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INSANE Prosecutors In Karmelo Anthony Case Hid The Most Damning Evidence · The Matt Walsh Show

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Speaker 2: They have competing interests. They are locked in a duel.
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Speaker 2: A judge mediates disputes as they arise. And then after
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Speaker 2: both sides pursue the evidence to the best of their
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Speaker 2: ability and make the best argument possible for their side,
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Speaker 3: It really is that simple.
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Speaker 2: Well, we're now learning that the trial of Carmelo Anthony,
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Speaker 2: who was the black high school student who stabbed a
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Speaker 2: white teenager named Austin Metcalf to death at a track
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Speaker 2: meet last year, did not even come close to following
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Speaker 2: this well-established, fundamental, all-important adversarial process. Instead, critical evidence against
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Speaker 2: Carmelo Anthony was withheld from the jury immediately. by the prosecutors,
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Speaker 2: the very people who, under our adversarial system, should have
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Speaker 2: presented that evidence. This evidence was not withheld because of
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Speaker 2: a ruling by a judge, but instead by a gentleman's
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Speaker 2: agreement between the district attorney and the defense lawyers. And
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Speaker 2: as you're about to see, the hidden evidence would have
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Speaker 2: been overwhelmingly beneficial to the prosecution's case against Carmelo Anthony.
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Speaker 2: We're talking about what was in effect a confession by
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Speaker 2: Anthony to premeditated murder. And it was hidden by the
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Speaker 2: prosecutors for reasons that simply don't add up.
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Speaker 3: And we'll get into all of that.
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Speaker 2: In other words, the prosecution gave Anthony's defense team a
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Speaker 2: huge leg up while also burying critical information so that
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Speaker 2: the jury and the public at large couldn't see it. Now,
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Speaker 2: there's no other way to say this. The fact that
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Speaker 2: Anthony was convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years
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Speaker 2: in prison occurred despite the efforts of the prosecution to
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Speaker 2: give his defense team a major legal advantage in a
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Speaker 2: case that just so happens to involve the brutal slaughter
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Speaker 2: of a white teenager by a black criminal. We're learning
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Speaker 2: about this new evidence because Anthony's lawyers are now seeking
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Speaker 2: a new trial, absurdly, and as part of that process,
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Speaker 2: the judge is now hearing arguments about all of the
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Speaker 2: evidence in the case, including evidence that was not presented
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Speaker 2: to the jury. Now, we'll talk more about this motion
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Speaker 2: for a new trial and all the arguments which are
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Speaker 2: all very stupid the defense is making, in a moment.
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Speaker 2: But first, we need to discuss the hidden evidence itself.
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Speaker 2: So in court yesterday, the prosecutor, Collin County Assistant District
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Speaker 2: Attorney Bill Worski, admitted that the state possessed several violent
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Speaker 2: text messages that Anthony sent to an ex-girlfriend. And in
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Speaker 2: one of those text messages, on the morning he stabbed
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Speaker 2: Austin Metcalf, he sent a picture of his knife along
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Speaker 2: with the caption, I'm low-key on the verge.
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Speaker 3: As in on the verge of snapping.
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Speaker 2: Additionally, a prosecutor disclosed that, quote, there's a text message
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Speaker 2: where he fantasizes about stabbing someone and licking the blood
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Speaker 2: off the blade. Now, we don't know exactly when that
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Speaker 2: especially gruesome message was sent, but it was at some
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Speaker 2: point prior to Anthony stabbing Metcalf to death. Now, it's
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Speaker 2: important to emphasize that these were not random edgy texts
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Speaker 2: from five years ago. Anthony was telling his ex-girlfriend that
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Speaker 2: he was spiraling out of control. On the exact same day,
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Speaker 2: he later stabbed Metcalf in the heart.
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Speaker 3: And she took those threats seriously, as you'd expect.
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Speaker 2: On the morning of April 2nd, the day Anthony stabbed Metcalf,
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Speaker 2: Anthony's ex-girlfriend went to an assistant principal at her school
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Speaker 2: to complain that Anthony was stalking her and sending her
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Speaker 2: these threatening messages following their breakup. The ex-girlfriend reported that
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Speaker 2: Anthony was obsessed with fights, guns, and knives.
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Speaker 4: Watch.
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Speaker 5: Carmelo Anthony reportedly fantasized about knives and stabbing someone in
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Speaker 5: the hours before he killed Austin Metcalf. It is a
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Speaker 5: bombshell update from prosecutors in an appeal hearing today over
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Speaker 5: Anthony's attempt to have his murder conviction overturned.
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Speaker 3: What's your name, man? Carmelo Anthony, K-A-R-M-E-L-O-N-T-Y.
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Speaker 5: We have to talk about what Assistant District Attorney for
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Speaker 5: Collin County, Bill Worski, had to say and what he
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Speaker 5: claims happened in the hours before this track meet on
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Speaker 5: the day that Austin Metcalf lost his life. Because he
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Speaker 5: says that Carmelo Anthony's girlfriend, hours before, told an assistant
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Speaker 5: principal at their high school that the couple had broken
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Speaker 5: up and that she said she allegedly... was afraid. She
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Speaker 5: claimed that Carmelo Anthony was stalking her. WFAA says that
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Speaker 5: the ADA also claimed today in the courtroom that Anthony
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Speaker 5: was allegedly obsessed with guns, fights, and knives. And prosecutors
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Speaker 5: allegedly have a text message that Anthony sent where he
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Speaker 5: fantasized about stabbing someone and licking the blood off the blade.
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Speaker 5: and he allegedly sent a text that said, quote, I'm
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Speaker 5: low-key on the verge.
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Speaker 2: There is no question that these text messages should have
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Speaker 2: been shown to the jury and to the public, obviously.
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Speaker 2: They are clearly relevant to the question of whether Carmelo
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Speaker 2: Anthony deliberately killed Metcalf with premeditation as opposed to self-defense.
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Speaker 2: And more specifically, these text messages completely demolish any claim
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Speaker 2: of self-defense. They nuke the self-defense claim from orbit. They
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Speaker 2: demonstrate very explicitly that Anthony went looking to provoke a
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Speaker 2: scenario where he could kill someone with his knife because
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Speaker 2: he was enraged about his breakup. This is not a
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Speaker 2: close call. And to be clear, this is not unfair
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Speaker 2: character evidence. We're not talking about a malicious attempt to
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Speaker 2: malign Carmelo Anthony's character here. Introducing these text messages would
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Speaker 2: not be a smear tactic where the jury is confronted
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Speaker 2: with prejudicial evidence that simply makes Carmelo Anthony look like
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Speaker 2: a bad guy in general. This is very different. You know,
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Speaker 2: he didn't just say, I want to punch someone today.
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Speaker 2: He didn't just say, I'm in a really bad mood.
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Speaker 2: He explicitly said he was losing his mind and sent
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Speaker 2: the picture of the knife. So if this isn't legitimate,
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Speaker 2: highly important evidence in a murder trial where someone was
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Speaker 2: stabbed with a knife a few hours later, then nothing is.
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Speaker 2: So why didn't prosecutors introduce the text messages into evidence?
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Speaker 2: Why didn't they show them to the jury? They had
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Speaker 2: every right to do so. The judge did not exclude
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Speaker 2: this evidence, nor would any judge ever do so. It's
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Speaker 2: obviously a key piece of evidence.
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Speaker 3: So what was the reason?
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Speaker 2: Well, the prosecutor stated in court yesterday that he offered
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Speaker 2: an agreement to the defense because before the trial began,
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Speaker 2: the defense claimed to have evidence that Austin Metcalf had
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Speaker 2: written racist messages in the past. And the prosecution was
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Speaker 2: supposedly worried that if the defense introduced those racist messages
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Speaker 2: and the prosecution introduced Carmelo Anthony's text, then the trial
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Speaker 2: would become a, quote, racial tinderbox in the public side.
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Speaker 2: So to avoid inflaming tensions, the prosecution agreed to bury
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Speaker 2: the text message evidence, key evidence, against Carmelo Anthony. And
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Speaker 2: the defense agreed that it wouldn't bring up Austin Metcalf's
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Speaker 2: allegedly racist messages. Both sides agreed, in other words, to
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Speaker 2: only introduce evidence about the events That occurred inside the tent.
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Speaker 2: And even though the text messages in criminal Anthony's case
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Speaker 2: are that that is evidence related to what happened in
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Speaker 2: the tent.
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Speaker 3: And they did.
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Speaker 2: All this in secret without telling the public, which in
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Speaker 2: many ways makes this worse than what Soros prosecutors do
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Speaker 2: every day. At least the Soros prosecutors disclose the fact
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Speaker 2: that they want to help criminals get out of prison.
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Speaker 2: There are so many problems with the reasoning behind this
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Speaker 2: gentleman's agreement that it's difficult to know where to begin.
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Speaker 2: First of all, the evidence against Carmelo Anthony is clearly
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Speaker 2: relevant and admissible in this murder trial. It relates directly
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Speaker 2: to his state of mind, his premeditation, his motive on
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Speaker 2: the day of the murder. It's hard to imagine a
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Speaker 2: more relevant and important piece of evidence. Now, on the
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Speaker 2: other hand, the messages that Austin Metcalf supposedly wrote or
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Speaker 2: spray painted onto walls, again, supposedly, had nothing to do
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Speaker 2: with his death. At best, assuming the messages are even real,
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Speaker 2: kind of a big assumption, All they suggest is that
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Speaker 2: he was, what, an edgy teenager? He was a teenage
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Speaker 2: boy with an edgy sense of humor?
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Speaker 5: Wow.
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Speaker 2: But Metcalf's alleged racist messages do not demonstrate that he
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Speaker 2: had any tendency to commit violence at a track meet
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Speaker 2: or anywhere else, or that he was a threat to
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Speaker 2: Carmelo Anthony. Now, if Austin Metcalf had texted someone on
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Speaker 2: the day of the murder and said, I'm going to
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Speaker 2: attack a black guy today for no reason, that would
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Speaker 2: be a very relevant text message. It would be just
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Speaker 2: as relevant as what Carmelo Anthony texted his ex-girlfriend, but
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Speaker 2: that didn't happen. So put simply, the text message evidence
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Speaker 2: against Carmelo Anthony would have been admissible in court. Most
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Speaker 2: of the evidence against Austin Metcalf would not. Austin Metcalf, who,
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Speaker 2: by the way, was not on trial. Just to be
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Speaker 2: specific about what the defense lawyers are claiming about Austin
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Speaker 2: Metcalf and the evidence they gathered, here's a report from
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Speaker 2: the Daily Mail. Quote, Slain high school athlete Austin Metcalf
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Speaker 2: and his twin brother were allegedly caught spray painting racist graffiti,
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Speaker 2: including kill all black people and the N-word, defense attorneys revealed.
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Speaker 2: Former Anthony defense attorney Mike Howard, who represented Anthony at
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Speaker 2: his June trial, took the stand to testify that he
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Speaker 2: had criminal information on both Austin Metcalf and his twin
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Speaker 2: brother Hunter. A document presented in court showed the defense
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Speaker 2: had photographs of the graffiti allegedly created by the twins
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Speaker 2: and another boy featuring phrases including KKK, kill all black people,
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Speaker 2: Heil Hitler, and the N-word. Police also had a body
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Speaker 2: cam footage from their response to the incident, in which
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Speaker 2: Austin can allegedly be heard admitting to the officer, we
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Speaker 2: did some stuff, we did some vandalism. Both twins ultimately
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Speaker 2: received 12 months of probation for the incident, according to Howard,
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Speaker 2: who also revealed that Austin had previously faced charges for
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Speaker 2: assault causing bodily injury. Now, first of all, just at
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Speaker 2: the outset, note that this is all based on testimony
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Speaker 2: from former Anthony defense attorney Mike Howard, so this is
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Speaker 2: not exactly an unbiased source, and frankly, some of it
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Speaker 2: seems made up. You know, they apparently have hard evidence
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Speaker 2: of Metcalf admitting to doing some vandalism without any specific
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Speaker 2: proof that Metcalf himself wrote those messages. But again, let's
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Speaker 2: just assume it's true. The fact that a teenager writes
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Speaker 2: edgy stuff is not particularly surprising. In fact, at the
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Speaker 2: same hearing, according to Brianna Morello, they revealed that Carmelo
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Speaker 2: Anthony had also written anti-white, anti-Mexican and anti-black messages on
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Speaker 2: his laptop.
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Speaker 3: Is that a good thing? Of course not.
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Speaker 2: But it's also irrelevant to this murder trial. So if
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Speaker 2: the defense wants to admit Austin Metcalf's offensive social media
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Speaker 2: videos or whatever, let him do it. The evidence against
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Speaker 2: Carmelo Anthony is devastating. As it turns out, there are
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Speaker 2: actual rules of evidence about this, which courts have to follow.
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Speaker 3: They're written down. Anyone can Google them. So let's do that.
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Speaker 2: Let's pull up the rule of evidence number 404 in Texas. Quote,
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Speaker 2: evidence of a person's character or character trait is not
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Speaker 2: admissible to prove that on a particular occasion, The person
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Speaker 2: acted in accordance with the character or trait in a
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Speaker 2: criminal trial. A defendant may offer evidence of a victim's
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Speaker 2: pertinent trait. And if the evidence is admitted, the prosecutor
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Speaker 2: may offer evidence to rebut it. In other words, any
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Speaker 2: evidence that Austin Metcalf had a character trait of being racist, supposedly,
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Speaker 2: even assuming that's true, is not admissible to prove that
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Speaker 2: on this particular occasion, Austin Metcalf acted in a racist manner.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, even if he had acted in
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Speaker 2: a racist manner under the tent, you still can't stab him.
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Speaker 2: So this is irrelevant on like 10 different levels. And
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Speaker 2: there's no pertinent trait that's revealed by graffiti either. Even
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Speaker 2: if someone is a racist and likes to tag property
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Speaker 2: that doesn't belong, you know, it doesn't belong to him.
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Speaker 2: That doesn't give anyone else a license to stab that
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Speaker 2: person in the heart. So for about a dozen reasons,
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Speaker 2: this whole line of reasoning comes crashing down. On the
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Speaker 2: other hand, Carmelo Anthony's text messages on the day of
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Speaker 2: the murder have nothing to do with any character trait.
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Speaker 2: They have to do with his motive to commit the crime,
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Speaker 2: as well as his intent to commit the crime and
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Speaker 2: his state of mind when he committed the crime. It's
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Speaker 2: an admission of what he's planning. That's very different from
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Speaker 2: just character evidence.
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Speaker 3: It's mind-boggling.
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Speaker 2: A prosecutor would pretend otherwise. A killer who says, I'm
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Speaker 2: liable to commit murder today, on the day of committing murder,
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Speaker 2: is essentially confessing. He's not giving you background information about
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Speaker 2: his character. By the way, some of the evidence that
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Speaker 2: was presented yesterday about Carmelo Anthony would also probably qualify.
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Speaker 3: As character-based evidence.
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Speaker 2: For example, there was also evidence that when he was
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Speaker 2: living in Baton Rouge, Anthony's parents, quote, enrolled him in
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Speaker 2: a special LSU program for children who struggled to control
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Speaker 2: their aggression and keep their hands to themselves. It's a
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Speaker 2: relevant piece of information, but it doesn't directly relate to
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Speaker 2: the events that took place on the day of the murder.
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Speaker 2: So you could imagine a scenario where a jury wouldn't
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Speaker 2: be allowed to see that particular bit of information. The
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Speaker 2: text messages from the day of the murder, on the
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Speaker 2: other hand, are clearly relevant. Later in the hearing, the
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Speaker 2: defense dug up even more dirt against Austin Metcalf, which
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Speaker 2: theoretically may have been admissible in court. This is again
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Speaker 2: from the Daily Mail, quote, Howard said Austin was arrested
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Speaker 2: in May 2018 while he was still in elementary school
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Speaker 2: after allegedly shoving a girl to the ground and injuring
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Speaker 2: her shoulder badly.
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Speaker 3: Enough to require hospitalization. Again, this is an elementary school.
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Speaker 2: In December 2024, Austin allegedly told a church group that
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Speaker 2: he was consumed by anger, lust, and addiction, and that
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Speaker 2: they had taken.
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Speaker 3: Control of his life, the defense attorney said.
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Speaker 2: He also pointed to a March 2022 incident in which
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Speaker 2: Austin allegedly mocked a black student for eating a banana
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Speaker 2: and filmed another student as he appeared to shove the
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Speaker 2: boy's head into his crotch. Another video from 2023 allegedly
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Speaker 2: shows Austin cheering as a friend chased and tackled a
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Speaker 2: black student with Austin Heard saying, get over here, you
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Speaker 2: black Jew. Um, there are some other incidents as well.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, the thing about what he said
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Speaker 2: at a church group. So allegedly he, he was talking
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Speaker 2: about his spiritual struggles in a church group. And then
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Speaker 2: what someone in the church group came and reported that
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Speaker 2: to the, you know, to try to get someone who
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Speaker 2: stabbed him off the hook.
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Speaker 3: Like, how does that come up? And again, nothing to
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Speaker 3: do with what happened.
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Speaker 2: Um, There are some other incidents as well, including, quote,
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Speaker 2: during 2023-2024 school year, he received in-school suspension twice. School
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Speaker 2: disciplinary records from April 2022 to May 2024 revealed that
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Speaker 2: he reportedly called a teacher the B word or used profanity.
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Speaker 2: He told a school official that he couldn't control it
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Speaker 2: and wasn't aware that it was coming out of his mouth.
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Speaker 2: Couldn't control using profanity. In 2024, I'm sure he's the
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Speaker 2: first teen boy to ever do that. I mean, obviously,
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Speaker 2: that's Of course the defense would want to bring that up. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: he got stabbed to death, but did you know that
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Speaker 2: this kid used profanity? So, you know, stabbed to death,
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Speaker 2: used profanity.
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Speaker 3: Tomato, tomato.
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Speaker 2: In 2024, on at least five occasions, Austin saw a
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Speaker 2: counselor regarding his anger and rage during a football game.
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Speaker 2: In 2021, he got banned from attending basketball games for
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Speaker 2: a season after yelling profanity at a player. So they're
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Speaker 2: going through and listing all the naughty things Austin Metcalf did. Basically,
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Speaker 2: they found everything they could possibly find. All the bad
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Speaker 2: things that this teen boy did.
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Speaker 3: In his life.
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Speaker 2: Most of it just amounts to saying bad words. And
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Speaker 2: none of it relates to his death. So to recap,
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Speaker 2: he told his church group he was angry. Which, by
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Speaker 2: the way, also shows that if that even happened, he
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Speaker 2: was a kid doing the right thing with his anger,
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Speaker 2: going to find spiritual support. And then what, his church
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Speaker 2: group turned around and tried to use it against him
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Speaker 2: in court?
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: He said something mean to a teacher, although we're not
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Speaker 2: sure exactly what he said. He got angry during a
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Speaker 2: sporting event. He filmed some videos several years before he
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Speaker 2: was murdered. And in 2018, seven years before his death,
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Speaker 2: when he was in elementary school, He shoved a girl
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Speaker 2: to the ground. Again, none of these incidents prove anything.
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Speaker 2: They don't demonstrate anything about what might have happened in
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Speaker 2: that tent. Unlike Anthony's text, these incidents don't shed any
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Speaker 2: light on motive or intent or anything. Cheering while someone
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Speaker 2: else tackles a student does not demonstrate that you attack
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Speaker 2: someone at a track meet, nor does telling a church
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Speaker 2: group that you're angry. And a shove that took place
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Speaker 2: in elementary school for obvious reasons is not relevant in
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Speaker 2: any way. Besides, if the defense brought in incidents from
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Speaker 2: the past that aren't directly related to the crime itself,
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Speaker 2: and if they were allowed to do that by the judge,
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Speaker 2: that would also allow the prosecution to go into more
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Speaker 2: biographical detail about Carbello Anthony's past. Okay, because two can
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Speaker 2: play at that game. And the details of his past
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Speaker 2: are far more disturbing than anything Metcalf is accused of doing.
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Speaker 2: So I'm going to read here extensively from reporting by
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Speaker 2: Sarah Fields, who's been covering this case and doing an
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Speaker 2: excellent job of it from day one. So here's what
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Speaker 2: she posted this morning. It goes on for a while,
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Speaker 2: but I want to get all this out here. In
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Speaker 2: a 75-page filing, prosecutors also note that Carmelo Anthony had
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Speaker 2: earlier been accused of taking his girlfriend's phone and in
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Speaker 2: October 2024 drafted a to-do list instructing her how to handle, quote, weirdos,
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Speaker 2: which included the line, say some slick like my boyfriend
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Speaker 2: kill people. Text exchanges further reveal that he admitted on
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Speaker 2: at least two occasions to punching girls in the face.
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Speaker 2: Prosecutors located 2021 messages between Carmelo Anthony and another student
19:35
Speaker 2: discussing robbing someone for $ 300. Other texts show Carmelo Anthony
19:39
Speaker 2: recounting a fight and punching someone so hard he had
19:42
Speaker 2: to stop fighting. In 2023, prosecutors say Carmelo Anthony told
19:46
Speaker 2: a friend he planned to vandalize a house in Austin, writing,
19:49
Speaker 2: I just feel like it.
19:50
Speaker 3: I got a grudge.
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Speaker 2: In 2021, Carmelo Anthony informed a friend he had been
19:54
Speaker 2: suspended for three days after fighting, adding, they said next
19:57
Speaker 2: time I do some, I get recommended for expulsion.
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Speaker 2: In a 2023 text exchange with a friend, prosecutors have
20:03
Speaker 2: messages in which Carmelo Anthony wrote, I'm a shoot the
20:06
Speaker 2: school up tomorrow with my blick. but later followed up
20:11
Speaker 2: that with, I would never actually do that. In a
20:14
Speaker 2: 2024 thread, prosecutors state Carmelo Anthony admitted to carrying a firearm,
20:18
Speaker 2: telling a friend before a party he would have the
20:20
Speaker 2: gun in my pocket. The records also contain messages, threads
20:23
Speaker 2: in which Anthony mentions carrying a gun. After multiple suspensions
20:27
Speaker 2: for fighting while in school in Louisiana, messages between Carmelo
20:30
Speaker 2: Anthony and his girlfriend surfaced, after he moved to Frisco.
20:33
Speaker 2: In one exchange, she suggests he should simply sit for
20:36
Speaker 2: a while. He said, yeah, and punch people, maybe run sometimes.
20:40
Speaker 3: I have to.
20:41
Speaker 2: It's like a priority for me. I like punching people.
20:44
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20:47
Speaker 2: I black out. When I get mad, I can't control myself.
20:50
Speaker 2: Prosecutors also showed messages in which Carmelo Anthony admitted to
20:52
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20:56
Speaker 2: to obtain guns. This continued along with Sarah Fields reporting,
21:02
Speaker 2: in 2024, prosecutors say Carmelo Anthony tried to assault a teacher, stating,
21:05
Speaker 2: I put my hands in face and everything. Also, 2024,
21:09
Speaker 2: messages recovered by prosecutors suggest Carmelo Anthony attempted to take
21:11
Speaker 2: a weapon into a state fair in Texas, asking a
21:14
Speaker 2: friend if the state fair got metal detectors. We told
21:17
Speaker 2: the detectors were in place. The friend replied, you got
21:20
Speaker 2: the poker. Yeah, I might have to toss it. Carmelo
21:22
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21:25
Speaker 2: a watch and earbuds in separate Collin County burglaries. and
21:29
Speaker 2: to bringing a weapon into a Frisco school campus and
21:31
Speaker 2: remarked about his girlfriend, she went in my bag to
21:33
Speaker 2: get my computer and I said no and she still
21:35
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21:37
Speaker 2: knife and some other.
21:38
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21:39
Speaker 2: Numerous unreleased photos and videos show Carmelo Anthony holding firearms
21:43
Speaker 2: and making threats. Authorities found a note on Carmelo Anthony's
21:45
Speaker 2: phone containing a list of racial tropes and slurs about blacks, whites,
21:48
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21:52
Speaker 2: I hate gay people. Prosecutors add that Carmelo Anthony repeatedly
21:55
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21:59
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22:01
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22:05
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22:06
Speaker 2: in another, when I stab somebody, I'm going to lick
22:09
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22:12
Speaker 3: Okay.
22:14
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22:17
Speaker 2: committing violence, committing crimes, fantasizing about violence, threatening violence, carrying
22:25
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22:32
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22:34
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22:39
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22:44
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22:49
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22:52
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22:56
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26:11
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26:15
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Speaker 2: He was not the one on trial. He couldn't have
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Speaker 2: murdered him. And that's not even getting into the fact
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Speaker 2: did not attack Carmelo Anthony anyway. So I don't care
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26:58
Speaker 2: he was literally in the Klan. I don't care if
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Speaker 2: had the pointy white hat in his closet at home.
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Speaker 2: It wouldn't make any difference because he was unarmed, And
27:10
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27:13
Speaker 3: That's it.
27:15
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27:18
Speaker 2: when he refused to leave the tent where he didn't belong.
27:21
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27:24
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Speaker 3: So there's no relevant comparison here.
27:29
Speaker 2: If the defense wants to try to make the case
27:30
Speaker 2: that Austin Metcalf had a violent character in some way,
27:33
Speaker 2: they need to find witnesses to say he was, you
27:36
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27:39
Speaker 2: which is that the witnesses in the tent said he
27:40
Speaker 2: didn't attack anyone in this instance. So there's really no point,
27:44
Speaker 2: even if you somehow prove that Austin Metcalf had a
27:46
Speaker 2: violent character. The fact is, in this instance, which is
27:50
Speaker 2: what the whole trial is about, he was not the aggressor.
27:56
Speaker 2: And again, if the defense brought that up, well, here
27:59
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28:10
Speaker 2: that Carmelo Anthony engaged in. And remember also that this,
28:14
Speaker 2: as always, like the story from Carmelo Anthony's parents and
28:18
Speaker 2: family has been that, oh, he was a good kid.
28:20
Speaker 2: He was a good, he was a great student. He,
28:24
Speaker 2: you know, he, that's why we had to let him graduate,
28:26
Speaker 2: even though he just killed somebody. He was going to
28:29
Speaker 2: go on to be an electrical engineer. Meanwhile, you see
28:35
Speaker 2: his text messages. He can't even spell. First of all,
28:37
Speaker 2: he's illiterate. He's an illiterate, violent thug, big surprise. So
28:45
Speaker 2: any good prosecutor would object the moment the defense tried
28:48
Speaker 2: to bring any of that evidence up about awesome Metcalf.
28:53
Speaker 3: Evidence that I.
28:54
Speaker 2: Feel like I have to keep repeating, you know, you don't,
28:58
Speaker 2: you don't come up with evidence against the guy who
29:00
Speaker 2: was murdered in the first place. Um, And actually, before
29:05
Speaker 2: the trial even began, they'd file a motion to prevent
29:08
Speaker 2: any of this from being introduced into evidence. It's clearly inflammatory.
29:11
Speaker 2: It's clearly irrelevant. It's just character assassination. But Bill Worski
29:17
Speaker 2: didn't go to the judge before the trial. Instead, he
29:19
Speaker 2: went to the defense team. And he struck a deal
29:21
Speaker 2: with them to organize a cover-up so that he could
29:24
Speaker 2: avoid a, quote, racial tinderbox. He decided as a prosecutor
29:28
Speaker 2: that he was going to dictate the amount of information
29:30
Speaker 2: the public received about this case. It was not a
29:33
Speaker 2: strategic decision, since very little, if any, of this testimony
29:35
Speaker 2: about Austin Metcalfe could have been admissible. It was a
29:39
Speaker 2: political decision. He said he wanted the trial to focus
29:42
Speaker 2: solely on the events that took place in the tent,
29:44
Speaker 2: so he ignored the most damning piece of evidence in
29:46
Speaker 2: this case. And to be clear about this, the racial
29:51
Speaker 2: tinderbox in this case was created entirely by Black activists
29:55
Speaker 2: who who were thrilled that a white kid was stabbed
29:57
Speaker 2: to death. They ignored every relevant fact of the case.
29:59
Speaker 2: They immediately began donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to
30:02
Speaker 2: Carmelo Anthony. They showed up outside the courthouse and stated
30:05
Speaker 2: on camera that Austin Metcalf had it coming. They held
30:07
Speaker 2: press conferences where they attacked Austin Metcalf's father even before
30:11
Speaker 2: he buried his son. To this day, black influencers on
30:14
Speaker 2: TikTok and Instagram are mocking the death of Austin Metcalf.
30:17
Speaker 2: So this case was a racial tinderbox because a significant
30:20
Speaker 2: number of black people in this country clearly believe they
30:22
Speaker 2: have a right to murder white people. Now, if any
30:25
Speaker 2: prosecutor caves in this scenario and prevents a jury from
30:29
Speaker 2: seeing relevant evidence to avoid contradicting the mob or to
30:32
Speaker 2: prevent white people from realizing the extent to which many
30:36
Speaker 2: of these black activists hate them, then the prosecutor must
30:40
Speaker 2: be fired and disbarred immediately. He has participated in obstruction
30:44
Speaker 2: of justice. He has aligned with the defense and failed
30:47
Speaker 2: to fulfill his vital role in our adversarial system of justice.
30:52
Speaker 2: Bill Worski needs to leave office at a minimum it's
30:56
Speaker 2: hard to recall a more disgraceful display by a prosecutor,
30:59
Speaker 2: particularly in a high-profile case like this one. Now, what
31:03
Speaker 2: really happened here, in case it's not obvious, is that
31:06
Speaker 2: the prosecutors determined there was a slim chance that the
31:09
Speaker 2: judge would allow the jury to see.
31:10
Speaker 3: Some of this evidence about Austin Metcalf.
31:13
Speaker 2: The prosecutors thought that if a member of the jury
31:15
Speaker 2: saw that Austin Metcalf may have used the N-word at
31:17
Speaker 2: some point in his life or may have sprayed some
31:19
Speaker 2: naughty graffiti, then they might vote to acquit Carmelo Anthony.
31:23
Speaker 2: In other words, Because leftists view racism as the single
31:26
Speaker 2: worst possible sin a white person can commit, there was
31:30
Speaker 2: a concern in the prosecutor's office that a leftist juror
31:33
Speaker 2: would vote to acquit Carmelo Anthony solely to punish Austin
31:36
Speaker 2: Metcalf for his alleged racism. In other words, the concern
31:40
Speaker 2: was that a leftist on the jury would think that
31:42
Speaker 2: because Austin Metcalf allegedly used the N-word years ago, he
31:46
Speaker 2: actually deserved to be butchered and killed. This is the
31:51
Speaker 2: level of coddling that's taking place. for the benefit of
31:55
Speaker 2: non-white left-wing jurors. And yes, contrary to what the media
31:59
Speaker 2: will tell you, there were indeed several non-white members of
32:02
Speaker 2: the jury in this case. Prosecutors are throwing their best
32:06
Speaker 2: evidence in the trash voluntarily in a desperate bid to
32:11
Speaker 2: prevent a member of the jury from thinking the victim
32:15
Speaker 2: might have said something racist at some point in his life.
32:20
Speaker 2: And keep in mind, this was a trial where numerous
32:22
Speaker 2: black witnesses testified against Carmelo Anthony, including witnesses called by
32:26
Speaker 2: the defense. It was clear to everybody in that tent,
32:29
Speaker 2: regardless of skin color, that Anthony was a murderer. So
32:32
Speaker 2: prosecutors were worried that despite the mountain of evidence against
32:35
Speaker 2: Carmelo Anthony, including testimony from black athletes and black track coaches,
32:40
Speaker 2: a juror would still vote to acquit him in order
32:42
Speaker 2: to punish Dawson Metcalf's alleged use of a bad word.
32:47
Speaker 2: You cannot imagine a better indictment of multiculturalism and diversity
32:51
Speaker 2: than this. As we've discussed before, when you flood a
32:55
Speaker 2: homogenous society with different racial groups from all over the world,
32:58
Speaker 2: those groups will start looking out for each other's interests.
33:02
Speaker 2: And when that happens, it becomes very difficult to maintain
33:07
Speaker 2: equality under the law. Jury trials begin to break down
33:11
Speaker 2: to the point that prosecutors preemptively destroy evidence so they
33:15
Speaker 2: don't offend certain demographics. And that's not to defend what
33:20
Speaker 2: the prosecutors did here. I mean, even given all their concerns,
33:22
Speaker 2: there's no reason to censor their own evidence, but it
33:24
Speaker 2: does illustrate the level of extraordinary, deranged, anti-white sentiment that's
33:29
Speaker 2: now dominant in this country, even in a state like Texas,
33:33
Speaker 2: which is slowly being taken over by foreigners, just like
33:35
Speaker 2: California before it. The thing is, when you start making
33:39
Speaker 2: backroom deals like this, they tend to blow up in
33:41
Speaker 2: your face. And that's one of the reasons prosecutors should
33:43
Speaker 2: not have done it. When you begin drafting gentlemen's agreements
33:47
Speaker 2: to hide evidence, sooner or later it will inevitably go south.
33:50
Speaker 2: And that's exactly what's happening right now with this motion
33:54
Speaker 2: for a new trial. First of all, Anthony's lawyers have
33:58
Speaker 2: already gotten the trial court judge removed from the case,
34:02
Speaker 2: so he's not present at these hearings. The judge, whose
34:04
Speaker 2: name is John Roach, gave an interview where he suggested
34:07
Speaker 2: the jury reach the correct verdict, which they did. When
34:10
Speaker 2: asked if the verdict was the right one, the judge
34:12
Speaker 2: said something to the effect of, yes, they did because
34:14
Speaker 2: they were picked based upon the law. They listened to
34:16
Speaker 2: the facts. It happened in this courtroom, and they got
34:18
Speaker 2: a verdict. So really, he was endorsing the process more
34:22
Speaker 2: than the verdict, but it was dumb for the judge
34:23
Speaker 2: to give an interview in the case anyway. So he's
34:26
Speaker 2: gone now. The new judge has to decide whether to
34:30
Speaker 2: grant a new trial, and the main issue revolves around
34:34
Speaker 2: this gentleman's agreement.
34:35
Speaker 4: Watch.
34:36
Speaker 6: Well, Chris, there was this gentleman's agreement during the trial
34:39
Speaker 6: where they both said that they agreed that they were
34:41
Speaker 6: not going to bring these character issues up, that they
34:44
Speaker 6: were going to leave them out. But then at the
34:47
Speaker 6: last minute, Bill Wurtzke, according to defense attorneys, decided that
34:50
Speaker 6: he was going to cross-examine Carmelo Anthony and he was
34:53
Speaker 6: going to bring up some of these incidents and cross-examination.
34:56
Speaker 6: So apparently there was a big shouting match, according to
34:58
Speaker 6: testimony today, between both parties, prosecutors and defense attorneys. And
35:03
Speaker 6: now his attorneys, his new attorneys, want to ask this
35:05
Speaker 6: new judge that just got appointed to give Carmelo Anthony
35:09
Speaker 6: a new trial, saying that there are some serious legal
35:12
Speaker 6: issues with his first trial. And also, we're supposed to
35:16
Speaker 6: also hear testimony that Bill Wurtzke says shows that there
35:20
Speaker 6: are some character issues involving Carmelo Anthony. According to him,
35:24
Speaker 6: on the day that Austin Metcalf was killed, Carmelo Anthony's
35:28
Speaker 6: ex-girlfriend went to an assistant principal and told told that
35:31
Speaker 6: principal that she was afraid that he had been stalking
35:34
Speaker 6: her after they broke up and that he was obsessed
35:36
Speaker 6: with guns, knives, and fights. And so again, Bill Wirtzke
35:40
Speaker 6: says he plans to bring it up when it's his turn.
35:44
Speaker 2: Now to clear this up, because it's all very confusing,
35:45
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35:48
Speaker 2: well as CBS News Texas reporter J.D.
35:50
Speaker 3: Miles, who are both in the courtroom. And here's what happened.
35:53
Speaker 2: Carmelo Anthony's defense attorney, Mike Howard, took the stand during
35:56
Speaker 2: the hearing yesterday. He was cross-examined by prosecutors. Mike Howard
35:59
Speaker 2: claims that he was 99% sure that Carmelo Anthony would
36:03
Speaker 2: take the stand in his own defense during the trial.
36:05
Speaker 2: But on the final day of trial, when Howard made
36:07
Speaker 2: it clear to prosecutors that Anthony was going to testify,
36:09
Speaker 2: he says the prosecutors became extremely upset and began shouting
36:13
Speaker 2: on the theory that any testimony from Anthony would violate
36:15
Speaker 2: the gentleman's agreement, which was to focus the trial solely
36:19
Speaker 2: on the events that took place under the tent. And
36:21
Speaker 2: the idea is that if he took the stand, Anthony
36:23
Speaker 2: would probably talk about how he's a great guy, which
36:25
Speaker 2: would open the door to questions about his text messages
36:28
Speaker 2: and the fact that he was stalking his ex-girlfriend, et cetera.
36:31
Speaker 2: So prosecutors supposedly gave an ultimatum to the defense. If
36:34
Speaker 2: Anthony testified, the gentleman's agreement was over. The prosecution could
36:38
Speaker 2: introduce any evidence they wanted, including the evidence of Anthony's
36:41
Speaker 2: text messages on the day of the murder and all
36:43
Speaker 2: the other crimes that he had committed in his past.
36:44
Speaker 3: And apparently there were a lot of them.
36:47
Speaker 2: The judge said that he, uh, wasn't going to enforce
36:49
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36:51
Speaker 2: involve the court. He simply made it clear that Anthony
36:53
Speaker 2: had the right to testify if he wanted to. The
36:56
Speaker 2: defense claims that this sudden threat, the possibility that he
36:58
Speaker 2: might get cross-examined about his text messages, left Anthony shell-shocked,
37:03
Speaker 2: and the lawyers, quote, were not given enough time to
37:05
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37:08
Speaker 2: and how the lawyers arrived at this decision. So the
37:11
Speaker 2: idea is that because the status of this gentleman's agreement
37:14
Speaker 2: was tied to whether or not Carmelo Anthony testified... Therefore,
37:19
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37:23
Speaker 2: own defense. They supposedly put undue pressure on Anthony, preventing
37:27
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37:30
Speaker 2: fact that everyone knew Anthony wasn't going to testify because
37:33
Speaker 2: he's so obviously guilty, in addition to being extremely.
37:37
Speaker 3: Dumb and unsympathetic.
37:39
Speaker 2: So there's no upside in having this stupid, illiterate thug
37:46
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37:47
Speaker 3: Wasn't going to happen.
37:49
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37:51
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37:54
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37:57
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38:00
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38:03
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38:05
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38:10
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38:13
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38:15
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Speaker 2: You're not crazy if you think the prosecutors may have
40:56
Speaker 2: tried to tank this case, given that they eliminated their
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Speaker 2: strongest piece of evidence before the trial even began. They
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Speaker 2: went out of their way to lie to the public
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Speaker 2: about the facts of the case at a time when
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Speaker 2: black activists were taking full advantage of the situation. When
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Speaker 3: It's grotesque.
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Speaker 2: And we can't forget that from the moment Austin Metcalf
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Speaker 2: was murdered, there was a much broader effort to hide
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Speaker 2: other important facts in this case as well. For example,
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Speaker 2: we were repeatedly told that the surveillance footage from the
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Speaker 2: track meet didn't contain any relevant information whatsoever. The authorities
41:34
Speaker 2: didn't release the footage, but they showed it to a
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Speaker 2: small number of media outlets, all of which claimed that
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Speaker 2: the footage was too grainy to be useful, but that
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Speaker 2: wasn't true. Here's the footage from the surveillance camera, which
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Speaker 2: was released to the public only after Anthony was convicted. And,
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Speaker 2: you know, you can't see what happens in the tent
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Speaker 2: except for the fact that there's clearly no mob attack.
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Speaker 3: Going on, as was claimed.
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Speaker 2: And then you can clearly see Carmelo Anthony at the
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Speaker 2: top of the tent when he discards the knife and
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Speaker 2: the bleachers before he breaks out into a full sprint,
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Speaker 2: passing up dozens of adults along the way. He never
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Speaker 2: asks anyone for help. Instead, people are chasing after him.
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Speaker 2: They're pointing him out. Oh, and by the way, you'll
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Speaker 2: notice there also wasn't a torrential downpour at the time
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Speaker 2: of the stabbing. The rain had let up, which is
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Speaker 2: why plenty of people are standing on the bleachers with
42:14
Speaker 2: no tent and they're not getting wet. So the whole
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Speaker 2: excuse that Anthony had to be inside the tent because
42:18
Speaker 2: of a downpour, he had no option to run away
42:20
Speaker 2: or whatever, it was also totally made up. This footage
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Speaker 2: was available on the day Austin Metcalf died. There's no
42:27
Speaker 2: reason the public could not have seen it. There was
42:30
Speaker 2: no reason for the media to assure us the footage
42:32
Speaker 2: was useless and served no purpose. Here's how News Nation
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Speaker 2: talked about it, to give just one example.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, Nicole, they allowed me to view this video under
42:42
Speaker 7: strict conditions. I couldn't record anything, I couldn't take pictures,
42:47
Speaker 7: I could take notes, but that's about it. They would
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Speaker 7: play it one time and they wouldn't even rewind it
42:52
Speaker 7: or play it again, even the moment in question. What
42:55
Speaker 7: I saw in the video was ultimately, it's from the
42:58
Speaker 7: press box across the field on the 45-yard line. You
43:02
Speaker 7: can view a yellow tent across the field. That's where
43:05
Speaker 7: this incident happened. There's no sound on the video. It's raining.
43:10
Speaker 7: You can see about 30 to 40 people around the field.
43:13
Speaker 7: It's a track meet that morning, so they're preparing for
43:16
Speaker 7: this track meet. The incident question happens at 9.44 a.m.
43:21
Speaker 7: It's really calm up until that point, and then chaos ensues,
43:26
Speaker 7: and you can't really make up anybody. You can't make
43:29
Speaker 7: out individuals. You can see people and colors and what
43:32
Speaker 7: they're wearing, but you can't make out identities. But again,
43:35
Speaker 7: at 9.44, chaos ensues. What I did not see was
43:38
Speaker 7: any obvious physical altercation leading.
43:42
Speaker 1: Up to the stabbing.
43:44
Speaker 2: So he doesn't even mention the fact that there's only
43:46
Speaker 2: one person, Carmelo Anthony, who clearly bolts from the tent
43:49
Speaker 2: and nearly leaves the stadium while everyone else is panicked
43:51
Speaker 2: and trying to save Austin Metcalf's life. Somehow this reporter
43:55
Speaker 2: and every other reporter who saw the footage missed this
43:58
Speaker 2: crucial piece of information. He also failed to mention the
44:00
Speaker 2: rain wasn't causing any issues for the people in the bleachers.
44:04
Speaker 3: It's very reminiscent of how after.
44:05
Speaker 2: George Floyd's overdose, the police refused to release the body
44:08
Speaker 2: cam footage showing that Floyd was resisting arrest. And while
44:13
Speaker 2: he was thrashing around in a patrol car, Floyd repeatedly said,
44:16
Speaker 2: I can't breathe. The footage also showed Floyd sticking fentanyl
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Speaker 2: pills in his mouth. Authorities in Minneapolis recognized that if
44:24
Speaker 2: the footage was released immediately, it would torpedo their whole narrative,
44:27
Speaker 2: which was premised on the false claim that Derek Chauvin's
44:30
Speaker 2: knee was the reason Floyd couldn't breathe.
44:32
Speaker 3: Which it wasn't.
44:33
Speaker 2: In truth, Chauvin's knee did not obstruct Floyd's airway at all.
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Speaker 2: He couldn't breathe because he was in the process of
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Speaker 2: having a fatal overdose owing to the lethal level of
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Speaker 2: fentanyl that he had ingested. The body cam was a
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Speaker 2: major problem for the narrative in Minneapolis, so the authorities
44:46
Speaker 2: buried it. And by the time the Daily Mail obtained
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Speaker 2: the leaked footage, it was too late. Everyone had seen
44:51
Speaker 2: the cell phone videos and the lynch mob had gathered.
44:53
Speaker 3: For Derek Chauvin. And the rest is history.
44:56
Speaker 2: Along the same lines, the authorities in the school district
44:58
Speaker 2: knew that this footage from the track meet was very
45:01
Speaker 2: problematic for Anthony's claim of self-defense. He's on tape running
45:04
Speaker 2: like a killer who wants to escape arrest. So they
45:08
Speaker 2: insisted that the tape was totally irrelevant. They allowed BLM
45:11
Speaker 2: terrorists to claim that the tape showed a mob attack
45:14
Speaker 2: against Carmelo Anthony. It was also predictable and probably deliberate. Now,
45:20
Speaker 2: if there's any upside here, it's that Carmelo Anthony will
45:22
Speaker 2: probably get a much longer sentence than 35 years if
45:25
Speaker 2: he does end up getting a new trial. In a
45:27
Speaker 2: new trial, jurors will be able to see his text
45:29
Speaker 2: messages with his ex-girlfriend. They'll even hear about how he
45:33
Speaker 2: admitted he was spiraling out of control and how he
45:35
Speaker 2: was stalking his ex-girlfriend. And that's on top of all
45:40
Speaker 2: the other evidence in this case, which is obviously damning.
45:42
Speaker 3: All by itself.
45:45
Speaker 2: Carmelo Anthony has assembled a dream team of morons, including
45:48
Speaker 2: Ben Crump, of course, to secure a new trial. But
45:50
Speaker 2: the irony is that a new trial would probably end
45:53
Speaker 2: up making things even worse for him. That is, unless
45:58
Speaker 2: Ben Crump manages to seat a deranged leftist woman or
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Speaker 2: a BLM activist on the next jury, should another trial
46:05
Speaker 2: take place.
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Speaker 3: That's always been the gambit. gambit. When you're a black.
46:09
Speaker 2: Defendant who's clearly guilty of a heinous crime, your lawyers
46:13
Speaker 2: have one strategy. Get you in front of as many
46:16
Speaker 2: juries as possible until you find at least one member
46:20
Speaker 2: of a jury who's just as psychotic and racist as
46:25
Speaker 2: your client. That's the state of the legal system when
46:30
Speaker 2: it comes to prosecuting black criminals. We've known that for
46:33
Speaker 2: some time now. What we didn't know until yesterday is
46:36
Speaker 2: that prosecutors, even the alleged conservative ones in Texas, are
46:40
Speaker 2: working directly with defense lawyers to deceive juries and the
46:44
Speaker 2: public about the evidence they've collected.
46:46
Speaker 3: Prosecutors are not simply soft on crime.
46:48
Speaker 2: They're not simply refusing to charge criminals or letting criminals
46:52
Speaker 2: out of prison early. They're also functioning, in effect, as
46:54
Speaker 2: defense attorneys, all in the name of racial harmony. And
47:00
Speaker 2: they're doing it without telling anybody. With prosecutors like that,
47:04
Speaker 2: who needs defense attorneys? I mean, the more you think
47:07
Speaker 2: about it, the worse it gets. It's a total betrayal.
47:09
Speaker 2: And yes, in all likelihood, once all these legal games
47:12
Speaker 2: are finished, Anthony is going to spend a very long
47:14
Speaker 2: time in prison.
47:15
Speaker 3: Not nearly enough, but a long time.
47:18
Speaker 2: The end result of all these motions and hearings, it's
47:21
Speaker 2: fairly safe to say, will be that Carmelo Anthony loses
47:23
Speaker 2: and justice prevails. But once that happens and Carmelo Anthony
47:29
Speaker 2: is locked away in prison for good... There's another very
47:32
Speaker 2: important determination that needs to be made, which is how
47:36
Speaker 2: many prosecutors in Texas and all over the country belong
47:40
Speaker 2: in prison with him.
47:43
Speaker 3: That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching.
47:44
Speaker 3: Thanks for listening. Talk to you on Monday. Have a
47:46
Speaker 3: great weekend. Godspeed.
47:55
Speaker 4: But in all of my years of public life, I
47:58
Speaker 4: have never profited from public service. I welcome this kind
48:02
Speaker 4: of examination because people have got to know whether or
48:05
Speaker 4: not their president's a crook.
48:06
Speaker 7: Well, I'm not a crook.
48:08
Speaker 2: For more than five decades, from Iran-Contra to Monica Lewinsky
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Speaker 2: to Russiagate, every political scandal has been measured against one,
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Speaker 2: the Watergate affair.
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Speaker 3: But what if Richard Nixon was telling the truth? What
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Speaker 3: if Watergate isn't what it seems?
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Speaker 2: What if hundreds of thousands of pages of sworn testimony, memoirs,
48:26
Speaker 2: and Newly released government documents tell a different.
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Speaker 3: Story than the one you learned in school. I know America.
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Speaker 2: In 1972, Nixon won the biggest electoral landslide in modern
48:36
Speaker 2: American history with grand plans to remake.
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Speaker 3: The federal government. Two years later, he was out of office.
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Speaker 3: You were taught that.
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Speaker 2: Nixon's men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters to
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Speaker 3: But you were never taught what really happened.
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Speaker 4: I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
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