The father of slain teen Austin Metcalf slammed protesters who held a rally against his son’s accused killer, calling them “race baiters” who “wanna spew their narrative for their own agenda.”
The dad, Jeff Metcalf, spoke to The Post on Saturday, hours after a group of demonstrators gathered at the stadium where Karmelo Anthony, 17, allegedly stabbed Austin Metcalf, also 17, in the heart at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas.
Organizers from a group called “Protect White Americans” condemned local authorities for supporting what they called “anti-white hate” and “anti-white violence” by releasing Anthony, who is black, on bond.
“That’s all they are: Race baiters,” Jeff Metcalf told The Post. “F—ing people that wanna spew their narrative for their own agenda. They don’t give a shit about my family. … about Karmelo Anthony’s family.”
Protect White Americans was founded by Jake Lang, a self-styled “political prisoner” who was arrested during the January 6th protest and is now running for a U.S. Senate seat from Florida.
Metcalf said Lang invited him to speak at Saturday’s rally, trying to win him over with statistics about black violence and “white lives matter” rhetoric.
“‘I said, ‘You, sir, are part of the f—ing problem. You are not a part of the solution. I don’t want anything to do with you,’” Metcalf said.
He demanded that Lang remove photos of his son from the Protect White Americans website and event flyers, and he plans to complain to the school board for granting protesters access to the stadium parking lot.
“I want [the superintendent] to explain to me how you let this white piece of trash on school property where my son was murdered less than two weeks ago.”
Yet demonstrators insisted they were on the side of the Metcalf family.
“They’re p—ing on Austin Metcalf’s grave because he’s white. If he was black, they would not be pissing on his grave,” said featured speaker Philip Anderson, a black man who was also arrested at the January 6 riot.
The event only drew around 40 protesters and half as many counter-protesters.
A wall of cops separated the two sides, yet two people were arrested, including a woman who allegedly pepper-sprayed a protester in “Trump” hat.
Some witnesses said the man — Austin Hunter — physically threatened the woman, others said they were just arguing, but Hunter plans to press charges.
“Any time I got a chance to put a Democrat in jail, I’m gonna do it,” he told The Post.
Saturday’s clash was the latest in a racially-charged culture war over the fate of Anthony, who had been charged with first-degree murder with a bond of $1 million until a judge lowered it to $250,000 and allowed him to leave jail on house arrest.
Anthony allegedly told cops he was acting in self-defense when he allegedly killed Metcalf at a high school track meet. Witnesses say Metcalf tried to shove him out of his seat on the bleachers when he pulled a knife from his backpack and stabbed him in the heart.
