A New York City influencer sought to add a dash of politics to the postgame celebration after the New York Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs Wednesday night, hoping to get Seinfeld to mug for the camera and say “Free Palestine” in the mold of leftist celebrities.

“Can we get a ‘free Palestine?” Seinfeld was asked, according to a video posted to X.

“It doesn’t exist,” Seinfeld snarked without breaking stride.

Jerry Seinfeld was asked to drop a Free Palestine after the Knicks game.

"It doesn't exist.”

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 pic.twitter.com/cJOtl6woe0

— Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinkle) June 11, 2026

The comment made Omar hot under the hijab when TMZ caught up with her.

“I think Jerry Seinfeld has been a really horrific human being and an example when it comes to talking about the reality of the genocide that Israel has carried out,” she said.

Rep. Ilhan Omar torches Jerry Seinfeld over "disturbing" Palestine remarks.

🎥: @hicharliecotton pic.twitter.com/Fvue0CGNNQ

— TMZ (@TMZ) June 11, 2026

As noted by the New York Post, since the Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians in October 2023, Seinfeld has been open about his disdain for the concept of a Palestinian nation.

In February 2025, an influencer who asked Seinfeld for a selfie recorded himself saying “Free Palestine” while standing next to Seinfeld.

“I don’t care about Palestine,” Seinfeld said then.

In May 2025, a protester filmed himself saying Seinfeld supported the genocide of babies in Gaza.

“Only you,” Seinfeld said as he walked off.

In May 2024, booing and a walkout greeted him when he gave the commencement address at Duke University.

“Free Palestine is, to me, just -- you’re free to say you don’t like Jews. Just say you don’t like Jews,” Seinfeld said in a speech at Duke in 2025, according to the Duke Chronicle.

“By saying Free Palestine, you’re not admitting what you really think,” he said. “So it’s actually — compared to the Ku Klux Klan, I’m actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here, because they can come right out and say, ‘We don’t like Blacks, we don’t like Jews.’ OK, that’s honest,"

In 2024, Seinfeld was heckled while doing a show in Australia, as noted by the Jerusalem Post.

"We have a genius, ladies and gentlemen. He solved the Middle East," Seinfeld said then. "It's the Jewish comedians; that's what we have to get."

In December 2023, he visited Israel, toured the remains of communities devastated by Hamas, and said he was “proud to be an ambassador for spreading the truth throughout the world.”

They've blamed "white supremacy" for the prosecution -- Anthony is black, his victim was white. They've blamed racism among prosecutors for keeping blacks off the jury.

And on Wednesday, his father put the blame, at least in part, on his son's "white attorney" for the fact that Karmelo is going to prison.

Media personality Mimi Brown -- a fixture on the black-oriented radio program "The Breakfast Club" -- spoke to Anthony's parents, Kayla Hayes and Andrew Anthony, during an interview Wednesday.

At one point, she asked the two, "So, do you believe your son received a fair trial?"

Both replied, "absolutely not" and Hayes promised to "keep fighting." Brown also asked if the two would have done anything differently.

If you were hoping these parents would say something about raising their son not to stab other kids, or teaching him to be mature and walk away in a conflict that could escalate, you'll be disappointed.

Andrew Anthony replied, "I wish I would have just been rebellious. I was told, 'Don't talk to this person.' 'Don't talk to this person.' I feel like it was just a set-up. So, they told us, go get white attorneys. Every black person I went to, 'white attorney.'"

The parents of Karmelo Anthony speak with me first following the guilty verdict and 35-year sentence.

In an emotional conversation, they reflect on the trial, what they believe could have been done differently, and the impact this has had on their family.

I’ll share more from… pic.twitter.com/9GhY2oftCd

— Mimi Brown (@mimibrowntv) June 10, 2026

The quotes posted to Brown's account on the social media platform X are obviously heavily edited, but the substance comes through. (An expanded version of the interview is available on "The Breakfast Club" YouTube channel here. The quotes about the attorney start about the 12-minute mark.)

It's true that Anthony's attorney, Mike Howard. is white. But it's also true that he's someone who had the nearly impossible task of defending the indefensible.

Anthony killed 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during a track meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. At the time, Anthony had entered a tent that was reserved for a rival high school's track team.

Witness testimony told the court that Metcalf and other students in the tent asked Anthony to leave and he belligerently refused. “I’m not leaving, f**k you all,” he said, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation. He called them “a bunch of p***ies” adding they were “not going to do nothing about it,” according to the DCNF.

Witnesses also said Anthony challenged Metcalf to touch him and "see what happens" as he reached into his bag, grabbing the knife he would use for the murder.

One witness testified that Anthony was surrounded, perhaps his strongest defense if he had any, painting the picture of a panicked young man who found himself outnumbered, but that wasn't the case.

As the DCNF reported, he was surrounded, but it was after he stabbed Metcalf, as surveillance footage showed.

So, he wasn't surrounded, he was mouthing off, and he ignored students telling him to leave their tent since he wasn't from their school.

According to the New York Post, Metcalf gave Anthony a shove before the stabbing, but that detail doesn't help Anthony's case.

Someone shoves you, so you kill them? That is not legally "self-defense" as the jury or any thinking person concluded.

With the facts in mind, it wouldn't have mattered if the attorney was white or black.

Anthony could have hired Johnny Cochran and still lost.

As you've probably heard, the biggest departure was host Scott Pelley, who whinged to The New York Times this weekend about how he could berate management, have it somehow leaked to the media as if he were a hero (a leak which I'm sure had nothing to do with Pelley or his camp), and somehow get fired. Why, the nerve of these folks!

For those of you who missed it, your 21st-century Ted Baxter, America:

Scott Pelley says Bari Weiss asked 60 Minutes staffers: “Why do you think the country thinks you’re biased?"

Pelley: "Why do you think so? Do you have a poll? Is there market research? What are you talking about?"

"Because we certainly didn't believe that."

Incredible. pic.twitter.com/dFYYob38Xj

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 7, 2026

Scott Pelley sobs when he argues he’s just like U.S. troops because both go to war to serve the country and might even be more important because “there is no democracy without journalism”…

“Don’t care about the country? [CRYING] I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in… pic.twitter.com/omB9uteXFq

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 7, 2026

Wow, man. Wow. This brave soldier of democracy put his life on the line for his profession's ideals, and all he got was a boss who insisted "60 Minutes" get better and win America's trust.

But why wouldn't we trust them? Well, how about this bit of journalisming from 2020, when CBS News' flagship show refused to discuss Hunter Biden's laptop because they said it wasn't verified.

The interview aired in late October -- and the section wasn't included in the final cut, tellingly -- just after it had broken that Hunter Biden's toxic laptop was in the hands of both authorities and certain media outlets.

The laptop was reportedly dropped off at a repair shop in Delaware and forgotten while Hunter was at his lowest, which certainly made the story believable. Also, the laptop had apparently been in the hands of the FBI for some time, and they hadn't come out to say it was false.

Yet, after Trump called it "one of the biggest scandals I've ever seen" because of not only the contents of the laptop but the media cover-up of it -- remember, you'd get throttled for even sharing any of this on social media at the time -- interviewer Leslie Stahl said she didn't want to talk about it "because it can't be verified."

"Of course it can be verified," Trump said. "Excuse me, they found the laptop -- what can't be verified?"

"The laptop," Stahl responded.

"Why do you say that?" Trump said, noting that even the Biden family didn't deny the laptop was Hunter's, just that some experts said it smelled like disinformation. (It wasn't.)

But nope: can't be verified!

This exchange between Trump and Lesley Stahl is insane. She repeatedly insists the Biden laptops “can’t be verified” so reporters shouldn’t talk about it.

Trump asks her why it can’t be verified.

Her answer: “Because it can’t be verified.” pic.twitter.com/cf9hcSGnrm

— Anders Hagstrom (@Hagstrom_Anders) October 22, 2020

Actually, it had been well verified by the FBI as early as 2019, an Internal Revenue Service whistleblower said, and the feds had told social media companies it was legit when the story broke.

But these crack gumshoe journalists at CBS News not only couldn't find any of this verification, it sounds as if they weren't particularly interested in finding it, either.

Thoughts and prayers at this difficult time, "60 Minutes," where you might actually be forced to become interested in stories that can change presidential elections. I'm so sorry for your loss.

According to The Washington Post, U.S. diplomats in the Colombian capital of Bogotá told Colombian officials that a planned meeting between Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City and leftist Colombian President Gustavo Petro in New York this week would violate U.S.-imposed visa restrictions against Petro.

Colombian officials took that to mean that the U.S. might arrest Petro if he went ahead with the Mamdani meeting.

Petro's visa restrictions stem from comments he made outside United Nations headquarters in September 2025.

"I ask all the soldiers of the army of the U.S. not to point their rifles at humanity," the Colombian president said to a group of pro-Palestinian supporters. "Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity."

"A visa is a privilege, not a right," a State Department official told the Post. "Any individual’s U.S. visa is at risk of revocation if they visit America and outrageously implore U.S. soldiers to disobey orders of the duly elected president of the United States."

Petro has also accused Trump of being "complicit in genocide" for supporting Israel's war in Gaza. Trump, meanwhile, called the democratic socialist a "lunatic who’s got a lot of problems, mental problems."

The two presidents did have what Trump characterized as a "terrific" meeting in February.

Since then, however, Petro has reportedly irritated Secretary of State Marco Rubio by criticizing U.S. boat strikes in Latin America and the capture earlier this year of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

According to The New York Times, the Colombian president's criticisms of the boat strikes in particular prompted sanctions from the U.S. Treasury. Federal prosecutors also launched an investigation into possible drug-trafficking ties.

Still, Petro has continued to criticize the Trump administration and its support for Israel.

At the UN on Wednesday, for instance, the Colombian president declared that "the state of Palestine should be free and sovereign."

In the past, the Rubio-led State Department has not hesitated to use the revocation of visas as leverage against foreigners who express support for the Palestinian cause.

Most notably, in March 2025, federal agents arrested Rumeysa Ozturk, a Ph.D student at Tufts University in Massachusetts, who wrote a pro-Palestinian Op-Ed.

Then, in August, Rubio revoked the visas of Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, along with 80 other officials.

Trump has responded to Petro's criticisms by endorsing the right-wing candidate in Colombia's upcoming presidential election, the Times reported.

Mamdani's meeting with Petro had been scheduled for Friday at a university, where the mayor planned a public forum.

According to CBS News, 41-year-old Jonathan Pettigrew was fatally shot about 2:30 p.m. Monday after confronting another passenger who was speaking loudly on a phone aboard a bus in the Bronx.

At some point during what was an exchange of words, the other passenger -- described by the New York Post as being between 13 and 16 years old -- opened fire on Pettigrew.

Surveillance video showed passengers rushing off the bus before the victim collapsed on a sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the stomach.

Pettigrew was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to WABC-TV.

Yesterday in NYC…

Jonathan Pettigrew (41) asks a "teen" on an MTA bus to lower his phone volume — the "teen" kills him: pic.twitter.com/xDdbr3Cqgg

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 9, 2026

The NYPD told CBS News that the complaint over the volume of the phone call was what ultimately led to the shooting.

Pettigrew had apparently asked the suspect to stop yelling into his phone before the situation escalated into a murder in broad daylight.

Pilice said the killer fled the scene immediately after he opened fire.

He has not been arrested or identified.

Neither WABC nor CBS News offered a specific description of the alleged killer, other than to tell the public to be on the lookout for a young male in a white shirt.

As of Thursday, no arrests had been announced, and investigators had not released any images of the suspect.

Jonathan Pettigrew was just murdered on a bus in NYC on his way to pick up his young daughter after asking a rider to lower the volume on the phone

Police and media are only identifying the suspect as a “teen with a white shirt” pic.twitter.com/jKLiTdaDbC

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 10, 2026

Pettigrew, who leaves behind seven children, had recently been awarded full custody of his 7-year-old daughter.

Avery Pettigrew, the victim’s brother, told CBS News that the family was grappling with how to tell his niece that her father had been murdered.

Jonathan Pettigrew worked at a restaurant and was a sports fan, his brother said. He added that he could not believe the life of someone he loved had been taken the way it had.

"They told me my brother was deceased and I didn't believe it," he told the network.