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00:00:46.540The adversarial justice system is easy to take for granted,
00:00:50.080but it's one of the most important legal concepts we have.
00:00:52.700We could not function as a civilization without it.
00:00:55.120It prevents us from turning into North Korea overnight.0.59
00:00:57.520It keeps our courts from devolving into inquisitions and show trials where enemies of the state are railroaded, while allies of the government can do whatever they want.0.67
00:01:06.860In an adversarial justice system, prosecutors are on one side with a mandate to pursue justice and secure convictions where appropriate.
00:01:14.740The defense is on the other side with a mandate to get their client acquitted one way or another.
00:01:19.700And crucially, the two sides are not friends.
00:01:25.320they are locked in a duel. A judge mediates disputes as they arise, and then after both
00:01:30.760sides pursue the evidence to the best of their ability and make the best argument possible for
00:01:34.540their side, a jury deliberates and renders a verdict. This is how every criminal trial
00:01:39.200must work in this country, or else we might as well abandon the concept of criminal trials
00:01:44.300altogether. It really is that simple. Well, we're now learning that the trial of Carmelo Anthony
00:01:49.680was the black high school student who stabbed a white teenager named Austin Metcalf to death at
00:01:54.860a track meet last year, did not even come close to following this well-established, fundamental,
00:02:00.700all-important adversarial process. Instead, critical evidence against Carmelo Anthony was
00:02:06.580withheld from the jury by the prosecutors, the very people who, under our adversarial system,
00:02:12.380should have presented that evidence. This evidence was not withheld because of a ruling by a judge,
00:02:18.300but instead by a gentleman's agreement between the district attorney and the defense lawyers.
00:02:23.800And as you're about to see, the hidden evidence would have been overwhelmingly beneficial to the prosecution's case against Carmelo Anthony.
00:02:32.180We're talking about what was, in effect, a confession by Anthony to premeditated murder.
00:02:38.460And it was hidden by the prosecutors for reasons that simply don't add up.
00:03:15.220We're learning about this new evidence because Anthony's lawyers are now seeking a new trial, absurdly.0.95
00:03:21.100And as part of that process, the judge is now hearing arguments about all of the evidence in the case, including evidence that was not presented to the jury.0.88
00:03:28.160Now, we'll talk more about this motion for a new trial and all the arguments, which are all very stupid the defense is making, in a moment.
00:03:34.600But first, we need to discuss the hidden evidence itself.
00:03:37.680So in court yesterday, the prosecutor, Collin County Assistant District Attorney Bill Worski, admitted that the state possessed several violent text messages that Anthony sent to an ex-girlfriend.
00:03:48.800And in one of those text messages, on the morning he stabbed Austin Metcalf, he sent a picture of his knife along with the caption, I'm low-key on the verge, as in on the verge of snapping.
00:04:03.400additionally the prosecutor disclosed that quote there's a text message where he fantasizes about
00:04:08.400stabbing someone and licking the blood off the blade now we don't know exactly when that especially
00:04:14.900gruesome message was sent but it was at some point prior to anthony stabbing metcalf to death
00:04:19.900now it's important to emphasize that these were not random edgy texts from five years ago anthony
00:04:27.320was telling his ex-girlfriend that he was spiraling out of control on the exact same day he later
00:04:33.380stabbed Metcalf in the heart. And she took those threats seriously, as you'd expect. On the morning
00:04:38.940of April 2nd, the day Anthony stabbed Metcalf, Anthony's ex-girlfriend went to an assistant
00:04:42.600principal at her school to complain that Anthony was stalking her and sending her these threatening
00:04:47.680messages following their breakup. The ex-girlfriend reported that Anthony was obsessed with fights,
00:04:52.500guns, and knives. Watch. Carmelo Anthony reportedly fantasized about knives and stabbing someone
00:05:01.460in the hours before he killed Austin Metcalf.
00:05:24.040We have to talk about what assistant district attorney for Collin County, Bill Worski, had to say and what he claims happened in the hours before this track meet on the day that Austin Metcalf lost his life.
00:05:36.940Because he says that Carmelo Anthony's girlfriend hours before told an assistant principal at their high school that the couple had broken up and that she said she allegedly was afraid.
00:05:51.420She claimed that Carmelo Anthony was stalking her.
00:05:56.840WFAA says that the ADA also claimed today in the courtroom that Anthony was allegedly obsessed with guns, fights, and knives.
00:06:08.040And prosecutors allegedly have a text message that Anthony sent where he fantasized about stabbing someone and licking the blood off the blade.
00:06:18.720and he allegedly sent a text that said, quote, I'm low key on the verge.
00:06:24.600There is no question that these text messages should have been shown to the jury and to the
00:06:28.880public, obviously. They are clearly relevant to the question of whether Carmelo Anthony
00:06:33.400deliberately killed Metcalfe with premeditation as opposed to self-defense. And more specifically,
00:06:39.060these text messages completely demolish any claim of self-defense. They nuke the self-defense claim
00:06:45.640from orbit. They demonstrate very explicitly that Anthony went looking to provoke a scenario where
00:06:51.940he could kill someone with his knife because he was enraged about his breakup. This is not a close
00:06:59.400call. And to be clear, this is not unfair character evidence. We're not talking about a malicious
00:07:05.320attempt to malign Carmelo Anthony's character here. Introducing these text messages would not
00:07:10.180be a smear tactic where the jury is confronted with prejudicial evidence that simply makes
00:07:14.820Carbello Anthony look like a bad guy in general. This is very different. You know, he didn't just
00:07:20.040say, I want to punch someone today. He didn't just say, I'm in a really bad mood. He explicitly said
00:07:25.460he was losing his mind and sent the picture of the knife. So if this isn't legitimate, highly
00:07:32.580important evidence in a murder trial where someone was stabbed with a knife a few hours later,
00:07:37.220then nothing is. So why didn't prosecutors introduce the text messages into evidence?
00:07:44.820Why didn't they show them to the jury? They had every right to do so. The judge did not exclude
00:07:51.360this evidence, nor would any judge ever do so. It's obviously a key piece of evidence.
00:07:57.080So what was the reason? Well, the prosecutor stated in court yesterday that he offered
00:08:02.560an agreement to the defense because before the trial began, the defense claimed to have evidence
00:08:09.660that Austin Metcalfe had written racist messages in the past.
00:08:13.420And the prosecution was supposedly worried
00:08:15.320that if the defense introduced those racist messages
00:08:17.720and the prosecution introduced Carmelo Anthony's text,
00:08:39.660Both sides agreed, in other words, to only introduce evidence about the events that occurred
00:08:44.380inside the tent. And even though the text messages in Carmelo Anthony's case are, that is evidence
00:08:50.960related to what happened in the tent. And they did all this in secret without telling the public,
00:08:55.440which in many ways makes this worse than what Soros prosecutors do every day. At least the
00:08:59.300Soros prosecutors disclose the fact that they want to help criminals get out of prison.
00:09:04.340There are so many problems with the reasoning behind this gentleman's agreement that it's
00:09:08.000difficult to know where to begin. First of all, the evidence against Carmelo Anthony is clearly
00:09:11.620relevant and admissible in this murder trial. It relates directly to his state of mind,
00:09:15.860his premeditation, his motive on the day of the murder. It's hard to imagine a more relevant
00:09:23.220and important piece of evidence. Now, on the other hand, the messages that Austin Metcalf
00:09:28.420supposedly wrote or spray painted onto walls, again, supposedly, had nothing to do with his
00:09:36.200death, at best, assuming the messages are even real, kind of a big assumption, all they suggest
00:09:43.600is that he was, what, an edgy teenager? He was a teenage boy with an edgy sense of humor? Wow.
00:09:50.340But Metcalfe's alleged racist messages do not demonstrate that he had any tendency to commit
00:09:55.140violence at a track meet or anywhere else, or that he was a threat to Camilo Anthony.
00:09:59.720Now, if Austin Metcalfe had texted someone on the day of the murder and said,
00:10:04.400I'm going to attack a black guy today for no reason, that would be a very relevant text message.
00:10:11.200It would be just as relevant as what Carmelo Anthony texted his ex-girlfriend, but that didn't0.99
00:10:15.040happen. So put simply, the text message evidence against Carmelo Anthony would have been admissible
00:10:20.760in court. Most of the evidence against Austin Metcalfe would not. Austin Metcalfe, who by the
00:10:27.280way, was not on trial. Just to be specific about what the defense lawyers are claiming about Austin
00:10:32.700Metcalf and the evidence they gathered. Here's a report from the Daily Mail. Quote, Slain High
00:10:37.680School athlete Austin Metcalf and his twin brother were allegedly caught spray painting racist0.77
00:10:41.660graffiti, including kill all black people and the N-word, defense attorneys revealed. Former0.97
00:10:47.320Anthony defense attorney Mike Howard, who represented Anthony at his June trial,
00:10:51.220took the stand to testify that he had criminal information on both Austin Metcalf and his twin
00:10:55.100brother Hunter. A document presented in court showed the defense had photographs of a graffiti
00:10:59.400allegedly created by the twins and another boy featuring phrases including kkk kill all black0.91
00:11:04.800people heil hitler and the n-word police also had a body cam footage from their response to the0.97
00:11:09.700incident in which austin can allegedly be heard admitting to the officer we did some stuff we did
00:11:13.660some vandalism both twins ultimately received 12 months of probation for the incident according
00:11:18.200to howard who also revealed that austin had previously faced charges for assault causing
00:11:22.300bodily injury now first of all just at the outset note this is all based on testimony from former
00:11:28.740Anthony defense attorney Mike Howard. So this is not exactly an unbiased source. And frankly,
00:11:34.200some of it seems made up. You know, they apparently have hard evidence of Metcalf admitting to
00:11:38.600doing some vandalism without any specific proof that Metcalf himself wrote those messages. But
00:11:44.260again, let's just assume it's true. The fact that a teenager writes edgy stuff is not particularly
00:11:51.160surprising. In fact, at the same hearing, according to Brianna Morello, they revealed
00:11:56.040that Carmelo Anthony had also written anti-white, anti-Mexican, and anti-black messages on his
00:12:01.000laptop. Is that a good thing? Of course not, but it's also irrelevant to this murder trial. So1.00
00:12:05.500if the defense wants to admit Austin Metcalfe's offensive social media videos or whatever,
00:12:09.640let him do it. The evidence against Carmelo Anthony is devastating. As it turns out,
00:12:14.820there are actual rules of evidence about this, which courts have to follow.
00:12:18.480They're written down. Anyone can Google them. So let's do that. Let's pull up the rule of
00:12:23.360evidence, number 404 in Texas. Quote, evidence of a person's character or character trait is not
00:12:28.720admissible to prove that on a particular occasion, the person acted in accordance with the character
00:12:32.760or trait. In a criminal trial, a defendant may offer evidence of a victim's pertinent trait,
00:12:38.540and if the evidence is admitted, the prosecutor may offer evidence to rebut it. In other words,
00:12:43.400any evidence that Austin Metcalf had a character trait of being racist, supposedly, even assuming
00:12:47.960that's true, is not admissible to prove that on this particular occasion, Austin Metcalf acted
00:12:52.580in a racist manner. And by the way, even if he had acted in a racist manner under the tent,
00:12:57.800you still can't stab him. So this is irrelevant on like 10 different levels.
00:13:02.240And there's no pertinent trait that's revealed by graffiti either. Even if someone is a racist
00:13:07.800and likes to tag property that doesn't belong, you know, it doesn't belong to him. That doesn't
00:13:11.200give anyone else a license to stab that person in the heart. So for about a dozen reasons,
00:13:17.400this whole line of reasoning, comes crashing down. On the other hand, Carmelo Anthony's text
00:13:23.520messages on the day of the murder have nothing to do with any character trait. They have to do with
00:13:27.480his motive to commit the crime, as well as his intent to commit the crime and his state of mind
00:13:32.700when he committed the crime. It's an admission of what he's planning. That's very different from
00:13:38.240just character evidence. It's mind-boggling. A prosecutor would pretend otherwise. A killer who
00:13:44.000says, I'm liable to commit murder today, on the day of committing murder, is essentially
00:13:50.280confessing. He's not giving you background information about his character. By the way,
00:13:55.500some of the evidence that was presented yesterday about Carmelo Anthony would also probably qualify
00:13:59.800as character-based evidence. For example, there was also evidence that when he was living in
00:14:05.620Baton Rouge, Anthony's parents, quote, enrolled him in a special LSU program for children
00:14:10.340who struggle to control their aggression and keep their hands to themselves.
00:14:15.620It's a relevant piece of information, but it doesn't directly relate to the events that took
00:14:18.840place on the day of the murder. So you could imagine a scenario where a jury wouldn't be
00:14:22.940allowed to see that particular bit of information. The text messages from the day of the murder,
00:14:26.880on the other hand, are clearly relevant. Later in the hearing, the defense dug up even more dirt
00:14:32.400against Austin Metcalf, which theoretically may have been admissible in court. This is again from
00:14:36.520the Daily Mail. Quote, Howard said Austin was arrested in May 2018 while he was still in
00:14:40.880elementary school after allegedly shoving a girl to the ground and injuring her shoulder badly,
00:14:45.740enough to require hospitalization. Again, this is an elementary school. In December 2024, Austin
00:14:51.960allegedly told a church group that he was consumed by anger, lust, and addiction and that they had
00:14:56.900taken control of his life, the defense attorney said. He also pointed to a March 2022 incident
00:15:02.900in which Austin allegedly mocked a black student for eating a banana and filmed another student as0.96
00:15:08.020he appeared to shove the boy's head into his crotch. Another video from 2023 allegedly shows0.97
00:15:12.720Austin cheering as a friend chased and tackled a black student with Austin Hurd saying, get over0.99
00:15:17.520here, you black Jew. Um, there are some other incidents as well. And by the way, the thing0.99
00:15:22.700about what he said at a church group. So allegedly he, he was talking about his spiritual struggles
00:15:28.780in a church group, and then what, someone in the church group came and reported that to try to get
00:15:34.720someone who stabbed him off the hook? How does that come up? And again, nothing to do with what
00:15:39.600happened. There are some other incidents as well, including, quote, during 2023-2024 school year,
00:15:46.860he received in-school suspension twice. School disciplinary records from April 2022 to May 2024
00:15:52.480revealed that he reportedly called a teacher the B word or used profanity. He told a school
00:15:57.780official that he couldn't control it and wasn't aware that it was coming out of his mouth.
00:16:01.240Couldn't control using profanity. In 2024, I'm sure he's the first teen boy to ever do that.
00:16:07.900I mean, obviously that's, of course the defense would want to bring that up. Yeah, he got stabbed
00:16:12.700to death, but did you know that this kid used profanity? So, you know, stabbed to death,
00:16:19.580used profanity, tomato, tomato. In 2024, on at least five occasions, Austin saw a counselor
00:16:26.420regarding his anger and rage during a football game. In 2021, he got banned from attending
00:16:30.320basketball games for a season after yelling profanity at a player. So they're going through
00:16:36.980and listing all the naughty things Austin Metcalfe did. Basically, they found everything they could
00:16:43.640possibly find, all the bad things that this teenage teen boy did in his life. Most of it just amounts
00:16:49.480to saying bad words. And none of it relates to his death. So to recap, he told his church group
00:16:56.440he was angry, which by the way, also shows that if that even happened, he was a kid doing the
00:17:03.580right thing with his anger, going to find spiritual support. And then what, his church group turned
00:17:08.900around and tried to use it against him in court? I don't know. He said something mean to a teacher,
00:17:14.440although we're not sure exactly what he said. He got angry during a sporting event.
00:17:18.780He filmed some videos several years before he was murdered. And in 2018, seven years before his
00:17:25.700death, when he was in elementary school, he shoved a girl to the ground. Again, none of these
00:17:31.500incidents prove anything. They don't demonstrate anything about what might have happened in that
00:17:35.820tent. Unlike Anthony's text, these incidents don't shed any light on motive or intent or anything.
00:17:42.120Cheering while someone else tackles a student does not demonstrate that you attack someone
00:17:45.780at a track meet, nor does telling a church group that you're angry, and a shove that
00:17:51.320took place in elementary school for obvious reasons is not relevant in any way.
00:17:56.120Besides, if the defense brought in incidents from the past that aren't directly related
00:18:01.400to the crime itself, and if they were allowed to do that by the judge, that would also allow
00:18:07.440the prosecution to go into more biographical detail about Carbello Anthony's past. Okay,
00:18:13.140because two can play at that game. And the details of his past are far more disturbing
00:18:17.920than anything Metcalfe is accused of doing. So I'm going to read here extensively from
00:18:22.720reporting by Sarah Fields, who's been covering this case and doing an excellent job of it from
00:18:26.800day one. So here's what she posted this morning. It goes on for a while, but I want to get all
00:18:33.900this out here. In a 75-page filing, prosecutors also note that Carmelo Anthony had earlier been
00:18:38.440accused of taking his girlfriend's phone and in October 2024, drafted a to-do list instructing
00:18:44.020her how to handle, quote, weirdos, which included the line, say some slick like my boyfriend kill0.98
00:18:50.000people. Text exchanges further reveal that he admitted on at least two occasions to punching0.94
00:18:54.660girls in the face. Prosecutors located 2021 messages between Carmelo Anthony and another
00:18:59.520student discussing robbing someone for $300. Other texts show Carmelo Anthony recounting a
00:19:04.680fight and punching someone so hard he had to stop fighting. In 2023, prosecutors say Carmelo Anthony
00:19:10.200told a friend he planned to vandalize a house in Austin, writing, I just feel like it. I got a
00:19:15.320grudge. In 2021, Carmelo Anthony informed a friend he had been suspended for three days after fighting,
00:19:20.560adding, they said next time I do some, I get recommended for expulsion. Court paper show.
00:19:25.560So in a 2023 text exchange with a friend, prosecutors have messages in which Carmelo Anthony wrote, I'm a shoot the school up tomorrow with my blick.
00:19:34.440But later followed up that that with I would never actually do that.
00:19:37.980In a 2024 thread, prosecutor state Carmelo Anthony admitted to carrying a firearm, telling a friend before a party he would have the gun in my pocket.
00:19:46.780The records also contain messages, threads in which Anthony mentions carrying a gun after multiple suspensions for fighting while in school in Louisiana.
00:19:53.380Messages between Carmelo Anthony and his girlfriend surfaced after he moved to Frisco.
00:19:57.600In one exchange, she suggests he should simply sit for a while.
00:20:01.200He said, yeah, and punch people, maybe run sometimes.0.76
00:20:05.000I have to. It's like a priority for me.0.74
00:20:30.160I put my hands in face and everything.
00:20:32.680Also 2024, messages recovered by prosecutors
00:20:34.840suggest Carmelo Anthony attempted to take a weapon
00:20:36.780into a state fair in Texas, asking a friend
00:20:39.300if the state fair got metal detectors.
00:20:41.400When told the detectors were in place,
00:20:43.180the friend replied, you got the poker.
00:20:45.320Yeah, I might have to toss it, Carmelo Anthony answered.
00:20:48.380Prosecutor reported that Carmelo Anthony confessed to stealing a watch and earbuds in separate Collin County burglaries
00:20:53.280and to bringing a weapon into a Frisco school campus and remarked about his girlfriend,
00:20:57.520she went in my bag to get my computer and I said no and she still went in and grabbed it and my gun and my knife and some other stuff fell out.
00:21:04.460Numerous unreleased photos and videos show Carmelo Anthony holding firearms and making threats.
00:21:08.280Authorities found a note on Carmelo Anthony's phone containing a list of racial tropes and slurs about blacks, whites and Hispanics.0.99
00:21:14.420In one message, prosecutors say Carmelo Anthony wrote, I hate gay people.0.97
00:21:18.740Prosecutors add that Carmelo Anthony repeatedly threatened to murder his girlfriend in text,0.99
00:21:22.420including lines such as, how many bullets you want coming out of your chest, and I'm going to get you, expletive.0.98
00:21:28.660He also threatened her with a knife in one message and told her in another, when I stab somebody, I'm going to lick the blood off the blade.1.00
00:21:35.560Okay. So we have a lengthy track record of Carmelo Anthony committing violence,
00:21:44.500committing crimes, fantasizing about violence, threatening violence, carrying around illegal
00:21:51.060weapons, and showing a particular fascination with stabbing people. And then he went on to
00:21:57.220do exactly that. And the jury heard none of this. None of it. Nothing that I just read to you,
00:22:05.240was presented to the jury or made public. Austin Metcalf, and the reason, keep in mind, the reason
00:22:13.880why none of these things were presented allegedly is that, well, that would allow them to talk about
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00:33:21.180First of all, Anthony's lawyers have already gotten the trial court judge
00:33:24.740removed from the case, so he's not present at these hearings.
00:33:28.860the judge, whose name is John Roach, gave an interview where he suggested the jury
00:33:31.960reached the correct verdict, which they did. When asked if the verdict was the right one,
00:33:36.200the judge said something to the effect of, yes, they did because they were picked based upon the
00:33:40.600law. They listened to the facts. It happened in this courtroom and they got a verdict. So really,
00:33:44.920he was endorsing the process more than the verdict, but it was dumb for the judge to give
00:33:48.680an interview in the case anyway. So he's gone now. The new judge has to decide whether to
00:33:54.780grant a new trial and the main issue revolves around this gentleman's agreement watch well
00:34:01.500chris there was this gentleman's agreement during the trial where they both said that they agreed
00:34:06.020that they were not going to bring these character issues up that they were going to leave them out
00:34:10.820but then at the last minute bill wordsky according to defense attorneys decided that he was going to
00:34:15.600cross-examine carmelo anthony and he was going to bring up some of these incidents and cross
00:34:19.960examination so apparently there was a big shouting match according to testimony today between
00:34:24.480both parties, prosecutors and defense attorneys. And now his attorneys, his new attorneys want to
00:34:30.100ask this new judge that just got appointed to give Carmelo Anthony a new trial, saying that
00:34:35.440there are some serious legal issues with his first trial. And also, we're supposed to also
00:34:41.120hear testimony that Bill Wurzke says shows that there are some character issues involving Carmelo
00:34:46.920Anthony. According to him, on the day that Austin Metcalf was killed, Carmelo Anthony's ex-girlfriend
00:34:53.780went to an assistant principal and told told that principal that she was afraid that he had
00:34:58.260been stalking her after they broke up and that he was obsessed with guns knives and fights and so
00:35:04.120again bill words he says he plans to bring it up when it's his turn now to clear this up because
00:35:09.560it's all very confusing i read reporting from daily mail reporter marianne martinez as well
00:35:13.500as cbs news texas reporter janie miles who are both in the courtroom and here's what happened
00:35:17.880carmelo anthony's defense attorney mike howard took the stand during the hearing yesterday
00:35:21.580He was cross-examined by prosecutors. Mike Howard claims that he was 99% sure that Carmelo Anthony would take the stand in his own defense during the trial. But on the final day of trial, when Howard made it clear to prosecutors that Anthony was going to testify, he says the prosecutors became extremely upset and began shouting on the theory that any testimony from Anthony would violate the gentleman's agreement, which was to focus the trial solely on the events that took place under the tent.
00:35:45.960And the idea is that if he took the stand, Anthony would probably talk about how he's a great guy,
00:35:50.220which would open the door to questions about his text messages and the fact that he was stalking his ex-girlfriend, etc.
00:35:56.100So prosecutors supposedly gave an ultimatum to the defense.
00:35:58.860If Anthony testified, the gentleman's agreement was over.
00:36:01.780The prosecution could introduce any evidence they wanted,
00:36:04.540including the evidence of Anthony's text messages on the day of the murder
00:36:06.980and all the other crimes that he had committed in his past, and apparently there were a lot of them.
00:36:11.520The judge said that he wasn't going to enforce the gentleman's agreement one way or another since it didn't involve the court.
00:36:17.040He simply made it clear that Anthony had the right to testify if he wanted to.
00:36:20.280The defense claims that this sudden threat, the possibility that he might get cross-examined about his text messages, left Anthony shell-shocked.
00:36:27.900And the lawyers, quote, were not given enough time to explain everything to Carmelo Anthony, what was at stake, his rights, and how the lawyers arrived at this decision.
00:36:34.700so the idea is that because the status of this gentleman's agreement was tied to whether or not
00:36:40.120Carmelo Anthony testified therefore the prosecution interfered with Anthony's right to testify in his
00:36:47.560own defense they supposedly put undue pressure on Anthony preventing him from making a fully
00:36:53.220voluntary decision never mind the fact that everyone knew Anthony wasn't going to testify0.98
00:36:57.380because he's so obviously guilty in addition to being extremely dumb and unsympathetic1.00
00:37:03.380So there's no upside in having this stupid, illiterate thug testify in his own defense.1.00
00:37:14.000Now, I have no idea if the defense is telling the truth about what prosecutors said or the
00:37:18.740terms of the agreement or anything like that.
00:37:20.860But it's abundantly clear that the prosecutors left themselves open to an attack like this
00:37:25.220simply by virtue of the fact that they entered into this agreement in the first place.
00:37:29.240When you start doing off-the-book negotiations with the defense in a murder case and the defendant is clearly guilty, you're giving them a gigantic opportunity to claim that you broke the terms of the agreement.
00:37:40.860You're inviting the defense to claim that you broke the deal.
00:37:44.180And now you have a whole sideshow about whether or not the gentleman's agreement was appropriate or not.
00:37:50.500The decaying old gray lady might as well lie in your cat box.
00:37:54.440New York Times readership among young Americans has totally cratered.
00:37:58.480Nobody wants a scolding lecture pretending to be journalism.
00:41:31.460Oh, and by the way, you'll notice there also wasn't a torrential downpour at the time of the stabbing.
00:41:35.500The rain had let up, which is why plenty of people are standing on the bleachers with no tent and they're not getting wet.
00:41:40.460So the whole excuse that Anthony had to be inside the tent because of a downpour, he had no option to run away or whatever, it was also totally made up.
00:41:48.700This footage was available on the day Austin Metcalf died.
00:41:52.160There's no reason the public could not have seen it.
00:41:54.780There was no reason for the media to assure us the footage was useless and served no purpose.
00:41:59.500Here's how News Nation talked about it, to give just one example.
00:42:03.460yeah Nicole they allowed me to view this this video under strict conditions I
00:42:08.380couldn't I couldn't record anything I couldn't take pictures I can take notes
00:42:12.820but that's about it they would play at one time and they wouldn't even rewind
00:42:16.840it or play it again even the moment in question so what I saw in the video was
00:42:21.160ultimately it's from the press box across the across the field on the 45
00:42:25.840yard line you can view a yellow tent across the field that's where this
00:42:30.480incident happened there's no sound on the video it's raining you can see about 30 to 40 people
00:42:36.340around the different the field it's a track meet that morning so they're preparing for this track
00:42:41.500meet the incident question happens at 9 44 a.m. it's really calm up until that point and then
00:42:49.540chaos ensues and you can't really make up anybody you can't make out individuals you can see people
00:42:55.700and colors and what they're wearing but you can't make out identities but again at 944 chaos ensues
00:43:01.560what i did not see was any obvious physical altercation leading up to the stabbing so he
00:43:09.080doesn't even mention the fact that there's only one person carmelo anthony who clearly bolts from
00:43:12.640the tent and nearly leaves the stadium while everyone else is panicked and trying to save
00:43:17.000austin metcalf's life you know somehow this reporter and every other reporter who saw the
00:43:21.720footage missed this crucial piece of information. He also failed to mention the rain wasn't causing
00:43:25.920any issues for the people in the bleachers. It's very reminiscent of how after George Floyd's
00:43:31.000overdose, the police refused to release the body cam footage showing that Floyd was resisting
00:43:36.240arrest. And while he was thrashing around in a patrol car, Floyd repeatedly said,
00:43:41.240I can't breathe. The footage also showed Floyd sticking fentanyl pills in his mouth.
00:43:47.140Authorities in Minneapolis recognized that as the footage was released immediately,
00:43:49.940it would torpedo their whole narrative, which was premised on the false claim that Derek Chauvin's
00:43:54.920knee was the reason Floyd couldn't breathe, which it wasn't. In truth, Chauvin's knee did not
00:43:58.980obstruct Floyd's airway at all. He couldn't breathe because he was in the process of having a fatal
00:44:02.460overdose owing to the lethal level of fentanyl that he had ingested. The body cam was a major
00:44:09.300problem for the narrative in Minneapolis, so the authorities buried it. And by the time the Daily
00:44:13.160Mail obtained the leaked footage, it was too late. Everyone had seen the cell phone videos and the
00:44:16.900lynch mob had gathered for Derek Chauvin. And the rest is history. Along the same lines,
00:44:22.060the authorities in the school district knew that this footage from the track meet was very
00:44:25.800problematic for Anthony's claim of self-defense. He's on tape running like a killer who wants to
00:44:30.460escape arrest. So they insisted that the tape was totally irrelevant. They allowed BLM terrorists
00:44:36.860to claim that the tape showed a mob attack against Carmelo Anthony. It was also predictable and
00:44:41.700and probably deliberate. Now, if there's any upside here, it's that Carmelo Anthony will
00:44:46.880probably get a much longer sentence than 35 years if he does end up getting a new trial.
00:44:51.740In a new trial, jurors will be able to see his text messages with his ex-girlfriend.
00:44:56.440They'll even hear about how he admitted he was spiraling out of control and how he was
00:44:59.940stalking his ex-girlfriend. And that's on top of all the other evidence in this case,
00:45:05.900which is obviously damning all by itself. Carmelo Anthony has assembled a dream team of morons,1.00
00:45:12.440including Ben Crump, of course, to secure a new trial. But the irony is that1.00
00:45:16.020a new trial would probably end up making things even worse for him.
00:45:21.080That is, unless Ben Crump manages to seat a deranged leftist woman or a BLM activist on the
00:45:28.400next jury, should another trial take place. That's always been the gambit. When you're a
00:45:33.780black defendant who's clearly guilty of a heinous crime, your lawyers have one strategy. Get you in1.00
00:45:40.680front of as many juries as possible until you find at least one member of a jury who's just as0.99
00:45:46.960psychotic and racist as your client. You know, that's the state of the legal system when it0.83
00:45:54.660comes to prosecuting black criminals. We've known that for some time now. What we didn't know until0.91
00:46:00.640yesterday is that prosecutors, even the alleged conservative ones in Texas, are working directly
00:46:06.020with defense lawyers to deceive juries and the public about the evidence they've collected.
00:46:11.500Prosecutors are not simply soft on crime. They're not simply refusing to charge criminals or letting
00:46:16.260criminals out of prison early. They're also functioning, in effect, as defense attorneys,
00:46:20.660all in the name of racial harmony. And they're doing it without telling anybody.
00:46:26.220with prosecutors like that who needs defense attorneys i mean the more you think about it
00:46:31.900the worse it gets it's a total betrayal and yes in all likelihood once all these legal games are
00:46:36.920finished anthony is going to spend a very long time in prison not nearly enough but a long time
00:46:42.040the end result of all these motions and hearings it's fairly safe to say will be that carmelo
00:46:47.380anthony loses and justice prevails but once that happens and carmelo anthony is locked away in
00:46:54.280prison for good, there's another very important determination that needs to be made, which is
00:47:00.580how many prosecutors in Texas and all over the country belong in prison with him. That'll do it
00:47:08.440for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you on Monday. Have a great