Latest / The Breakfast Club / What's On the Video — Part Three with Karmelo Anthony's Parents
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Today on Front Page, new claims from three people who
- 0:08Speaker 1: say they personally view the video at the center of
- 0:11Speaker 1: the Carmelo Anthony case, what they say they saw and
- 0:14Speaker 1: why they believe the public should know about it.
- 0:17Speaker 2: We have noticed major disparities when we look up statistically
- 0:21Speaker 2: the sentencing structures that Judge broached sentences minorities under. There's
- 0:26Speaker 2: at least a seventy five percent disparity in the length
- 0:29Speaker 2: of the prison sentence when the defendant is of color.
- 0:34Speaker 1: Then part three of my exclusives sit down with Carmelo
- 0:37Speaker 1: Anthony's parents didn't.
- 0:38Speaker 3: Say they could a spotlight on the boys, right, so
- 0:45Speaker 3: you can see them right, but they never put a
- 0:48Speaker 3: spotlight on Carmelo.
- 0:50Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, June sixteenth, from the Black Effect Podcast network.
- 0:54Speaker 1: I'm Meanie Brown. This is Front Page. Stay with me.
- 1:02Speaker 1: On this episode, we're going to hear from three people
- 1:04Speaker 1: who say they personally viewed the video evidence from the
- 1:07Speaker 1: fatal encounter involving Carmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf. They held
- 1:11Speaker 1: a press conference offering their own accounts of what they
- 1:15Speaker 1: say the footage shows, and the video has not been
- 1:18Speaker 1: released publicly, but the group says they formally requested access
- 1:21Speaker 1: and they were allowed to view it. Here's some of
- 1:24Speaker 1: what they say the video shows.
- 1:26Speaker 4: Yeah, so again, my name is Tony Starvint. I was
- 1:28Speaker 4: one of the individuals that put in a FOURD request
- 1:30Speaker 4: to see the video. What I saw was starkly different
- 1:34Speaker 4: from the testimony that I heard given in the trial.
- 1:38Speaker 4: There were six kids that walked up too, splintered off.
- 1:41Speaker 4: I guess that part of was introduced in the trial
- 1:45Speaker 4: where they went to deflect the coach. The other four
- 1:48Speaker 4: walked directly to Carmelo Anthony. There was a brief conversation
- 1:52Speaker 4: I say, maybe twenty thirty seconds, and from there a
- 1:56Speaker 4: scuffle ensued. It didn't last long. Carmelo backed out the
- 2:01Speaker 4: back of the canopy. He looked one way, looked to
- 2:05Speaker 4: the left, and flew down those bleachers. Now, this is
- 2:09Speaker 4: the video that was presented us. This is the question
- 2:11Speaker 4: that I have though, why wasn't that video presented in court?
- 2:16Speaker 4: And is it the true video? Because again, it's starkly
- 2:20Speaker 4: different from the testimony given in the trial. Carmelo Anthony
- 2:24Speaker 4: flew down those bleachers, fell at the bottom of the bleachers,
- 2:26Speaker 4: got up, took off. It was maybe two or three
- 2:29Speaker 4: kids that you can see kind of gift chase, but
- 2:34Speaker 4: Carmela was gone, so they weren't even gonna put a
- 2:37Speaker 4: put a finger on them and touch him again. There
- 2:40Speaker 4: was a scuffle that that isssued at the top of
- 2:42Speaker 4: the bleachers and Carmela got it there. But I don't
- 2:46Speaker 4: know why that was not brought up in court. I
- 2:48Speaker 4: don't know why that was shown. I don't know if
- 2:50Speaker 4: the is ISD gave us a bogus ass video. I
- 2:53Speaker 4: don't know, but that's that's what I saw.
- 2:55Speaker 5: Hello, everybody, I'm an advocate for Carmelo Anthony. My name
- 2:59Speaker 5: is And when I went to see the video, they
- 3:02Speaker 5: ask if you want to see it from either two
- 3:04Speaker 5: minutes before the stabbing or eleven minutes before, so I
- 3:07Speaker 5: chose eleven minutes from the moment she pressed play. Carmelo
- 3:11Speaker 5: Anthony was already sitting underneath that canopy and he was
- 3:15Speaker 5: sitting there for at least eight to nine and a
- 3:18Speaker 5: half minutes. You see, well, I saw a boy in
- 3:21Speaker 5: a black hoodie go over to him first, and then
- 3:24Speaker 5: they left out of the tent, and then you see
- 3:27Speaker 5: coming across the field was another six boys. When they
- 3:31Speaker 5: got to the bleachers, one he went out of frame,
- 3:35Speaker 5: and the other one sat at the bottom. But the
- 3:37Speaker 5: remaining four they went directly to Carmelo Anthony, and like
- 3:41Speaker 5: he said before, it was a brief conversation. And then
- 3:45Speaker 5: all you see is commotion. And we know from the
- 3:49Speaker 5: interviews that Hunter did. We know that Hunter was in
- 3:54Speaker 5: fact of underneath that tent. The next thing you see,
- 3:57Speaker 5: I'm sorry. You can see Carmelo in the midst of
- 4:01Speaker 5: them assaulting him. You can see Carmelo trying to back out,
- 4:06Speaker 5: but he gets pulled back forward. The next thing you
- 4:08Speaker 5: see is Carmelo he comes shooting out the back, but
- 4:11Speaker 5: he's still not standing and he had to like kind
- 4:15Speaker 5: of crap crawl backwards, and he had to like jerk
- 4:17Speaker 5: away from them because they still had a hold of
- 4:19Speaker 5: his hoodie. He goes up a couple of bleachers and
- 4:21Speaker 5: he's looking around for which way to go. He runs
- 4:24Speaker 5: diagonally down the bleachers and then he falls. At the
- 4:26Speaker 5: time of him falling, that's when I noticed another three
- 4:29Speaker 5: boys coming down the bleachers chasing after him. But once
- 4:33Speaker 5: Carmelo got up, he took off. You didn't see him
- 4:35Speaker 5: for the rest of the video. At no point in
- 4:38Speaker 5: that video do you see Hunter holding his brother, and
- 4:44Speaker 5: no point in that video do you see those boys
- 4:46Speaker 5: ever going back to the tent and sitting down. That
- 4:49Speaker 5: was all a lie. And I also have questions. I
- 4:53Speaker 5: don't know how the defense did not play that video
- 4:58Speaker 5: because when you see that video, it was self defense.
- 5:01Speaker 5: Carmelo was only five eight one hundred and thirty something
- 5:04Speaker 5: pounds and Austin Hunter Metcalf were six to one two
- 5:08Speaker 5: hundred and twenty something pounds. So for people to say
- 5:11Speaker 5: that he should have used his hands, people can die
- 5:14Speaker 5: from fights from people using their hands. And that's all
- 5:21Speaker 5: I'm gonna say for right now.
- 5:22Speaker 3: I'm Christopher King.
- 5:24Speaker 6: Actually was a licensed attorney in Collin County several years
- 5:26Speaker 6: ago working with the City of Brisco on a certain project.
- 5:29Speaker 6: But I'm Christopher King. My handle is king cast online.
- 5:32Speaker 6: I'm also a journalist and I have a couple things
- 5:35Speaker 6: for you Briefly today, I have filed my request for
- 5:39Speaker 6: all exhibits used that trial. We'll see how that turns out.
- 5:41Speaker 6: I mailed it in before with the self just stam donvelope,
- 5:44Speaker 6: didn't get a response, so I figured I'd fly out
- 5:46Speaker 6: here at Violet in person this time so as to
- 5:49Speaker 6: this trial what I see as an attorney, I saw
- 5:51Speaker 6: what I believed to be male practice, and I don't
- 5:54Speaker 6: know why it happened, but I will tell you a
- 5:56Speaker 6: couple of quick reference points. Number One, he allowed those
- 6:00Speaker 6: students to young people, not professional people, to testify as
- 6:04Speaker 6: to ultimate issues of fact such as was it murder
- 6:07Speaker 6: or not? Yes, you know, was the provacation come Ilo
- 6:10Speaker 6: provoked him? That's not how it works. You have to
- 6:12Speaker 6: make them elocute as to what Carmelo did to allege
- 6:15Speaker 6: to the provoke a situation. That's how it works. And
- 6:17Speaker 6: when you don't object to it and the case is
- 6:19Speaker 6: in chief, you cannot come back later post talk and
- 6:22Speaker 6: then ask the judge and complain about it in a
- 6:25Speaker 6: jury charge. There was also there were also no expert
- 6:28Speaker 6: witnesses produced, no use of force expert, no no jury,
- 6:35Speaker 6: no jury professional consultant was there that I know of. Okay,
- 6:38Speaker 6: So these are all very serious questions on this case,
- 6:43Speaker 6: and I don't understand it, but I don't like it,
- 6:45Speaker 6: and I think this is the proverbial travesty of justice
- 6:49Speaker 6: that we have just witnessed here, and there needs to
- 6:51Speaker 6: be an investigation. It's not right, which is not right.
- 6:55Speaker 1: Okay, So keep in mind what you just heard, because
- 6:57Speaker 1: in part three of my exclusive sit down with Carmelo
- 7:00Speaker 1: Anthony's parents, they share their own perspective of what they
- 7:04Speaker 1: say the video shows. If you miss parts one and two,
- 7:07Speaker 1: go back to Friday and Monday. But here's part three.
- 7:16Speaker 3: The evidence shows he jumped three bleaches to get to him.
- 7:22Speaker 1: The jury here that information, and is that information on
- 7:25Speaker 1: the video? That's on the video, and they had they
- 7:28Speaker 1: made their minds made up.
- 7:30Speaker 3: Their mind was made up, made up three three bleaches,
- 7:36Speaker 3: some say one, some said three, some side five. They
- 7:39Speaker 3: all their statements was inconsistent every.
- 7:44Speaker 1: Because we haven't seen that video. What did that video show?
- 7:48Speaker 3: The video showed honestly, you can show that. You can
- 7:53Speaker 3: see him coming into the tent, sitting down, and then
- 7:57Speaker 3: it's like it started getting a little like you can
- 7:59Speaker 3: tell people, but you know we're experts. Let me tell
- 8:03Speaker 3: you what da did. They put a spotlight on the boys, right,
- 8:09Speaker 3: so you can see them right, but they never put
- 8:12Speaker 3: a spotlight on Kamalok. And the reason why is because
- 8:15Speaker 3: of course they were trying to make their side look like,
- 8:21Speaker 3: oh he it wasn't it wasn't that bag or pushed
- 8:24Speaker 3: the whole the whole thing move. Even the guy EP
- 8:28Speaker 3: said in his statement it was so bad to it
- 8:31Speaker 3: pushed him out the way because it's been pretty pretty
- 8:34Speaker 3: big kids, real big big than me actually, So it's
- 8:40Speaker 3: like they tried to minimize their doing. But I've heard
- 8:44Speaker 3: people who would supposed to be just as if in Texas,
- 8:50Speaker 3: if I threaten you when I'm lying, you have the
- 8:53Speaker 3: right to do whatever for us. If you feel for
- 8:55Speaker 3: your life, no, he said, if you feel for your
- 8:58Speaker 3: life or seriously body home. Yeah. Oh, they'll train judicial
- 9:03Speaker 3: fighters too.
- 9:05Speaker 1: And so the video that you all uh that they
- 9:08Speaker 1: short showed in court, it shows him running away from.
- 9:13Speaker 3: Yeah, he ran to a teacher. The teacher said that
- 9:17Speaker 3: the teacher he ran to. He ran to a guy,
- 9:20Speaker 3: and the teacher he ran to, Actually he hugged him,
- 9:25Speaker 3: because Kamelo, he's not likely. He hugged the guy like
- 9:28Speaker 3: he was freaking out. He hugged the guy. So the
- 9:31Speaker 3: guy was they was hugging. He was crying hysterically, and
- 9:36Speaker 3: they tried to paint it as if he was trying
- 9:37Speaker 3: to leave. But court, they shouldn't have said it that
- 9:42Speaker 3: he wasn't leading.
- 9:44Speaker 1: Yeah, now did this teacher testify yes.
- 9:49Speaker 3: And he also said he had to stop another kid
- 9:51Speaker 3: from jumping on camelo, which was guess what supposed to have
- 9:54Speaker 3: been a person that was his friend, the guy who, hey, man,
- 9:57Speaker 3: come on, look hey, if you've been to high school,
- 10:00Speaker 3: think about that, the guy that told you to come
- 10:01Speaker 3: over here you're sitting down. The same person who could
- 10:06Speaker 3: have de escalated the whole thing. He was trying to
- 10:08Speaker 3: go after him. And that's the same guy that was
- 10:10Speaker 3: playing like he was video but they couldn't find a
- 10:12Speaker 3: video he was. The police didn't really even try to
- 10:16Speaker 3: go through his phone. He would look for the video.
- 10:18Speaker 3: So he played. He said he was acting as if
- 10:21Speaker 3: he was.
- 10:21Speaker 1: Recording now when he was running. Was this before or
- 10:25Speaker 1: after the incident?
- 10:27Speaker 3: Happened after the incident.
- 10:29Speaker 1: This is after the incident.
- 10:30Speaker 3: That's why they came up with the narrative that.
- 10:32Speaker 1: He was running.
- 10:34Speaker 3: Yeah, he threw the he threw the knife. When he
- 10:37Speaker 3: threw he didn't throw the knife. His hand was cut.
- 10:39Speaker 3: So it's a lot that when you if you the
- 10:43Speaker 3: video showed, if you ever been on high school bleaches,
- 10:47Speaker 3: you're not almost stad you know how you try to
- 10:49Speaker 3: imagine trying to run up he failed, So what you
- 10:52Speaker 3: think failed? He only went up. They caught it in
- 10:55Speaker 3: three bleaches. It was like three bleaches up. It was
- 10:58Speaker 3: three bleaches up. So you see you can see him
- 11:01Speaker 3: get up. You could tell he dropped it. Then he
- 11:05Speaker 3: stood up. He didn't know where to go. Did he
- 11:07Speaker 3: ran down fail? And they was coming after him? He
- 11:11Speaker 3: ran alroong and ran to a coach.
- 11:13Speaker 1: Did the video show the altercation of them and putting
- 11:16Speaker 1: him first and then the confrontation? Okay, okay, okay. Did
- 11:24Speaker 1: you talk to your defense attorney about any of these
- 11:27Speaker 1: concerns that you had as the trial was playing out
- 11:30Speaker 1: or even now that the trial is over.
- 11:33Speaker 3: I mean, I'm actually praying that somebody's sending somebody that
- 11:38Speaker 3: we get sent somebody that could help us. It's kind
- 11:43Speaker 3: of like I'm still right now in shock. So I'm
- 11:47Speaker 3: just moving on and drilling right now.
- 11:50Speaker 1: So you're looking for a new defense attorney for future appeal? Yeah,
- 11:57Speaker 1: And did your defense attorneys say anything about how he
- 12:01Speaker 1: feels so they feel the case went? M hmm.
- 12:06Speaker 3: I'm gonna say they gave us the corporate answer.
- 12:10Speaker 1: And did Carmelo want to testify in his own on
- 12:13Speaker 1: his own behalf? And was the vibe.
- 12:16Speaker 3: It was based on everything. He didn't need nothing because
- 12:19Speaker 3: everything they said when his self defense, they have to
- 12:22Speaker 3: prove it, they never proved.
- 12:24Speaker 1: Okay, So that was never that was because I know
- 12:27Speaker 1: there was this pause and a lot of people thought that,
- 12:30Speaker 1: you know, we were going to come back and he
- 12:32Speaker 1: was going to take the stand, and he didn't. So
- 12:34Speaker 1: that was never an option that had never been discussed
- 12:37Speaker 1: of him taking the stand.
- 12:38Speaker 3: That's why we just needed a knew it. We need
- 12:41Speaker 3: we need somebody who's going to fight. That's what I
- 12:44Speaker 3: can say right now. We didn't need somebody on a
- 12:48Speaker 3: fight form because the whole thing was he provoked it.
- 12:52Speaker 3: That was their whole their entire case. He provoked it.
- 12:56Speaker 3: That's that's uh, that's what the whole thing was.
- 13:01Speaker 1: What do you want the world to know about who
- 13:04Speaker 1: Carmelo is and what your family is going through right now?
- 13:09Speaker 3: Going through hell doesn't feel real. We feel like it's
- 13:13Speaker 3: just don't feel real. He's a good kid. I mean,
- 13:19Speaker 3: the receipts show that he wasn't a wii N. We
- 13:25Speaker 3: we as adults, we're not helping with the y ns
- 13:29Speaker 3: and I can know we could look at the tragedy
- 13:32Speaker 3: that having, but it was about the law. The law
- 13:36Speaker 3: posed to cover us. So anybody who feels any way
- 13:40Speaker 3: different honestly feel like, I mean, it's okay when to death,
- 13:43Speaker 3: as long as that devil don't knock at your door.
- 13:45Speaker 3: Because I was clue is like that too. Hey man,
- 13:48Speaker 3: it never happened. It would never happen to me. It
- 13:50Speaker 3: would never never happen to us, because you know, we
- 13:53Speaker 3: stayed in our lane. We were nice neighborhood, We were
- 13:58Speaker 3: doing good. But these people basically made it there. We
- 14:03Speaker 3: had just had comments to what people say, Yeah, we
- 14:04Speaker 3: send y'all back to the hood, were sending y'all. Y'all
- 14:07Speaker 3: don't deserve that. Y'all don't deserve what y'all have. He
- 14:10Speaker 3: said it in court yesterday. Forgot. He said that they
- 14:13Speaker 3: told my son to look at me when I'm talking
- 14:15Speaker 3: to who said that? The dad, the son, both of
- 14:19Speaker 3: them said look at me while while we talked to
- 14:21Speaker 3: me like it's gonna come out. They said, look at
- 14:24Speaker 3: me while we talked what.
- 14:28Speaker 1: Yeah, the dad Metcalt father said that Carmelo and son.
- 14:33Speaker 3: The son came out. The son came out here. Mister,
- 14:38Speaker 3: I don't understand for the impact statement. You know too two,
- 14:42Speaker 3: but he didn't want to get understanding.
- 14:45Speaker 1: Has played out. Is there anything that you both wish
- 14:47Speaker 1: you could have done differently?
- 14:49Speaker 3: I wish I would have been just been rebellious and
- 14:54Speaker 3: just do what I was told. Don't talk to this person.
- 14:59Speaker 3: Don't talk to this person. I feel like it was
- 15:03Speaker 3: just a setup. Now. Like like I said, they told us,
- 15:08Speaker 3: go get i'm white attorneys. Every black person. I went
- 15:12Speaker 3: to white attorney. No white attorney said I'm gonna push them. Hey,
- 15:15Speaker 3: here you go. I mean, no objections. It wasn't. It wasn't.
- 15:20Speaker 3: It was things mooth because as a father of me
- 15:25Speaker 3: being who I am, I got to make sure she's straight.
- 15:27Speaker 3: This Mama bell, I got to make sure she's straight
- 15:29Speaker 3: mentally because if she's not straight my house and straight,
- 15:32Speaker 3: I'm not straight then because I got the kids that
- 15:35Speaker 3: the kids that were about. Got to make sure his
- 15:37Speaker 3: mental health. I can't go back and forth with him
- 15:39Speaker 3: right then that because his I don't think his mental
- 15:42Speaker 3: can handle it. The misunderstanding what Dad's trying to take.
- 15:45Speaker 3: This ain't a daddy moment. You understand what I'm saying,
- 15:48Speaker 3: It's not. It's not the time for mere arguing with
- 15:51Speaker 3: you about hey, you know some i'thing. Hey, son, can
- 15:55Speaker 3: you hey, can you see? Can you see? Can you see? Uh?
- 16:00Speaker 3: People say, well, I would have done this, so I
- 16:01Speaker 3: would have done that. You say that because you're not
- 16:04Speaker 3: in that situation. So I couldn't do that. And me
- 16:07Speaker 3: knowing my son, which is you know your child correct,
- 16:10Speaker 3: you see, I don't. I don't want him to maybe
- 16:13Speaker 3: want to hurt himself because I don't know what he's doing.
- 16:15Speaker 3: He's doing a great job. He's still in school. I'm
- 16:18Speaker 3: keeping him busy. We're trying to do stuff around the house.
- 16:21Speaker 3: And one thing, this this thing did do with us
- 16:24Speaker 3: and brought our family closer when.
- 16:26Speaker 1: The verdict came down. What was the first thought that
- 16:30Speaker 1: went through your head?
- 16:32Speaker 3: I felt, my son, h I was I felt like man,
- 16:41Speaker 3: I felt I cried so much. I have held back
- 16:48Speaker 3: and I told her, man, you know, I'm going to
- 16:50Speaker 3: let dad like hold it up, you know, hold it
- 16:52Speaker 3: up to be tight. I said, boy, you broke me.
- 16:54Speaker 3: He broke me in the first half. I never cried
- 16:57Speaker 3: as much as I've cried. And when that when they
- 17:02Speaker 3: it was just like when I seen him when he
- 17:04Speaker 3: grabbed it. I could still picture that man what he
- 17:07Speaker 3: was saying, and he said, it's so smooth the way
- 17:10Speaker 3: he read that verdict. It was like, you know, just yeah, hey,
- 17:14Speaker 3: yeah as such and such, Yeah he's found guilty. It
- 17:17Speaker 3: was just then. They also said, well, we were told
- 17:19Speaker 3: not to look at the family, but they said that
- 17:22Speaker 3: the dad was actually giving the witnesses different signs like
- 17:26Speaker 3: doing do this, like telling them giving him masters. And
- 17:30Speaker 3: I told my joy like, yeah, we know, we know,
- 17:31Speaker 3: we know the hell you mean, you know, but ident
- 17:34Speaker 3: if I act up, I'm the emotional black man. You
- 17:38Speaker 3: feel what I'm saying, Oh, look at him, then it
- 17:41Speaker 3: would have been on breaking news. Oh he done flashed
- 17:43Speaker 3: out or look out that's look. That's how they added
- 17:45Speaker 3: we got him. So I had to humble myself. It
- 17:49Speaker 3: wasn't just for me and my family. It was for
- 17:52Speaker 3: all of us, because if I would have flashed out
- 17:54Speaker 3: the way I wanted to, oh, it would have been
- 17:57Speaker 3: all that. You'll probably be looking at that God damn it.
- 17:59Speaker 3: Everybody went up after the food. That's what they wanted.
- 18:03Speaker 3: So I played their game, and I'm just let you know.
- 18:05Speaker 3: Their game don't work. It's not for us. The justices
- 18:08Speaker 3: is not for it. They can't say we get anything
- 18:10Speaker 3: out of the out of the out of the out
- 18:14Speaker 3: of what was told. We followed all the instructions and
- 18:17Speaker 3: we follow the law. It just don't work for us.
- 18:19Speaker 1: What do you say to the people who say that's.
- 18:22Speaker 3: He's calling now.
- 18:32Speaker 1: That's part three of my conversation with Carmelo Anthony's parents.
- 18:35Speaker 1: Thank you to the family for sharing your story with me.
- 18:39Speaker 1: We're going to keep watching this case, the video, the appeal,
- 18:42Speaker 1: all of it. That's your front page. I mean me Brown.
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