‘They need an exorcism’: Whitlock reacts in horror to ‘Austin Bop’ TikTok dance mocking the murder of Austin Metcalf



Supporters of Karmelo Anthony have coined a new dance dubbed the “Austin Bop.” The TikTok trend emerged recently, where participants dance to a rap song by artist 600Notti titled "Austin Bop (stabbing my chest)" by making repeated stabbing/thrusting motions (sometimes using real knives) to mock his 2025 murder by Anthony.

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock calls it “satanic.”

“This feels spiritual. This feels plotted and calculated,” he said on a recent episode of “Jason Whitlock Harmony.”

Playing multiple clips of Anthony supporters performing the sadistic dance, Whitlock urges his audience to analyze this trend through a “spiritual warfare” lens.

“There is a crisis, a pandemic of satanic behavior, chaotic behavior,” he says, “and I'm sorry, I have to put a color on it because there is a particular color that's being brainwashed into thinking that violence against white people is justified and violence and conflict about any and everything is justified and normal.”

These are the same people, he argues, who are claiming that Anthony acted rightfully in self-defense by stabbing Metcalf, who was unarmed, for pushing him.

“They need an exorcism,” he declares.

“This is a brain rot and a lunacy ... a mental illness, a sickness, a reprobate mind, and a culture that is producing reprobate minds — a culture that has no respect for life,” he continues, enraged.

This participation in and support for objective evil we’re seeing in the black community, he says, is the result of making race one’s core identity.

“We have an anti-white racism problem in America. No one wants to talk about it,” he says.

“Everyone wants to pretend like, ‘No, no, we got black racism. Didn't you hear? Someone said the N-word someplace and that's racism.’ No, what racism is is when a child murders another child and based on race, one group says, ‘Well, no, that was actually self-defense, and we need to be merciful and graceful with the child that did the murdering, and we need to mock [the victim] and his family,”’ he rails.

While the escalating violence among young black people is a multifaceted issue, Whitlock places much of the blame on music.

“There is a form of music that escalates conflict, promotes satanic energy, promotes nihilism, promotes violence, unrepentant violence — and it's called hip-hop,” he says.

“We're programming kids for their own destruction and for the destruction of this country.”

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EXCLUSIVE: Austin Metcalf’s father on the verdict and why he won’t — and shouldn’t — apologize



More than a year after the murder of his son Austin, Jeff Metcalf is finally saying everything he couldn’t before — and BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock is all ears.

“I have to give God 100% credit here. I’m not that smart. I couldn’t come up with all that on my own,” Metcalf tells Whitlock on “Fearless.”

Metcalf calls the murder of his son “surreal,” explaining that then having to be “put under the gag order and then have my son dragged through the mud and memes and just the vile comments” was incredibly "taxing mentally, spiritually, physically.”

“So when the gag order was finally lifted, yeah, I mean, I did go off,” he says, admitting that it was not his “best moment.”


“But it was raw, and it was accurate, and it was truthful. I don’t apologize for anything I said. I am who I am. I own it,” he tells Whitlock, explaining that he doesn’t usually cuss as much as he did when he finally went “off.”

“Put somebody in my shoes and go, ‘Look man, if your kid was murdered violently and these people did this to you for 12, 14 months and you had to say nothing,’ I really think I was pretty light. I could have been a lot worse,” he says.

Metcalf has received death threats, emails, and text messages and had to see what Anthony supporters are saying online since his son’s murder.

“Just the vile statements from everyone, and ones who are in denial of the truth. That’s the hardest part. It’s like now that the truth has been shown, all the facts have been presented. So all your lies have been debunked, but they still refuse to accept the verdict, the truth, and they’re all hanging their hat on this appeal,” he explains.

“They’re not going to retry the case. They’re not going to reintroduce evidence. I mean it’s a process. I knew it was going to happen before it happened, and I don’t have any concern about the appeal. They don’t have any grounds,” he continues.

And while Anthony’s supporters are focused on his appeal, Metcalf believes the focus should be on the kids who had to witness his son’s murder.

“This is the thing I really want to talk about most, is look at these kids who saw this murder, who have to be traumatized for the rest of their life. Every one of them is in counseling. I guarantee every one of them will not ever forget that day and what they saw,” he adds.

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'Insanity': Jason Whitlock blasts doctor who wrote an article condemning Austin Metcalf's dad as the villain



As reactions to Karmelo Anthony’s murder conviction continue to flood social media, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says the most shocking behavior isn't happening in the form of riots — it's happening on the internet.

“There has been a different form of rioting that I did not predict or see coming. … People are rioting and looting their brains online. People are saying crazy things in defense of Karmelo Anthony,” Whitlock says.

“They’re saying really ridiculous things defending Karmelo Anthony because they’re defending this demonic culture that black people have adopted — black people have been baited into. And now, in order to defend our racial idolatry, we have to defend some of the dumbest, most repulsive behavior on the planet,” he says, before pulling up an article one woman wrote that represents this “repulsive behavior.”

The article, by Dr. Stacey Patton, is called “Dear Jeff Metcalf: Your Son Is Dead Because You Failed to Teach Him That Black Boys Have Boundaries.”


Whitlock calls the article “insanity.”

“A lot of these things that we’re seeing are black women making the most ridiculous arguments in the history of the planet justifying the murder,” he says, before showing another example.

“Here’s two black women sitting around talking about the lies that black people should tell to get on those juries so that we can free Karmelo Anthony,” he says.

“If they say, ‘Can you be fair?’ Don’t say, ‘No, I’m not going to put a black man in jail.’ Don’t say that, OK? ‘Cause if that’s what you gonna say, you could have stayed home. You have to go and be like, ‘No, I will hear the evidence. I can be fair.’ Don’t say, ‘I hate white people and I don’t care what he did.’ Don’t do that,” one woman said on the “Gin and Juice Podcast.”

“That’s what people were doing in this case, OK? And then everybody’s like in an uproar because there’s no black people on the jury when damn near half of the black people who could have been on the jury canceled themselves out, you know?” she continued.

“‘Hey, go be dishonest. Go help a kid that murdered someone get away with murder,’” Whitlock mocks, explaining that women like this are a “force for nihilism and wickedness and deception.”

“They’re doing this out in front of everybody. This isn't a private conversation. They’re unrepentant about their wickedness. And that’s the culture that they’ve created. And that’s why their kids, boys and girls, are unrepentant about their wickedness,” he adds.

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Jason Whitlock blasts Karmelo Anthony’s parents: ‘An echo chamber of delusion’



After Karmelo Anthony was convicted of murdering Austin Metcalf, his parents are making their interview rounds — and BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock believes what they’re saying is completely “delusional.”

“My son is no murderer. My son didn’t intend to hurt anyone. My son was defending himself, and that’s what hurts so bad,” Anthony’s mother said in an interview on CBS News Texas.

Anthony told the interviewer that she asked the jury to “have mercy” on her son but that she knew “they had their minds made up already.”

“We were delusional. We thought we were going to get a fair shake,” Anthony’s father said.


The two also claimed that “everyone” lied on the stand, with his mother saying, “All of the witnesses' statements were inconsistent. All of them.”

“So Karmelo Anthony’s father said, ‘We were delusional.’ And I think what he should have said is, ‘We are delusional,’” Whitlock says.

“And I say that not trying to be mean-spirited, but they are delusional. They live in a delusional space where their delusions are confirmed. … I just want you to look at the shirt,” he says, pointing out that in the interview, the father was wearing a shirt that reads “#BelieveKarmelo.”

“Why would we believe someone who’s not talking, who didn’t take the stand? What are we to believe? Does Karmelo believe what he’s saying? Because if he did, he would have taken the stand. It was the only chance they had — him taking the stand and convincing a jury that he acted in self-defense,” he continues.

“He didn’t tell his own story,” he adds.

Whitlock also points out that while the mother claimed the witness statements were "inconsistent," the statements were actually “very consistent.”

“You have to explain to me what’s their motive for lying. Why lie? What’s the motive? The black witnesses, the black kids that all went on the stand and told a pretty consistent story amongst the group, what’s their motive?” he says.

“There's an echo chamber of delusion that many black people live in, and it’s controlled by social media. And this is the danger of social media. They create these echo chambers where you can have all of your delusional thoughts confirmed,” he continues.

“‘He didn’t want to kill Austin Metcalf,’” he says, mimicking Anthony’s mother. “Your son brought a knife to a high school track meet and then told a kid, in front of other people, if you touch me, you’ll find out, or something to that degree.”

“This is a state of delusion that these people are existing in,” he adds.

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Whitlock blasts Victor Wembanyama for flagrantly disrespecting national anthem in NBA finals



While BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock admits Victor Wembanyama is the San Antonio Spurs’ “biggest star,” he isn’t impressed with the NBA player’s attitude toward the country that’s signing his paychecks.

This is because before the beginning of Game 3, Wembanyama made it a point not to be on the court for the national anthem.

“I do not like Victor Wembanyama, and I didn’t like him before Game 3, and what transpired in Game 3 really made me dislike him,” Whitlock says.

“He did not take the court for the national anthem before Game 3. Victor Wembanyama, I believe, stood in the tunnel, in the locker room during the national anthem before Game 3, and no one talked about it,” he explains.


“This isn’t a coincidence that a Gregg Popovich-run organization has an anti-American Frenchman who can’t come out and respect the national anthem in a country that’s paying him millions upon millions of dollars, a country that’s making him the face of professional basketball,” he continues.

“This guy is the most coddled and pampered athlete perhaps in NBA history, maybe in sports history,” he says. “He’s getting the Colin Kaepernick treatment.”

Whitlock calls the NBA star a “punk” who’s being tolerated purely because “the NBA is a global basketball league, and the NBA is a propaganda arm of the Marxist, socialist, communist agenda.”

“And so, America’s the bad guy, and Victor Wembanyama, the guy the NBA is trying to make the face of the league, can’t even come out and participate in the national anthem,” he adds.

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‘They’ve taken away her superpowers’: NBA champion sounds alarm on Caitlin Clark’s future



Two-time NBA champion Mychal Thompson has been a Caitlin Clark fan since she started in Iowa, but he’s not liking what he’s seeing with the Indiana Fever.

In a now viral post on X, Thompson wrote: “I’m hearing from a reliable source the Fever don’t want Caitlin no more ... SPARKS ... Go get her ... NOW!!!”

The tweet piqued BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock’s interest.

“Do you stand by your original tweet that, according to a reliable source, the Indiana Fever do not want Caitlin Clark?” Whitlock asks Thompson.


“Well, that’s what I’m hearing, you know, from all the contacts we have around the basketball world,” he responds, pointing out that from just watching the Indiana Fever, it “looks like they don’t want the Caitlin Clark that we fell in love with at Iowa.”

“They seem to want more of a benign, more of a pedestrian point guard. So, I don’t think her style fits the way they’re using her,” he continues.

“They prefer to have more of a traditional type of point guard, not a point guard who can shoot from the logo threes. We want that Caitlin back, and we’re not seeing that Caitlin anymore,” he adds.

And according to Thompson, what’s happening to Caitlin Clark is rare in the world of sports.

“Have you ever seen this before where you have this transcendent superstar and they seem to have adopted a system that doesn’t work for Caitlin Clark?”

“Never seen this in any sport,” he responds.

“It’d be like taking the serve away from Serena Williams. A coach telling her, ‘No, I don’t like that big serve you have, so let’s have a more traditional serve,’” he continues.

“They’ve taken away Caitlin’s superpowers,” he adds.

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Whitlock: Caitlin Clark must demand trade NOW or Indiana will destroy her



Since the WNBA’s season kickoff in May, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock has been sounding the alarm that Indiana Fever superstar and the GOAT of women’s basketball, Caitlin Clark, is in deep trouble — not because of anything she did, but because her own team is actively orchestrating her downfall.

Whitlock has warned that if something doesn’t change, Clark’s stardom will prematurely fade. At this point, he sees only one option: leave.

“Caitlin Clark has to demand a trade right now, immediately. It’s the only way to fix this Indiana Fever situation,” he argues on a recent episode of “Fearless.”

Clark, he argues, “can’t trust anyone” involved with Indian Fever, and that includes: head coach Stephanie White, assistant coaches Briann January and Karima Christmas-Kelly, general manager Amber Cox, team president Kelly Krauskopf, the players, and even her own agent, Erin Kane.

“Caitlin Clark needs a whole new team, from agent on down to team on down. Caitlin Clark has to take this situation by her own hands, with her own hands, and correct this. If she doesn’t, this thing will drag out, and she will be destroyed,” Whitlock warns.

Since the Indiana Fever is unlikely to oust Clark and thus become “bad guys” and “idiots,” his solution is simple: Clark’s dad should orchestrate her transfer to the L.A. Sparks.

“She needs her father to step up and assist her in putting together a whole new team from top to bottom,” he says.

The first order of business, he says, is to fire Kane.

“[Get] rid of ... the power agent, Erin Kane, who can’t be on her side,” he says, calling Kane “a hardcore political feminist activist.”

Step two, Whitlock says, is to get out of Indiana, where the team is structured in a way that prevents Clark from self-actualizing.

“She’s standing in a circle of people that cannot support her. Look at her teammates. What organization would put four former South Carolina players on the same roster as Caitlin Clark? Those are Dawn Staley soldiers!” he exclaims.

For years, Whitlock has characterized Staley as a symbol of the woke, DEI-driven women’s basketball establishment that he believes is hostile to Clark’s rise.

“Who surrounds Caitlin Clark with Dawn Staley soldiers, knowing how Dawn Staley felt about Iowa, about Lisa Bluder, and Caitlin Clark?” he asks, alluding to Staley’s long-standing resentment toward Iowa, her bitter 2023 Final Four loss to Bluder’s Hawkeyes, and her recent insistence that Clark is ‘criticizable’ despite public praise.

“Caitlin Clark has to woman up and tell the world, ‘I want out of Indiana. I want out of this cesspool of deceit and destruction and chaos and dysfunction,”’ he comments.

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‘Only good cracker is a dead cracker’: Karmelo Anthony protests spark riot fears



Last week, a jury was seated in the Karmelo Anthony murder trial in Collin County, Texas. Despite a Batson challenge from the defense, no black jurors were selected.

Anthony was charged with first-degree murder in April 2025 when he allegedly stabbed 17-year-old high school student Austin Metcalf in the chest after a verbal confrontation. Anthony pleaded not guilty to the charges, claiming he acted in self defense, despite the victim being unarmed.

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock was “overjoyed” when he heard the news that all prospective black jurors were struck, believing that true justice is only possible if black bias is not a factor.

But now that the trial is underway, there’s a new concern that’s making some Texans worried: What if a guilty verdict sparks mass riots?


Former Infowars host turned independent media entrepreneur Owen Shroyer, who lives in Austin, Texas, is one of those cautionary voices.

On June 4, he tweeted:

But Whitlock disagrees.

“I think all the emotion around this trial, the support of Karmelo Anthony, I think it's all bought and paid for and fake,” he counters. “I don't think there are real people in support of Karmelo Anthony.”

While Shroyer agrees that a guilty verdict is unlikely to culminate in “Black Lives Matter-style riots,” he does believe there will be consequences at the “local” level.

“Based off of what I saw outside of that courtroom, I do believe there is going to be a local community ... issue,” he says. “I don't know if it'll get to the level of Ferguson with buildings on fire, but I do anticipate there'll be some stress and strife if Karmelo Anthony gets a long sentence.”

Supporters of Karmelo Anthony have gathered daily outside the Collin County Courthouse in McKinney, Texas, wearing matching “We Declare He Will Walk Free” T-shirts and chanting slogans like, “Self-defense is not a crime,” while protesting the lack of black jurors. One protester has gone viral for repeatedly shouting, “The only good cracker is a dead cracker!” directly in front of police officers.

“Once you get a group like that that truly believes that they're fighting racism, and that's a cause that they're going to get out in the streets for, sometimes these things can tend to grow and get some gravity,” says Shroyer.

But Whitlock has sources in the Frisco area who have led him to believe that much of the hype is manufactured.

“I know a few people in Frisco, Texas. I spent some time a year ago talking to a woman whose daughter went to high school with Karmelo Anthony. I just think the people on the ground know like Karmelo Anthony was a troublemaker, and this story is BS,” he says.

Shroyer, however, believes our highly racialized time has produced people who “are not logical” and “don't care about the facts.”

He recounts how during the Michael Brown trial in 2014, Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder, a black man, concluded that Brown never said, “Hands up, don’t shoot.” But despite this verdict and copious forensic evidence and credible witnesses supporting Officer Darren Wilson’s account, protesters “didn’t change their minds” and even continued to protest.

“These people, unfortunately, they're very emotional-based,” says Shroyer.

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‘The Vanishing Black Family’: Delano Squires discusses the main problem facing the black community



When Delano Squires was growing up, he was surrounded by young black men who were not only getting into trouble, but getting into gangs and going to jail — while he kept his hands clean.

“At a certain point in my teenage years, I said, ‘Well, it’s because of the families we were raised in. All our parents were married, ... we were going to the same church, same values across households, a community of men who were raising us and keeping us in line. And I realized that family structure was the key,” Squires tells BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock on “Jason Whitlock Harmony.”

“So from there, just one of those things that I’ve always thought about, the importance of family, the importance of marriage, importance of my dad in my day-to-day life, his everyday presence. And at a certain point, I wanted to write about it,” he explains.

And Squires did write about it in his new book, “The Vanishing Black Family,” where he argues that the breakdown of the black family is to blame for lack of education and high crime rates.


“Men and women are continuing to have children, particularly in our community, where 70% of kids are born out of wedlock,” Squires tells Whitlock.

“The other thing that we’ve seen over the course of the last 60 years is that as poverty has decreased in the black community, the non-marital birth rate has increased,” he continues, using NBA players as an example.

“In a league that was 70-plus percent black, you had guys who were fathering four, five, six, seven kids out of wedlock, even though they were making millions of dollars a year,” he explains, noting that economics appear to have very little to do with children being born out of wedlock.

“I think economics is a part of it, but the real reason is because marriage is no longer seen as valuable, desirable, accessible, or indispensable for the purpose of forming a family. And the reason for that goes back much further than current economic trends,” he tells Whitlock.

Whitlock has his own theory as to why the black family has broken down.

“If we had more God, we could have a successful marriage, and we could raise up better kids. That’s the missing ingredient,” Whitlock says.

“The cause of the vanishing black family is because we’re not looking for God to be our provider. We’re looking for money to be our provider. And so, whatever makes us the most money is going to fix the most problems,” he continues.

“And to me it’s, you know, we’ve just lost focus on who our real provider is. It’s not man-made money. It’s God,” he adds.

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No black jurors selected for Karmelo Anthony trial — Jason Whitlock explains why he’s ‘overjoyed’



The case of Karmelo Anthony continues to gain national attention.

In April 2025, at track meet in Frisco, Texas, Anthony (then a 17-year-old Centennial High School student) allegedly fatally stabbed fellow high school student 17-year-old Austin Metcalf in the chest with a pocketknife during a confrontation. Anthony turned himself in shortly after the incident, but he pled not guilty to his charge of first-degree murder, claiming he acted in self-defense.

On June 3, a jury was seated. No black jurors were selected.

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock admits he was thrilled by the news.

“I am overjoyed there are no black people on this jury,” he says unapologetically. “I don’t want anybody on this jury that’s sitting there thinking about, ‘I gotta do the black thing,’ or ‘I hear the facts different because I’m black.’”

He insists there is no need for “a black perspective” in this murder case — only “a justice perspective.”

“American black people,” Whitlock argues, “seem to struggle to take the racial lens off of how they see things.”

White people, he notes, can struggle with this too, but it is “more pronounced” in the black community.

“I think we have a much better shot at getting some justice here with an all white or a non-black participant on this jury,” he says, acknowledging that these are “uncomfortable truths.”

Guest Shemeka Michelle agrees.

“When I was reading some of the answers that some of the jurors gave, such as it would be hard for me to convict a brother ... those aren’t the type of answers that you give if you really want to be considered,” she says, referring to the black male prospective juror who was struck after he said he would "have a hard time putting a brother in jail."

“The fact that they actually went in there and let their biases be known just says either you have low IQ or you really just didn’t want to be a part and so you said what you knew would get you tossed out,” she continues.

Whitlock gives these struck jurors “the benefit of the doubt” and interprets their admitted biases as a good sign.

“I don’t think they wanted anything to do with the pressure to have to make a racial decision. … All of this self-defense deal, it makes no sense to anybody,” he says, “and I think that black people were wise enough — some of them — in this case to be like ‘man, I don’t want to be on this jury.”’

Admitting bias thus became the perfect off-ramp, he explains.

While he acknowledges the possibility of “woke white leftists” on the jury who will use the history of slavery to excuse Karmelo Anthony’s actions, Whitlock says the jury's deliberation should be “three minutes.”

“I’m hoping that’s the way it goes down.”

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