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6-10: Karmelo Anthony Verdict - Why There Won't Be Riots For This One · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's a gamble whenever you have a
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Speaker 1: big national trial like this Carmelo Anthony verdict that you
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Speaker 1: happened yesterday in Prisco, Texas, and you come up with
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Speaker 1: a podcast headline that says there won't be riots this time.
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Speaker 1: Like I just wrote, you don't know, but I don't
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Speaker 1: think it's gonna happen this time.
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Speaker 2: Why would that be because the media is not calling
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Speaker 2: for it.
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Speaker 1: Not much different than what we want to Look back
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Speaker 1: six years ago, pre George Floyd riots. You might remember
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Speaker 1: that and you get fact check me on this all
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Speaker 1: you want. Look back at some of the video, look
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Speaker 1: back at some of the CNN clips. Before the riots happened.
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Speaker 1: You had CNN and other mainstream networks, of course, but
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Speaker 1: CNN in that case was the worst saying we're expecting
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Speaker 1: widespread riots. Oh are you what do you have like
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Speaker 1: inside information or are you just kind of like planting.
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Speaker 2: The seed for that. I think it's different this time.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, we'll get into it, and you don't even have
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Speaker 1: to be that familiar with the facts of this particular
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Speaker 1: case to understand that. We'll get into it. X to
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Speaker 2: You can listen whenever you want, whatever platform you like.
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Speaker 1: It's got the verdict yesterday of some breaking news. It
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Speaker 1: did not take long, and that's relevant to this case.
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Speaker 1: The jury came back almost right away. It was unanimous,
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Speaker 1: and even some of the witnesses and we'll get into
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Speaker 1: this in a second, completely changed their story on the
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Speaker 1: stand for the case.
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Speaker 2: This was clearcut and obvious.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, here's the announcement, breaking news everywhere yesterday, even if
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Speaker 1: you weren't there for it live and then the react.
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Speaker 3: Pretty breaking news to give you right now. The jury
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Speaker 3: has sentenced Carmelo Anthony to thirty five years behind bars
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Speaker 3: after finding him guilty of murder. I'm told that he
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Speaker 3: is eligible for parole after he serves half his time.
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Speaker 3: The jury had the option to give him as much
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Speaker 3: as ninety nine years behind bars, but again they have
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Speaker 3: chosen to give him thirty five years. And I do
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Speaker 3: want to mention we showed you those protests. A bunch
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Speaker 3: of supporters out here.
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Speaker 2: More on the protests.
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Speaker 1: In a second, let's get background of the case, because
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Speaker 1: we're all at busy lives and we're trying to, you know,
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Speaker 1: just be good, honest, decent citizens. Well, this was a
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Speaker 1: lot different than there was reported leading up to this.
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Speaker 1: And here's why I think the media is not behind
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Speaker 1: this calling for and just hoping for him. Guess this
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Speaker 1: is big ratings for them, right, you know it is
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Speaker 1: Fox too, Let's be honest, big ratings if they had
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Speaker 1: widespread protests now they did outside the courtroom, outside the
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Speaker 1: courthouse in Frisco, Texas, as you'll hear here in a second,
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Speaker 1: not in other cities, not yet anyway. And I may
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Speaker 1: be wrong in that I don't think it's going to happen,
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Speaker 1: even though many had predicted what happened. Here's some background
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Speaker 1: from the case. Carmelo Anthony, who's now going to be
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Speaker 1: spending most of his life, if not the rest of
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Speaker 1: his life in jail, entered the Memorial High School tent
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Speaker 1: for shelter at a track meet. Now this was last year.
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Speaker 1: Stabbing occurred where he essentially, according to the jury, killed
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Speaker 1: Austin Metcalf happens to be one. Carmelo Anthony is black.
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Speaker 1: This made it all about race, even though it shouldn't be,
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Speaker 1: even though we should be at a point in time
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Speaker 1: in our society we look past all this stuff. No,
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Speaker 1: it became all about race, which we'll get into again
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Speaker 1: in a second. Happened around ten am. I had forgotten
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Speaker 1: that this was a morning incident as well. It was
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Speaker 1: a track meet, track and field meat involving multiple schools,
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Speaker 1: heavy rain in thunderstorms, delayed events. Anthony goes into one
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Speaker 1: of the tents from a two way different high school.
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Speaker 1: The witnesses had said, and this came up in the
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Speaker 1: trial too, that he was asked multiple times to leave.
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Speaker 1: That's according to Austin Metcalf's twin brother as well. This
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Speaker 1: also came out in the trial that they knew about
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Speaker 1: this Carmelo anthony kids background, they knew of him, knew
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Speaker 1: about him pretty unstable, asked him to leave, That's what
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Speaker 1: they had said. He didn't refuse to leave. According to
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Speaker 1: the police reports and what came out of the trial,
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Speaker 1: Austin Metcalf, who eventually died, confronted him asked him to leave.
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Speaker 1: According to police reports, Carmelo said something to the effect
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Speaker 1: of touch me and see what happens.
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Speaker 2: Reaching into his backpack. I don't need to get into the.
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Speaker 1: Gory details, but he stabbed Austin Metcalf to death, died
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Speaker 1: right there in the scene. It's a horrific, horrific, horrific thing.
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Speaker 1: Almost immediately, of course, this became something about, well, they're
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Speaker 1: charging a black kid who was confronted and attacked and
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Speaker 1: attent by a bunch of white football students. Well to
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Speaker 1: do That was the original report from his family defense team. Everybody, right,
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Speaker 1: those arguments fell apart almost immediately in this trial when
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Speaker 1: it finally just happened over the past couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: Almost immediately witnesses turned. One of the witnesses for the
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Speaker 1: defense had said that Carmelo Anthony was surrounded and was
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Speaker 1: about to be beaten up before he stabbed in self defense.
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Speaker 1: He even flipped on that that wasn't the case at all,
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Speaker 1: nothing at all. And of course, as you know, and
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Speaker 1: this is such a shame of the whole matter, it
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Speaker 1: became a black versus white thing reaction to the trial
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Speaker 1: as soon as it was announced outside in Frisco, Texas.
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Speaker 2: You can imagine.
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Speaker 1: Now some of the individual interviews with these protesters had
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Speaker 1: said that, you know, a black kid.
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Speaker 2: Can't get me justice in this country. They can't do this,
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Speaker 2: They can't do that, no regard.
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Speaker 1: I watched a lot of these witnesses, no regard whatsoever,
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Speaker 1: and none of them, none of them that I saw. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: maybe you saw something different, it said, but at wrapping
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Speaker 1: up their sentence and their protests by saying, but it
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Speaker 1: sure is a shame.
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Speaker 2: That anybody died in this case. I heard none of that. None.
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Speaker 1: This just immediately became a we can't let a black
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Speaker 1: kid in our community go to jail, even though the
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Speaker 1: evidence was crystal clear, this evidence that this jury came
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Speaker 1: out almost immediately unanimously said, all of the evidence points
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Speaker 1: to this that he murdered this other white kid when
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Speaker 1: it could have just at worse been a fistfight. Who
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Speaker 1: brings a knife to a track meet tent? Anyway, Well,
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Speaker 1: that wasn't enough.
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Speaker 2: That wasn't enough.
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Speaker 1: Here, and then we'll hear some of these witnesses now,
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Speaker 1: and then we'll get into the media reaction of this
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Speaker 1: entire thing and how that fell apart because of some
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Speaker 1: of the testimony that fell apart in the jury.
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Speaker 2: Here we go, here, here's the first witness.
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Speaker 4: Why do we why do we have the care anymore?
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Speaker 4: Why are we even here?
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Speaker 2: So to be honest, why are we why? Why are
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Speaker 2: we here? What are we here for? Because if we
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Speaker 2: take up for ourselves, we go to jail.
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Speaker 3: If we don't, we die.
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Speaker 2: So I said, Cat's twenty two.
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Speaker 4: In this situation, what do you want us to do?
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Speaker 2: What do you want us to do?
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Speaker 4: At this point?
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Speaker 2: What I'm I'm lost for? I don't know what to do.
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Speaker 2: I got five boys, I don't know why. I ain't
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Speaker 2: got none to tell them no more.
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Speaker 1: You could start with, don't bring knives to track meet something.
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Speaker 1: He could start there. And my mistake I called her
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Speaker 1: a witness. She was a protester outside the scene there.
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Speaker 1: But that's the problem that sums it up all right there,
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Speaker 1: of all the people that found a camera and all
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Speaker 1: the people and it was, I mean, every single network
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Speaker 1: was there covering this thing from start to finish for
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Speaker 1: the past two weeks for this, you know, all during deliberations,
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Speaker 1: all their testimony, all covering all this entire thing, and
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Speaker 1: the similar statements time and time again.
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Speaker 2: Well, what are we supposed to do?
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Speaker 1: Does it have to lead to murder every single time?
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Speaker 1: Because the very same jury from your community completely disagreed
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Speaker 1: with anything. But you take that lady for a second, right,
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Speaker 1: And she sums up all of this, this entire thing. Now,
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Speaker 1: she says she's a mom, she got five kids, whatever,
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Speaker 1: she's in her oh, late thirties, forties, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what it is. So that's a lifetime of being told,
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Speaker 1: a lifetime of being told that you can't get any justice,
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Speaker 1: that everything you do is somehow justifiable, that anybody in
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Speaker 1: your community that looks like you is, that has the
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Speaker 1: same skin tone as you can get away with anything
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Speaker 1: because you can call it self defense and your outrage
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Speaker 1: that it actually could face a murder trial for anything
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Speaker 1: like this. She's been told it's I don't even think
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Speaker 1: it's her fault. She's been misled her entire life to
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Speaker 1: not understand that justice is blind in this case. And
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Speaker 1: it sure seems like it, because the evidence was crystal clear,
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Speaker 1: not at all. Right, But who was she misled? But
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Speaker 1: who misleads a lady like that? Right, seems to be
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Speaker 1: well spoken, seems to be a smart, intelligent lady. This
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Speaker 1: is why I don't blame her entire life in her community.
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Speaker 1: She's been told that because of her skin color, she's
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Speaker 1: a constant, permanent victim. That's what's been that's what's been
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Speaker 1: ingrained in the mindset of so many people, so many
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Speaker 1: people in this country. They've told them again, you know,
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Speaker 1: the you know, the focus, my target is always the
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Speaker 1: media telling them her entire life, I'll call it. Let's
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Speaker 1: say she's forty four decades being told by everything she's
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Speaker 1: ever consumed information wise in her life that she's she's
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Speaker 1: a professional victim, that nothing is her fault, that anything
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Speaker 1: that anybody or anybody that looks like her can.
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Speaker 2: Do is justified. Any think I'm wrong. That's how you
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Speaker 2: lead to this. What kind of people misleading? What kind
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Speaker 2: of people mislead a lady like that? Though? Who?
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you, because there were so many cameras
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Speaker 1: a national story, a national case in this there were
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Speaker 1: so many cameras, every single jackal in the world promoting themselves.
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Speaker 1: All the reverends you know, calling for justice, and all
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Speaker 1: these other organizations and all these other people are there
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Speaker 1: trying to get some camera time like this guy, perfect example.
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Speaker 2: They are always reverends. Why is that? What aren't reverends?
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Speaker 1: I thought, you know, like with MLKA, was to increase
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Speaker 1: the peace, you know, let's quell all this Let's stop
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Speaker 1: all this violence.
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Speaker 2: Let's stop this stuff. Not this guy.
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Speaker 1: He just says, anytime anybody in his community is convicted
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Speaker 1: of something that obviously he did, all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: it's a miscarriage of justice. Here's a jackal in front
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Speaker 1: of the cameras. Check this guy out. This is the
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Speaker 1: kind of person misleading. The lady had just hearded.
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Speaker 4: I speak on behalf of myself, Minister Dominique Alexander, I
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Speaker 4: speak on behalf of myself. As president of the Next
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Speaker 4: Generation Action New Work, the Next Generation Action Network wanted
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Speaker 4: to respect this process, to be able to make sure
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Speaker 4: that nobody said that the Next Generation Action New Work
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Speaker 4: is struck that this process interfered in this process. But
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Speaker 4: what this process did is shown that black lives do
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Speaker 4: not matter in Colin County.
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Speaker 2: That's what misleads.
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Speaker 1: By the way, how many times could he get the
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Speaker 1: Next Generation Action Network, the name of his organization in there.
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Speaker 1: How many times could he say that, and of course
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Speaker 1: getting his own name in there before the cameras. Right,
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Speaker 1: just a jackal, I mean, that's all it is. And
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Speaker 1: there you go, like a kid can't get justice in
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Speaker 1: this community. There was a trial, the defense witnesses fell apart.
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Speaker 1: There was all kinds of evidence. There were witnesses there
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Speaker 1: that saw the scene that told them exactly what is
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they turned it into a
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Speaker 1: racial issue. Guys like that. The firstly I played for you,
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Speaker 1: who said, what am I supposed to do? She's been
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Speaker 1: misled by people like that who calls himself a reverend
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Speaker 1: or entire life. That's what happens, That's what that's how
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Speaker 1: we get to this point. That and it's inexcusable, it
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Speaker 1: really is. But then you have this, let's go to
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Speaker 1: another one. It's not just the reverence, not just the
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Speaker 1: ones on the scene, in the protest outside the courthouse
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Speaker 1: and Frisco.
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Speaker 2: It's not just them. Then you have everybody who.
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Speaker 1: Feels the need to chime in on this, which is
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Speaker 1: understandable for talking heads like me who's a podcaster, and
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Speaker 1: you know, everybody else in the news and everybody else
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Speaker 1: who does commentary, and everybody that pays attention to current events.
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Speaker 1: Why would we have an elected representative in Texas stirring
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Speaker 1: the pot even more? Well, let's go to that district
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Speaker 1: in that area, Jazzmine Crockett, haven't heard from her in
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Speaker 1: a while, since she was kind of told to, you know,
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Speaker 1: tone everything down by the Democrats. But she was on
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Speaker 1: some kind of interview. I don't think this is her
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Speaker 1: own media outlet. I don't know what it is. Listen
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Speaker 1: to an elected representative in the House of Representatives, a congresswoman,
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Speaker 1: Jazzmine Crockett. Why in the world does she even need
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Speaker 1: to chime in on this and create more divide Why again,
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Speaker 1: go to the first lady. How does somebody like that,
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Speaker 1: who's well spoken and understood get misled by somebody like
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Speaker 1: Jazzmine Crockett.
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Speaker 2: This is exactly if a.
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Speaker 5: Three hundred pound man is beating me, like on top
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Speaker 5: of me and beating me down, I'm not limited to fist,
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Speaker 5: you know. I would argue that even the only time
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Speaker 5: we go into things like people's hands being considered daily
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Speaker 5: weapons is typically like if they're a professional boxer that
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Speaker 5: kind of stuff. But I think by the time you
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Speaker 5: start getting to like football player, good argument, good freaking argument.
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Speaker 5: We're not talking about like the golfers. We're talking about
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Speaker 5: football players, right like, this is what they are trained
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Speaker 5: to do, is to inflict like serious.
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Speaker 1: I know it didn't seem like it. She's actually commenting
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Speaker 1: on the verdict. I what, I couldn't even play it that.
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Speaker 1: That's just you listen to too much of her, your
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Speaker 1: IQ will go down. That's how ridiculous she is. She
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Speaker 1: makes the argument somehow implying without saying it, of course,
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Speaker 1: that Austin Metchef, a kid under two hundred pounds. There
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Speaker 1: was a justification for that kid getting stabbed to death
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Speaker 1: because he's a football player. I mean, you connect the dots.
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Speaker 1: Is that what she's saying there again, I'll go back
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Speaker 1: to it. Why does she even need to pipe in
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Speaker 1: on this?
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Speaker 2: Why? Why do it?
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Speaker 1: Even all of your media sources, all of the networks
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Speaker 1: that have propped her up until recently propped her up,
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Speaker 1: gave her every edge of your game, all the airtime
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Speaker 1: she possibly wanted even there back.
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Speaker 2: And down off of this, they thought, oh, they.
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Speaker 1: Thought one until the witness testimony all fell apart in
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Speaker 1: the defense case fell apart in this. They thought there
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Speaker 1: was gonna be Oh, they're gonna we're gonna be able
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Speaker 1: to cover some juicy riots, right, And I'll go back
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Speaker 1: to this. I don't think they are. I don't think
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Speaker 1: this time, because they don't have the media support it.
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Speaker 1: And that's the good news of a tragic situation.
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Speaker 2: Right I.
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Speaker 1: Justice prevailed. That seemed to be clear. At least it
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Speaker 1: was to the jury in that community for sure. And
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Speaker 1: Austin Metcalf's family and Carmelo as Carmelo Anthony's mother was
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Speaker 1: calling for, you know, mercy or whatever. This Austin Metcalf
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Speaker 1: kid didn't get any none. Why because he's white. So
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Speaker 1: that's how that's why this turned into a black white thing.
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Speaker 1: It never should have. We're still not at a point
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Speaker 1: where he can make the wheels of justice roll on
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Speaker 1: just blindly. Apparently we're not there. But I think again,
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Speaker 1: by the time you watch this later on or replay
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Speaker 1: or hear it, maybe there are riots. I hope not,
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Speaker 1: but I don't think so. Because the media is not
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Speaker 1: behind this one. They see this as a slam dunk,
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Speaker 1: open and shutcase for the prosecution, and they did, and
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Speaker 1: they did find justice here. And that happened when the
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Speaker 1: defense argument fell apart in this trial. That's when it
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Speaker 1: all fell apart for them.
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Speaker 2: That's why I wouldn't expect this whole thing. And that's good.
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Speaker 1: That's a good thing that we're not going to last thing.
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Speaker 1: We need anywhere in our country right now are more
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Speaker 1: riots and this was a big national case and there
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Speaker 1: wasn't top of mind for you, and it wasn't in
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Speaker 1: your news feed too much.
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Speaker 2: Big case, big media attention.
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Speaker 1: But that media attention is going to be going away
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Speaker 1: because there's not much else to say about it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll carry on.
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Speaker 1: This news just broke yesterday, so it'll carry on through
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Speaker 1: this morning, today, this afternoon on Wednesday in real time,
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Speaker 1: and tonight a little bit. But that's about it because
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Speaker 1: there's no other controversy that your favorite media outlets can
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Speaker 1: create over this. That's why I don't think there's gonna
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Speaker 1: be riots on this, and that's a good thing, despite
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Speaker 1: what they tried to do to divide unbelievable. Well, it's
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Speaker 1: all for better news tomorrow, and there will be, I
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Speaker 1: promise you. But let's get into I got stuff to do,
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Speaker 1: so to you, let's get out of here. I'm ount
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Speaker 1: it a wicked, awesome Wednesday. Hopefully lighter stuff to talk
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Speaker 1: about tomorrow, and I think there will be.
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Speaker 2: I'll talk to you later