Karmelo Anthony indicted in Frisco track meet stabbing death of Austin Metcalf, officials say - How long before Austins father calls for his sons murderer to be pardoned?

Karmelo Anthony indicted in Frisco track meet stabbing death of Austin Metcalf, officials say​

Karmelo Anthony, the Frisco teen charged with murder for an April track meet stabbing, was indicted on a murder charge.

Credit: WFAA

Austin Metcalf (left) was fatally stabbed at a Frisco track meet, and Karmelo Anthony (right) was charged with murder in connection with the case.

Author: Rachel Behrndt

Published: 1:59 PM CDT June 24, 2025

Updated: 2:47 PM CDT June 24, 2025



FRISCO, Texas — Karmelo Anthony, the teen accused of fatally stabbing another teen, Austin Metcalf, at a Frisco track meet, has been indicted on a murder charge, officials said.

A grand jury indicted Anthony on Tuesday, according to the Collin County District Attorney's Office. A murder charge is punishable by 5-99 years or life in prison.



Anthony, a 17-year-old former student of Frisco Centennial High School, was arrested and charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of Frisco Memorial High School student athlete Austin Metcalf in April at a track meet in Frisco ISD's Kuykendall Stadium. He was released from jail later that month after his bond was reduced from $1 million to $250,000.

Anthony has claimed self defense in the case, which garnered national attention, heightening racial tensions and raising security concerns among everyone connected to the case, including both families and Judge Angela Tucker, who is presiding over the case.

"We know this case has struck a deep nerve — here in Collin County and beyond," Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis said in a statement Tuesday. "That’s understandable. When something like this happens at a school event, it shakes people to the core. But the justice system works best when it moves with steadiness and with principle. That’s what we’re committed to. And that’s exactly what this case deserves."

Anthony's attorney, Mike Howard, called Tuesday's indictment "an expected and routine step in the legal process."

"Karmelo and his family are confident in the justice system and the people of Collin County to be fair and impartial," Howard said. "Of course, Karmelo looks forward to his day in court. It's only in a trial that a jury will hear the full story, one that includes critical facts and context that the grand jury simply didn't get to hear."

Howard again raised Anthony's self defense claim in his statement Tuesday.

"We expect that when the full story is heard, the prosecution will not be able to rule out the reasonable doubt that Karmelo Anthony may have acted in self defense," Howard said. "Self defense is a fundamental right guaranteed every American."



Metcalf's father, Jeff Metcalf, told WFAA in a statement that he's "pleased that we are moving forward."

“With the first degree murder indictment, it now goes into the court system," Jeff Metcalf said. "I fully believe that justice will be served for Austin Metcalf. I look forward to the forthcoming trial. But it will never bring my son back.“

Under his bond conditions, Anthony is required to wear an ankle monitor and ask permission to leave his home. If Anthony violates any conditions of his bond, he will have to return to jail. He graduated and received his high school diploma in May, but did not attend the ceremony, WFAA previously reported.

Anthony allegedly confessed to the stabbing immediately after he was arrested, claiming he was defending himself from Metcalf, officials said, as WFAA previously reported.

A witness reportedly told police that Metcalf told Anthony he had to move out from under the Memorial High School tent. Anthony responded by opening his bag and reaching inside, WFAA previously reported.

"Touch me and see what happens," Anthony told Metcalf, according to a witness.

Metcalf reportedly then touched Anthony, the witness told a responding officer, and Anthony told Metcalf to punch him and see what would happen. Soon afterward, the witness said, Metcalf reportedly grabbed Anthony to tell him to move. At which point, the affidavit continues, Anthony reportedly pulled out what the witness recalled as a black knife and stabbed Metcalf once in the chest before running away.

The deep tension sparked by the incident has raised concerns that the case may be tried outside of Collin County. Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis told WFAA that the judge will make that decision at the time of trial.

 

[Balr0g]

How can you do that job knowing your client is guilty as all hell? I would personally have a guilty conscience representing a heinous person like that.

They look at their hourly rates and say "Whelp, we try to stretch it so I can make my payday. And when we loose we say it was racism" Yes you most likely loose the case but you can rake in some publicity for it (at least from certain circles)

 

[Twix Eatr]

I think Richards also said that in Wisconsin you have to take the stand to make an impression (seems like a Wisconsin thing). Plus they did mock trials with Kyle taking the stand vs not taking the stand and in the former case the not guilty verdict was more likely. But you simply can't compare the cases. Kyle ran for his life until he couldn't before he even began firing his gun. This piece of shit didn't leave, he apparently provoked this reaction to have justification to stab someone. Complelt ydifferent scenario. And we all know how this case and reaction would go if the skin colour was reversed

Mirror Images: Rittenhouse and Anthony, and the Backwards Narrative

The most striking thing about these two cases isn't how similar they are — it's how completely inverted they are, and how completely inverted the public's perception of both is. Every accusation lodged at Rittenhouse describes Anthony with precision. Every defense offered for Anthony actually belonged to Rittenhouse. The narratives didn't just get it wrong. They got it perfectly, surgically backwards.

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"He Had No Business Being There"

The phrase most associated with Rittenhouse is that he "crossed state lines" — a rhetorical device designed to imply he was an interloper with no legitimate reason to be present. It's been repeated so often it functions as established fact. The actual facts: he worked as a lifeguard in Kenosha, his father lived there, and he was on camera earlier that day cleaning graffiti off buildings. His presence was more documented and community-rooted than most of the people in that crowd.

Anthony was sitting under a tent designated for a rival school's athletes. Not his school. Not neutral ground. He was specifically and repeatedly asked to leave — by multiple people, reportedly over a dozen times — while open bleachers and open air existed in every direction around him. He was a track athlete. He had legs. He chose not to use them.

The "outsider with no business being there" charge is the defining public indictment of Rittenhouse. It applies to Anthony's situation literally and by every measure. It applies to Rittenhouse's situation not at all.

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Who Provoked Whom

The dominant accusation against Rittenhouse is that he went to Kenosha to provoke. He carried an AR-15 openly. That visibility is actually the point — an openly carried rifle is a deterrent signal, not a trap. Everyone in the vicinity knew what he had. When confronted, he ran. He yelled "friendly." When Gaige Grosskreutz lowered his pistol and raised his hand — the universal signal for surrender — Rittenhouse immediately lowered his rifle in kind. A man who came to provoke doesn't do that. He did everything available to him, repeatedly and visibly, to signal he didn't want a fight. He did this while carrying a weapon that made his ability to end that fight unambiguous to anyone watching.

Anthony told Austin: "Touch me and see what happens." "I dare you to touch me." He was carrying a knife nobody could see. There were no deterrent signals, no visible display of capability, no "friendly." Just a concealed blade and an open invitation for the contact that would give him pretext to use it. One of these people broadcast their capability and begged for peace. The other hid their capability and manufactured a confrontation. The public has assigned "provocateur" to the wrong one.

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Cornered vs. Choosing to Stay

Rittenhouse was physically chased and cornered against a row of parked cars by Joseph Rosenbaum, a man who had earlier in the night told the group he would kill Rittenhouse if he caught him alone. Rosenbaum closed the distance enough to grab the barrel of his rifle. There was nowhere to go. He shot once he could no longer retreat.

Anthony is a track athlete. He was in an open stadium with bleachers, open grass, and unrestricted space in every direction. He had been asked to leave more than a dozen times. He declined every opportunity to simply walk away, then responded to being shoved with a knife through Austin Metcalf's chest.

Rittenhouse was literally out of room. Anthony had all the room in the world and refused to take it.

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The Concealed vs. Open Weapon

Rittenhouse carried his rifle where everyone could see it. His intent in carrying it was deterrence — a visible signal of capability meant to discourage attack. Whether you approve of that choice or not, it wasn't a trap.

Anthony's knife was hidden. Austin Metcalf had no idea what Anthony was carrying during the confrontation — no contextual clue, no visible indicator of what he was being dared to "touch." Anthony taunted him into physical contact while concealing the means by which he intended to respond to that contact. That isn't self-defense. That's deception weaponized. You do not get to bait someone into shoving you, then produce a hidden blade and call what follows a surprise to you.

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Self-Defense: What the Standard Actually Requires

Self-defense requires an imminent threat of serious bodily harm or death, not provoked by the claimant, with no reasonable avenue of retreat. Rittenhouse met every element on video. He was chased. He was struck with a skateboard while on the ground. He had a loaded pistol pointed at his head at close range. He lowered his weapon every time an aggressor backed off. The jury saw all of it and acquitted on all counts.

Anthony created the situation by refusing to leave. He escalated it verbally with explicit taunts designed to engineer physical contact. He was carrying a weapon he had already decided he might use. He then responded to being shoved — not punched, not threatened with a weapon — with a fatal stab wound to the heart. The prosecution stated it plainly during voir dire: you cannot talk trash, get someone to touch you, and then take a life and call it self-defense. That isn't a judgment call. It's a legal disqualification.

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Who Ran, and When

After the shooting, Rittenhouse attempted to turn himself in to police the same night. He went to the station. He was visibly traumatized. He reportedly vomited. He has documented PTSD from the night.

After the stabbing, Anthony threw the knife six rows into the stands, fled the scene, and attempted to blend into groups of students leaving the stadium. He was chased down and apprehended near a fence. The prosecution's question is simple and unanswered: if you genuinely acted in self-defense, why dispose of the evidence? You discard a weapon when you're worried about being caught with it, not when you believe you were justified.

Rittenhouse ran before every shot. Anthony ran after, without the weapon.

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The Financial and Legal Treatment

While awaiting trial, Rittenhouse was held on $2 million bail. Fundraising efforts on his behalf were removed from platforms. He had to hide his location for safety. He sat in jail while the media called him a domestic terrorist — including a then-presidential candidate who used that phrase publicly before a single day of testimony.

Anthony was placed on house arrest almost immediately. His bail was subsequently reduced. A fundraiser for his legal defense raised roughly $800,000 from supporters. His family spent it. He faced no shortage of public defenders insisting the real victim was the one who brought a knife to a track meet.

The person with documented video evidence of self-defense sat in a cell while the world called him a murderer. The person who stabbed a teenager at a school event while refusing to leave was fundraising from home.

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The Racial Framing

Rittenhouse's victims — all three people he shot — were white. There is no racial dimension to who he shot. None. Yet the dominant narrative cast him as a white vigilante acting out of racial animus. His politics were treated as a proxy for racism and his victims' race was simply omitted from the conversation. Joe Biden's campaign posted a video framing him alongside white supremacists.

Anthony's defenders have explicitly reframed Austin Metcalf's requests that he leave the tent as racial aggression — the argument being that white students had no right to tell a black student where he could sit. This transforms a designated team space into a segregation metaphor and reframes a killing as a response to systemic injustice. The George Zimmerman comparison is being made openly, casting Anthony as Trayvon Martin. The same Zimmerman comparison was made about Rittenhouse — the invented version, not the one where a man with a documented self-defense case was nonetheless condemned for the politics of who he was.

One case had zero racial component by any factual measure and was saturated with racial framing anyway. The other has a racial narrative being actively inserted to justify conduct that fails self-defense standards under any neutral analysis — because the person claiming it provoked the confrontation, could have walked away at any point, and responded to a shove with a knife to the heart.

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The "Good Kid" Standard

Anthony's defense opened with his GPA, his two jobs, his girlfriend, his athletic record, and his family stability. That framing — paint the defendant's character to generate sympathy before the facts land — was used for Anthony without irony by the same cultural voices who would have mocked it as deflection had it been offered for someone else.

Rittenhouse's character, community ties, and documented actions earlier that same day were dismissed entirely. Cleaning graffiti didn't count. Providing medical aid didn't count. His family connections to Kenosha didn't count. None of it was allowed to contextualize who he was or why he was there. Character mitigation was permitted for one and denied the other, sorted by who the narrative needed to be sympathetic.

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The Inversion, Stated Plainly

Every charge the public filed against Rittenhouse — outsider with no business there, brought a weapon to manufacture a confrontation, killed someone who posed no real threat, walked free because the system favors his kind — applies to Anthony with documentary precision.

Every defense his supporters rejected for Rittenhouse — legitimate reason to be present, consistent de-escalation and retreat under pressure, weapon deployed only as absolute last resort under direct physical attack with no avenue of escape, acquitted because the evidence supported it — described Rittenhouse's actual case.

The narratives didn't simply diverge from the facts. They swapped defendants entirely, sorted by who each side needed to be the villain before a single piece of evidence was considered.

I had LLM polish up my own writing on this inversion.

Then the quote would be "he was going to be ok", not if he "was going to be ok", but sure, indeed, you could be right.

He is right, but you're correct that it reads your way as he typed it. The problem is he quoted it wrong. The police report says he asked if, "he was going to be okay."

Shit like this reminds me of the whole "Cleopatra wuz BLACK 'n sheeit!" nonsense. These "people" have so little in their history to take pride in that they have to falsely take credit for other people's accomplishments, and then accuse others of doing the same to them. It's insecurity and victimhood on a profound level.

They have no history of anything noteworthy. Even if they did, they had no written language, so who knows?

They give you like $10 or something per day which leads to poors staying around longer. Being summoned makes you realize how completely retarded people are and it would terrify me to have them judge me.

I wonder if it's because people who aren't retarded use their brains to actively remove themselves from this civic duty?

1 maybe two of the witnesses said that he dapped up another guy under the tent which is apparently youth for greeted in a friendly manner so he at least vaguely knew one person there

Dapped up is exchanging a slap/handshake and half-shoulder pat type shit. An urban handshake if you will.

Keep in mind that in statistics the white category often lumps in some very not white groups. The number of times I've seen a fucking jeet be officially categorized as white is mind-boggling.

Did you check the image I posted at the end of what you're replying to?

How can you do that job knowing your client is guilty as all hell? I would personally have a guilty conscience representing a heinous person like that.

It's because they might be guilty that they deserve the best defense. As a lawyer, if you gave it your all and pulled out all the (legal) stops, what can you say when your client till gets convicted in a fair trial? Nothing other than, "Damn, he was clearly guilty." You rest easy at night knowing you played your role in ensuring the right man is now behind bars. It's a civic necessity that everyone gets the best defense possible so we know they're guilty and deserve to rot.

He has said that Hunter was talking to Anthony also, which contradicts earlier testimony.

I'm unfamiliar with other testimony, but it's been known that Hunter talked to him. I transcribed some interviews here.

We come back, we sit down, and this kid said something behind me. I've never met this kid in my entire life, never knew who he was. Said something just inappropriate and uh, uncalled for. And I turned around and asked him who he was, and he started getting really aggressive. My brother stepped in and he started being, you know, how he always is with me, you know, just brothers, just having my back. And things started getting more higher-intensity. And the kid said some aggressive stuff, like reckless stuff. You know, Austin tried to handle the problem and—

 

[The Last Stand]

According to AA's logic, this is an open & shut case for Self-Defense. They even made a poster for it!
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Let me translate this for y'all:

White man bad. Two or more white men make you uncomfortable. One black kid. Stab or kill them, it's your right. There.

 

[Jex]

We know the blade is black.

That’s all I need to hear, the blade is guilty.

 

[namelesstacotruck]

They give you like $10 or something per day which leads to poors staying around longer.

This is not correct. Poors are the ones who cant afford to be on a jury. They are hourly and going on a long trial will mean no money. Even Shaniqua on welfare has to worry about who is watching their biannual crotch spawn.

The only people who can afford to go juries are salaried workers and retired people. Ambitious ones wont want to lose work. So you get mostly people who dont have to work and unambitious salaried workers who are the ones not trying to get off.

 

[Low IQ Doctor]

Defense has to do what defense has to do. They know it's a waste of time, but they were paid to do a job and they're going to take every chance they can take to try and beat the charge. They can't change basic facts, it was clearly a stabbing from the medical exam. I think from their recent witness, it's pretty clear they found 0 people willing to give testimony that was favorable to their client.

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

Damn, so far there's 3 twins involved in this trial.

I guess we know where Mengele went after the war.

 

[Lazy Drei]

There is no better proof that Niggers are tribal creatures than when you see some of the Dindu tribes best and brightest cause trouble near the courthouse.

Time to make Karmelo fry in the chair and be done with this bullshit, he can sharpen his cleats in hell.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Get your estrogen in check.
This is common behavior for low iq subhuman… and women.

I'm sure you think this is a gotcha, but it's not. I'm not negating this kid has a low iq, I'm saying right there that this is a factor too. Nevertheless, his actions are driven by his antisocial behavior.

Antisocial behavior ain't being an autistic recluse exclusively. Antisocial disorder is the inability to function proper in society do to a lack of understanding of social rules due to several factors. People like this tend to believe rules don't apply to themselves and they have no reason to follow them even if this hurts others. You don't need to have this disorder to have antisocial behavior, which is common among American blacks due to early education and indoctrination of how they are not the same as white people. Low IQ and a culture that glorify violence don't help.

You're one verifiable stupid bitch.
The subject of reply was interpretating rules as antagonism.

Yes, antisocial people see rules, specially those targeted at them, as antagonism. They think it's personal because they exist only around themselves. Hence, the rules aren't there to make us all function in order, but rather to stop them from doing what they want to do.

Defense says Karmelo Anthony reacted out of "fear" before allegedly stabbing Austin Metcalf​

He said Anthony, who is 5'8" and about 130 pounds, was confronted by both Austin and Hunter Metcalf, who are 6'1" and about 215 pounds.

The next tweet was this banger!

I'm sure they think this is a winning argument, but this makes Karamelo looks more retarded.

If I see a woman who's considerably bigger than I am asking me to leave, I leave. And I'm saying this despite I didn't mind get into fights when I was in school (that's right, kiwis, Tatty had a dark phase in her teen years). A lot of things that happened happened inside Karamelo's mind, like thinking a big guy would hurt him just for being big and he was justified in an attack before he attacked him.

He truly doesn't realize he's saying the equivalent of "yes, I shot him because he was black and I thought he was going to rob me and kill me".

 

[DickMain]

the Karmelo supporters are from out-of-state

Oh cool do we know which NGO bussed them in and paid for their Kinkos signs yet?

 

[Nikon_Camera]

I'm sure you think this is a gotcha

I just hate your "white suburban woman" posting.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

How can you do that job knowing your client is guilty as all hell? I would personally have a guilty conscience representing a heinous person like that.

Unfortunately, I know someone who's a lawyer and he's worked with someone who's actually a bad person. Not a murderer, but someone who was in charge of people doing fucked up things. We once asked him the same and he said that he believes we all are entitled to a fair trial (I don't disagree with that) and that he, in that case, wasn't looking for his client to be declared innocent (it was impossible) but that he was treated fairly and received a punishment according to the crime.

I just hate your "white suburban woman" posting.

I'm sorry that me being educated and, despite my bad English, knowing big words and complicated definitions made you think I'm a white.

I'm just half white.

 

[Sneed's Feed n Seed]

I got you friend

BASED

(would it be funnier to end it with Nigger season?)

Probably worth a variant for tricking people with.

I just hate your "white suburban woman" posting.

Pardon, friend, this is the nigger-hating thread.

 

[Super Guido]

If what Jumpsuit Pablo is saying is correct, that the pro-Karmelo guys aren't showing up in large numbers on the weekend, I'm wondering if the protestors are being paid.

 

[Twix Eatr]

You don't need to have this disorder to have antisocial behavior, which is common among American blacks due to early education and indoctrination of how they are not the same as white people.

No offense, but this is exactly why you shouldn't ever be allowed to vote, hold office, or be a judge. Blacks are antisocial because they are black. There is no indoctrination required for these problems in white society to occur. They are less intelligent than whites and completely far removed from their natural environment. Their natural environment does not possess abstract concepts like human rights, justice, or cooperation. These are white ideas.

Africa is a hypermasculine society full of violent retards who communicate through force. Expecting them to grasp with what only whites could imagine is square pegs for round holes. With no selective pressures selecting for long-term planning, cooperation with others, or sophisticated shelters required to survive, you get mud huts and starvation. You get warring tribes massacring one another over voodoo or spells or magic talismans. It's an exact mirror of Chicago, only they went from mud huts to dilapidated homes whites are forced to sacrifice to keep them at bay.

Placing them on boats across the ocean might as well have been teleporting them 10,000 years into the future. They are now immersed in a Western, white society so technologically advanced beyond their capabilities that it's inhumane to pretend otherwise. White men achieved the first manned, powered flight ahead of every other group of people in history. And 66 years later, we strapped ourselves to a rocket, aimed it at the nearest celestial satellite, and counted down from 10. We landed, jumped around and came back in one piece. How can people who made it possible for some humans to witness BOTH of those events in a single lifetime ever live among those who never invented the wheel, calendars, written language, aqueducts, or, well, fucking anything? We can't, man.

There is no word in African languages for "maintenance." Brits left them working rail systems. How'd they wind up? In complete and total disarray, exactly like every nice neighborhood in America they move into after driving out the whites. You can view this on Google street maps with South Africa post-Apartheid. Their brains do not possess the neuroarchitecture for what whites consider a necessity. They will rip apart working electric cables to sell copper. They will empty out expensive paint they could sell for $1000 to sell the bucket. They dig up seeds for crops to eat the seeds.

Blacks cannot figure out the utility in placing a fresh 9-Volt battery in the device that alerts them with a high-pitched scream. This is a $2 investment to make sure your family does not burn to death, mind you. Is this lack of education? No. It's intelligence, which we quite literally cannot increase. We must bubble-wrap everything in society for this group we're doomed to babysit and they're so stupid they believe whites are their devilish oppressors, constantly plotting to keep them down.

Blacks are also seriously overrepresented in schizophrenia, too. Do you know what schizophrenia is strongly correlated with? Low IQ. It's not education. It's demonstrably low cognitive abilities, of which there is no escape hatch. They are too stupid for the world around them. They murder one another at insane rates and rape/murder whites with impunity, too. We can't screen their IQ for jobs or societal privileges, but it routinely lets them off the hook when they murder some white person. Good stuff.

It is genetic. There is no fix.

 

[Gay Sex Enjoyer]

According to AA's logic, this is an open & shut case for Self-Defense. They even made a poster for it!
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[Ravana]

I know it's been mentioned in testimony already, but is there any chance someone will present what they think is a cleat sharpener so everyone can finally see what the fuck that's supposed to be?

 

[TheClappening]

"He tripped and fell onto the knife trust us bro." ~ 500 an hour lawyers.

That doesn't even jive with his strategy of self defense. Self defense is a deliberate action. "I did in fact deliberately stab this man, and he later died from my deadly force actions, but I did so to prevent unlawful deadly force being used on me."

He tripped onto the knife is a defense of, I dunno, pleading unintentional recklesness versus deliberate killing. A mitigation defense, not a complete denial of criminal liability like self defense is.

 

[Gay Sex Enjoyer]

I know it's been mentioned in testimony already, but is there any chance someone will present what they think is a cleat sharpener so everyone can finally see what the fuck that's supposed to be?

Last I checked you don't sharpen cleats to begin with. Once they get worn down you just... replace them.

But if a cleat sharpener was a thing that is totally used all the time it still wouldn't be a sharp, knife-like object. It'd probably be rounded or blunted like most sharpening instruments.

 

[SITHRAK!]

I know someone has probably brought this up already, but the whole "no black juror" line is an early attempt to discredit the eventual guilty conviction. So fucking tiresome.

Not all black people are upset by this:

You may have issues understanding his female guest as she’s another mushmouth, but vid is worth watching.

Them not having a single black juror (how is this even possible?) has opened up a massive door for endless appeals after he (hopefully) gets convicted and thrown in the slammer. So just buckle up guys.

They already tried a Batson challenge and it was shot down. The last three black potential jurors were teachers and were eliminated on the basis that their jobs involved working with high school kids. Not race-based? No Batson.