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Exclusive: Over $514,000 Donated The crowdsourcing site, “Karmelo Anthony Official Fund” is now available on giveendgo.com to “Help Karmelo Anthony Fund.”
This total of $500,000 is the result of Suspicion of murder It happened at a track competition held in Frisco, Texas on April 2nd.
The victim was 17-year-old Austin Metcalf from Memorial High School, who died of fatal stab wounds. The suspect, 17-year-old Carmelo Anthony, 100, was released from prison from debt after his lawyer cut his bail from $1 million.
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Anthony told police he “did it” (meaning murder), but claimed it was self-defense. He is accused First-degree murder.
Currently, GivesEndgo is leading the online funding of Anthony’s family’s legal fees. Other major crowdsourcing platforms, including GoFundMe and Kickstarter, do not platform Anthony campaigns on their sites.
However, Jacob Wells, co-founder of Gives Endgo, and his leadership team, feature Anthony’s campaign.
“How proud of this campaign? I don’t, I don’t say I’m at all proud,” Wells told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview.
“I don’t take pride in putting this on givesendgo. I’m grateful that these tragic moments are based on principles.
Wells has admitted that there are other campaigns on his site, like the boys fundraiser foster parents he is proud of. But Anthony’s fundraiser is not one of them.
Wells claimed that his company had removed the campaign because of what was deemed “illegal.” He says that while organizers were planning to spend money on buying guns, he defeated the fundraiser because he fraudulently raised funds for travel expenses.
Wells refused to directly say whether there was a conversation about removing the campaign, but argues that everyone involved in the company’s leadership is in favor of the platform.
Wells compared the Anthony Fund to the platform that hosted it at Kyle Rittenhouse in 2020. That effort raised more than $250,000 after Rittenhouse shot three men in Kinesure, Wisconsin during the Jacob Blake riots.
But now Anthony’s campaign is raising more than twice that number, and is looking for more. Well and his colleagues also faced backlash and death threats, and he said he was having a conversation about donating fundraising benefits to the Metcalf family.
Hours after a tense press conference showdown at the murdered Texas Teen Austin Metcalf’s house
Wells has also paid special attention to the campaign over the past few weeks as his platform is one of the biggest and most famous to host to. He kept his way out of the way to be aware of the type of people he was donating and the reasons why they were giving.
And for him, some of these people have donated for “the wrong reasons.”
“There are always people who donate for the wrong reasons in the campaign. There are people who believe that the best way is in the racial sector. That’s what they believe. “When you live in a free society we do, there’s a price to pay. That allows some people to do things that may not be good. And I think people always do that.”
When asked, Wells specifically pointed out that he “defines racial narratives” as the wrong reason to want to donate to the campaign.
“When someone defends a divisive, ununiform racial narrative, they argue that it’s the wrong reason to donate, and there are people making a divisive, ununiform claim.
“They go both ways too. We’ve seen people who donated because donations are a way you comment on the campaign page… You have someone on the other side of the aisle and they donate a minimum of $5 to allow them to post comments that are derogatory to the Anthony family.”
Still, Wells argues that the “overwhelming majority” of fundraising involvement was not “a bit of a rog.”
Wells refused to point out any specific comments that represented “wrong” reasons. However, there are some public comments reviewed by reference to Fox News Digital Reflect Wells’ “Raku Tales.”
“To be honest, even if Carmelo stabbed Austin for no reason, I still donated and supported. White people left for hundreds of years killing us. We couldn’t really care about white people’s lives,” said 53 likes!
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Wells denounced “right wing rage” for promoting support for fundraisers.
“Right rage facilitated the opposite reaction,” Wells said, adding that a similar pattern occurred due to the left-wing reaction to the Rittenhouse Fund when his site hosted a campaign to support Daniel Penny after defending New York City subway riders in 2023.
Representatives of the Anthony family reference race, comparing Anthony’s situation to that of Rittenhouse and Penny.
Dominique Alexander, president of Next Generation Action Network (NGAN), made the comparison at a press conference on April 17th.
“These racist paranoids try to prevent us from standing up for our babies, our boys, so he should be given the same rights that Kyle Rittenhouse had, Daniel Penny and whatever their defense is,” Alexander said.
Anthony was recently I moved out of his house “An in-store location to ensure his immediate safety,” he said in a statement last week, following “an astonishing increase in death threats, ongoing harassment and physical threats targeting family homes.”
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Meanwhile, the Metcalf family has been victims of attacks at the Frisco Police Station (FPD) in recent weeks. It was confirmed previously. Swatting is usually when a 911 call is made to report a fake violent crime, acquire police and sometimes SWAT teams, and respond to addresses from callers.
Metcalf’s father, Jeff Metcalf, said before. Fox News“I’ve already heard some rumors and gossip, so I want to make something clear right away. This was not race. This is not political.
“Don’t politicize this. It’s… this isn’t human. This person made bad choices and had an impact on both my family and my family forever.”
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