00:00:03.000Sometimes teenagers kill people because they believe and do bad things and then they are punished by the law.
00:00:08.000So we were told by all the best people that Carmelo Anthony was somehow a victim.
00:00:14.000And that includes people like James Tellerico.
00:00:17.000Again, James Tellerico is running for Senate in Texas and he is running competitively.
00:00:21.000The last few polls showed James Tellerico up in Texas, which is why this is important.
00:00:26.000Here was James Tellerico just a few weeks ago talking about the conviction of Carmelo Anthony.
00:00:32.000Carmelo Anthony, you'll recall, was the teenager Who murdered Austin Metcalf?
00:00:36.000They're in a tent while it was raining before a game, and he wasn't supposed to be in that tent.
00:00:40.000Carmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf and others told him to leave because he wasn't from the school, and he decided that would be a great time to pull a knife out of his backpack and stab Austin Metcalf to death.
00:00:50.000Well, James Tellerico then went on the Breakfast Club with Charlemagne and explained that Carmelo Anthony's conviction was because of American racism.
00:01:01.000Now, you said in your state of Texas, we see what happened with Carmelo Anthony, and you said it was a tragedy.
00:01:08.000Well, I've done a lot of work in the State House on justice reform, and right now we've got a system that doesn't serve all Americans equally.
00:01:16.000And we know that black Texans have not gotten the justice they deserve in many cases.
00:01:24.000And I'm not an expert on this particular case, but I know that there were no black members of the jury.
00:01:29.000And to me, that's the only evidence you need to really prove that this system is not working for black Texans.
00:01:40.000Howdy Doody Doll says that there aren't enough Black Texans on the jury, and therefore Carmelo Anthony was somehow victimized in all of this.
00:01:48.000And again, this ties into a broader perspective in American life, which is that Black people are routinely being victimized by quote unquote the system.
00:01:54.000Sandra Bullock, who has adopted Black teenagers, she was out there saying the same thing.
00:02:01.000Here she was on with Hoda on the Today Show.
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00:02:30.000The energy that is floating around our country in our world again, the color of their skin, they're my babies, they're my life, but no one knows that when they leave my house.
00:03:01.000Again, we can look in the polling data in the United States when race relations started to turn the wrong way because most Americans, black and white, thought race relations were moving in a positive direction all the way up till 2013, 2014.
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00:04:36.000We now have access to his texts, videos of him, and it turns out that he was a person with extraordinarily violent thoughts.
00:04:47.000According to the UK Daily Mail, the material was never shown to jurors because a controversial gentleman's agreement saw prosecutors and defense attorneys agree not to present negative evidence from either teenager's background at trial.
00:04:57.000Apparently, there were comments by Austin Metcalf on his social media that would have reflected poorly on him to the jury.
00:05:04.000The issue is, you know, the guy who stabbed him to death.
00:05:08.000According to the Daily Mail, Anthony can be seen shirtless posing with a handgun in a screenshot from a video he recorded in November 2024, five months before the killing.
00:05:30.000Now, again, there are lots of teenagers across America who have pictures holding guns.
00:05:35.000I mean, hopefully, in more responsible fashion than Carmelo Anthony is holding in these guns in these photos.
00:05:41.000But again, that is not the only evidence here.
00:05:43.000There's a third incident in which Anthony took video of himself pointing a gun at a house before running away January 4th, 2025, unclear whose home he was targeting.
00:05:52.000And then there are a series of texts that Anthony sent to his girlfriend, Valeria Perez, in March 2025, in which he wrote, I effing despise black B words.
00:06:55.000We are a society that is so addicted to narrative that we overlook the actual case circumstance.
00:07:00.000I've said this about every criminal case I can remember.
00:07:02.000Look at the actual evidence in any case, and you are likely to come to a better conclusion than if you don't look at the evidence.
00:07:10.000And if the narrative matters more than the evidence, if you're James Tallarico, Trotting around trying to win the black vote in Texas by saying that Carmelo Anthony is a victim of the system.
00:07:18.000You are doing something wrong, like morally wrong.
00:07:21.000You should not spin fact patterns to fit your narrative.
00:07:25.000It is a mistake to do that, a moral mistake.
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