A 35-year-old parole supervisor with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice lost her job after posting racially charged comments on Facebook celebrating the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf and mocking his family's grief, the New York Post reported, citing the Dallas Morning News.
Donna Murray Robinson, a Houston native who identified herself on the platform as a TDCJ parole supervisor, wrote that she did not care about the Metcalf family's loss, and said she was glad the victim's family had to suffer instead of another Black family. Her bosses caught wind of the posts, and the department fired her.
The case lands at the intersection of two questions that should trouble every Texan: How did someone with those views end up supervising parolees in the criminal justice system? And what does it say about the cultural moment that a state employee felt comfortable publishing those words under her own name?
Robinson's Facebook account has since been deleted. But screenshots obtained by the Daily Mail captured the posts before they disappeared. The language speaks for itself.
In one post, Robinson wrote:
"I for one don't give a f** about the family's loss. It's about time these f***ng [sic] bigots feel the pain that they have inflicted on other groups of people since the beginning of time!"
In another, she went further:
"I'm just glad we didn't have to bury another black child. Let them start burying some of theirs for a change. F***em [sic] I said what I said."
She also described Karmelo Anthony, the 19-year-old convicted of first-degree murder for killing Metcalf, as "protected."
Robinson did not respond to requests for comment from either the Dallas Morning News or the Daily Mail.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice did not hold back. A department spokesperson told the Dallas Morning News that Robinson's role "carries significant public trust and requires decisions free from personal bias."
The agency's formal statement went further:
"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."
TDCJ added that "discriminatory or inflammatory conduct that erodes public confidence in the criminal justice system will not be tolerated."
Credit where it is due: the department acted. Robinson is gone. But the episode raises a fair question about how many people inside the system hold similar views and simply know better than to post them on social media.
The crime Robinson chose to celebrate was not some abstraction. Austin Metcalf was a 17-year-old at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. During a rain delay, Karmelo Anthony sat down in the tent belonging to Metcalf's team. Metcalf repeatedly asked Anthony to leave. Anthony refused.
Witnesses said Anthony warned Metcalf: "Touch me and find out."
Metcalf pushed him. Anthony pulled a knife and stabbed Metcalf in the chest. The teenager died in his twin brother's arms.
A Texas jury convicted Anthony of first-degree murder last week and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. Anthony has appealed.
Robinson was not the only public figure to frame Anthony's conviction in racial terms. U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett described Anthony as a "scared black boy" who was not shown "mercy," according to related New York Post coverage. Radio DJ Peter Rosenberg argued Anthony deserved a lighter sentence.
None of this changes the facts the jury weighed. A 19-year-old brought a knife to a track meet, refused to leave another team's tent, issued a threat, and stabbed a 17-year-old to death when the younger boy pushed him. Twelve jurors heard the evidence and returned a first-degree murder conviction.
The impulse to recast that sequence as a story about racial victimhood requires ignoring the victim, a child who bled out at a sporting event, and the witnesses who watched it happen.
Robinson's job was not answering phones or filing paperwork. She supervised parolees. That means she held direct authority over the conditions of release for people convicted of crimes in Texas. She made or influenced decisions about compliance, violations, and recommendations that could send someone back to prison.
TDCJ acknowledged as much when it said the role "carries significant public trust and requires decisions free from personal bias." A parole supervisor who publicly cheers the murder of a teenager based on his race, and describes a convicted killer as "protected", cannot credibly claim to exercise that trust without prejudice.
The department's statement about impartiality is correct in principle. The harder question is whether TDCJ has systems in place to identify bias before it shows up in a viral Facebook post. Robinson apparently felt comfortable enough to publish these views under her real name, identifying her employer. That suggests she did not expect consequences.
There is no indication in the reporting that TDCJ discovered Robinson's views through any internal process. The department acted after her bosses "caught wind of the posts", language that suggests the posts circulated publicly or were flagged by outsiders before management intervened.
That is a reactive model, not a proactive one. Robinson held her position of authority right up until the moment her words became a public embarrassment. Had she kept her account private, or phrased her contempt more carefully, she might still be supervising parolees today.
The people subject to her authority, disproportionately people whose liberty depends on a supervisor's judgment, deserved better than a system that catches bias only when it goes viral.
Several details remain unclear. The exact date Robinson published the posts and the date TDCJ terminated her have not been reported. Her precise job title at the time of the firing is not specified beyond "parole supervisor." The court that convicted Anthony and the appellate docket number for his appeal have not been identified in available reporting.
What is clear is the sequence: a teenager was killed, a jury convicted his killer, a state employee with supervisory power over convicted offenders publicly celebrated the killing and mocked the victim's family on racial grounds, and the state fired her only after the posts became public.
Austin Metcalf is dead. His twin brother held him as he died. A jury convicted the man who killed him. And a state parole supervisor responded by calling the victim's family "bigots" who deserved to suffer.
Robinson's posts did not emerge in a vacuum. They arrived in a climate where elected officials and media figures rushed to reframe a clear-cut murder conviction as racial injustice, before the victim's family had even finished grieving. When public figures signal that a convicted killer deserves sympathy and his victim's family deserves contempt, it is not surprising that someone inside the system felt licensed to say the quiet part out loud.
TDCJ fired Robinson. Good. But the cultural rot that made her comfortable saying what she said did not start with one Facebook post, and it will not end with one termination.
When the people entrusted to administer justice openly celebrate injustice, the system has a problem that no HR department can fix alone.
