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Verdict in Cullen County: Carmelo Anthony Convicted in Track Meet Killing · Dumbasses Talking Politics

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  Hey, this is Gene. Welcome back to Dumbass is Talking Politics. This is a flash podcast.
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  There's not going to be much music. There's not going to be much in the way
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  of introduction. There's not even going to be much in the way of commentary.
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  This is probably going to be very short.
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  So there has been a verdict reach in the Carmelo Anthony murder trial.
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  Now, if you don't know Carmelo Anthony or you haven't been paying attention
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  to the world at all, Carmelo Anthony is a black kid,
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  who decided at a track meet to illegally carry a knife into the track meet and then sit.
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  Under another team's tent. Another youth, someone who was competing,
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  went into the tent. His name is Metcalf.
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  Jeff Metcalf, I guess. I can't remember what his first name is.
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  But he went into the tent and basically told him he needed to leave.
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  He refused to leave. There were words.
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  There may have been some pushing.
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  And Carmelo Anthony pulled a knife from his bag, stabbed Metcalf in the chest,
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  killed him immediately.
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  The kid died two minutes later. Then Carmelo Anthony threw the knife away, ran out of the stadium.
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  He was caught by coaches and one of Metcalfe's friends who, of course, happened to be black.
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  Now, this trial started last week. They expected, I think it started Saturday.
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  They expected this trial to take two weeks long. It didn't take two weeks long.
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  It took less than five days.
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  It turned out that the defense called a bunch of witnesses, but that made up
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  only one day of the trial.
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  And those witnesses were actually devastating to the case.
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  They made Carmelo Anthony look like the aggressor. They made Carmelo Anthony
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  look like he went out there to do it.
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  They admitted he wasn't supposed to have a knife in the track meet.
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  This looked like cruel murder.
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  And the Carmelo Anthony family has been miserable. They've made over $650,000
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  off the murder of Bryce Metcalf. Bryce, that's a Metcalf.
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  They made lots of money off of him. They showed no remorse.
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  Carmelo Anthony served maybe a day in jail, two days in jail,
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  was given a lowered bail and was released to his parents. He was allowed to
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  graduate. This is after he murdered someone. Yeah.
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  And now he finally has his jury. I think Carmelo Anthony is beginning to face reality a little bit.
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  And all this time, a bunch of black activists have been out there protesting,
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  that Carmelo Anthony shouldn't go to jail, should be found not guilty,
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  and that Bryce Metcalf just got what he deserved.
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  It is really a horrid case.
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  It is a prime example of racism,
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  in the opposite direction there was no reason for this kid to do this the defense,
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  witnesses said this it wasn't like it wasn't like you know the prosecution put
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  on a great case the defense had no case,
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  they were claiming self-defense which made no sense And that was thrown out pretty quickly.
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  And everyone who's being interviewed, as far as the people who support Carmelo
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  Anthony, are basically saying the same thing. Well, that guy probably deserved it.
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  I'm sorry, I finally got his name. It's not Bryce. It's Austin Metcalf.
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  It tells you how quick I set this up.
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  Jeff Metcalf is actually his father.
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  So we're waiting for the actual verdict.
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  I think this is going to be an extremely important verdict. There are three options the jury has.
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  Not guilty, obviously. Guilty of murder. Or guilty of manslaughter.
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  Now, my personal opinion is that he's going to be found guilty of manslaughter.
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  I think the jury is going to split the baby. And I think the jury is going to
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  split the baby only because the jury is all white.
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  That's kind of a big shocker, is that the jury is completely white.
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  And again, looking at how these people, how the black people are responding to this case right now,
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  I don't think there should be an extreme surprise that they decide that the
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  judge and the prosecution got rid of so many black sheriffs.
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  Now watching this right now I'm watching Fox News Watching this right now You
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  could imagine no matter which direction This whole thing goes There's going to be problems tonight,
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  I can almost guarantee there's going to be problems tonight Not as many problems
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  If Carmelo Anthony is found not guilty,
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  But there will be protests There will be protests tonight If he's found not
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  guilty And if he's found guilty,
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  Yep, you can imagine there's going to be huge problems now this is in Cullen
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  County McKinney Texas I don't know much about that portion of Texas looks like
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  just a bunch of cowboys and,
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  So we'll have to see. But this is an amazing case. I can't believe they came
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  out with a verdict so quick.
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  They actually got together today. So right now it is 12.14 on Pacific Coast
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  time, which means it's about 2.14 over there.
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  That means they've been in deliberation for four hours.
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  So there wasn't a lot of question about what they all thought.
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  I think he's going to be found guilty. I don't think there's going to be a shock here.
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  I do not know when they're going to give the verdict.
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  But we'll hang out until they say something.
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  I really am surprised that this came out so fast. Really, really surprised.
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  Now, as the Fox News is talking, they have defense attorneys on.
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  What they're basically saying is it would be very unsurprising if they actually
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  found him guilty of manslaughter.
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  But one of the things this gal said, and it makes a lot of sense,
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  to come back with a verdict so quickly, it's hard to believe that every one
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  of those jurors thought this was manslaughter.
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  So what she's saying is she's thinking it's going to be one or the other.
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  It's going to be not guilty or it's going to be guilty of murder.
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  Now, I haven't heard if this is capital murder, if this is first-degree murder,
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  or second-degree murder.
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  Again, we don't know how murder – I don't know how murder works in Texas, how they rate it.
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  I mean, if it's capital murder or first-degree, which is, I think,
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  first-degree murder, that would qualify him for the death penalty.
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  Even though he did this when he was under 18 years old, that would make it that
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  he cannot actually face a death penalty.
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  Some of the things that she said is that he was crying, he was very upset,
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  he didn't think that he had actually killed him. As a matter of fact,
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  to calm him down, they told Carmelo Anthony that he was not dead, which he was.
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  I'm having kind of a difficult time putting this thing all together.
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  Now, here's the thing, too. There was video footage of this.
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  Not only were there witnesses, which is never really good.
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  It's almost circumstantial. Witness testimony is almost circumstantial.
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  There was video footage. Nobody has seen the video footage.
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  This is one of the problems with transparency is that if we see the video footage,
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  maybe we'll get a better understanding of what's going on.
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  Chances are in the next few days, we will see some of that video footage.
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  But my understanding is, and this is just my understanding, that video footage
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  basically showed that there was not a lot of back and forth or fighting or pushing,
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  shoving, punching, anything like that.
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  According to the video footage, it was that they were just sitting there.
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  So we know that's not true.
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  We know that Austin Metcalf did push him, but he didn't hurt him. He did push him.
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  We do know there was some talk, and basically all that talk is witness testimony.
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  And none of that witness testimony was on Carmelo Anthony's side.
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  So we'll have to see what the jury is thinking.
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  And again, we're not going to hear. We're just going to hear guilty or innocent.
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  So we'll have to see. I think in the coming months when people start talking,
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  if they want to start talking, it also depends on the reaction tonight.
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  I think the reaction tonight is going to be funky.
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  We're going to see it tonight. But we'll see. So we're just waiting for the verdict.
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  They don't have a timeline as to when the verdict's going to be read.
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  But supposedly it is going to be read today. So we're just waiting.
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  And I'm just, I'm glad they're covering this live.
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  Because the reaction is going to be something.
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  Well, as we're sitting here, there's other pretty big news.
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  Apparently, Iran has shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter.
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  That Iran is not the country that you can trust.
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  That Iran is not this country that is peaceful. They're not.
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  That the only way anything will happen as far as that regime goes,
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  it's going to be to take them out and basically destroy their economy.
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  Right now, I think Karg Island is probably on the table.
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  I think hitting all their major energy resources is probably on the table.
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  Believe it or not, I thought that anyway. I really, I thought that wasn't going
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  to be on the table. I think Trump was just keeping that close to the vest and
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  keeping that as an option.
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  I understand why he doesn't want to go out there and start destroying them.
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  Because if we're going to have regime change, you don't want the new regime,
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  to have to struggle through this.
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  Rebuild their entire energy, rebuild their economy.
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  You want them just to change the regime and then continue business,
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  but with a better relationship to the United States than before.
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  So again, it's going to be interesting to see what's happening.
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  The world is just going crazy right now.
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  Now, as we're waiting for this verdict, there's one thing I do want to make clear.
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  If Carmelo Anthony is found guilty, Let's just say he's found guilty of murder or even manslaughter.
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  There's not to be joy or celebration. It's we're not, I'm not going to celebrate this either way.
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  Austin Metcalf had a life. He lost his life.
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  If Anthony is, and he is, Anthony has been convicted of murder.
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  So he's not convicted of, he's not been convicted of manslaughter.
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  He's not been found not guilty. He's been convicted of murder. which.
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  Which makes me content. Here's the thing. This kid's life is now gone. It's over.
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  He's going to be spending 25 to life in prison.
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  That's something to celebrate.
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  And Austin Metcalf is still dead. There's nothing to celebrate.
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  What makes me content on this verdict is it was a just verdict.
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  And it shows we don't have a two-tier justice system yet.
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  That's all it is. We don't have a two-tier justice system.
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  You can be black and be convicted of murder. Just like if the races were reversed,
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  this wouldn't have made news, by the way. Yeah, it might have made news.
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  It might have been white kid stabs black kid. And then we can talk about that
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  like we did with George Floyd for the next 10 years.
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  But the fact of the matter is, this is not a two-tier justice system based on race.
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  And that's what's important. These lives are ruined. These lives are ruined.
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  His parents should be convicted too.
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  Carmelo Anthony's parents should be convicted too.
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  They should be sued out of the ocean by the Metcalf family to take back the
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  $650,000 that they made all this time.
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  But none of this stuff is good. This is really bad.
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  And the fact that this case here is, quote, complicated, end quote, or, quote.
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  Putting the justice system on trial, end quote, or that race was even a thing here.
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  I don't even think race was really a thing here. I don't think I think Carmelo
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  Anthony would have killed a black kid just as well as he would have killed a white kid.
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  But the fact that this was controversial bothers me.
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  This kid was as guilty as the day is long. There was no question. The defense knew it.
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  So now we're going to hear the reactions. There's going to be a ton of reactions.
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  We'll have to watch what's going to happen in Texas tonight because he's looking
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  at life now. He's looking at life in prison.
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  Now, I don't know how the laws work in Texas with a juvenile committing murder.
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  He's not a juvenile anymore, but he was a juvenile when he committed the murder.
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  It's going to be interesting to see what the reaction of these activists,
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  these black activists are going to be and what kind of riots or what's going to happen tonight.
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  Because you know something's going to, it's going to happen in Chicago,
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  it's going to happen in New York, it's going to happen in Los Angeles,
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  probably going to happen in Dallas and Austin, Texas.
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  There's going to be some major, major, major controversy tonight.
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  Well, we'll talk about that tomorrow.
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  I hope you guys have a great day. Unfortunately, very sobering day.
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  Sad day, whether you, no matter what, you know, I wanted this guy convicted
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  because I thought that this kid was a bad kid, but nothing is good.
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  Nothing good happens here.
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  So you guys have a nice day. Talk to you tomorrow. God bless.
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  This is Gene. And you've listened to dumbasses talking politics.