Cardi B had a lot to say about the Karmelo Anthony verdict, and for good reason.

After a Collin County jury found the 19-year-old guilty of murder on June 9 and sentenced him to 35 years for the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a Frisco, Texas, track meet on April 2, 2025, Cardi hit X immediately: "Wow! Just freakin wow! DISGUSTING… This is not justice, this is trying to make an example!!!"

She followed up the next morning on Spaces where she went deeper. 

Both boys were 17 at the time of the incident. Cardi said she empathized with both families — Metcalf's parents who "lost a child," and Anthony's parents who "lost a child to the system." She described Anthony as a kid "not raised in the trenches," with involved parents, who visibly showed emotion after the stabbing and at sentencing — behavior she argued didn't match someone acting with murderous intent.

She also addressed racism directly. "If Anthony was white and he was surrounded by a whole bunch of Black football players and two twins, the case would have went extremely different," she said, adding this was an exception to how she typically views situations. "I sure learned something from this. I learned to tell my sons: do not argue with no white boys, 'cuz baby ain't no law protecting you if something goes down with them."

On the physical confrontation, Cardi argued Anthony was outnumbered and protecting himself. "He was surrounded, he was protecting himself. Austin was twice his size." She also questioned Metcalf's own role in escalating things, saying he should have gotten a coach involved instead.

In typical Cardi fashion, she was blunt when it came to the jury. "They just probably feel like, 'We hungry, we tired.' No thought, no care, no nothing." She argued that manslaughter was the right charge given no premeditation, and called 35 years "extremely excessive" for a kid with no prior record who was active in school.

The case remains one of the most divisive stories of the year. Ever bold and a voice for the people, Cardi made sure her position on the tragic case is crystal clear.