guard this household and to make sure that justice is pursued with out intimidation or worry.”
Together with the press launch, NGAN included pictures and movies documenting the harassment and intimidation techniques the household has confronted.
A number of pizzas have been delivered to the household’s dwelling, and an obituary for Austin Metcalf was despatched to them within the mail.
Doorbell digital camera footage reveals an unidentified white male standing on their entrance porch wanting round. When the doorbell digital camera alerts him that nobody is dwelling and he can depart a message, he leaves the porch solely to go stand throughout the road from the house and both movie it or {photograph} it together with his telephone.
NewsOne has chosen to not share these photographs in order to not reveal the place the household lives.
NGAN’s inside safety group is working with native regulation enforcement to maintain the Anthony household protected.
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