The Matt Walsh Show

Ep. 1792 - Karmelo Anthony's Defense Implodes And EXPOSES The Big Lie Of The Civil Rights Era

57 min
Jun 8, 2026about 1 month ago
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Summary

Matt Walsh analyzes the Carmelo Anthony murder trial, arguing that Anthony's defense has collapsed under witness testimony proving he provoked the confrontation and used disproportionate lethal force. Walsh connects the case to broader civil rights era policies that he claims prevent schools from disciplining black students and create conditions enabling racial violence.

Insights
  • Every witness in the tent—including the defense's own witnesses—testified that Carmelo Anthony provoked the confrontation, making self-defense claims legally untenable under Texas law
  • Schools face legal liability under disparate impact doctrine if disciplinary policies disproportionately affect black students, creating incentives to avoid enforcing conduct rules
  • The $600,000 fundraiser for Anthony's defense and courthouse protests demonstrate racial tribalism in criminal justice, with supporters backing the defendant based on race rather than facts
  • Civil rights era legal doctrines prohibiting policies with disparate racial impact have unintended consequences that prevent enforcement of reasonable safety and conduct standards
  • White families are increasingly forced to adopt risk-avoidance behaviors around certain demographics due to fear of violence, fundamentally altering social interaction patterns
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Disparate impact legal doctrine creating perverse incentives in school discipline policiesRacial tribalism in criminal justice advocacy overriding evidence-based support for defendantsErosion of school authority to maintain safe learning environments due to civil rights litigation riskGrowing public awareness of demographic disparities in violent crime and their social consequencesTension between equal enforcement of conduct rules and avoiding disparate racial outcomes in disciplineDocumentary content examining unintended consequences of civil rights era policiesFundraising campaigns for criminal defendants organized along racial linesCourtroom testimony revealing gaps between activist narratives and eyewitness accounts
Topics
Carmelo Anthony murder trial and self-defense claimsDisparate impact doctrine in education lawSchool discipline policies and racial equityCivil rights era legal legacy and unintended consequencesWitness testimony in criminal trialsRacial tribalism in criminal justice advocacyViolent crime demographics and statisticsWhite flight and urban neighborhood declineAffirmative action and racial equity policiesCriminal defense fundraising campaignsCourtroom evidence and jury decision-makingSchool safety and student conduct enforcementFederal civil rights litigation against school districtsDocumentary analysis of civil rights movementRisk assessment and behavioral patterns by demographic group
Companies
Daily Wire
Producing documentary series 'The Looting of America' examining civil rights era policies and their consequences
ACLU
Filed lawsuits against school districts alleging disparate impact violations for suspending black students disproport...
Southern Poverty Law Center
Filed civil rights complaints against school districts for referring black students to alternative schools at higher ...
Give Send Go
Crowdfunding platform used to raise over $600,000 for Carmelo Anthony's legal defense
People
Matt Walsh
Host analyzing Carmelo Anthony trial and civil rights era legal doctrines
Carmelo Anthony
Accused of stabbing Austin Metcalf to death at a track meet in Texas
Austin Metcalf
17-year-old track athlete fatally stabbed by Carmelo Anthony at a track meet
Bill Worsky
Prosecutor in Carmelo Anthony case presenting witness testimony about the stabbing
Patrick Casey
Quoted commentary on Austin Metcalf's murder and implicit threats of violence in society
John Derbyshire
Referenced for discussing the need for parents to educate children about racial violence disparities
Thomas Sowell
Referenced as example of virtuous black man shunned rather than celebrated by his community
Clarence Thomas
Referenced as example of virtuous black man treated poorly by his community
Ferdinand Woolen
LSU-bound honors graduate shot and killed one week after graduation in New Orleans
Billy Schmidt
Penn State student killed in South Philadelphia over a cell phone theft
Quotes
"From the moment Carmelo Anthony killed Austin Metcalf in front of dozens of witnesses, it was obvious he was guilty."
Matt WalshOpening
"Every white father needs to have the talk with his child about black violence and anti-social behavior. It's simply a fact that, on average, black people are far more likely to resort to violence at the slightest provocation."
Matt WalshMid-episode
"We're gonna stand by ours regardless. I'm a mother first, I'm a black mother."
Courthouse protesterProtest footage
"This trial is about the $600,000 that was donated to Anthony's defense, mostly by black people, solely because he murdered a white teenager."
Matt WalshEarly segment
"If we continue on the trajectory that was set in place decades ago, we'll continue to see many more Carmelo Anthonies."
Matt WalshClosing argument
Full Transcript
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Restrictions and eligibility requirements apply. From the moment Carmelo Anthony killed Austin Metcalf in front of dozens of witnesses, it was obvious he was guilty. Anthony brought a prohibited knife to a track meet, trespassed into the other team's tent, refused to leave, reached into his bag in a threatening manner, challenged people to fight him, brutally stabbed an unarmed 17-year-old who lightly shoved him in response, then ran away and tried to hide the murder weapon. Now, not too long ago in our country's history, somebody like Carmelo Anthony in that kind of situation would already be executed for his crime at this point and rightfully so. And yet, even with these facts in mind, the trial of Carmelo Anthony has revealed a slew of new details that underscore just how horrific and premeditated this murder was. It's not an overstatement to say that Anthony's defense has imploded far more quickly than anyone had anticipated. As bad as you thought this case was for Carmelo, it's much worse. The trial has also revealed that everybody in that tent, including Carmelo Anthony's friend, a defense witness in this case, understands that he was culpable. But before we get into the latest developments in the trial and we'll cover it fairly and comprehensively, we need to establish at the outset that this trial isn't really about Carmelo Anthony in isolation. This trial is also about the $600,000 that was donated to Anthony's defense, mostly by black people, solely because he murdered a white teenager. This trial is about the hordes of black activists outside the courtroom cheering for a murderer and endorsing his violent depraved behavior, again, solely because he murdered a white teenager. It's also about our post-1960s legal system, which prohibits schools from punishing dangerous black students like Carmelo Anthony and which forces white people to live around them. Today, we're launching part two of our documentary on the civil rights movement on the Daily Wire called The Looting of America, which demonstrates in graphic detail exactly how we ended up in a country like this. We talk about how many white people came to be terrified in their own neighborhoods, at schools, at track meets, everywhere, because of court-ordered busing, public housing policy, and so-called urban renewal efforts. We talk about the development of a fundamental, unstated rule of modern society, a rule we're all familiar with, and which Austin Metcalf broke, which states that you're supposed to tolerate antisocial behavior by a young black male, no matter how offensive it may be, or else you'll end up dead. It sounds like an overstatement, but it's not. We're all expected to go about our lives with the understanding that if we dare to offend a young black man, we could end up in a body bag. As the writer Patrick Casey put it, Austin Metcalf's murder is particularly salient because almost everyone, regardless of race, has encountered a black person carrying out an antisocial act, cutting in line, mouthing off, blasting music on the subway, etc., which is accompanied by the implicit threat of violence. Most people don't want to share society with people who routinely violate public norms and are prepared to murder anyone who objects. So when you see the vagrant kicking trash cans down the street, you're supposed to walk the other way, or else you might end up stabbed to death, like that left-wing activist in Brooklyn a few years ago. Now, we talked about this story on the show at the time. The white guy made the mistake of getting up off his bench and engaging with this crazed black guy. And he should have done that, obviously. He should have done the racist thing, quote, unquote, and just crossed the street. But he'd rather risk his life and die than violate the sacred rule. And along the same lines, when you see some unknown black athlete in your team's tent refusing to leave and acting belligerent, you're supposed to look the other way. And if he ends up stealing your property, oh well, at least you're alive and not racist. John Derbyshire got fired from the National Review for saying this, but it's obviously true. Every white father needs to have the talk with his child about black violence and anti-social behavior. It's simply a fact that, on average, black people are far more likely to resort to violence at the slightest provocation. This is how justice works in the hood. If they feel their honor is threatened or that they're being disrespected, in many cases they will shoot or stab you without any hesitation. Now, it doesn't mean that all black people are violent, obviously. But the statistics are indisputable. If you tell a black guy on the subway to turn his music down, you're risking your life to a much, much greater degree than if you said the same thing to, say, a Chinese woman or a white man. Now, we can be fairly confident that Austin Metcalfe never received this talk based on the public statements of his father in this case when he told everyone that Ray said nothing to do with his son's death. But it's a vital conversation for every child to hear, including black children. Because most of the homicides in cities like Chicago or Detroit or Baltimore are related to some impulsive act of violence committed by a usually young black male who feels he's been wronged in some relatively minor way. When these young black men leave their neighborhoods and interact with white people that track me, it's on the side of the road or on the subway or anywhere else, that attitude doesn't change. Many of them are still willing to kill over any challenge to their authority, no matter how slight. So everyone needs to be aware of the risk. Now, it's also worth pointing out that the type of violence overwhelmingly perpetrated by young black males is almost always cowardly and dishonorable. You know, very often it's a group assaulting one person, often kicking and beating the victim while he's on the ground, stomping on his head. We've all seen this a million times in videos and so on. The assault is usually committed suddenly with no chance for the victim to defend himself. Carmelo Anthony pulled out the knife and stabbed Austin Metcalfe in one fell swoop, then ran away. Metcalfe never had a chance. And I point this out because often the violence is prompted by the assailants feeling that he's been, as I said, disrespected or dishonored in some way. Now, there's a time in the history of Western civilization when white men would resort sometimes to violence over disrespect. That's what dueling was all about, a practice that was commonplace in Europe and the United States for centuries. So common that famously a sitting vice president shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. But the whole point of a duel was that both participants knew exactly what was going to happen. They were both armed. They were meeting at a specific time and place to have the duel. And it was a fair fight. The idea was that in order to reclaim your honor, you had to fight honorably and honestly. Now say what you will about the practice of dueling, but it was at least fair and it took real physical courage for both parties involved. Now these days, a young black male will feel that his honor has been challenged in some way and respond with sudden, disproportionate, unannounced violence against an almost always unarmed, unprepared opponent and then run away while his victim bleeds to death on the ground. It's violence done over alleged disrespect but committed in the most craven, disreputable, gutless way possible. Now, is this an exclusively black mentality? No, it's not. It's other groups that also engage in disproportionate violence in response to criticism. That's why Henry Novak is dead. It's a third world mentality more generally. But in this country, by far, the greatest perpetrators of this kind of impulsive, inexplicable violence are young black men. And it's not even close. One wrong word and you could be dead. And we don't solve the problem by ignoring it, pretending it's not true. We all know it is. We're calling people racist when they voice their concerns about it or change their behavior to minimize the risk to their family. The more we ignore what's happening, the more innocent people will die. Now, just the other day, a white student at Penn State named Billy Schmidt was slaughtered in the streets of South Philadelphia over a cell phone. And just based on that information alone, you can easily guess what the attackers look like. We all know that. Okay, when you hear that someone was killed over a cell phone, you immediately know the demographics of the people who did it. You immediately know this was not a group of white middle-aged men, despite how it would be portrayed if this was, you know, happened in a Hollywood movie. It wasn't a roving gang of Koreans. It wasn't like a splinter cell of Japanese females. That wasn't any of that. Here's what happened. The final moments of 22-year-old Billy Schmidt's life were caught on camera pleading for his cell phone. It's very upsetting. Video from Ezra Rolandavich's porch camera at 1.30 Saturday morning shows two young men talking with Billy, who's off camera to the left. Seconds later, we see Billy follow them into the street toward 20th and Durfer. Moments later, a gunshot is heard. We've muted that audio out of respect for the family. Over a phone, it's abhorrent. It's just unbelievable that someone would kill someone over a phone. His father says he was returning from a local bar where he was watching the NBA Finals with his friends. In this video captured by nearby home's cameras, you can see what led up to the shooting. It shows one of the men throwing a cell phone. A few seconds later, another man comes running around the corner with Billy chasing him. The gunman then turns around and shoots Billy in the chest. Billy's father says he's the one who founds Billy's phone under a car and gave it to police. I'm shocked when they stole his phone. He chased the kid. He's very lucky. It's incomprehensible to that woman how anyone could be murdered over a cell phone. She truly can't process it. And indeed, it's a foreign concept to the overwhelming majority of people. The odds are good that in your life, you don't know anyone who would even dream of stealing someone's phone than shooting them over it. But out in the hood, it's commonplace. Many young black men who are often raised without fathers believe that they're entitled to do whatever they want. They don't consider the long-term consequences of their actions. They don't control their impulses. They see a challenge to their authority and they respond with lethal force. If they want to come inside the tent, then they should be allowed to be inside the tent. Why? Because they want to. And if you try to make them leave, they can kill you. That's what they think. And therefore, if you want to maximize your life expectancy, you have to realize how quickly these mainly young black men will kill you without a second thought. You need to act accordingly. In this case, as his father pointed out, Billy Schmidt made the decision to chase after these thugs who had just robbed him and yelled, give me back my phone. And he had every right to do that, of course. I mean, in a civilized society, it'd be the reasonable thing to do. But South Philadelphia is not a civilized society. Thugs in the hood will shoot you without hesitation if you get in their way. There's no logic behind any of it. Indeed, just before one of the robbers then shot Billy Schmidt, the other thief tossed a stolen phone under a car. So they committed armed robbery and first-degree murder, all for a cell phone they didn't even take. This is the kind of depravity that most people, functioning people, can't even fathom. Now, the flip side of the equation, the one every parent needs to drill into the minds of their children, is that Billy Schmidt vastly underestimated the danger he was in. That's not to blame Billy Schmidt. He obviously didn't deserve to lose his phone, much less his life. But as a factual matter, many, many white people are underestimating the danger that they're in when they're in these kinds of situations, particularly in cities like Philadelphia. They've been indoctrinated with years of BLM propaganda in all aspects of life against their will. They've been taught that the disproportionate number of black people who are incarcerated, it's only because of racist police. It's not because they commit crimes more often, which is the reality. It's because the police are racist, which is stupid. And over time, they internalize that propaganda. They come to believe that it's true, and in many cases, they die as a result. Bad sleep makes you a worse person. You're irritable, you can't think straight, you're less productive. I was dealing with back pain every morning, waking up in a sweat, accepting it as normal. It wasn't normal. It was my mattress. Helix fixed that, and within the first week, I was actually waking up feeling like a human being, no more back pain, no more overheating. Better sleep has made me better at everything else. Helix has over 20 mattress models, so you can find the one that's actually built for how you sleep. They've got cooling upgrades, which matter in the summer, certainly. 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Because any claim of self-defense has to be objectively reasonable, his defense falls apart. We'll start with the testimony on the question of provocation, which is to say whether Anthony provoked the attack. One very important detail, which hasn't received anywhere near as much attention as it should, is the fact that he was keeping his hand in his bag in a threatening manner long before Austin Metcalf touched him. Anthony was strongly suggesting that he had some kind of weapon in the bag and that he was willing to use it. And although there was testimony suggest that Metcalf thought Anthony was bluffing, he even said, this is Frisco, you don't have anything in there or something to that effect. The truth is, he didn't know. Someone had walked into his team's tent and now he was sending the message that he might be armed. And on top of that, as one witness testified, Anthony was told 15 times to leave the tent. But every single time he refused. This is testimony from a 16-year-old boy at the trial, as reported by CBS Dallas, which was allowed into the courtroom, quote, prosecutor Bill Worske. Did you become aware of someone not on the team in your tent? Witness, yes, he sat next to me. This is Carmela. Prosecutor Bill Worske, did this worry you, bother you or seem kind of normal? Witness, it was kind of strange because everyone is supposed to be in their home tent. Bill Worske, what did Carmelo say? Witness, he says he wasn't leaving and says a profanity. Bill Worske, what did Carmelo do? Witness, he was starting to get more aggressive. Prosecutor, what does he say next? Witness, F you all, I'm not going to leave, you're all a bunch of keywords. Prosecutor, did Austin take the lead? Witness, yes, Carmelo put his hand in the bag and said five times, touch me and see what happens. Austin said he's not going to touch this guy, he was calm. Prosecutor, what did you see during the stabbing? Witness, you saw a big hole and blood coming from his upper body. Prosecutor, at some point did you decide to unfreeze and do something? Witness, yes, he had a knife so he ran to the left side of the field. I heard Xavier say, Austin looks dead. So Anthony demonstrated the exact opposite of the state of mind you need to have in order to claim self-defense. He's not afraid of any one of the tent, he made that very clear. Instead, he's challenging them to a fight. He's calling them names and implying that they're weak and afraid, throwing profanity at them. He's refusing to leave after 15 instructions to do so. He's taunting them, he's communicating to them that he has a weapon in an area where weapons are strictly prohibited. Meanwhile, he isn't being threatened, he isn't being backed into a corner, no one is preparing to draw any kind of weapon on him. So Anthony had no reason to even consider using lethal force in this scenario. On the other hand, if you're Austin Metcalf, you actually have a very good reason to fear for your safety and the safety of your teammates. A witness testified that several other athletes had stopped by the tent that day, but all of them were turned away by coaches because of the expectation that only memorial athletes would be in the tent and all of those other athletes left without incident. But Carmelo Anthony, and only Carmelo Anthony, decided to stay and threaten everyone instead. He decided that the rules should not apply to him. They applied to everybody, this is a pattern. The rules apply to everyone, everyone's being expected to follow the rules, but not, no, not him. He should have to follow the rules. Why? Because he's special. 11 students all testified that Anthony wasn't welcomed in the tent and that multiple students asked him to leave. Every single witness demonstrated that Anthony was trying to instigate a fight. One witness even testified that he challenged Austin Metcalf to a fist fight, to which Metcalf replied, I'm not going to fight you at a track meet, bro. And this isn't in dispute anymore. I mean, it's something every witness agrees upon. Even the defense's own witnesses, okay, the witnesses they called in an effort to build their case for self-defense ultimately benefited the prosecution. Okay, one of those witnesses was a 17-year-old student from Memorial High School who knew Carmelo well and who talked to him when he arrived at the tent. On direct examination by the defense, a 17-year-old was asked about his previous statements to detectives where he indicated that Metcalf had verbally threatened Anthony. And at first, this testimony looked like it would indeed benefit the defense. So I'm going to read from this excerpt at some length because it's the one moment that the defense could use for its own benefit. This is from the CBS reporting of what happened in the courtroom. It's not a transcript. And note that Carmelo Anthony is referred here to as mellow. So here's what it says. Quote, defense, do you remember telling the detective, you need to move before I beat your ass, witness. I don't recall saying that. The defense approaches the witness with papers. The witness agrees that Austin said something like that or something similar. Defense, Austin is standing up. Mellow is still seated. Witness, yes. Defense, that's when Mellow reached into his bag after Austin mentioned something about wanting to beat his ass. Witness, yes. Defense, Austin calls his bluff and says, I know you don't have anything in that bag. Witness, yes. Defense, for Austin to make his way to Mellow, he has to move up five rows. Yes, defense. Austin takes a step or two and then they talk and that continues. Witness, yes. Defense, all this time as Austin is moving closer to Mellow, Mellow is seated with his hand in the bag. Like, don't come closer to me. Witness, yes, sir. Defense, Mellow says, as long as you don't touch me, we're cool or don't touch me. Witness, yes. Defense, you told the detective Austin reached up and tapped Carmelo on the shoulder. Mellow is seated. Witness, yes. Defense, there's a touch and then there's a grab. Witness, yes. Defense, he, Austin, grabbed with both hands. Witness, both of his hands were in motion. Defense, Austin is reaching for Mellow. At that point, Mellow's hand comes out of the bag. Witness, yes. Okay, now, assuming this testimony is accurate, Metcalfe said something about beating up Anthony, although the witness couldn't recall precisely what he heard. And remember, we've already heard from a whole bunch of witnesses who said that this was totally Carmelo instigated the entire thing, but here's what this defense witness is saying. Carmelo, meanwhile, supposedly said that everything would be cool if no one touched him. No other witness has reported hearing that statement. Only this guy supposedly heard it. So this clearly seems like important testimony for the defense because it's the only witness who suggested that Carmelo Anthony had some reason to be worried that something would happen to him when he was sitting in the tent and before he reached into his bag. And of course, there are reasons to doubt that Metcalfe ever said that he was going to beat up Anthony. In particular, there's the previous testimony from other witnesses that Metcalfe repeatedly said that he didn't want to fight. And this particular witness admitted that he wasn't sure of what Metcalfe said. And again, even if all that was true, even if Carmelo Anthony was being threatened, he could leave. He could get up and leave at any time. He's in a tent he's not supposed to be. So if he really felt threatened, he could get up and leave. And he didn't. If this testimony was a small victory for the defense, it didn't last very long. In fact, it turned into a major defeat for them. Because after the court returned from a 10 minute break and the prosecution began their cross-examination, the testimony fell apart immediately in spectacular fashion. Okay, the same witness, remember this is a witness for the defense, testified on cross-examination quote, I think, testified quote, I think Carmelo was in the wrong. And when asked by prosecutors whether Carmelo had provoked the confrontation, the witness said yes. This was a stunning moment. We'd already heard from many witnesses for the state testifying that Carmelo Anthony was the aggressor. He provoked the confrontation was in the wrong. And now here's a witness for the defense who at first seems like he's giving the first person to throw a lifeline to Carmelo Anthony. But by the end of it, he says, yes, Carmelo Anthony provoked it and was in the wrong. Again, every single witness, everyone in the tent understood that Austin Metcalf was responding to a provocation from Carmelo Anthony. They all recognized that Anthony was breaking the rules, talking about fighting people, and Metcalf responded to that threat in a reasonable way. The defense's own witness admits this. He was in the tent at the moment of the stabbing and even with everything he witnessed, his top-line conclusion is, oh, this was Carmelo Anthony's fault. Meanwhile, the coach at Centennial High School, Carmelo Anthony's high school, also ultimately benefited the prosecution's case under cross-examination. This is from the trial testimony quote, prosecutor Bill Worsky, when's the last time you talked to Carmelo, witness the day of the event, prosecutor, you're aware there's no weapons allowed at TrackMate's witness, yes, prosecutor, I imagine you don't approve of athletes stabbing other athletes in the chest, witness, no, prosecutor, it shouldn't happen that one of your athletes ends up in another team's tent. Witness, yes, sir, prosecutor, is there any reason an athlete should have a knife at a TrackMate? Witness, no, prosecutor, you would expect someone asked to leave a tent to comply. Witness, yes. So again, this is a defense witness. The witness is supposed to help the defense actually benefiting the prosecution in a major way. This is a situation where Anthony has created the circumstances in which it's reasonable for Metcalf as the team leader who was put in charge of the tent by his coach to remove him from the tent. He's threatening a bunch of children with a hidden weapon and challenging them to a fight, for no reason. It's a textbook provocation. And therefore under these circumstances Metcalf was justified in putting his hands on Anthony and lightly shoving him away to get him out of the tent. And he would have been, he would have been justified in harshly shoving him, violently shoving him, but he didn't. I feel like I'm getting robbed when I bet the Stanley Cup on a sportsbook. 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And that's because when you're engaging in self-defense, your physical response has to be proportional to the physical injury you suffer or that you reasonably believe you're going to suffer. If somebody shoots at you or is about to shoot you, then you could shoot back. If somebody pulls a knife on you and you have a gun, you could shoot them. Because a knife can kill you. And just by producing the knife, they're showing their intent to kill you. But if someone lightly shoves you in circumstances that make it clear he's simply trying to get you out of a tent, then at most you're allowed to shove or punch them back, although even that, probably not. You don't have a license to stab them to death. If people could just murder anyone who shoves them, public transit would become a battle royale every day, which it already kind of is. It makes no sense. One thing from his defenders on X, you see this phrase a lot where they say, oh, we put his hands on him. Don't put your hands on someone. Don't put your hands on someone. Well, I hate to tell you this, but in a civilized society, which you are blessed to live in, in a civilized society, someone putting their hands on you does not automatically give you license to just murder them. Okay, they treat it like it's some sort of technicality. Oh, you put your hands on me. Technically, now I get to kill you. Yeah, but you didn't fear for your life. Yeah, but technically, hey, he touched me. Like it's like a children's game, like tag or something. Oh, he tagged me. I'm it. I get to kill you. That's really what they think. That's like the legal defense being offered essentially here. And everyone knows it's an absurd argument to make with a straight face and that they still try to. Every single piece of witness testimony demonstrated that Metcalfe didn't use a significant amount of force against Camillo Anthony. This is testimony from a Memorial High School track athlete named Eddie Para, who knew both Metcalfe and Anthony as reported by CBS. Quote, Bill, prosecutor, what did you notice in the tent? Witness Camillo was up there. I dabbed him up. Prosecutor, did you talk? Witness just said, hi. Prosecutor, did you think it was weird? He was in the tent. Witness, yes, because teams are supposed to be at their own tent. Prosecutor, you call him mellow. Witness, yes. Prosecutor, are you after you stopped talking to him? Did you see any other teammates talk to him? Witness, yeah. Austin said, who are you? Prosecutor, what did you see? Witness, Camillo gets mad. He gets, he's told to get out of the tent. Prosecutor, once he gets mad, what happens? Witness, he says, you're not going to move me. You're a prosecutor. It was Austin starting to get mad. Witness, he was getting defensive. Someone he didn't know was in the tent. He's always leading. He's always trying to protect us. Prosecutor, after that, witness, Camillo said, you'll have to move me. You'll have to move me. Austin put his hand on his back. I saw Camillo's hand going his backpack. He brought a track meet. I wouldn't expect anything to be in there. Camillo said, touch me. You'll have to move me and find out, trying to provoke him. Prosecutor, then what happens? Witness, Austin puts his hand on him and falls back. Prosecutor, how was Austin trying to move him? Witness, it was him trying to move him off his seat, a soft shove. Prosecutor, what did Austin do? Witness, I see the hole in his chest and blood. He starts screaming for help. Prosecutor, when this is going on, who's standing? Witness, before the stab, Austin was the one standing. Prosecutor, did any kids from Memorial try to gang up on Camillo? Witness, no. Prosecutor, you're expecting at most a fist fight. Witness, yes. Prosecutor, you didn't think anything was going to happen. Witness, no. Now, the key testimony there is that this was a soft shove and no one expected anything more than that. No one thought Metcalfe was going to pummel Anthony. And no one thought Anthony was going to stab Metcalfe. Again, Metcalfe was just trying to move the guy off the seat, get him out of the tent where he didn't belong. Another witness described the shove as somewhere between soft and hard, so moderate, in other words. Additionally, as reported by Breonna Morella, one witness who's black, testified that he was sitting right next to Anthony at the time of the shove. And according to the witness, the shove was so light that Camillo wasn't even pushed into contact with him. So this was not a violent altercation at all. Anthony barely moved. So that's the extent of the damage that Metcalfe did. You know, apparently a light shove that, you know, made him like, do this. There's a little light, slightly slight movement. Oh, now I get to murder you. Witnesses testified that in the same motion as the shove, while it was going on, Anthony responded by immediately stabbing Metcalfe in the chest. So Anthony didn't wait for a moment. Once he thought he had a pretext to kill, he jumped on the opportunity, eagerly. According to DailyMails reporting, during cross-examination, Defense Attorney asks, did he, Austin, grab hold of him, Camillo, team number four says he didn't get the chance to grab hold of him. He was already stabbed. Team number six described watching the verbal back and forth between Austin and Camillo, while Camillo had his hand in his backpack and claimed he had something in his bag. The vein in his arm was visible. It looked like he was grabbing something. When Austin moves into shove slash push, Camillo, Camillo pulls the knife from his backpack and plunges it into Austin's chest. It was all part of the same motion. Anthony was so forceful that the knife broke through Metcalfe sternum and punctured the right side of his heart. There was a two inch stab wound that went directly through the wall of the heart. A wanger reportedly gasped and covered her mouth when she saw it, and Metcalfe was dead within seconds. There is no universe in which this is a proportional response to a slight shove, even if you don't account for provocation, even if you pretend that Camillo Anthony had every right to be in that tent, which he didn't. As one 17-year-old witness told the court last week, that's lethal force against non-lethal. Yeah, I'd say so. And Anthony knew he committed murder, which is why he threw the knife into the stands and began running from the scene before a coach just tracked him down. All of Metcalfe's teammates knew it too, which is why they ran out of the tent and a panic as Metcalfe died. One of those teammates, who's black, actually began pursuing Camillo Anthony in an effort to avenge Metcalfe. Not a single person in that tent, not one, thought Austin Metcalfe was a dangerous threat who needed to be taken down. No witness has ever said anything like that for the prosecution or the defense. So it's very clear that Anthony is a murderer, but the very large number of black activists in this country don't see it that way. What they care about is the racial tribalism. That's how Camillo Anthony's family was able to raise more than $600,000 on Give, Send, Go. And it's why every day the courthouse has black protesters outside demanding the acquittal of Camillo Anthony. You know, we've shown several videos before, but they keep coming back every day. Watch. If evidence does come out that Camillo was not, in fact, fighting for his life when he stabbed and killed Austin Metcalfe, do you think that the black community will accept that? If evidence shows that he did not, no, we're gonna stand by ours regardless. They stand by theirs. We're gonna stand by ours regardless. I'm a mother first, I'm a black mother. Let me put that on there. I'm an African-American mother. I have to put away my color first and step into the motherhood. Nobody wants to see their child slain. So I do want to send prayers to Austin Metcalfe, their family. But at the end of the day, I gotta think like, okay, what did you do to him? Or whatever to cause this to happen to reaction. We gotta start taking accountability for our kids. Because then again, if my kid, that's why I said catch 22, if my kid was Carmelo and I feel like his back was against the wall, I'm gonna take straight up, better mind than yours. Better mind than yours. So either way it go, everybody loses. A black boy allegedly erred, and I say allegedly, heavy on the allegedly, allegedly erred at somebody. You see what I'm saying? So yeah, this is about race. Do you think Carmelo is innocent? Do you feel like it's been an unfair response to what happened to Carmelo Anthony? I feel that the justice system always over respond when it comes to us. So definitely, I mean, you look at the charge. It was self-defense. He was wrestling with two guys. I don't know what the parameters of it, but it was two people. So two against one, that's self-defense. So he's completely wrong on the parameters of the case, otherwise known as the facts. It's just making up a story that, like no one has told that story. He just made that up. There's no witness who's said anything about wrestling. There's no, there was no wrestling, certainly not two on one. No witness for either side has done any, has claimed anything like that. And yet you have a guy who showed up to the courthouse, that's how much he cares about it, and that's the story he has in his head. Now, if he had any integrity, he'd say exactly what the first woman said, which is that these people support Carmelo Anthony solely because he's black. And rather than face the fact that many young black males are willing to gut white children because of the smallest, most insignificant provocation, also willing to gut other black children, for the same reason, these adults are encouraging young black males to continue executing people in the streets for no reason. I mean, it's hard to imagine a more shameful display than that. She says, take responsibility for your kids. Yeah, that's a good idea. Maybe take responsibility for your kids by telling them, hey, you're not allowed to just go out and stab people to death. You can't go out and just kill someone because you don't, because it makes you, you don't like how they looked at you. But at the same time, this is not a new phenomenon at all. I mean, Rodney King, OJ, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, Jacob Blake, Carmelo Anthony, my entire life. If you're around my age, your entire life. We have watched black activists rally around the most dysfunctional, degenerate, morally repugnant parasites on the planet, celebrating and defending the worst of the worst, people who contribute nothing to society, who take but don't give. Take everything, take resources, take from their communities and then take lives, give nothing back, a net drain on society. And these are the ones that they're rallying around. When's the last time an actual, virtuous, heroic black man won popular support in his own community? When's the last time they painted a mural of like a black man who was good and just and heroic and had virtue and integrity and was a contributing member of society? Well, the sad reality is that that kind of black man is much more likely to be shunned than celebrated. I mean, look how Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas are treated. In fact, in some cases, they're not just shunned, they're killed. This report is from just a couple of weeks ago in New Orleans, watch. In Selah tonight, many of Ferdinand Woolen's family members were too emotional to speak on camera. This was supposed to be a time of celebration as he just graduated one week ago right here at Sophie B. Wright High School and said his family is now planning his funeral. That was an innocent soul, a great soul. A soul that was not meant to leave her this early. Just hours after walking across the stage and taking these pictures, holding his high school diploma. Luff and impact that can never be erased. This Sophie B. Wright Honors graduate was hurt in a trimmé shooting according to police. When officers responded to the scene early Tuesday morning, they found Woolen's inside an SUV shot multiple times. Police say he was transported to a hospital where he died days later. We was just celebrating their graduation that day they had a party at a hall. We would have never known that we would have left that hall party and we would have never seen that boy ever again. An 18 year old with a promising future ahead. His family says he had a full ride scholarship to college set to study engineering this fall. He was on his way to LSU, full scholarship. He had scored a 30 on the ACT recently and this guy was the limit for him. Exactly one week after his graduation, his family, friends and classmates held onto photos of Woolen's during a prayer service honoring his life. ["The Life of the Lufthansa"] Sounds from a sentimental send-off filled the lakefront as loved ones danced through the pain, remembering the light he brought to their lives while pushing for gun violence to stop. I've lost three friends to gun violence and I just honestly feel like it has to be a change in Louisiana and it's just so sad that it takes a debt to bring all of us together so that we have to start making changes. Now blaming gun violence as you just heard from the news anchor there misses the point completely. Guns are not the issue here or anywhere. Switzerland, which has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world has extremely low rate of gun violence. Problem is not gun violence, the problem is that some demographics are dramatically almost unbelievably more likely to commit violence than others. And instead of addressing the violence committed to this astronomically disproportionate degree by young black men, what you have instead are black activists that are donating to fundraisers for the benefit of the black murderers. A 30 on the ACT, which is what this murdered student received is a grade score. It's equivalent of around 1370 on the SAT. 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There actually is no solution that doesn't include that. So if we're not gonna do that, then it's just chaos all the way down, it's all it's ever gonna be. But aside from that, what's a workable solution? Well, as I mentioned earlier, one of the most catastrophic legacies of the civil rights era was that it became illegal in this country for any policy to have a disproportionate impact on black people, even if the policy is completely reasonable, even if the policy is not targeted at black people or any race. So it's an equal policy that everyone is subject to. But still, the idea is that if you disproportionately impact black people, then we can infer that you're racist and you'll get sued into oblivion. So if you have a policy where, or a law that black people disproportionately run afoul of and then are punished, in accordance with that, well, then it's automatically racist. That's the idea. It's one of the dumbest legal doctrines of all time, but it persists to this day. And it's one of the reasons why schools like Centennial High, which gave Carmelo Anthony a degree after he murdered someone, these schools are essentially banned, I mean, in effect banned, by law from disciplining black students, at least to the extent that they need to be disciplined. That's because in virtually every case, black students are punished more than white students whenever any objective student conduct policy is enforced. So to give just a few examples, in Virginia, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against Richmond Public School saying that they were breaking the law by suspending too many black students for so-called subjective offenses. And those offenses included walking away from teachers while they were being spoken to. In other words, teachers trying to give you instructions and you just flat out ignore it. Deserved to be suspended for that. I mean, if that goes on too long, you should be expelled for that because the school can't function with that sort of thing. You're not gonna listen or go along with the program at all, then we can't have you here. You're destroying education for everybody else. But because black students were suspended too much under this policy, more than 90% of suspended students were black, the ACLU went to court. The federal government hounded the Richmond School System for years afterwards. And meanwhile, in Louisiana, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which spends most of its time funding the KKK, as we've recently discovered, filed a civil rights complaint alleging that it was a violation of disparate impact theory for the school district to refer too many black students to alternative schools for behavioral issues. The school board had to settle. And in New Jersey, the ACLU filed a complaint alleging that black students were five times more likely to face out-of-school suspensions than white students. Black parents continued to sue for many years, even after a settlement over this suspension policy. Now, even though again, none of these policies said, oh, we're gonna suspend black students. It was just, here's the rule, and if you break the rule, here's the punishment. And it just so happens that an overwhelming majority of the students who broke that policy that everybody is subjected to were black. And so that means you can't have it. Now, to be clear, I have no specific information as to what offenses, if any, Carmela Anthony may have committed at his public high school. There's certainly a few puzzle pieces we can put together, though. There's one news report, which we played earlier in the week where a girl says Anthony was known for fighting. There's also the fact that Carmela Anthony stabbed a kid to death for no reason, which would, generally, if you're doing that, that means, it probably was not your first time getting into a physical altercation with someone we could probably assume, reasonably. And then there's this report from a CBS reporter from last year, Town Hall first noticed this. We'll put it up on the screen. It says, quote, it re, CBS News, Texas, has learned from law enforcement sources involved in the investigation. The Carmela Anthony had previously been suspended for bringing a knife to school. Law enforcement sources tell us Anthony should have been in class at Centennial High School and was skipping school when he allegedly stabbed Austin Metcalf. CBS later wrote on their Facebook quote, we also have redacted some previously reported information on a possible suspension in order to get further clarification from the school district. The school district has chosen not to reply to our questions regarding this information. Therefore, we have pulled the information temporarily. But temporarily became permanently with no clear update. In other words, the school district, the same school district that let Carmela Anthony graduate after killing a white student, managed to kill the story. And we don't know the truth about Anthony's record if he had one, and it wouldn't necessarily be introduced as evidence during the trial either because judges generally don't want jurors to make their decision based on a defendant's prior conduct. So it maybe was kept out of the prosecution's case for that reason, we don't know. The point is if Anthony had indeed done something worthy of suspension at his school, as CBS originally reported, then the school district would have every reason under our civil rights law to ignore the issue entirely. If the school district tried to punish a student like Carmela Anthony, which is to say, a violent black student, then they run the risk of years of expensive litigation. So the easy way out is simply to allow these students to graduate, even when they slaughter a white teenager to attract me without any justification whatsoever. And by the same token, the easy approach for white parents is to tell their children that all of the violence and dysfunction in black areas is due to systemic racism or whatever. The easy approach is to tell your children to treat aggressive black thugs in the exact same manner as you would treat anyone else. But the truth is there's a big difference between Carmela Anthony and say, you know, an Asian chess grandmaster. There's also a big reason between a black teen and South Philly who takes your cell phone and a white first year university student like Henry Novak. And if you deny that this difference exists, then you're placing yourself and your children in a position where they might die a horrible and preventable death at the altar of civil rights mythology and BLM propaganda. So this is not a case about one stabbing at a track me as horrific and tragic as that stabbing was. This is also the legacy of the civil rights movement. It's about the urgency of undoing the genocidal and deranged laws and legal doctrines that are now getting far too many white people killed and black people. It's about ending all of the handouts and special treatment that black Americans receive all in the name of racial equity, which everyone now understands as code for killing white people with impunity and taking their stuff. This is always the goal of the civil rights movement from its earlier days. In part two of our real history documentary on the civil rights era called the looting of America, we talk about the savagery and the brutality that white people endured if they didn't have the resources to flee to the suburbs in the 60s and 70s. The people who were left behind, the ones who couldn't engage in so-called white flight, which is the preferred term of leftist historians and school textbooks, were sexually assaulted and executed for sport. They watched as their communities became living nightmares. And when they complained, they were met with total indifference from everyone, from black activists, from liberal academics, white liberal activists, and the United States federal government. They were left behind to suffer and die as their communities, which had survived for generations, became violent cesspools virtually overnight. So when you watch these activists rally outside that courthouse for Camelo Anthony, and when you see them donating $600,000 so that Anthony's family can buy a new house, the only conclusion you could draw is that not much has changed. Decades of affirmative action and welfare payments, a DEI, even the election of a black president, or half black at least, two times, have not merely failed to produce racial harmony in this country, quite the contrary. By design, they've led us directly to this period of open anti-white racial warfare, which has erupted all over the West from Texas to the UK. What you need to understand is that the government, at every level, is creating the conditions where this kind of violence can occur. They're preventing civilized people from enforcing the law. And as a result, every day, children are getting executed. Now, will Camelo Anthony be found guilty? Most likely, yes, he will, assuming the jury wasn't compromised, I mean, admittedly, is a big assumption. He certainly should be found guilty. I put my money on that it will happen, but we don't know. But the most important takeaway from this trial and the issue that we address in our documentary is that white men are not dying in random one-off incidents like this anymore than white people just happen to lose out on job opportunities or government contracts or university admissions. White children are dying in the streets of Philadelphia and at track meets in Texas for the same reason that defenseless, elderly white women were massacred in their own homes when diversity came to town in the 1960s. These people are dying because of a fiction that has persisted for far too long in this country, which is that racial disparities, always and everywhere, are the result of discrimination. This belief has acquired religious significance in most of the country. It's both dangerous and completely false. The truth is that if we had more racial disparities and a little more self-awareness, a lot of innocent people, both white and black, would still be alive today. As it stands, if we continue on the trajectory that was set in place decades ago, we'll continue to see many more Carmelo Anthonies. That's what the corporate press wants, which is why they're presenting the murder as a truly unforeseeable, shocking homicide. But it actually wasn't unforeseeable at all. We created the circumstances that allowed the murder to happen. We effectively created, as although most people don't realize it, a new constitution 60 years ago that rewards grievance and violence. And just as quickly, before the next Austin Metcalf is slaughtered, we must tear up this new constitution and replace it with the one we started with. That will do it for the show today. Thanks for watching, thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] Last month, we judged Martin Luther King Jr. not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. American school kids spend a lot of time hearing about MLK and Rosa Parks. 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