A Texas parole supervisor has been fired after making an “inflammatory” comment about the Karmelo Anthony case on social media, a department spokeswoman confirmed Friday to The Dallas Morning News.

Identifying herself as an employee with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Donna Robinson wrote on Facebook that Anthony would be protected in prison, adding she didn’t care about the victim’s family’s loss. Her page said she was employed by the department for more than a decade.
Anthony, 19, was sentenced earlier this week to 35 years in prison for fatally stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet last year in Frisco. The case drew national attention from the start, generating a flood of misinformation and racist vitriol online. Anthony is Black. Metcalf was white.
“I’m just glad we didn’t have to bury another Black child,” Robinson wrote. “Let them start burying some of theirs for a change. FK’em I said what I said.”

In an email, a TDCJ spokeswoman said Robinson was fired after a review of the public statements, noting that working for the department “carries significant public trust and requires decisions free from personal bias.”

“These statements are incompatible with TDCJ policy and values. They demonstrate bias and a lack of the impartiality essential to the fair administration of justice in Texas,” the statement said. “Discriminatory or inflammatory conduct that erodes public confidence in the criminal justice system will not be tolerated.”
Robinson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.