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

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00:00:57.640 From the moment Carmelo Anthony killed Austin Metcalf in front of dozens of witnesses,

00:01:02.580 it was obvious he was guilty.

00:01:04.380 Anthony brought a prohibited knife to a track meet,

00:01:07.140 trespassed into the other team's tent,

00:01:09.760 refused to leave, reached into his bag in a threatening manner,

00:01:12.700 challenged people to fight him,

00:01:14.460 brutally stabbed an unarmed 17-year-old who lightly shoved him in response,

00:01:18.600 then ran away and tried to hide the murder weapon.

00:01:20.980 And now, not too long ago in our country's history, somebody like Carmelo Anthony in

00:01:24.820 that kind of situation would already be executed for his crime at this point, and rightfully

00:01:30.380 so.

00:01:31.700 And yet, even with these facts in mind, the trial of Carmelo Anthony has revealed a slew

00:01:36.880 of new details that underscore just how horrific and premeditated this murder was.

00:01:42.140 It's not an overstatement to say that Anthony's defense has imploded far more quickly than

00:01:47.640 anyone had anticipated.

00:01:49.920 As bad as you thought this case was for Carmelo, it's much worse.

00:01:55.320 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.

00:02:04.320 But before we get into the latest developments in the trial, and we'll cover it fairly and comprehensively,

00:02:10.120 we need to establish at the outset that this trial isn't really about Carmelo Anthony in isolation.

00:02:15.940 This trial is also about the $600,000 that was donated to Anthony's defense, mostly by

00:02:22.960 black people, solely because he murdered a white teenager. 0.97

00:02:26.680 This trial is about the hordes of black activists outside the courtroom cheering for a murderer 1.00

00:02:32.300 and endorsing his violent, depraved behavior, again, solely because he murdered a white 1.00

00:02:37.440 teenager.

00:02:38.260 It's also about our post-1960s legal system, which prohibits schools from punishing dangerous 0.70

00:02:43.940 black students like Carmelo Anthony and which forces white people to live around them. Today 0.79

00:02:50.020 we're launching part two of our documentary on the civil rights movement on the Daily Wire called

00:02:55.920 The Looting of America, which demonstrates in graphic detail exactly how we ended up in a

00:03:01.460 country like this. We talk about how many white people came to be terrified in their own neighborhoods,

00:03:06.800 at schools, at track meets, everywhere, because of court-ordered busing, public housing policy, 0.51

00:03:12.660 and so-called urban renewal efforts.

00:03:15.100 We talk about the development of a fundamental, unstated rule of modern society,

00:03:20.820 a rule we're all familiar with and which Austin Metcalfe broke, 0.96

00:03:24.940 which states that you're supposed to tolerate antisocial behavior by a young black male, 0.97

00:03:31.300 no matter how offensive it may be, or else you'll end up dead. 0.72

00:03:36.300 It sounds like an overstatement, but it's not.

00:03:38.880 We're all expected to go about our lives with the understanding that 0.78

00:03:41.820 if we dare to offend a young black man, we could end up in a body bag. As the writer Patrick Casey 0.90

00:03:49.040 put it, Austin Metcalf's murder is particularly salient because almost everyone, regardless of 0.88

00:03:53.660 race, has encountered a black person carrying out an antisocial act, cutting in line, mouthing off,

00:03:59.720 blasting music on the subway, etc., which is accompanied by the implicit threat of violence. 0.99

00:04:03.960 Most people don't want to share society with people who routinely violate public norms and

00:04:08.660 are prepared to murder anyone who objects. So when you see the vagrant kicking trash cans down the

00:04:15.160 street, you're supposed to walk the other way or else you might end up stabbed to death like that

00:04:21.140 left-wing activist in Brooklyn a few years ago. Now we talked about this story on the show at the

00:04:26.640 time. The white guy made the mistake of getting up off his bench and engaging with this crazed

00:04:33.940 black guy. And he should have done that, obviously. He should have done the racist thing, 1.00

00:04:39.660 quote unquote, and just crossed the street. But he'd rather risk his life and die than violate 0.56

00:04:46.840 the sacred rule. And along the same lines, when you see some unknown black athlete in your team's 0.64

00:04:51.640 tent refusing to leave and acting belligerent, you're supposed to look the other way. And if

00:04:56.460 he ends up stealing your property, oh well, at least you're alive and not racist. John Derbyshire

00:05:04.320 got fired from the National Review for saying this, but it's obviously true. Every white father 1.00

00:05:10.140 needs to have the talk with his child about black violence and antisocial behavior. It's simply a 1.00

00:05:18.280 fact that on average, black people are far more likely to resort to violence at the slightest 0.99

00:05:23.380 provocation. This is how justice works in the hood. If they feel their honor is threatened or 0.99

00:05:29.740 that they're being disrespected, in many cases, they will shoot or stab you without any hesitation. 0.97

00:05:37.660 Now, it doesn't mean that all black people are violent, obviously, but the statistics are 1.00

00:05:42.180 indisputable. If you tell a black guy on the subway to turn his music down, you're risking 1.00

00:05:48.200 your life to a much, much greater degree than if you said the same thing to, say, a Chinese woman 0.86

00:05:56.040 or a white man. Now, we can be fairly confident that Austin Metcalf never received this talk

00:06:02.780 based on the public statements of his father in this case, when he told everyone that race had

00:06:06.860 nothing to do with his son's death. But it's a vital conversation for every child to hear,

00:06:10.880 including black children, because most of the homicides in cities like Chicago or Detroit or 0.94

00:06:15.220 Baltimore are related to some impulsive act of violence committed by a usually young black male 0.56

00:06:21.360 who feels he's been wronged in some relatively minor way. And when these young black men leave 0.95

00:06:28.280 their neighborhoods and interact with white people at track meets or on the side of the road or on 0.63

00:06:32.100 the subway or anywhere else, that attitude doesn't change. Many of them are still willing to kill over 1.00

00:06:38.420 any challenge to their authority, no matter how slight. So everyone needs to be aware of the risk.

00:06:45.220 You know, it's also worth pointing out that the type of violence overwhelmingly perpetrated by young black males is almost always cowardly and dishonorable. 0.98

00:06:56.680 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. 0.98

00:07:03.780 We've all seen this a million times in videos and so on.

00:07:07.200 The assault is usually committed suddenly with no chance for the victim to defend himself.

00:07:12.360 Carmelo Anthony pulled out the knife and stabbed Austin Metcalfe in one fell swoop, then ran away.

00:07:18.620 Metcalfe never had a chance.

00:07:20.300 And I point this out because often the violence is prompted by the assailant's feeling that he's been, as I said, disrespected or dishonored in some way.

00:07:29.940 Now, there was a time in the history of Western civilization when white men would resort sometimes to violence over disrespect.

00:07:37.040 That's what dueling was all about, a practice that was commonplace in Europe and the United 0.56

00:07:41.240 States for centuries.

00:07:42.660 So common that famously a sitting vice president shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.

00:07:47.880 But the whole point of a duel was that both participants knew exactly what was going to

00:07:52.420 happen.

00:07:53.260 They were both armed.

00:07:55.120 They were meeting at a specific time and place to have the duel.

00:07:58.640 And it was a fair fight.

00:08:00.600 The idea was that in order to reclaim your honor, you had to fight honorably and honestly.

00:08:05.800 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. 0.71

00:08:12.660 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. 0.80

00:08:32.120 It's violence done over alleged disrespect, but committed in the most craven, disreputable, gutless way possible. 1.00

00:08:40.340 Now, is this an exclusively black mentality? No, it's not. 1.00

00:08:43.300 There are other groups that also engage in disproportionate violence in response to criticism.

00:08:47.940 That's why Henry Novak is dead. It's a third world mentality more generally.

00:08:52.240 But in this country, by far the greatest perpetrators of this kind of impulsive, inexplicable violence are young black men. 1.00

00:09:00.900 And it's not even close. 0.99

00:09:02.880 One wrong word and you could be dead.

00:09:05.420 And we don't solve the problem by ignoring it, pretending it's not true.

00:09:09.300 We all know it is.

00:09:10.640 We're calling people racist when they voice their concerns about it.

00:09:14.660 Or change their behavior to minimize the risk to their family.

00:09:18.160 The more we ignore what's happening, the more innocent people will die.

00:09:22.580 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.

00:09:29.580 And just based on that information alone, you can easily guess what the attackers look like.

00:09:34.280 We all know that.

00:09:36.620 When you hear that someone was killed over a cell phone, you immediately know the demographics of the people who did it.

00:09:45.420 You immediately know this was not a group of white middle-aged men, despite how it would be portrayed if this happened in a Hollywood movie. 0.72

00:09:53.940 It wasn't a roving gang of Koreans. 0.52

00:09:55.880 It wasn't like a splinter cell of Japanese females. 0.94

00:09:59.580 There wasn't any of that. 1.00

00:10:02.300 Here's what happened.

00:10:04.660 The final moments of 22-year-old Billy Schmidt's life were caught on camera pleading for his cell phone.

00:10:11.720 It's very upsetting.

00:10:13.560 Video from Ezra Rolanovich's porch camera at 1.30 Saturday morning shows two young men talking with Billy, who's off camera to the left.

00:10:23.020 Seconds later, we see Billy follow them into the street toward 20th and Durfer.

00:10:28.340 Moments later, a gunshot is heard.

00:10:31.160 We've muted that audio out of respect for the family.

00:10:34.100 Over a phone, it's abhorrent.

00:10:38.780 It's just unbelievable that someone would kill someone over a phone.

00:10:45.560 His father says he was returning from a local bar where he was watching the NBA Finals with his friends.

00:10:51.140 In this video captured by nearby home's cameras, you can see what led up to the shooting.

00:10:55.440 It shows one of the men throwing a cell phone.

00:10:58.220 A few seconds later, another man comes running around the corner with Billy chasing him.

00:11:03.160 The gunman then turns around and shoots Billy in the chest.

00:11:07.640 Billy's father says he's the one who found Billy's phone under a car and gave it to police.

00:11:13.340 I'm shocked when they stole his phone, he chased the kid.

00:11:17.280 He's very low key.

00:11:19.100 It's incomprehensible to that woman how anyone could be murdered over a cell phone.

00:11:23.060 She truly can't process it. And indeed, it's a foreign concept to the overwhelming majority of

00:11:27.740 people. The odds are good that in your life, you don't know anyone who would even dream of stealing

00:11:33.300 someone's phone, then shooting them over it. But out in the hood, it's commonplace. Many young

00:11:39.180 black men who are often raised without fathers believe that they're entitled to do whatever

00:11:42.860 they want. They don't consider the long-term consequences of their actions. They don't 0.94

00:11:46.860 control their impulses. They see a challenge to their authority and they respond with lethal

00:11:52.000 force. If they want to come inside the tent, then they should be allowed to be inside the tent. Why?

00:11:56.200 Because they want to. And if you try to make them leave, they can kill you. That's what they think. 1.00

00:12:03.340 And therefore, if you want to maximize your life expectancy, you have to realize how quickly 1.00

00:12:06.880 these mainly young black men will kill you without a second thought. You need to act accordingly. 1.00

00:12:14.300 In this case, as his father pointed out, Billy Schmidt made the decision to chase after these

00:12:19.540 thugs who had just robbed him and yelled, give me back my phone. And he had every right to do that,

00:12:25.360 of course. I mean, in a civilized society, it'd be the reasonable thing to do. But South Philadelphia

00:12:31.440 is not a civilized society. Thugs in the hood will shoot you without hesitation if you get in their 0.93

00:12:37.820 way. There's no logic behind any of it. Indeed, just before one of the robbers then shot Billy 0.92

00:12:43.900 Schmidt, the other thief tossed a stolen phone under a car. So they committed armed robbery and

00:12:48.520 first-degree murder, all for a cell phone they didn't even take. This is the kind of depravity

00:12:54.280 that most people, functioning people, can't even fathom. Now, the flip side of the equation,

00:13:00.380 the one every parent needs to drill into the minds of their children, is that Billy Schmidt

00:13:04.720 vastly underestimated the danger he was in. That's not to blame Billy Schmidt. He obviously didn't

00:13:11.580 deserve to lose his phone, much less his life. But as a factual matter, many, many white people

00:13:17.240 are underestimating the danger that they're in when they're in these kinds of situations,

00:13:21.760 particularly in cities like Philadelphia. They've been indoctrinated with years of BLM propaganda

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00:13:31.500 number of black people who are incarcerated, it's only because of racist police. You know, 0.69

00:13:37.280 it's not because they commit crimes more often, which is the reality. It's because the police

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00:14:38.840 Now, as the trial testimony has demonstrated beyond any doubt, 1.00

00:14:42.820 Carmelo Anthony is yet another young black male who resorted to murder 0.98

00:14:47.240 after his antisocial behavior was called out.

00:14:51.260 In particular, the trial has revealed that Anthony is guilty of murder

00:14:54.540 for two separate independent reasons.

00:14:56.320 First, he provoked a violent confrontation,

00:14:58.780 which means he's not allowed to claim self-defense under Texas law.

00:15:02.840 Anthony knew he was breaking a well-established social norm and he was looking for an excuse to

00:15:06.820 kill anyone who challenged him. And secondly, Anthony used lethal force in response to a

00:15:11.100 situation where he clearly was not in danger of being killed or suffering any sort of great

00:15:15.940 bodily harm whatsoever. And because any claim of self-defense has to be objectively reasonable,

00:15:21.220 his defense falls apart. Now we'll start with the testimony on the question of provocation,

00:15:25.740 which is to say whether Anthony provoked the attack. One very important detail,

00:15:29.600 which hasn't received anywhere near as much attention as it should, is the fact that he

00:15:33.940 was keeping his hand in his bag in a threatening manner long before Austin Metcalf touched him.

00:15:38.980 Anthony was strongly suggesting that he had some kind of weapon in the bag and that he was willing

00:15:43.780 to use it. And although there was testimony suggests that Metcalf thought Anthony was bluffing,

00:15:48.860 he even said, this is Frisco, you don't have anything in there or something to that effect.

00:15:53.000 The truth is he didn't know. Someone had walked into his team's tent and now he was sending the

00:15:58.460 message that he might be armed. And on top of that, as one witness testified, Anthony was told

00:16:04.160 15 times to leave the tent. But every single time he refused. This is testimony from a 16-year-old

00:16:11.400 boy at the trial, as reported by CBS Dallas, which was allowed into the courtroom. Quote,

00:16:16.620 Prosecutor Bill Worski, did you become aware of someone not on the team in your tent? Witness,

00:16:21.900 Witness, yes, he sat next to me.

00:16:24.120 This is Carmelo.

00:16:25.460 Prosecutor Bill Worski, did this worry you, bother you, or seem kind of normal?

00:16:31.820 Witness, it was kind of strange because everyone is supposed to be in their home tent.

00:16:36.560 Bill Worski, what did Carmelo say?

00:16:39.360 Witness, he says he wasn't leaving and says a profanity.

00:16:44.140 Bill Worski, what did Carmelo do?

00:16:47.020 Witness, he was starting to get more aggressive.

00:16:50.500 Prosecutor.

00:16:51.140 What does he say next?

00:16:52.340 Witness.

00:16:52.940 F you all. 0.91

00:16:53.620 I'm not going to leave. 1.00

00:16:54.360 You're all a bunch of P words.

00:16:56.860 Prosecutor.

00:16:57.700 Did Austin take the lead?

00:16:59.860 Witness.

00:17:00.280 Yes.

00:17:00.620 Carmelo put his hand in the bag and said five times, touch me and see what happens.

00:17:04.920 Austin said he's not going to touch this guy.

00:17:06.660 He was calm.

00:17:07.860 Prosecutor.

00:17:08.540 What did you see during the stabbing?

00:17:10.100 Witness.

00:17:10.480 You saw a big hole and blood coming from his upper body.

00:17:14.000 Prosecutor.

00:17:14.420 At some point, did you decide to unfreeze and do something?

00:17:17.140 Witness.

00:17:17.460 Yes, he had a knife.

00:17:18.160 so he ran to the left side of the field. I heard Xavier say, Austin looks dead.

00:17:24.120 So Anthony demonstrated the exact opposite of the state of mind you need to have in order to claim

00:17:27.800 self-defense. He's not afraid of anyone in the tent. He made that very clear. Instead, he's

00:17:32.220 challenging them to a fight. He's calling them names and implying that they're weak and afraid,

00:17:37.080 throwing profanity at them. He's refusing to leave after 15 instructions to do so. He's

00:17:42.940 taunting them. He's communicating to them that he has a weapon in an area where weapons are

00:17:46.500 strictly prohibited. Meanwhile, he isn't being threatened. He isn't being backed into a corner.

00:17:51.180 No one is preparing to draw any kind of weapon on him. So Anthony had no reason to even consider

00:17:56.340 using lethal force in this scenario. On the other hand, if you're Austin Metcalf, you actually have

00:18:01.960 a very good reason to fear for your safety and the safety of your teammates. A witness testified

00:18:06.240 that several other athletes had stopped by the tent that day, but all of them were turned away

00:18:10.380 by coaches because of the expectation that only Memorial athletes would be in the tent.

00:18:14.080 and all of those other athletes left without incident.

00:18:19.060 But Carmelo Anthony, and only Carmelo Anthony, decided to stay

00:18:23.560 and threaten everyone instead.

00:18:25.720 He decided that the rules should not apply to him.

00:18:27.340 They apply to everybody.

00:18:29.100 This is a pattern.

00:18:30.840 The rules apply to everyone.

00:18:31.980 Everyone's being expected to follow the rules, but not, no, not him.

00:18:35.760 He shouldn't have to follow the rules.

00:18:37.300 Why? Because he's special.

00:18:38.360 11 students all testified that anthony wasn't welcomed in the tent and that multiple students

00:18:45.440 asked him to leave every single witness demonstrated that anthony was trying to

00:18:48.880 instigate a fight one witness even testified that he challenged austin metcalf to a fist fight to

00:18:53.740 which metcalf replied i'm not going to fight you at a track meet bro and this isn't in dispute

00:18:59.200 anymore i mean something every witness agrees upon even the defense's own witnesses okay the

00:19:04.800 witnesses they called in an effort to build their case for self-defense ultimately benefited the

00:19:12.040 prosecution. One of those witnesses was a 17-year-old student from Memorial High School

00:19:17.160 who knew Carmelo well and who talked to him when he arrived at the tent. On direct examination by

00:19:22.420 the defense, the 17-year-old was asked about his previous statements to detectives where he

00:19:27.140 indicated that Metcalfe had verbally threatened Anthony. And at first, his testimony looked like

00:19:31.260 it would indeed benefit the defense. So I'm going to read from this excerpt at some length because

00:19:36.640 it's the one moment that the defense could use for its own benefit. This is from the

00:19:40.360 CBS reporting of what happened in the courtroom. It's not a transcript. And note that Carmelo

00:19:45.880 Anthony is referred here to as Mello. So here's what it says. Quote,

00:19:52.380 defense, do you remember telling the detective you need to move before I beat your ass? Witness, 0.99

00:19:57.180 I don't recall saying that. The defense approaches the witness with papers. The witness agrees that

00:20:03.340 Austin said something like that or something similar. Defense, Austin is standing up. Mello

00:20:08.540 is still seated. Witness, yes. Defense, that's when Mello reached into his bag after Austin

00:20:13.780 mentioned something about wanting to beat his ass. Witness, yes. Defense, Austin calls his bluff and 1.00

00:20:18.600 says, I know you don't have anything in that bag. Witness, yes. Defense, for Austin to make his way

00:20:23.160 to Mello, he has to move up five rows. Witness. Yes. Defense. Austin takes a step or two, and then

00:20:28.540 they talk, and that continues. Witness. Yes. Defense. All this time, as Austin is moving closer

00:20:33.620 to Mello, Mello is seated with his hand in the bag, like, don't come closer to me. Witness. Yes,

00:20:37.840 sir. Defense. Mello says, as long as you don't touch me, we're cool, or don't touch me. Witness.

00:20:43.340 Yes. Defense. He told the detective Austin reached up and tapped Carmelo on the shoulder. Mello is

00:20:49.100 seated. Witness, yes. Defense, there's a touch and then there's a grab. Witness, yes. Defense,

00:20:55.220 he, Austin, grabbed with both hands. Witness, both of his hands were in motion. Defense, Austin is

00:21:01.080 reaching for Mello. At that point, Mello's hand comes out of the bag. Witness, yes. Okay, now

00:21:06.440 assuming this testimony is accurate, Metcalfe said something about beating up Anthony, although the

00:21:10.840 witness couldn't recall precisely what he heard. And remember, we've already heard from a whole

00:21:16.100 bunch of witnesses who said that this was totally Carmelo instigated the entire thing, but here's

00:21:20.120 what this defense witness is saying. And Carmelo, meanwhile, supposedly said that everything would

00:21:25.160 be cool if no one touched him. No other witness has reported hearing that statement. Only this guy

00:21:30.240 supposedly heard it. So this clearly seems like important testimony for the defense because it's

00:21:35.620 the only witness who suggested that Carmelo Anthony had some reason to be worried that

00:21:40.460 something would happen to him when he was sitting in the tent and before he reached into his bag.

00:21:45.700 And of course, there are reasons to doubt that Metcalf ever said that he was going to beat up

00:21:48.800 Anthony. In particular, there's the previous testimony from other witnesses that Metcalf

00:21:53.400 repeatedly said that he didn't want to fight. And this particular witness admitted that he

00:21:57.640 wasn't sure of what Metcalf said. And again, even if all that was true, even if Carmelo Anthony

00:22:03.700 was being threatened, he could leave. He could get up and leave at any time. He's in a tent he's not

00:22:10.980 supposed to be. So if he really felt threatened, he could get up and leave, and he didn't.

00:22:18.560 But if this testimony was a small victory for the defense, it didn't last very long. In fact,

00:22:25.520 it turned into a major defeat for them. Because after the court returned from a 10-minute break

00:22:30.360 and the prosecution began their cross-examination, the testimony fell apart immediately in spectacular

00:22:36.820 fashion. Okay, the same witness, remember this is a witness for the defense,

00:22:41.860 testified on cross-examination, quote, I think, testified, quote, I think Carmelo was in the

00:22:47.840 wrong. And when asked by prosecutors whether Carmelo had provoked the confrontation,

00:22:53.120 the witness said, yes. So this was a stunning moment. We'd already heard from many witnesses

00:23:00.680 for the state testifying that Carmelo Anthony was the aggressor. He provoked the confrontation,

00:23:05.160 was in the wrong. And now here's a witness for the defense who at first seems like he's giving

00:23:11.520 the first person to throw a lifeline to Carmelo Anthony. But by the end of it, he says, yes,

00:23:16.760 Carmelo Anthony provoked it and was in the wrong. Again, every single witness, everyone in the tent

00:23:24.460 understood that Austin Metcalf was responding to a provocation from Carmelo Anthony. They all

00:23:30.320 recognized that Anthony was breaking the rules, talking about fighting people, and Metcalf

00:23:34.260 responded to that threat in a reasonable way.

00:23:37.220 The defense's own witness admits this.

00:23:40.440 He was in the tent at the moment of the stabbing,

00:23:42.860 and even with everything he witnessed,

00:23:44.520 his top-line conclusion is,

00:23:46.480 oh, this is Carmelo Anthony's fault.

00:23:50.280 Meanwhile, the coach at Centennial High School,

00:23:52.500 Carmelo Anthony's high school,

00:23:54.620 also ultimately benefited the prosecution's case

00:23:56.820 under cross-examination.

00:23:58.480 This is from the trial testimony, quote,

00:24:00.840 Prosecutor Bill Werski,

00:24:02.460 when's the last time you talked to Carmelo?

00:24:04.260 Witness, the day of the event.

00:24:05.920 Prosecutor, you're aware there's no weapons allowed at track meets.

00:24:09.580 Witness, yes.

00:24:10.740 Prosecutor, I imagine you don't approve of athletes stabbing other athletes in the chest.

00:24:15.380 Witness, no.

00:24:16.340 Prosecutor, it shouldn't happen that one of your athletes ends up in another team's tent.

00:24:20.880 Witness, yes, sir.

00:24:21.880 Prosecutor, is there any reason an athlete should have a knife at a track meet?

00:24:25.440 Witness, no.

00:24:26.940 Prosecutor, you would expect someone asked to leave a tent to comply.

00:24:31.480 Witness, yes.

00:24:32.480 Yes.

00:24:34.260 So again, this is a defense witness.

00:24:38.120 The witness is supposed to help the defense actually benefiting the prosecution in a major

00:24:42.840 way.

00:24:43.720 This is a situation where Anthony has created the circumstances in which it's reasonable

00:24:47.200 for Metcalfe, as the team leader who was put in charge of the tent by his coach, to remove

00:24:51.380 him from the tent.

00:24:52.820 He's threatening a bunch of children with a hidden weapon and challenging them to a

00:24:56.500 fight for no reason.

00:25:00.160 It's a textbook provocation.

00:25:03.100 And therefore, under these circumstances, Metcalfe was justified in putting his hands on Anthony

00:25:07.020 and lightly shoving him away to get him out of the tent.

00:25:11.040 He would have been justified in harshly shoving him, violently shoving him, but he didn't.

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00:26:18.840 So by itself, these facts neutralize any claim of self-defense.

00:26:22.940 It's out the window completely.

00:26:24.000 you simply cannot start a fight in a manner that everybody recognizes is totally unreasonable and

00:26:31.260 insane and then claim self-defense when you kill an unarmed person but here's the thing even if

00:26:38.440 Carmelo Anthony hadn't provoked anyone even if he was a saintly figure in that tent minding his own

00:26:43.420 business being completely silent never once reaching in his bag for a weapon or saying he

00:26:47.820 wanted to fight someone the claim of self-defense still falls apart and that's because when you're

00:26:52.180 engaging in self-defense, your physical response has to be proportional to the physical injury you

00:26:56.720 suffer or that you reasonably believe you're going to suffer. If somebody shoots at you or is about

00:27:02.020 to shoot you, then you could shoot back. If somebody pulls a knife on you and you have a

00:27:07.400 gun, you could shoot them because a knife can kill you. And just by producing the knife, 0.98

00:27:11.900 they're showing their intent to kill you. But if someone lightly shoves you in circumstances that

00:27:18.380 make it clear he's simply trying to get you out of a tent, then at most you're allowed to shove

00:27:25.560 or punch them back, although even that, probably not. You don't have a license to stab them to

00:27:32.720 death. If people could just murder anyone who shoves them, public transit would become a battle 0.99

00:27:39.880 royale every day, which it already kind of is. It makes no sense. One thing from his

00:27:48.100 defenders on X, you see this phrase a lot where they say, oh, we put his hands on him. Don't put

00:27:55.680 your hands on someone. Don't put your hands on someone. Well, I hate to tell you this, but in a

00:28:01.380 civilized society, which you are blessed to live in, in a civilized society, someone putting their

00:28:09.660 hands on you does not automatically give you license to just murder them. Okay, they treat it

00:28:16.520 like it's some sort of technicality. Oh, you put your hands on me. Technically, now I get to kill

00:28:20.260 you. Yeah, but you didn't fear for your life. Yeah, but technically, hey, he touched me. 1.00

00:28:26.780 Like it's like a children's games like tag or something. Oh, he tagged me. I'm it. I get to

00:28:31.920 kill you. That's really what they think. That's like the legal defense being offered essentially 1.00

00:28:39.400 here. And everyone knows it's an absurd argument to make with a straight face and that they still

00:28:45.620 tried to. Every single piece of witness testimony demonstrated that Metcalfe didn't use a significant

00:28:50.340 amount of force against Carmelo Anthony. This is testimony from a Memorial High School track

00:28:54.880 athlete named Eddie Perra, who knew both Metcalfe and Anthony, as reported by CBS. Quote,

00:29:01.620 Bill, prosecutor, what did you notice in the tent? Witness, Carmelo was up there. I dabbed him up.

00:29:07.080 Prosecutor, did you talk? Witness, just said hi. Prosecutor, did you think it was weird he was in

00:29:11.400 the tent? Witness, yes, because teams are supposed to be at their own tent. Prosecutor, you call

00:29:15.500 Carmelo. Witness, yes. Prosecutor, after you stopped talking to him, did you see any other

00:29:21.360 teammates talk to him? Witness, yeah. Austin said, who are you? Prosecutor, what did you see?

00:29:27.640 Witness, Carmelo gets mad. He's told to get out of the tent. Prosecutor, once he gets mad,

00:29:32.780 what happens? Witness, he says, you're not going to move me. Prosecutor, was Austin starting to

00:29:38.040 get mad? Witness, he was getting defensive, someone he didn't know was in the tent. He's

00:29:41.680 always leading. He's always trying to protect us. Prosecutor, after that, witness, Carmelo said,

00:29:48.120 you'll have to move me. You'll have to move me. Austin put his hand on his back. I saw Carmelo's

00:29:52.580 hand go in his backpack. We're going to track me. I wouldn't expect anything to be in there.

00:29:56.680 Carmelo said, touch me. You'll have to move me and find out. Trying to provoke him. Prosecutor,

00:30:01.960 then what happens? Witness, Austin puts his hand on him and falls back. Prosecutor, how was Austin

00:30:07.160 trying to move him. Witness, it was him trying to move him off his seat, a soft shove. Prosecutor,

00:30:13.040 what did Austin do? Witness, I see the hole in his chest and bloody starts screaming for help.

00:30:17.240 Prosecutor, when this is going on, who's standing? Witness, before the stab, Austin was the one

00:30:21.760 standing. Prosecutor, did any kids from Memorial try to gang up on Carmelo? Witness, no. Prosecutor,

00:30:28.560 you're expecting at most a fist fight. Witness, yes. Prosecutor, you didn't think anything was

00:30:32.760 going to happen. Witness, no. Now the key testimony there is that this was a soft shove and no one

00:30:39.620 expected anything more than that. No one thought Metcalfe was going to pummel Anthony and no one

00:30:44.420 thought Anthony was going to stab Metcalfe. Again, Metcalfe was just trying to move the guy off the

00:30:49.740 seat, get him out of the tent where he didn't belong. Another witness described the shove as

00:30:54.260 somewhere between soft and hard, so moderate in other words. Additionally, as reported by Brianna

00:30:59.680 Morella, one witness who's black, testified that he was sitting right next to Anthony at the time

00:31:04.320 of the shove. And according to the witness, uh, the shove was so light that Carmelo wasn't even

00:31:08.220 pushed into contact with him. So this was not a violent, uh, altercation at all. Anthony barely

00:31:15.320 moved. So that's the extent of the damage that Metcalf did. You know, apparently a light shove

00:31:23.900 that, you know, made him like do this. There's a little light, slightly, slight, slight movement.

00:31:31.480 Now I get to murder you. Witnesses testified that in the same motion as the shove, while it was

00:31:39.400 going on, Anthony responded by immediately stabbing Metcalf in the chest. So Anthony didn't

00:31:45.480 wait for a moment. Once he thought he had a pretext to kill, he jumped on the opportunity

00:31:50.100 eagerly. Quoting from the Daily Mail is reporting, during cross-examination, defense attorney asks,

00:31:55.520 did he, Austin, grab hold of him, Carmelo? Teen number four says he didn't get the chance to grab

00:32:00.980 hold of him. He was already stabbed. Teen number six described watching the verbal back and forth

00:32:05.160 between Austin and Carmelo while Carmelo had his hand in his backpack and claimed he had something

00:32:10.140 in his bag. The vein in his arm was visible. It looked like he was grabbing something.

00:32:14.160 when Austin moves in to shove slash push a Carmelo.

00:32:18.660 Carmelo pulls the knife from his backpack

00:32:20.720 and plunges it into Austin's chest.

00:32:23.080 It was all part of the same motion.

00:32:25.600 Anthony was so forceful that the knife broke through Metcalfe's sternum

00:32:28.640 and punctured the right side of his heart.

00:32:30.740 There was a two-inch stab wound that went directly through the wall of the heart.

00:32:34.920 Wenger reportedly gasped and covered her mouth when she saw it,

00:32:38.400 and Metcalfe was dead within seconds.

00:32:40.800 There is no universe in which this is a proportional response to a slight shove, even if you don't account for provocation.

00:32:50.340 Even if you pretend that Carmelo Anthony had every right to be in that tent, which he didn't.

00:32:54.940 As one 17-year-old witness told the court last week, quote, that's lethal force against non-lethal.

00:33:01.660 Yeah, I'd say so.

00:33:03.460 And Anthony knew he committed murder, which is why he threw the knife into the stands

00:33:06.900 and began running from the scene before coaches tracked him down.

00:33:11.820 All of Metcalfe's teammates knew it too, which is why they ran out of the tent in a panic as Metcalfe died.

00:33:18.100 One of those teammates, who's black, actually began pursuing Carmelo Anthony in an effort to avenge Metcalfe.

00:33:24.080 Not a single person in that tent, not one, thought Austin Metcalfe was a dangerous threat who needed to be taken down.

00:33:30.680 No witness has ever said anything like that for the prosecution or the defense.

00:33:36.880 So it's very clear that Anthony is a murderer, but a very large number of black activists in this country don't see it that way.

00:33:45.720 What they care about is the racial tribalism.

00:33:47.820 That's how Carmelo Anthony's family was able to raise more than $600,000 on Give, Send, Go. 0.88

00:33:53.040 It's why every day the courthouse has black protesters outside demanding the acquittal of Carmelo Anthony. 0.86

00:33:57.680 You know, we've shown several videos before, but they keep coming back every day. Watch. 0.99

00:34:03.820 If evidence does come out that Carmelo was not, in fact, fighting for his life when he stabbed and killed Austin Metcalf, do you think that the black community will accept that?

00:34:13.860 If evidence shows that he did not? No, we're going to stand by ours regardless. They stand by theirs. 0.95

00:34:19.940 We're going to stand by ours regardless. I'm a mother first. I'm a black mother. Let me put that on there.

00:34:23.800 I'm an African-American mother, so I have to put away my color first 0.99

00:34:28.920 and step into the motherhood.

00:34:31.500 Nobody wants to see their child slain,

00:34:33.380 so I do want to send prayers to Austin Metcalfe, their family.

00:34:38.960 But at the end of the day, I got to think, like, okay,

00:34:41.360 what did you do to them or whatever to cause this to happen, the reaction.

00:34:45.600 We got to start taking accountability for our kids.

00:34:47.660 Because then again, if my kid, that's why I said Catch-22,

00:34:50.200 And, too, if my kid was Carmelo and I feel like his back was up against the wall,

00:34:54.240 I'm going to tell you straight up, better mine than yours.

00:34:56.480 Better mine than yours.

00:34:57.700 So either way it go, everybody loses.

00:35:00.420 A black boy allegedly urdered, and I say allegedly, heavy on the allegedly,

00:35:05.840 allegedly urdered somebody. 0.92

00:35:08.120 You see what I'm saying?

00:35:09.860 So, yeah, this is about race.

00:35:11.860 Do you think Carmelo is innocent?

00:35:14.020 Do you feel like it's been an unfair response to what happened to Carmelo Anthony?

00:35:18.360 I feel that the justice system always over-responds when it comes to us.

00:35:28.760 So definitely, I mean, you look at the charge.

00:35:34.340 It was self-defense.

00:35:36.460 He was wrestling with two guys.

00:35:38.200 I don't know what the parameters of it, but it was two people.

00:35:42.040 So, you know, two against one, that's self-defense.

00:35:45.900 So he's completely wrong on the parameters of the case,

00:35:48.880 otherwise known as the facts.

00:35:51.880 It's just making up a story that, like, no one has told that story.

00:35:55.680 He just made that up.

00:35:57.340 There's no witness who's said anything about wrestling.

00:36:00.320 There's no rules, no wrestling.

00:36:01.700 Certainly not two-on-one.

00:36:03.920 No witness for either side has claimed anything like that.

00:36:10.240 And yet you have a guy who showed up to the courthouse,

00:36:12.360 that's how much he cares about it,

00:36:13.340 and that's the story he has in his head.

00:36:15.380 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. 0.83

00:36:25.340 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. 0.77

00:36:46.280 I mean, it's hard to imagine a more shameful display than that. 0.96

00:36:52.280 She says, take responsibility for your kids.

00:36:56.020 Yeah, that's a good idea.

00:36:58.060 Maybe take responsibility for your kids by telling them,

00:37:00.080 hey, you're not allowed to just go out and stab people to death.

00:37:02.440 You can't go out and just kill someone 0.99

00:37:04.020 because you don't like how they looked at you.

00:37:10.020 But at the same time, this is not a new phenomenon at all. 0.99

00:37:12.700 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. 0.97

00:37:37.780 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. 0.99

00:37:58.300 When's the last time an actual, virtuous, heroic black man won popular support in his own community? 0.72

00:38:07.500 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?

00:38:21.960 Well, the sad reality is that that kind of black man is much more likely to be shunned than celebrated.

00:38:28.300 I mean, look how Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas are treated. 0.76

00:38:34.040 In fact, in some cases, they're not just shunned, they're killed.

00:38:37.060 This report is from just a couple of weeks ago in New Orleans.

00:38:40.200 Watch.

00:38:41.940 And Stella, tonight many of Ferdinand Woolen's family members were too emotional to speak on camera.

00:38:47.540 This was supposed to be a time of celebration as he just graduated one week ago right here at Sophie B. Wright High School.

00:38:54.060 Instead, his family is now planning his funeral.

00:38:58.300 That was an innocent soul, a great soul, a soul that was not meant to leave her this early.

00:39:04.100 Just hours after walking across the stage and taking these pictures holding his high school diploma.

00:39:10.640 Left an impact that can never be erased.

00:39:13.160 This Sophie B. Wright honors graduate was hurt in a Treme shooting, according to police.

00:39:18.220 When officers responded to the scene early Tuesday morning, they found Willans inside an SUV shot multiple times.

00:39:25.980 Police say he was transported to a hospital where he died days later.

00:39:30.980 We was just celebrating their graduation that day they had a party at a hall.

00:39:35.980 We would have never known that we would have left that hall party and we would have never seen that boy ever again.

00:39:40.980 An 18 year old with a promising future ahead.

00:39:43.980 His family says he had a full ride scholarship to college set to study engineering this fall.

00:39:50.980 He was on his way to LSU for a scholarship.

00:39:54.000 He had scored a 30 on the ACT recently, and the sky was the limit for him.

00:39:59.980 Exactly one week after his graduation, his family, friends, and classmates held onto photos of Woollans during a prayer service honoring his life.

00:40:10.660 Sounds from a sentimental send-off filled the lakefront as loved ones danced through the pain,

00:40:20.540 remembering the light he brought to their lives while pushing for gun violence to stop.

00:40:25.780 I've lost three friends to gun violence, and I just honestly feel like it has to be a change in Louisiana.

00:40:30.940 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.

00:40:36.520 now blaming gun violence uh as you just heard from the uh news anchor there

00:40:44.640 misses the point completely guns are not the issue here or anywhere switzerland which has

00:40:50.040 one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world has extremely low rate of gun violence

00:40:53.680 problem is not gun violence the problem is that some demographics are dramatically

00:40:58.120 almost unbelievably more likely to commit violent violence than others and instead of addressing 0.96

00:41:04.900 the violence committed to this astronomically disproportionate degree by young black men. 0.99

00:41:12.380 What you have instead are black activists that are donating to fundraisers for the benefit 1.00

00:41:18.160 of the black murderers. A 30 on the ACT, which is what this murdered student received, 0.99

00:41:27.320 is a great score. It's the equivalent of around 1370 on the SAT. And by any standard,

00:41:36.440 particular standards of the school system that he was in, the student was extremely bright and

00:41:42.180 successful. And in black urban areas, that often doesn't go over well. On the other hand, if this

00:41:50.920 student had stabbed a random white kid at a track meet, well, you know, then he'd get national

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00:44:46.720 So how do we solve this problem?

00:44:48.620 I mean, beyond telling black fathers to get more involved in their children's lives, 0.96

00:44:52.120 which we've been saying for decades, and is certainly a major source of the problem here.

00:44:57.520 80% fatherlessness rate in the urban black community is apocalyptic.

00:45:03.100 There's just no way to have a functioning community at all with that kind of number.

00:45:06.620 It's not possible.

00:45:07.480 So that's problem number one.

00:45:10.140 There actually is no solution that doesn't include that.

00:45:14.260 So if we're not going to do that, then it's just chaos all the way down.

00:45:17.000 It's all it's ever going to be.

00:45:19.440 But aside from that, what's a workable solution? 0.75

00:45:22.520 As I mentioned earlier, one of the most catastrophic legacies of the civil rights era was that

00:45:27.800 it became illegal in this country for any policy to have a disproportionate impact

00:45:31.940 on black people, even if the policy is completely reasonable, even if the policy is not targeted at

00:45:38.140 black people or any race. So it's an equal policy that everyone is subject to. But still, the idea

00:45:45.980 is that if you disproportionately impact black people, then we can infer that you're racist, 0.86

00:45:51.920 and you'll get sued into oblivion. So if you have a policy or a law that black people

00:45:58.540 disproportionately run afoul of and then are punished in accordance with that, well, then

00:46:05.600 it's automatically racist. That's the idea. It's one of the dumbest legal doctrines of all time,

00:46:09.980 but it persists to this day. And it's one of the reasons why schools like Centennial High, 0.89

00:46:15.980 which gave Carmelo Anthony a degree after he murdered someone, these schools are essentially

00:46:22.940 banned, I mean, in effect banned, by law from disciplining black students, at least to the 0.95

00:46:29.160 extent that they need to be disciplined. That's because in virtually every case, black students 1.00

00:46:34.080 are punished more than white students whenever any objective student conduct policy is enforced.

00:46:41.320 So to give just a few examples, in Virginia, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against Richmond Public

00:46:47.120 Schools saying that they were breaking the law by suspending too many black students for so-called

00:46:52.200 subjective offenses. And those offenses included walking away from teachers while they were being

00:46:58.300 spoken to. In other words, teachers trying to give you instructions and you just flat out ignore it.

00:47:05.140 Deserve to be suspended for that. I mean, if that goes on too long, you should be expelled for that

00:47:09.480 because the school can't function with that sort of thing. You're not going to listen or go along

00:47:13.560 with the program at all, then we can't have you here. You're destroying education for everybody

00:47:17.840 else. But because black students were suspended too much under this policy, more than 90 percent

00:47:23.600 of suspended students were black, the ACLU went to court. The federal government hounded the

00:47:30.020 Richmond school system for years afterwards. And meanwhile, in Louisiana, the Southern Poverty Law

00:47:35.220 Center, which spends most of its time funding the KKK, as we've recently discovered, filed a civil

00:47:40.380 rights complaint alleging that it was a violation of disparate impact theory for the school district

00:47:46.260 to refer too many black students to alternative schools for behavioral issues. The school board

00:47:52.180 had to settle, and in New Jersey, the ACLU filed a complaint alleging that black students were

00:47:57.600 five times more likely to face out-of-school suspensions than white students. Black parents 0.80

00:48:02.300 continued to sue for many years, even after a settlement, over this suspension policy.

00:48:08.480 Now, even though, again, none of these policies said, oh, we're going to suspend black students.

00:48:13.820 It was just, here's the rule, and if you break the rule, here's the punishment. 0.94

00:48:20.620 And it just so happens that an overwhelming majority of the students who broke that policy that everybody is subjected to were black. 0.99

00:48:29.440 And so that means you can't have it. 0.95

00:48:32.240 Now, to be clear, I have no specific information as to what offenses, if any, Carmelo Anthony may have committed at his public high school.

00:48:38.840 There's certainly a few puzzle pieces we can put together, though.

00:48:42.340 There's one news report, which we played earlier in the week, where a girl says Anthony was known for fighting.

00:48:47.440 There's also the fact that Carmelo Anthony stabbed a kid to death for no reason, which would, you know, generally, if you're doing that, you know, that means it probably was not your first time getting into a physical altercation with someone, we could probably assume, reasonably.

00:49:04.140 And then there's this report from a CBS reporter from last year.

00:49:06.740 Town Hall first noticed this.

00:49:08.500 We'll put it up on the screen.

00:49:09.860 It says, quote, CBS News Texas has learned from law enforcement sources involved in the investigation that Carmelo Anthony had previously been suspended for bringing a knife to school.

00:49:24.220 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.

00:49:33.120 CBS later wrote on their Facebook quote,

00:49:34.800 We also have redacted some previously reported information on a possible suspension in order to get further clarification from the school district.

00:49:41.120 The school district has chosen not to reply to our questions regarding this information.

00:49:44.400 Therefore, we have pulled the information temporarily.

00:49:49.200 But temporarily became permanently with no clear update.

00:49:52.740 In other words, the school district, the same school district that let Carmelo Anthony graduate after killing a white student, managed to kill the story.

00:49:59.820 And we don't know the truth about Anthony's record if he had one, and it wouldn't necessarily

00:50:03.400 be introduced as evidence during the trial either, because judges generally don't want

00:50:07.880 jurors to make their decision based on a defendant's prior conduct. So maybe it was kept out of the

00:50:14.580 prosecution's case for that reason. We don't know. The point is, if Anthony had indeed done something

00:50:20.760 worthy of suspension at his school, as CBS originally reported, then the school district

00:50:25.700 would have every reason under our civil rights law to ignore the issue entirely. If the school

00:50:30.620 district tried to punish a student like Carmelo Anthony, which is to say a violent black student, 0.80

00:50:35.320 then they run the risk of years of expensive litigation. So the easy way out is simply to 0.77

00:50:39.720 allow these students to graduate, even when they slaughter a white teenager at a track meet, 0.95

00:50:45.200 without any justification whatsoever. And by the same token, the easy approach for white parents 0.91

00:50:51.220 is to tell their children that all of the violence and dysfunction in black areas is due to systemic 0.96

00:50:57.440 racism or, you know, whatever. The easy approach is to tell your children to treat aggressive black 0.99

00:51:03.680 thugs in the exact same manner as you would treat anyone else. But the truth is there's a big 1.00

00:51:08.160 difference between Carmelo Anthony and say, you know, an Asian chess grandmaster. There's also

00:51:15.380 a big reason between a black teen in South Philly who takes your cell phone and a white first year 0.68

00:51:20.760 university student like Henry Novak. And if you deny that this difference exists,

00:51:26.560 then you're placing yourself and your children in a position where they might die a horrible

00:51:33.180 and preventable death at the altar of civil rights mythology and BLM propaganda.

00:51:40.140 So this is not a case about one stabbing at a track meet as horrific and tragic as that stabbing

00:51:45.480 was. This is also the legacy of the civil rights movement. It's about the urgency of undoing the

00:51:52.720 genocidal and deranged laws and legal doctrines that are now getting far too many white people 0.99

00:51:58.240 killed and black people. It's about ending all of the handouts and special treatment 0.99

00:52:04.880 that black Americans receive all in the name of racial equity, which everyone now understands is 0.99

00:52:12.700 code for killing white people with impunity and taking their stuff. This is always the goal of 1.00

00:52:19.960 the civil rights movement from its earlier days. In part two of our real history documentary on

00:52:24.980 the civil rights era called The Looting of America, we talk about the savagery and the

00:52:29.300 brutality that white people endured if they didn't have the resources to flee to the suburbs

00:52:33.940 in the 60s and 70s. The people who were left behind, the ones who couldn't engage in so-called

00:52:38.780 white flight, which is the preferred term of leftist historians and school textbooks,

00:52:43.240 were sexually assaulted and executed for sport. They watched as their communities became living

00:52:49.480 nightmares. And when they complained, they were met with total indifference from everyone,

00:52:54.640 from black activists, from liberal academics, white liberal activists, and the United States

00:53:02.600 federal government. They were left behind to suffer and die as their communities, which had

00:53:07.560 survived for generations, became violent cesspools

00:53:10.860 virtually overnight.

00:53:13.580 So when you watch these activists rally outside

00:53:16.280 that courthouse for Carmelo Anthony,

00:53:18.000 and when you see them donating $600,000

00:53:20.800 so that Anthony's family can buy a new house,

00:53:24.860 the only conclusion you could draw

00:53:26.440 is that not much has changed.

00:53:28.580 Decades of affirmative action and welfare payments, a DEI,

00:53:32.860 even the election of a black president, 0.52

00:53:34.800 or half black at least, two times,

00:53:37.560 have not merely failed to produce racial harmony in this country. 0.99

00:53:41.380 Quite the contrary, by design, they've led us directly to this period 0.82

00:53:44.980 of open anti-white racial warfare,

00:53:48.660 which has erupted all over the West from Texas to the UK.

00:53:53.380 What you need to understand is that the government at every level

00:53:57.060 is creating the conditions where this kind of violence can occur.

00:54:00.440 They're preventing civilized people from enforcing the law.

00:54:03.500 And as a result, every day, children are getting executed. Now, will Carmelo Anthony be found guilty? Most likely, yes, he will. Assuming the jury wasn't compromised, which 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.

00:54:30.360 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 any more than white people just happen to lose out on job opportunities or government contracts or university admissions.

00:54:48.380 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.

00:54:58.320 These people are dying because of a fiction that has persisted for far too long in this

00:55:03.500 country, which is that racial disparities, always and everywhere, are the result of discrimination.

00:55:11.180 This belief has acquired religious significance in most of the country.

00:55:14.160 It's both dangerous and completely false.

00:55:17.820 The truth is that if we had more racial disparities and a little more self-awareness, a lot of

00:55:24.620 innocent people, both white and black, would still be alive today. As it stands, if we continue on

00:55:31.040 the trajectory that was set in place decades ago, we'll continue to see many more Carmelo

00:55:37.280 Anthony's. That's what the corporate press wants, which is why they're presenting the murder as a

00:55:43.400 truly unforeseeable, shocking homicide. But it actually wasn't unforeseeable at all.

00:55:49.840 We created the circumstances that allowed the murder to happen.

00:55:54.200 We effectively created, although most people don't realize it, a new constitution 60 years ago

00:55:59.420 that rewards grievance and violence.

00:56:06.360 And just as quickly, before the next Austin Metcalfe is slaughtered,

00:56:10.480 we must tear up this new constitution and replace it with the one we started with.

00:56:17.040 that will do it for the show today thanks for watching thanks for listening

00:56:20.800 talk to you tomorrow have a great day godspeed

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00:56:34.380 but by the content of his character

00:56:36.020 american school kids spend a lot of time hearing about mlk and rosa parks

00:56:42.060 have you noticed no one ever asks what birmingham selma and montgomery are like

00:56:46.980 today. The legacy of the Civil Rights Movement wasn't a racially harmonious utopia. It's

00:56:56.060 hollowed out urban cores, hundreds of thousands of dead Americans, raped grandmothers, ethnic 0.98

00:57:01.500 cleansing of entire neighborhoods. This month we survey first-hand accounts of the historic

00:57:06.000 wave of non-violent crime, riots unleashed on this country by the Civil Rights Movement,

00:57:10.580 which caused more enduring damage on America's greatest cities than the atomic bombs dropped

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The Matt Walsh Show - June 08, 2026

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

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