Texas trial, which lasted a week, drew national attention due to race, as Anthony is Black and Austin Metcalf was white
Following a trial that lasted just one week from jury selection to verdict, a Collin county, Texas, jury found Karmelo Anthony, now 19, guilty of murder in the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf last year.
The closely watched trial drew national attention, with viral social media posts that highlighted the racial composition of the case: Anthony is Black; Austin was white. Attorneys selected 12 jurors and six alternates for the trial; none of the jurors was Black.
A man in his 40s was hospitalized with serious injuries after a brutal knife attack in Northern Ireland, as police arrested a Sudanese migrant on suspicion of attempted murder.
The attack happened shortly after 10:30 p.m. Monday in north Belfast, according to the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The victim suffered serious injuries to his face, neck, back and eyes, while police said they recovered what they believe was a kitchen knife at the scene.
Video circulating online appeared to show members of the public confronting the attacker, including one person wielding a hurling stick. PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson praised the bystanders as "heroic," saying their intervention helped save the victim’s life, according to the BBC.
Police initially said the suspect was Somali but later corrected that he is believed to be Sudanese, describing the change as part of a "fast-time investigation." Henderson said police understand the suspect came into Northern Ireland from Dublin, Ireland and had been granted leave to remain, though he said the Home Office would provide further clarity on his status.
On Monday evening, protesters burned down a bus as tensions rose in Belfast following the gruesome stabbing, despite earlier calls from authorities for calm.
"At this stage, we have no information to suggest that this was a terrorist-related incident," Henderson said, while stressing that the investigation remains in its early stages. "However, I must stress, we are still at the early stages of our investigation," he said, according to The Sun.
Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital that the attack exposed what he described as failures in Britain’s immigration system.
"Britain’s broken border and migration system has been put into stark relief once more with this tragic — and entirely avoidable — case," Mendoza said. "This man should never ever have been in the U.K., let alone been granted ‘leave to remain.’ The Irish border is the soft underbelly for a process the British public has long since lost confidence in, as well as in those administering it politically. Nothing short of a revolution in who we allow into the U.K. and how will satisfy a people fed up with false promises about immigration change."
The swift response from Prime Minister Keir Starmer marked a notable contrast with the case of Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old who was stabbed and then handcuffed by police after his attacker accused him of making racist remarks. Starmer faced criticism from some conservatives over his response to that case.
Starmer quickly posted on X that the attack was "sickening," adding: "I have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets." He said his thoughts were with the victim and thanked first responders, including members of the public who intervened.
The attack prompted political reaction across the U.K. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called on authorities to reveal the suspect’s identity and immigration status.
"What happened in Belfast last night is horrific. The authorities must reveal the identity and status of the attacker immediately. The public are entitled to the truth," Farage wrote on X.
Robert Jenrick also wrote on X: "We’ve woken up to truly barbaric footage on a street in Belfast. Of a kind you’d think you’d never see in this country. For years now I’ve urged the police to spell out the basic, sober facts, as they have them, when there are horrors like this."
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said people would ask whether there had been "failings around our borders," according to GB News.
Northern Ireland’s main political parties issued a joint statement condemning the violence and urging the public not to share graphic footage of the attack.
"There is no place in our society for this kind of brutality. Our immediate thoughts are with the victim and his family, and we hope he makes a full and complete recovery," the parties said, according to GB News.
Police said they had declared a critical incident and would increase their presence across Northern Ireland amid calls for protests. Officials urged calm and asked the public to allow the investigation to proceed.
Groff nunca foi formalmente acusada e nega ter conhecimento dos crimes. Aparece mais de 160 mil vezes nos ficheiros Epstein e as suas funções incluíam a marcação de massagens para o milionário.
Decarlos Brown Jr to stay in custody while receiving treatment for remainder of case over Iryna Zarutska’s death
The man accused of fatally stabbing Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte commuter train in August has been found incompetent to stand trial in federal court for now, the US attorney’s office for the western district of North Carolina said on Tuesday.
Decarlos Brown Jr, 35, is accused of killing Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, on a Charlotte light rail train in a case that drew national attention after a surveillance camera video depicting the violent attack was released.
Entre 1 e 7 de junho, as autoridades fiscalizaram mais de 13.406 pessoas e registaram 111 crimes. Mais de metade das 1.776 contraordenações foram realizadas no âmbito rodoviário.
As autoridades fiscalizaram mais de 13.406 pessoas e de 8.988 veículos
The US vice-president, JD Vance, asked the Department of Justice to investigate Tim Walz, his rival in the 2024 election, after a congressional report renewed allegations of inaction and retaliation over fraud schemes in Minnesota.
In the Trump administration’s latest broadside against the midwestern state and its political leaders, Vance referred Walz, its Democratic governor, and Keith Ellison, its Democratic attorney general, for investigation.
A rede enviava mensagens fraudulentas onde se fazia passar por bancos para roubar dados pessoais das vítimas e desviar o dinheiro das contas. Uma alegada rede criminosa familiar acusada de burlas informáticas e branqueamento de capitais está a ser julgada no Tribunal de São João Novo, no Porto, depois de, segundo o Ministério Público (MP), ter conseguido obter ilegalmente perto de um milhão de euros através de esquemas de fraude bancária online entre 2022 e 2024. O principal arguido é Vítor, atualmente com 25 anos, apontado pelas autoridades como o líder da organização. No total, 19 pessoas estão a responder
Father and mother of Annabel Rook praised her dedication to helping others and want to focus on her legacy
A retired Old Bailey judge has paid tribute to his daughter after her killer was jailed for life.
Today at Snaresbrook crown court, Clifton George, 45, was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of the murder of Annabel Rook, 46, whom he stabbed in the living room of her own home in Stoke Newington, north London.
Kemi Badenoch has argued that Britain took a wrong turn after the landmark Macpherson report into the racist killing of Stephen Lawrence, and said that it didn’t matter how many young black boys were stopped and searched by police.
The Conservative leader made the comments as she announced plans to scrap the obligation on public bodies to consider how they can promote equality as she seeks to head off the challenge to her party from Reform UK.
A Polícia Judiciária de Portimão deteve um homem, com 39 anos, suspeito dos crimes de homicídio qualificado e detenção de arma proibida, ocorridos na tarde do dia 25 de maio, junto a uma ruína em obras no centro da cidade de Silves.
Um assaltante acabou no hospital após ter sido surpreendido pelo dono da casa em cujo interior se tinha introduzido, na rua da Devesa, freguesia de Serafão, concelho de Fafe, na manhã desta terça-feira.
Ao que O MINHO apurou, a situação ocorreu por volta das 10:00, quando o filho do proprietário, que estava num dos quartos da habitação, ouviu barulho.
Como não era suposto estar mais ninguém em casa, este ligou ao pai, que se encontrava num terreno junto à casa.
Foto: Ivo Borges / O MINHO
Foto: Ivo Borges / O MINHO
Foto: Ivo Borges / O MINHO
O dono da residência foi então a casa, viu a luz do primeiro andar acesa e, como é caçador, muniu-se de uma arma.
Surpreendeu, então, o assaltante, que já se encontrava na posse de vários artigos furtados.
Ao ser confrontado, o assaltante, residente no concelho vizinho de Felgueiras e que se deslocava numa trotineta, acabou por escorregar e cair numa escadas, sofrendo ferimentos na cabeça.
O suspeito foi, depois, transportado para o Hospital de Guimarães, pelos Bombeiros de Fafe, e sub custódia da GNR.
A Sudanese man has been arrested after an attempted "beheading" in Belfast last night that left a man in his 40s with serious injuries in a "critical" condition.
Darren Sharper, who pleaded guilty or no contest to raping women in four states, is projected to be released in 2028
Admitted serial rapist and former National Football League champion Darren Sharper has been transferred from federal prison to a halfway house program with his projected 2028 release date nearing.
In a statement to the Guardian on Monday, a US Bureau of Prisons (BoP) spokesperson said Sharper, 50, was transferred on 27 May from a federal correctional institution near Elkton, Ohio, to “community confinement” overseen by the agency’s residential re-entry management office in Baltimore.
Badenoch said, after the murder of Stephen Lawrence, it was right that people wanted to ensure this did not happen again.
It led to the Macpherson report, she said.
[It] wanted to put right what went wrong with policing in the 1990s.
However, in attempting to do so, it also enshrined a principle which I believe is wrong that a racist incident is racist if it is perceived as racist by the victim or any other person.
Equality law, properly designed, should protect us all in the same way. It should be a shield, not a sword.
It should protect people from discrimination. It should protect people from being treated differently because of their race, sex, religion, sexuality, disability or age.
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