Karmelo Anthony situation gets even worse.. | Asmongold TV

In a video segment reacting to the mother of a teenager who fatally stabbed someone, Asmongold argues that the public backlash against the family is not driven by malice toward a grieving mother, but by the family’s own decision to frame the killer as a hero and raise money for his legal defense. He insists the facts of the case are damning enough on their own, and that the family’s strategy of portraying themselves as victims is what invites the anger they now face.

The core of the backlash: celebrating a killer, not grieving a loss

Asmongold’s central argument is that the family is not being attacked because their son committed a crime, but because they are actively fundraising for him and selling merchandise that calls him a hero. He points to T-shirts with the slogan “Justice for Carmelo” and a GoFundMe that has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for a legal defense fund. In his view, this is a deliberate choice to take an adversarial stance against what he calls “the common decency that almost every single average person understands.” He contrasts this with the Alex Jones–Sandy Hook situation, noting that the difference is that those families were not trying to advocate for a person who killed someone. The reason people are angry, he says, is straightforward: “you’re raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for a legal defense fund for a person who stabbed someb