The murder trial of Karmelo Anthony, accused of fatally stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Texas high school track meet, is now underway. As prosecutors argue the killing was senseless and deliberate, Anthony's defense team maintains he acted in self-defense. The case has drawn national attention, sparking debate over race, jury selection, media coverage, and the broader implications for the justice system.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There's a trial underway that the left wing media does
not want to spend a lot of time on because
it's not the narrative that they think Americans should spend
any time thinking about. It is the trial of Austin
Metcalf's alleged killer, now Carmelo Anthony. Now, remember, Austin Metcalf
(00:23):
was a seventeen year old white high school athlete and
he was at a Frisco, Texas track meet back in
April of twenty twenty five. Carmelo Anthony, also seventeen years old,
now nineteen years old and black, stands accused of first
degree murder at that track meet. There really is no
dispute over exactly what the facts were of what happened
(00:50):
at that track meet of Carmelo Anthony plunged a knife
into Austin's chest and severed his order after dispute over
sitting under the Memorial High School team tent during a
reign delay, Anthony Carmelo Anthony turned himself in and said
(01:11):
that he did it, but his defense is self defense. Meanwhile,
prosecutors are calling it a senseless killing, and video evidence
shown in court and also witnesses describe Anthony taunting, touch
me and see what happens before pulling the blade. Now,
(01:32):
this isn't just another tragedy, another senseless murder in this country,
because it is a flashpoint in exposing how race can
be such poisonous ideologically, such poisonous politics, and the justice
system is unfortunately not immune from this at all. It
(01:55):
also goes to the resentment that at least a portion
of the black community has for American whites, and what
can be done about this as a society. Look, Austin
Metcalf was a kid doing what kids doing, a track me.
He was competing, competing and hanging out with his twin
(02:17):
brother and Anthony Carmelo Anthony from another school, was in
the wrong tent. Now, that's a little bit like and
this has been explained already by those there, a little
bit like being on the opposing at the opposing team's
bench during a game. You're not supposed to be there,
You're not welcome there. It's not a huge deal, it's
not some crime, but you're not supposed to be there.
(02:40):
So when Metcalf told Anthony it was time to leave,
Carmelo Anthony with no injury or threat to himself whatsoever,
pulled out a knife and stabbed Metcalf right in the
chest and broad daylight, in front of hundreds and hundreds
of witnesses. He also, by the way, had a knife
at a place where knives were not allowed, so claiming
(03:01):
self defense, he's carrying a legal weapon. He stabs someone.
And this is look, this is very clear. He murdered
this kid, and he has a lack of This is
now Carmelo Anthony clearly has a lack of impulse control
and has a perhaps anger rage problem. But that's his
(03:25):
problem to deal with. And now he has to pay
the price for his obvious crime. And as I said,
this is not a situation where he's claiming innocence of
taking the life of Austin Metcalf. He's just saying, well,
I did it because I was in fear of my
own life. Only moron would believe that story. Based on
(03:48):
the agreed upon facts here. There was no way in
which his life was in jeopardy. There's absolutely no reasonable
way that he could justify you lethal force against Austin Metcalf,
not ethically and not legally. But this should be an
(04:09):
open and shut case. Carmelo Anthony should spend the rest
of his life in prison because it was spur of
the moment. I think you could make a case that
this should not be a death penalty. I know he's
seventeen as well, but you can charge as an adult
at seventeen. This isn't a death penalty case. I think
it's fair to say it's a life in prison case,
(04:32):
and that is what they're going for. So I and
many times I will say, I think that there should
be the death penalty applied, and I think we should
apply the death penalty in this country far more regularly
than we do. I know people say, oh, but it
takes twenty years. And the stuff about people are innocent
and they're on death row all the time is a lie.
That's propaganda. It's not true. The Innocence Project likes to
(04:57):
use technicalities to get vile rapist, murderers, etc. Others off
of death row. When there's a mountain of evidence against them.
They'll get some judge who had nothing to do with
the initial case to say, oh, you know what, you're right,
let's let this person out. It's outrageous. I think the
Innocence Project is a disgrace. But put that aside. This
(05:18):
is a case that should be honestly, Metcalf should be
forced to take a plea deal. You would think when
I say forced, Metcalf should I'm not Metcalf, Pardon me.
Anthony should be forced by the facts, by the situation
to take a plea deal based upon the fact that
this is such an obvious as I said, slam dunk.
(05:39):
But he's not doing that. He's fighting this. He's taking
this a trial. And now you get a sense as
to why he is taking this to trial. You look
at the jury selection that is going on right now,
hundreds of potential jurors, and the result of it, no
black jurors were seated on the twelve person panel. Prosecutors
(06:00):
struck the remaining black prospects educators, citing race neutral reasons
tied to their profession and potential biases in a school
related case. The defense is crying Batson challenge, saying racial discrimination.
The judge sided with the state, and outside the courthouse
and Colin County supporters traded slurs. There's video of someone
(06:22):
saying the only good cracker is a dead cracker. Of
course that's a Carmelo Anthony supporter, So that gives you
senses to what's going on here. But here's what else
is happening in high profile interracial cases where a black
defendant is accused of killing a white victim, which is
eight one, nine to one the mathematical reality here, meaning
(06:43):
a lot more blacks kill whites than whites killed blacks
by as I said, a almost ten to one mathematical difference.
There is a something of the Oj effect here where
remember OJ Simpson, because of systemic racism, he was able
to murder his ex wife and it's completely innocent bystander
(07:05):
by practically cutting their heads off with a knife in
the most savage butchery imaginable. That was the mother of
his children. I might add that he did that too,
and black jurors said, no, he's not guilty, and a
lot of black people celebrated that verdict. In fact, I
saw that in real time, and that kind of racial solidarity,
(07:30):
racial tribalism, racial bias is disgusting and it is also
very undermining to our justice system. In the same way
that convicting a black man. If a white jury convicted
a black man because they don't like black people in general,
we would all understand that that is abhorrent. That is
(07:52):
racism that is evil. But a black jury can decide
that a black defendant is not guilty because of the
legacy of slavery or the legacy of racism or something,
and we're supposed to accept that. No, it's on the
exact same moral plane, the exact same kind of moral
violation as the other example of white prejudice against a
(08:14):
black defendant. So this oj effect here we're seeing play
out where you have members of the jury who were excused,
who are black, who said things like, quote, I just
can't put a brother in prison end quote. So in
America today, when you're having jury selection for a high
profile case like this, there are black Americans who will
(08:36):
just come out and say, I won't convict a black
person of killing a white person. Won't do it. This
should be a huge, huge red flag, a real warning
sign about race relations, the truth of race relations in
this country right now, and the standards that we have
(09:00):
and don't have four different groups of people. We either
live in a rule of law society where individuals are
held to account by the justice system irrespective of their
skin color, or we don't live in a rule of
law society. So there's plenty of polling and academic studies
on implicit bias and high profile outcomes show racial solidarity
(09:24):
affects deliberations. Black Americans on average report higher distrust in
the criminal justice system. But the truth is that Black
Americans feel completely justified in making decisions based upon skin
color in favor of black people, particularly when a white
(09:46):
victim is involved. And that's gross and that's wrong, and
it shows a deep seated resentment. It shows that I
don't like this term. Reverse racism has to be banished.
There's no such thing, because that implies that there's some structure,
there's some hierarchy, inherent hierarchy in race relations. I reject that,
and anyone should reject that. If you don't like someone
(10:08):
because of their race, because of their skin color, their ethnicity, ethnicity,
you are engaging in racism, pure and simple. And there
is black racism against white people today in America, obviously.
So this is what we are going to see playing
out in this trial of Carmelo Anthony. How far will
(10:29):
this be taken and what will be the end result.
I certainly hope there's not a verdict of not guilty
here because of some misplaced racism. Race solidarity by members
of the jury who are white who think that you
can't convict a young black man because of the history
(10:51):
of slavery or racism. A very similar thing where you
don't hold the person to account because of their skin color.
I think that's possible ability here you could have one
juror perhaps with a hung jury, who says, oh, because
he's black, this can't be a fair trial because he's black,
I can't send him to prison for what he did
the obvious and heinous murder of Austin Metcalf. Continue to
(11:15):
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(11:58):
great weekend shield time,
There's a trial underway that the left wing media does
not want to spend a lot of time on because
it's not the narrative that they think Americans should spend
any time thinking about. It is the trial of Austin
Metcalf's alleged killer, now Carmelo Anthony. Now, remember, Austin Metcalf
(00:23):
was a seventeen year old white high school athlete and
he was at a Frisco, Texas track meet back in
April of twenty twenty five. Carmelo Anthony, also seventeen years old,
now nineteen years old and black, stands accused of first
degree murder at that track meet. There really is no
dispute over exactly what the facts were of what happened
(00:50):
at that track meet of Carmelo Anthony plunged a knife
into Austin's chest and severed his order after dispute over
sitting under the Memorial High School team tent during a
reign delay, Anthony Carmelo Anthony turned himself in and said
(01:11):
that he did it, but his defense is self defense. Meanwhile,
prosecutors are calling it a senseless killing, and video evidence
shown in court and also witnesses describe Anthony taunting, touch
me and see what happens before pulling the blade. Now,
(01:32):
this isn't just another tragedy, another senseless murder in this country,
because it is a flashpoint in exposing how race can
be such poisonous ideologically, such poisonous politics, and the justice
system is unfortunately not immune from this at all. It
(01:55):
also goes to the resentment that at least a portion
of the black community has for American whites, and what
can be done about this as a society. Look, Austin
Metcalf was a kid doing what kids doing, a track me.
He was competing, competing and hanging out with his twin
(02:17):
brother and Anthony Carmelo Anthony from another school, was in
the wrong tent. Now, that's a little bit like and
this has been explained already by those there, a little
bit like being on the opposing at the opposing team's
bench during a game. You're not supposed to be there,
You're not welcome there. It's not a huge deal, it's
not some crime, but you're not supposed to be there.
(02:40):
So when Metcalf told Anthony it was time to leave,
Carmelo Anthony with no injury or threat to himself whatsoever,
pulled out a knife and stabbed Metcalf right in the
chest and broad daylight, in front of hundreds and hundreds
of witnesses. He also, by the way, had a knife
at a place where knives were not allowed, so claiming
(03:01):
self defense, he's carrying a legal weapon. He stabs someone.
And this is look, this is very clear. He murdered
this kid, and he has a lack of This is
now Carmelo Anthony clearly has a lack of impulse control
and has a perhaps anger rage problem. But that's his
(03:25):
problem to deal with. And now he has to pay
the price for his obvious crime. And as I said,
this is not a situation where he's claiming innocence of
taking the life of Austin Metcalf. He's just saying, well,
I did it because I was in fear of my
own life. Only moron would believe that story. Based on
(03:48):
the agreed upon facts here. There was no way in
which his life was in jeopardy. There's absolutely no reasonable
way that he could justify you lethal force against Austin Metcalf,
not ethically and not legally. But this should be an
(04:09):
open and shut case. Carmelo Anthony should spend the rest
of his life in prison because it was spur of
the moment. I think you could make a case that
this should not be a death penalty. I know he's
seventeen as well, but you can charge as an adult
at seventeen. This isn't a death penalty case. I think
it's fair to say it's a life in prison case,
(04:32):
and that is what they're going for. So I and
many times I will say, I think that there should
be the death penalty applied, and I think we should
apply the death penalty in this country far more regularly
than we do. I know people say, oh, but it
takes twenty years. And the stuff about people are innocent
and they're on death row all the time is a lie.
That's propaganda. It's not true. The Innocence Project likes to
(04:57):
use technicalities to get vile rapist, murderers, etc. Others off
of death row. When there's a mountain of evidence against them.
They'll get some judge who had nothing to do with
the initial case to say, oh, you know what, you're right,
let's let this person out. It's outrageous. I think the
Innocence Project is a disgrace. But put that aside. This
(05:18):
is a case that should be honestly, Metcalf should be
forced to take a plea deal. You would think when
I say forced, Metcalf should I'm not Metcalf, Pardon me.
Anthony should be forced by the facts, by the situation
to take a plea deal based upon the fact that
this is such an obvious as I said, slam dunk.
(05:39):
But he's not doing that. He's fighting this. He's taking
this a trial. And now you get a sense as
to why he is taking this to trial. You look
at the jury selection that is going on right now,
hundreds of potential jurors, and the result of it, no
black jurors were seated on the twelve person panel. Prosecutors
(06:00):
struck the remaining black prospects educators, citing race neutral reasons
tied to their profession and potential biases in a school
related case. The defense is crying Batson challenge, saying racial discrimination.
The judge sided with the state, and outside the courthouse
and Colin County supporters traded slurs. There's video of someone
(06:22):
saying the only good cracker is a dead cracker. Of
course that's a Carmelo Anthony supporter, So that gives you
senses to what's going on here. But here's what else
is happening in high profile interracial cases where a black
defendant is accused of killing a white victim, which is
eight one, nine to one the mathematical reality here, meaning
(06:43):
a lot more blacks kill whites than whites killed blacks
by as I said, a almost ten to one mathematical difference.
There is a something of the Oj effect here where
remember OJ Simpson, because of systemic racism, he was able
to murder his ex wife and it's completely innocent bystander
(07:05):
by practically cutting their heads off with a knife in
the most savage butchery imaginable. That was the mother of
his children. I might add that he did that too,
and black jurors said, no, he's not guilty, and a
lot of black people celebrated that verdict. In fact, I
saw that in real time, and that kind of racial solidarity,
(07:30):
racial tribalism, racial bias is disgusting and it is also
very undermining to our justice system. In the same way
that convicting a black man. If a white jury convicted
a black man because they don't like black people in general,
we would all understand that that is abhorrent. That is
(07:52):
racism that is evil. But a black jury can decide
that a black defendant is not guilty because of the
legacy of slavery or the legacy of racism or something,
and we're supposed to accept that. No, it's on the
exact same moral plane, the exact same kind of moral
violation as the other example of white prejudice against a
(08:14):
black defendant. So this oj effect here we're seeing play
out where you have members of the jury who were excused,
who are black, who said things like, quote, I just
can't put a brother in prison end quote. So in
America today, when you're having jury selection for a high
profile case like this, there are black Americans who will
(08:36):
just come out and say, I won't convict a black
person of killing a white person. Won't do it. This
should be a huge, huge red flag, a real warning
sign about race relations, the truth of race relations in
this country right now, and the standards that we have
(09:00):
and don't have four different groups of people. We either
live in a rule of law society where individuals are
held to account by the justice system irrespective of their
skin color, or we don't live in a rule of
law society. So there's plenty of polling and academic studies
on implicit bias and high profile outcomes show racial solidarity
(09:24):
affects deliberations. Black Americans on average report higher distrust in
the criminal justice system. But the truth is that Black
Americans feel completely justified in making decisions based upon skin
color in favor of black people, particularly when a white
(09:46):
victim is involved. And that's gross and that's wrong, and
it shows a deep seated resentment. It shows that I
don't like this term. Reverse racism has to be banished.
There's no such thing, because that implies that there's some structure,
there's some hierarchy, inherent hierarchy in race relations. I reject that,
and anyone should reject that. If you don't like someone
(10:08):
because of their race, because of their skin color, their ethnicity, ethnicity,
you are engaging in racism, pure and simple. And there
is black racism against white people today in America, obviously.
So this is what we are going to see playing
out in this trial of Carmelo Anthony. How far will
(10:29):
this be taken and what will be the end result.
I certainly hope there's not a verdict of not guilty
here because of some misplaced racism. Race solidarity by members
of the jury who are white who think that you
can't convict a young black man because of the history
(10:51):
of slavery or racism. A very similar thing where you
don't hold the person to account because of their skin color.
I think that's possible ability here you could have one
juror perhaps with a hung jury, who says, oh, because
he's black, this can't be a fair trial because he's black,
I can't send him to prison for what he did
the obvious and heinous murder of Austin Metcalf. Continue to
(11:15):
follow this story as this case plays out. Our sponsor
is super Sure. Here's a question for the business owners.
How many insurance brokers do you talk to in order
to ensure your business? Because if the answer is too many,
you're not alone in that thinking. Super Sure changes that.
Super Sure has one broker for all your business insurance
back by a team that works a year round, not
just a renewal. And if you've ever stared at a
(11:36):
policy wondering what it actually covers, Supershore has a fine
print factool that translates the legal jargon into plain English.
Right now, you can go to supershore dot com get
a full report on your current policies with no obligation.
Find out if you're over and short, under and short,
or somewhere in between. There's supershort dot com slash buck.
That's supershore dot com slash buck paid for by super
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(11:58):
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