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Karmelo Anthony · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for our American mamas. Dear mamas,
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  Speaker 1: did you see Carmelo Anthony's family spokesman kick out the
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  Speaker 1: father of Austin Metcalf from a press conference. My goodness, yes,
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  Speaker 1: let's ask our American mamas.
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  Speaker 2: Alma, Mama.
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  Speaker 1: Joining us now we're American Mama. Terry Netvill Kimberly brotherson
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  Speaker 1: will be back. She's out and about. So last week,
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  Speaker 1: the family of Carmelo Anthony, who apparently has admitted to
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  Speaker 1: killing another teenager, Austin Metcalf at a track event, stabbed
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  Speaker 1: the kid in the heart when Austin Metcalf asked for
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  Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony to move because Camaralo Anthony was sitting in
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  Speaker 1: a tent that his team did not belong and he
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  Speaker 1: should have been somewhere else. And when he was asked
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  Speaker 1: to leave, he stabbed Austin Metcalf in the in the
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  Speaker 1: heart and killed him on the scene. And so Carmelo
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  Speaker 1: is his family has raised what almost a million dollars
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  Speaker 1: in gofund me. They used that money to bond him
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  Speaker 1: out of jail for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: and then they held a press conference with a family
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  Speaker 1: spokesperson apparently not an attorney, and the family spokesperson saw
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  Speaker 1: the father of Austin Metcalf standing in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the crowd. He wasn't saying anything, he wasn't doing anything.
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  Speaker 1: He was just standing there and he had the Dallas
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  Speaker 1: police escort around of the building and then said it
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  Speaker 1: is disrespectful for that man to even show up here.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see the press conference of what was your reaction?
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  Speaker 2: Who? Yeah, that was a rough one for me because
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  Speaker 2: as I'm learning this man that kicked him out, the representative,
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  Speaker 2: the family representative, I'm doing air quotes. Theyre saying he's
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  Speaker 2: the minister, he's the preacher, right, but he has no background,
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  Speaker 2: but he is right. He not only did he have
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  Speaker 2: him escorted out right, but he said it was disrespectful
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  Speaker 2: to the dignity of his slain son. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was saying it was disrespectful to Carmelo
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  Speaker 1: Anthony for him to show up.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, Well maybe he did. I heard it the other way.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but wait, wait, so we're saying that one guy
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  Speaker 1: is in a spot where he doesn't belong and he
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  Speaker 1: was asked to leave, And did you notice that Austin
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  Speaker 1: Metcalf's dad didn't stab anybody on the way out. Did
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  Speaker 1: you know when he was asked to leave, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: stab anybody.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like that whole thing kind of rested the
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  Speaker 2: case for Austin Metcalf's family. It is the exact same
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  Speaker 2: thing if he would, you know, except for he really
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  Speaker 2: did have the right to be there at there's no
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  Speaker 2: reason for him to be escorted out. But when you
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  Speaker 2: listened to what they had to say, you realize that
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  Speaker 2: their narrative of this whole thing is it's all about race.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to be a black man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're saying that. You know, they've raised so much
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  Speaker 2: money that they have now have merch They have.
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  Speaker 1: The other selling Carmelo Anthony Carmelo merchandise. Now you get
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  Speaker 1: a T shirt with his name on.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is live an in negated community and
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  Speaker 2: a nine hundred thousand dollars home, and I know I
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  Speaker 2: probably should not do this. Oh and while you're watching it,
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  Speaker 2: the mother and her husband are She's leaned in and
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  Speaker 2: her head is on his shoulders. You would think, if
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know anything.
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  Speaker 1: You would think it was there.
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  Speaker 2: I would think it was their son that was murdered,
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  Speaker 2: not the one that murdered another child, and so I was.
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  Speaker 1: And again this kid has told police officers there's no
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  Speaker 1: alleged about it. I killed he did it. He did it,
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know what the defense the family's going
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  Speaker 1: to come up with the lawyers, and they were supposed
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  Speaker 1: to have a press conference to tell our side, and
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  Speaker 1: then they never told their side. They said, we can't
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  Speaker 1: actually talk about it because they're miners involved. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: miners involved. Everybody already knows the names. You're not. You're
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  Speaker 1: not going to hurt the privacy of Austin Metcalf by
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  Speaker 1: talking about why you killed Austin Metcalf. And this is
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  Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony's family there, so they can't be violating his
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  Speaker 1: privacy because they're the ones you called the prestcomm.
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  Speaker 2: And remember the very very first thing that Austin's father
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  Speaker 2: said after his child was murdered, I forgive him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Remember that. It was like he was trying to relay
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  Speaker 2: the message that this is an you know that it'll
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  Speaker 2: take care of itself. But this is one of those
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  Speaker 2: things that's hard to talk about because when when race
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  Speaker 2: is involved, you have to be very very careful but
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  Speaker 2: what I've seen on social media platforms, there are i
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  Speaker 2: would say hundreds of thousands of Black Americans who have
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  Speaker 2: come forward and they've said, wait a minute, time out, guys,
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  Speaker 2: let's let's just turn this around. Let's say that it
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  Speaker 2: was the white boy that stabbed the black boy, and
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  Speaker 2: let's say the white community was raising a million dollars
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  Speaker 2: and they were heralding the white guy as a hero,
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  Speaker 2: and we put them in a nine hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: home and we said it was because you know that
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  Speaker 2: we were celebrating this guy's a hero.
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  Speaker 1: Because you're paying someone who who has murdered someone of
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  Speaker 1: another race and you're the only reason you're giving them
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  Speaker 1: money is because they did that well.
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  Speaker 2: And my whole point is being none of us white
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  Speaker 2: people can say that, even if in our hearts we
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  Speaker 2: want to go forward and send a video out on
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  Speaker 2: social media and say, wait, this is wrong. Can you
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  Speaker 2: imagine if this was turned around? We cannot do that.
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  Speaker 2: So for it to come out of the mouths of
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  Speaker 2: people in their black community, it gives credit. There was
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  Speaker 2: one woman I watched today. She was crying. She was like,
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  Speaker 2: I am I am ashamed. This is not how we
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  Speaker 2: all feel there's a child that was murdered, and she
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  Speaker 2: said the mother even called him the Metcalf boy, wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: even say his name in that conference.
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  Speaker 1: And again switch it. You have white parents of a
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  Speaker 1: white boy who kills a black kid and says the
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  Speaker 1: Metcalf boy on that how would that be received.
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  Speaker 2: I just you know, I think eyes are opening. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think this is going to end well for that family.
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  Speaker 2: And I love the fact that we're all kind of
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  Speaker 2: on the same page with how wrong this is.
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  Speaker 1: If I to ask for American mam is a question good.
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Brothers and we'll be back. Thank you so much,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you,