June 16, 2026 • 18 mins
Today's episode is set up in two parts on the Karmelo Anthony case. First , three people who say they personally requested and viewed the security footage from the trial held a press conference to give their account of what is on the video. We hear from them directly. Then, Mimi Brown plays Part Three of her exclusive sit-down with Karmelo Anthony's parents, where the parents share their own perspective on what they say the video shows.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Today on Front Page, new claims from three people who
say they personally view the video at the center of
the Carmelo Anthony case, what they say they saw and
why they believe the public should know about it.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We have noticed major disparities when we look up statistically
the sentencing structures that Judge broached sentences minorities under. There's
at least a seventy five percent disparity in the length
of the prison sentence when the defendant is of color.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Then part three of my exclusives sit down with Carmelo
Anthony's parents didn't.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Say they could a spotlight on the boys, right, so
you can see them right, but they never put a
spotlight on Carmelo.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's Tuesday, June sixteenth, from the Black Effect Podcast network.
I'm Meanie Brown. This is Front Page. Stay with me.
On this episode, we're going to hear from three people
who say they personally viewed the video evidence from the
fatal encounter involving Carmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf. They held
(01:11):
a press conference offering their own accounts of what they
say the footage shows, and the video has not been
released publicly, but the group says they formally requested access
and they were allowed to view it. Here's some of
what they say the video shows.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah, so again, my name is Tony Starvint. I was
one of the individuals that put in a FOURD request
to see the video. What I saw was starkly different
from the testimony that I heard given in the trial.
There were six kids that walked up too, splintered off.
I guess that part of was introduced in the trial
where they went to deflect the coach. The other four
(01:48):
walked directly to Carmelo Anthony. There was a brief conversation
I say, maybe twenty thirty seconds, and from there a
scuffle ensued. It didn't last long. Carmelo backed out the
back of the canopy. He looked one way, looked to
the left, and flew down those bleachers. Now, this is
(02:09):
the video that was presented us. This is the question
that I have though, why wasn't that video presented in court?
And is it the true video? Because again, it's starkly
different from the testimony given in the trial. Carmelo Anthony
flew down those bleachers, fell at the bottom of the bleachers,
got up, took off. It was maybe two or three
(02:29):
kids that you can see kind of gift chase, but
Carmela was gone, so they weren't even gonna put a
put a finger on them and touch him again. There
was a scuffle that that isssued at the top of
the bleachers and Carmela got it there. But I don't
know why that was not brought up in court. I
don't know why that was shown. I don't know if
(02:50):
the is ISD gave us a bogus ass video. I
don't know, but that's that's what I saw.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Hello, everybody, I'm an advocate for Carmelo Anthony. My name
is And when I went to see the video, they
ask if you want to see it from either two
minutes before the stabbing or eleven minutes before, so I
chose eleven minutes from the moment she pressed play. Carmelo
Anthony was already sitting underneath that canopy and he was
(03:15):
sitting there for at least eight to nine and a
half minutes. You see, well, I saw a boy in
a black hoodie go over to him first, and then
they left out of the tent, and then you see
coming across the field was another six boys. When they
got to the bleachers, one he went out of frame,
and the other one sat at the bottom. But the
(03:37):
remaining four they went directly to Carmelo Anthony, and like
he said before, it was a brief conversation. And then
all you see is commotion. And we know from the
interviews that Hunter did. We know that Hunter was in
fact of underneath that tent. The next thing you see,
(03:57):
I'm sorry. You can see Carmelo in the midst of
them assaulting him. You can see Carmelo trying to back out,
but he gets pulled back forward. The next thing you
see is Carmelo he comes shooting out the back, but
he's still not standing and he had to like kind
of crap crawl backwards, and he had to like jerk
away from them because they still had a hold of
(04:19):
his hoodie. He goes up a couple of bleachers and
he's looking around for which way to go. He runs
diagonally down the bleachers and then he falls. At the
time of him falling, that's when I noticed another three
boys coming down the bleachers chasing after him. But once
Carmelo got up, he took off. You didn't see him
for the rest of the video. At no point in
that video do you see Hunter holding his brother, and
(04:44):
no point in that video do you see those boys
ever going back to the tent and sitting down. That
was all a lie. And I also have questions. I
don't know how the defense did not play that video
because when you see that video, it was self defense.
Carmelo was only five eight one hundred and thirty something
(05:04):
pounds and Austin Hunter Metcalf were six to one two
hundred and twenty something pounds. So for people to say
that he should have used his hands, people can die
from fights from people using their hands. And that's all
I'm gonna say for right now.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I'm Christopher King.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Actually was a licensed attorney in Collin County several years
ago working with the City of Brisco on a certain project.
But I'm Christopher King. My handle is king cast online.
I'm also a journalist and I have a couple things
for you Briefly today, I have filed my request for
all exhibits used that trial. We'll see how that turns out.
I mailed it in before with the self just stam donvelope,
(05:44):
didn't get a response, so I figured I'd fly out
here at Violet in person this time so as to
this trial what I see as an attorney, I saw
what I believed to be male practice, and I don't
know why it happened, but I will tell you a
couple of quick reference points. Number One, he allowed those
students to young people, not professional people, to testify as
to ultimate issues of fact such as was it murder
(06:07):
or not? Yes, you know, was the provacation come Ilo
provoked him? That's not how it works. You have to
make them elocute as to what Carmelo did to allege
to the provoke a situation. That's how it works. And
when you don't object to it and the case is
in chief, you cannot come back later post talk and
then ask the judge and complain about it in a
jury charge. There was also there were also no expert
(06:28):
witnesses produced, no use of force expert, no no jury,
no jury professional consultant was there that I know of. Okay,
So these are all very serious questions on this case,
and I don't understand it, but I don't like it,
and I think this is the proverbial travesty of justice
(06:49):
that we have just witnessed here, and there needs to
be an investigation. It's not right, which is not right.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, So keep in mind what you just heard, because
in part three of my exclusive sit down with Carmelo
Anthony's parents, they share their own perspective of what they
say the video shows. If you miss parts one and two,
go back to Friday and Monday. But here's part three.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The evidence shows he jumped three bleaches to get to him.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
The jury here that information, and is that information on
the video? That's on the video, and they had they
made their minds made up.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Their mind was made up, made up three three bleaches,
some say one, some said three, some side five. They
all their statements was inconsistent every.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Because we haven't seen that video. What did that video show?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
The video showed honestly, you can show that. You can
see him coming into the tent, sitting down, and then
it's like it started getting a little like you can
tell people, but you know we're experts. Let me tell
you what da did. They put a spotlight on the boys, right,
(08:09):
so you can see them right, but they never put
a spotlight on Kamalok. And the reason why is because
of course they were trying to make their side look like,
oh he it wasn't it wasn't that bag or pushed
the whole the whole thing move. Even the guy EP
said in his statement it was so bad to it
(08:31):
pushed him out the way because it's been pretty pretty
big kids, real big big than me actually, So it's
like they tried to minimize their doing. But I've heard
people who would supposed to be just as if in Texas,
if I threaten you when I'm lying, you have the
(08:53):
right to do whatever for us. If you feel for
your life, no, he said, if you feel for your
life or seriously body home. Yeah. Oh, they'll train judicial
fighters too.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
And so the video that you all uh that they
short showed in court, it shows him running away from.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, he ran to a teacher. The teacher said that
the teacher he ran to. He ran to a guy,
and the teacher he ran to, Actually he hugged him,
because Kamelo, he's not likely. He hugged the guy like
he was freaking out. He hugged the guy. So the
guy was they was hugging. He was crying hysterically, and
(09:36):
they tried to paint it as if he was trying
to leave. But court, they shouldn't have said it that
he wasn't leading.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah, now did this teacher testify yes.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
And he also said he had to stop another kid
from jumping on camelo, which was guess what supposed to have
been a person that was his friend, the guy who, hey, man,
come on, look hey, if you've been to high school,
think about that, the guy that told you to come
over here you're sitting down. The same person who could
have de escalated the whole thing. He was trying to
go after him. And that's the same guy that was
(10:10):
playing like he was video but they couldn't find a
video he was. The police didn't really even try to
go through his phone. He would look for the video.
So he played. He said he was acting as if
he was.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Recording now when he was running. Was this before or
after the incident?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Happened after the incident.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
This is after the incident.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
That's why they came up with the narrative that.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
He was running.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, he threw the he threw the knife. When he
threw he didn't throw the knife. His hand was cut.
So it's a lot that when you if you the
video showed, if you ever been on high school bleaches,
you're not almost stad you know how you try to
imagine trying to run up he failed, So what you
think failed? He only went up. They caught it in
(10:55):
three bleaches. It was like three bleaches up. It was
three bleaches up. So you see you can see him
get up. You could tell he dropped it. Then he
stood up. He didn't know where to go. Did he
ran down fail? And they was coming after him? He
ran alroong and ran to a coach.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Did the video show the altercation of them and putting
him first and then the confrontation? Okay, okay, okay. Did
you talk to your defense attorney about any of these
concerns that you had as the trial was playing out
or even now that the trial is over.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I mean, I'm actually praying that somebody's sending somebody that
we get sent somebody that could help us. It's kind
of like I'm still right now in shock. So I'm
just moving on and drilling right now.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
So you're looking for a new defense attorney for future appeal? Yeah,
And did your defense attorneys say anything about how he
feels so they feel the case went? M hmm.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I'm gonna say they gave us the corporate answer.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
And did Carmelo want to testify in his own on
his own behalf? And was the vibe.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
It was based on everything. He didn't need nothing because
everything they said when his self defense, they have to
prove it, they never proved.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Okay, So that was never that was because I know
there was this pause and a lot of people thought that,
you know, we were going to come back and he
was going to take the stand, and he didn't. So
that was never an option that had never been discussed
of him taking the stand.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That's why we just needed a knew it. We need
we need somebody who's going to fight. That's what I
can say right now. We didn't need somebody on a
fight form because the whole thing was he provoked it.
That was their whole their entire case. He provoked it.
That's that's uh, that's what the whole thing was.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
What do you want the world to know about who
Carmelo is and what your family is going through right now?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Going through hell doesn't feel real. We feel like it's
just don't feel real. He's a good kid. I mean,
the receipts show that he wasn't a wii N. We
we as adults, we're not helping with the y ns
and I can know we could look at the tragedy
(13:32):
that having, but it was about the law. The law
posed to cover us. So anybody who feels any way
different honestly feel like, I mean, it's okay when to death,
as long as that devil don't knock at your door.
Because I was clue is like that too. Hey man,
it never happened. It would never happen to me. It
would never never happen to us, because you know, we
(13:53):
stayed in our lane. We were nice neighborhood, We were
doing good. But these people basically made it there. We
had just had comments to what people say, Yeah, we
send y'all back to the hood, were sending y'all. Y'all
don't deserve that. Y'all don't deserve what y'all have. He
said it in court yesterday. Forgot. He said that they
told my son to look at me when I'm talking
(14:15):
to who said that? The dad, the son, both of
them said look at me while while we talked to
me like it's gonna come out. They said, look at
me while we talked what.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, the dad Metcalt father said that Carmelo and son.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
The son came out. The son came out here. Mister,
I don't understand for the impact statement. You know too two,
but he didn't want to get understanding.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Has played out. Is there anything that you both wish
you could have done differently?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I wish I would have been just been rebellious and
just do what I was told. Don't talk to this person.
Don't talk to this person. I feel like it was
just a setup. Now. Like like I said, they told us,
go get i'm white attorneys. Every black person. I went
(15:12):
to white attorney. No white attorney said I'm gonna push them. Hey,
here you go. I mean, no objections. It wasn't. It wasn't.
It was things mooth because as a father of me
being who I am, I got to make sure she's straight.
This Mama bell, I got to make sure she's straight
mentally because if she's not straight my house and straight,
(15:32):
I'm not straight then because I got the kids that
the kids that were about. Got to make sure his
mental health. I can't go back and forth with him
right then that because his I don't think his mental
can handle it. The misunderstanding what Dad's trying to take.
This ain't a daddy moment. You understand what I'm saying,
It's not. It's not the time for mere arguing with
you about hey, you know some i'thing. Hey, son, can
(15:55):
you hey, can you see? Can you see? Can you see? Uh?
People say, well, I would have done this, so I
would have done that. You say that because you're not
in that situation. So I couldn't do that. And me
knowing my son, which is you know your child correct,
you see, I don't. I don't want him to maybe
want to hurt himself because I don't know what he's doing.
(16:15):
He's doing a great job. He's still in school. I'm
keeping him busy. We're trying to do stuff around the house.
And one thing, this this thing did do with us
and brought our family closer when.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
The verdict came down. What was the first thought that
went through your head?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I felt, my son, h I was I felt like man,
I felt I cried so much. I have held back
and I told her, man, you know, I'm going to
let dad like hold it up, you know, hold it
up to be tight. I said, boy, you broke me.
(16:54):
He broke me in the first half. I never cried
as much as I've cried. And when that when they
it was just like when I seen him when he
grabbed it. I could still picture that man what he
was saying, and he said, it's so smooth the way
he read that verdict. It was like, you know, just yeah, hey,
yeah as such and such, Yeah he's found guilty. It
(17:17):
was just then. They also said, well, we were told
not to look at the family, but they said that
the dad was actually giving the witnesses different signs like
doing do this, like telling them giving him masters. And
I told my joy like, yeah, we know, we know,
we know the hell you mean, you know, but ident
if I act up, I'm the emotional black man. You
(17:38):
feel what I'm saying, Oh, look at him, then it
would have been on breaking news. Oh he done flashed
out or look out that's look. That's how they added
we got him. So I had to humble myself. It
wasn't just for me and my family. It was for
all of us, because if I would have flashed out
the way I wanted to, oh, it would have been
all that. You'll probably be looking at that God damn it.
(17:59):
Everybody went up after the food. That's what they wanted.
So I played their game, and I'm just let you know.
Their game don't work. It's not for us. The justices
is not for it. They can't say we get anything
out of the out of the out of the out
of what was told. We followed all the instructions and
we follow the law. It just don't work for us.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
What do you say to the people who say that's.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
He's calling now.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
That's part three of my conversation with Carmelo Anthony's parents.
Thank you to the family for sharing your story with me.
We're going to keep watching this case, the video, the appeal,
all of it. That's your front page. I mean me Brown.
This podcast was brought to you by the Black Effect
Podcast Network.
Today on Front Page, new claims from three people who
say they personally view the video at the center of
the Carmelo Anthony case, what they say they saw and
why they believe the public should know about it.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We have noticed major disparities when we look up statistically
the sentencing structures that Judge broached sentences minorities under. There's
at least a seventy five percent disparity in the length
of the prison sentence when the defendant is of color.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Then part three of my exclusives sit down with Carmelo
Anthony's parents didn't.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Say they could a spotlight on the boys, right, so
you can see them right, but they never put a
spotlight on Carmelo.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's Tuesday, June sixteenth, from the Black Effect Podcast network.
I'm Meanie Brown. This is Front Page. Stay with me.
On this episode, we're going to hear from three people
who say they personally viewed the video evidence from the
fatal encounter involving Carmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf. They held
(01:11):
a press conference offering their own accounts of what they
say the footage shows, and the video has not been
released publicly, but the group says they formally requested access
and they were allowed to view it. Here's some of
what they say the video shows.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah, so again, my name is Tony Starvint. I was
one of the individuals that put in a FOURD request
to see the video. What I saw was starkly different
from the testimony that I heard given in the trial.
There were six kids that walked up too, splintered off.
I guess that part of was introduced in the trial
where they went to deflect the coach. The other four
(01:48):
walked directly to Carmelo Anthony. There was a brief conversation
I say, maybe twenty thirty seconds, and from there a
scuffle ensued. It didn't last long. Carmelo backed out the
back of the canopy. He looked one way, looked to
the left, and flew down those bleachers. Now, this is
(02:09):
the video that was presented us. This is the question
that I have though, why wasn't that video presented in court?
And is it the true video? Because again, it's starkly
different from the testimony given in the trial. Carmelo Anthony
flew down those bleachers, fell at the bottom of the bleachers,
got up, took off. It was maybe two or three
(02:29):
kids that you can see kind of gift chase, but
Carmela was gone, so they weren't even gonna put a
put a finger on them and touch him again. There
was a scuffle that that isssued at the top of
the bleachers and Carmela got it there. But I don't
know why that was not brought up in court. I
don't know why that was shown. I don't know if
(02:50):
the is ISD gave us a bogus ass video. I
don't know, but that's that's what I saw.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Hello, everybody, I'm an advocate for Carmelo Anthony. My name
is And when I went to see the video, they
ask if you want to see it from either two
minutes before the stabbing or eleven minutes before, so I
chose eleven minutes from the moment she pressed play. Carmelo
Anthony was already sitting underneath that canopy and he was
(03:15):
sitting there for at least eight to nine and a
half minutes. You see, well, I saw a boy in
a black hoodie go over to him first, and then
they left out of the tent, and then you see
coming across the field was another six boys. When they
got to the bleachers, one he went out of frame,
and the other one sat at the bottom. But the
(03:37):
remaining four they went directly to Carmelo Anthony, and like
he said before, it was a brief conversation. And then
all you see is commotion. And we know from the
interviews that Hunter did. We know that Hunter was in
fact of underneath that tent. The next thing you see,
(03:57):
I'm sorry. You can see Carmelo in the midst of
them assaulting him. You can see Carmelo trying to back out,
but he gets pulled back forward. The next thing you
see is Carmelo he comes shooting out the back, but
he's still not standing and he had to like kind
of crap crawl backwards, and he had to like jerk
away from them because they still had a hold of
(04:19):
his hoodie. He goes up a couple of bleachers and
he's looking around for which way to go. He runs
diagonally down the bleachers and then he falls. At the
time of him falling, that's when I noticed another three
boys coming down the bleachers chasing after him. But once
Carmelo got up, he took off. You didn't see him
for the rest of the video. At no point in
that video do you see Hunter holding his brother, and
(04:44):
no point in that video do you see those boys
ever going back to the tent and sitting down. That
was all a lie. And I also have questions. I
don't know how the defense did not play that video
because when you see that video, it was self defense.
Carmelo was only five eight one hundred and thirty something
(05:04):
pounds and Austin Hunter Metcalf were six to one two
hundred and twenty something pounds. So for people to say
that he should have used his hands, people can die
from fights from people using their hands. And that's all
I'm gonna say for right now.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I'm Christopher King.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Actually was a licensed attorney in Collin County several years
ago working with the City of Brisco on a certain project.
But I'm Christopher King. My handle is king cast online.
I'm also a journalist and I have a couple things
for you Briefly today, I have filed my request for
all exhibits used that trial. We'll see how that turns out.
I mailed it in before with the self just stam donvelope,
(05:44):
didn't get a response, so I figured I'd fly out
here at Violet in person this time so as to
this trial what I see as an attorney, I saw
what I believed to be male practice, and I don't
know why it happened, but I will tell you a
couple of quick reference points. Number One, he allowed those
students to young people, not professional people, to testify as
to ultimate issues of fact such as was it murder
(06:07):
or not? Yes, you know, was the provacation come Ilo
provoked him? That's not how it works. You have to
make them elocute as to what Carmelo did to allege
to the provoke a situation. That's how it works. And
when you don't object to it and the case is
in chief, you cannot come back later post talk and
then ask the judge and complain about it in a
jury charge. There was also there were also no expert
(06:28):
witnesses produced, no use of force expert, no no jury,
no jury professional consultant was there that I know of. Okay,
So these are all very serious questions on this case,
and I don't understand it, but I don't like it,
and I think this is the proverbial travesty of justice
(06:49):
that we have just witnessed here, and there needs to
be an investigation. It's not right, which is not right.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, So keep in mind what you just heard, because
in part three of my exclusive sit down with Carmelo
Anthony's parents, they share their own perspective of what they
say the video shows. If you miss parts one and two,
go back to Friday and Monday. But here's part three.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The evidence shows he jumped three bleaches to get to him.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
The jury here that information, and is that information on
the video? That's on the video, and they had they
made their minds made up.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Their mind was made up, made up three three bleaches,
some say one, some said three, some side five. They
all their statements was inconsistent every.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Because we haven't seen that video. What did that video show?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
The video showed honestly, you can show that. You can
see him coming into the tent, sitting down, and then
it's like it started getting a little like you can
tell people, but you know we're experts. Let me tell
you what da did. They put a spotlight on the boys, right,
(08:09):
so you can see them right, but they never put
a spotlight on Kamalok. And the reason why is because
of course they were trying to make their side look like,
oh he it wasn't it wasn't that bag or pushed
the whole the whole thing move. Even the guy EP
said in his statement it was so bad to it
(08:31):
pushed him out the way because it's been pretty pretty
big kids, real big big than me actually, So it's
like they tried to minimize their doing. But I've heard
people who would supposed to be just as if in Texas,
if I threaten you when I'm lying, you have the
(08:53):
right to do whatever for us. If you feel for
your life, no, he said, if you feel for your
life or seriously body home. Yeah. Oh, they'll train judicial
fighters too.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
And so the video that you all uh that they
short showed in court, it shows him running away from.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, he ran to a teacher. The teacher said that
the teacher he ran to. He ran to a guy,
and the teacher he ran to, Actually he hugged him,
because Kamelo, he's not likely. He hugged the guy like
he was freaking out. He hugged the guy. So the
guy was they was hugging. He was crying hysterically, and
(09:36):
they tried to paint it as if he was trying
to leave. But court, they shouldn't have said it that
he wasn't leading.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah, now did this teacher testify yes.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
And he also said he had to stop another kid
from jumping on camelo, which was guess what supposed to have
been a person that was his friend, the guy who, hey, man,
come on, look hey, if you've been to high school,
think about that, the guy that told you to come
over here you're sitting down. The same person who could
have de escalated the whole thing. He was trying to
go after him. And that's the same guy that was
(10:10):
playing like he was video but they couldn't find a
video he was. The police didn't really even try to
go through his phone. He would look for the video.
So he played. He said he was acting as if
he was.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Recording now when he was running. Was this before or
after the incident?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Happened after the incident.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
This is after the incident.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
That's why they came up with the narrative that.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
He was running.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, he threw the he threw the knife. When he
threw he didn't throw the knife. His hand was cut.
So it's a lot that when you if you the
video showed, if you ever been on high school bleaches,
you're not almost stad you know how you try to
imagine trying to run up he failed, So what you
think failed? He only went up. They caught it in
(10:55):
three bleaches. It was like three bleaches up. It was
three bleaches up. So you see you can see him
get up. You could tell he dropped it. Then he
stood up. He didn't know where to go. Did he
ran down fail? And they was coming after him? He
ran alroong and ran to a coach.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Did the video show the altercation of them and putting
him first and then the confrontation? Okay, okay, okay. Did
you talk to your defense attorney about any of these
concerns that you had as the trial was playing out
or even now that the trial is over.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I mean, I'm actually praying that somebody's sending somebody that
we get sent somebody that could help us. It's kind
of like I'm still right now in shock. So I'm
just moving on and drilling right now.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
So you're looking for a new defense attorney for future appeal? Yeah,
And did your defense attorneys say anything about how he
feels so they feel the case went? M hmm.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I'm gonna say they gave us the corporate answer.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
And did Carmelo want to testify in his own on
his own behalf? And was the vibe.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
It was based on everything. He didn't need nothing because
everything they said when his self defense, they have to
prove it, they never proved.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Okay, So that was never that was because I know
there was this pause and a lot of people thought that,
you know, we were going to come back and he
was going to take the stand, and he didn't. So
that was never an option that had never been discussed
of him taking the stand.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That's why we just needed a knew it. We need
we need somebody who's going to fight. That's what I
can say right now. We didn't need somebody on a
fight form because the whole thing was he provoked it.
That was their whole their entire case. He provoked it.
That's that's uh, that's what the whole thing was.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
What do you want the world to know about who
Carmelo is and what your family is going through right now?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Going through hell doesn't feel real. We feel like it's
just don't feel real. He's a good kid. I mean,
the receipts show that he wasn't a wii N. We
we as adults, we're not helping with the y ns
and I can know we could look at the tragedy
(13:32):
that having, but it was about the law. The law
posed to cover us. So anybody who feels any way
different honestly feel like, I mean, it's okay when to death,
as long as that devil don't knock at your door.
Because I was clue is like that too. Hey man,
it never happened. It would never happen to me. It
would never never happen to us, because you know, we
(13:53):
stayed in our lane. We were nice neighborhood, We were
doing good. But these people basically made it there. We
had just had comments to what people say, Yeah, we
send y'all back to the hood, were sending y'all. Y'all
don't deserve that. Y'all don't deserve what y'all have. He
said it in court yesterday. Forgot. He said that they
told my son to look at me when I'm talking
(14:15):
to who said that? The dad, the son, both of
them said look at me while while we talked to
me like it's gonna come out. They said, look at
me while we talked what.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, the dad Metcalt father said that Carmelo and son.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
The son came out. The son came out here. Mister,
I don't understand for the impact statement. You know too two,
but he didn't want to get understanding.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Has played out. Is there anything that you both wish
you could have done differently?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I wish I would have been just been rebellious and
just do what I was told. Don't talk to this person.
Don't talk to this person. I feel like it was
just a setup. Now. Like like I said, they told us,
go get i'm white attorneys. Every black person. I went
(15:12):
to white attorney. No white attorney said I'm gonna push them. Hey,
here you go. I mean, no objections. It wasn't. It wasn't.
It was things mooth because as a father of me
being who I am, I got to make sure she's straight.
This Mama bell, I got to make sure she's straight
mentally because if she's not straight my house and straight,
(15:32):
I'm not straight then because I got the kids that
the kids that were about. Got to make sure his
mental health. I can't go back and forth with him
right then that because his I don't think his mental
can handle it. The misunderstanding what Dad's trying to take.
This ain't a daddy moment. You understand what I'm saying,
It's not. It's not the time for mere arguing with
you about hey, you know some i'thing. Hey, son, can
(15:55):
you hey, can you see? Can you see? Can you see? Uh?
People say, well, I would have done this, so I
would have done that. You say that because you're not
in that situation. So I couldn't do that. And me
knowing my son, which is you know your child correct,
you see, I don't. I don't want him to maybe
want to hurt himself because I don't know what he's doing.
(16:15):
He's doing a great job. He's still in school. I'm
keeping him busy. We're trying to do stuff around the house.
And one thing, this this thing did do with us
and brought our family closer when.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
The verdict came down. What was the first thought that
went through your head?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I felt, my son, h I was I felt like man,
I felt I cried so much. I have held back
and I told her, man, you know, I'm going to
let dad like hold it up, you know, hold it
up to be tight. I said, boy, you broke me.
(16:54):
He broke me in the first half. I never cried
as much as I've cried. And when that when they
it was just like when I seen him when he
grabbed it. I could still picture that man what he
was saying, and he said, it's so smooth the way
he read that verdict. It was like, you know, just yeah, hey,
yeah as such and such, Yeah he's found guilty. It
(17:17):
was just then. They also said, well, we were told
not to look at the family, but they said that
the dad was actually giving the witnesses different signs like
doing do this, like telling them giving him masters. And
I told my joy like, yeah, we know, we know,
we know the hell you mean, you know, but ident
if I act up, I'm the emotional black man. You
(17:38):
feel what I'm saying, Oh, look at him, then it
would have been on breaking news. Oh he done flashed
out or look out that's look. That's how they added
we got him. So I had to humble myself. It
wasn't just for me and my family. It was for
all of us, because if I would have flashed out
the way I wanted to, oh, it would have been
all that. You'll probably be looking at that God damn it.
(17:59):
Everybody went up after the food. That's what they wanted.
So I played their game, and I'm just let you know.
Their game don't work. It's not for us. The justices
is not for it. They can't say we get anything
out of the out of the out of the out
of what was told. We followed all the instructions and
we follow the law. It just don't work for us.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
What do you say to the people who say that's.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
He's calling now.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
That's part three of my conversation with Carmelo Anthony's parents.
Thank you to the family for sharing your story with me.
We're going to keep watching this case, the video, the appeal,
all of it. That's your front page. I mean me Brown.
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