As both a Frisco resident and Attorney:
If you are surprised by the Karmelo Anthony verdict or confused by it, please revisit the news sources you trust and consume.
We are often misled and tricked by the media. It feels like it has become part of their job to rile us up. To create emotional response. To divide us by political association, race, gender, orientation, etc. because it turns into clicks and more consumption of their content.
Look past these sources if they speak more about how you should feel about the “news” and not present the “news” as facts of what happened. Find the facts yourself by looking at multiple sources. Listen to the testimony and review the evidence. Make your own objective conclusions.
For example, the facts (in response to common misinformation) include:
1) The jury included numerous minorities, including Asian, Hispanic, and Middle-Eastern people;
2) Anthony’s attorney was a private, hired lawyer, not a public defender;
3) It was and is an unwritten rule that you are only permitted under a team tent if you are part of the team/school;
4) Anthony was not part of the team/school yet went and sat in the tent anyway;
5) Eyewitnesses, including black eyewitnesses, testified Anthony was told to leave the tent multiple times and he verbally refused;
6) Multiple eyewitnesses, including black eyewitnesses, testified that Karmelo was never surrounded/ganged up/jumped in that tent;
7) Multiple eyewitnesses, including black eyewitnesses, testified Anthony put his hand inside his backpack as though he was planning to retrieve a weapon during the verbal altercation;
8) The eyewitnesses, including black eyewitnesses, in the tent testified they jokingly said that they didn’t believe he had anything in the bag because he was in Frisco, Texas;
9) Eyewitnesses said AM told Anthony to leave or he would kick his a**;
10) Eyewitnesses testified that during the verbal exchange, Anthony said “touch me and find out.”
11) Eyewitnesses testified AM went over and pushed him to make him leave the tent.
12) Eyewitnesses testified AM did not punch Anthony or make any attempt to cause serious injury to him;
13) Anthony immediately pulled his knife and stabbed AM in the chest;
14) Anthony then threw the weapon into the stands and ran;
15) Anthony admitted the stabbing to the police;
16) Even the defense’s witnesses said Anthony was in the wrong.
You are free to make your own opinions about the case. But before jumping to conclusions, at least know the facts.
I think you’re missing a lot of the key big takeaways in this case.
The defense put a witness on the stand who admitted during cross-examination that he thinks Karmelo was in the wrong and provoked the situation. This was the last witness of the day.
Earlier today, the prosecutor put several witnesses on the stand and one said Karmelo provoked them and called them all “pussies.”
You also keep mentioning in your reports that the jury doesn’t have a black juror—but it has 5 minorities and the black potential jurors admitted they couldn’t be impartial and that’s why they were not put on the jury.
These facts matter.
Anthony went into a tent where he didn’t belong, was told 15 times to leave and refused, then pulled out a knife and stabbed someone to death. Not only is he clearly guilty and the self defense claim a total farce, he should be facing the death penalty. First degree murder.
I haven’t moved on from the Karmelo Anthony fundraiser. They donated half a million as a reward for killing a white kid. Zero evidence or reason to think it was “self defense,” and they didn’t care. It was a reward for killing a white kid. I’ll never forget it. Neither should you
Absolutely. This quite obviously should be the law. We already require the president to be a natural born citizen. Why wouldn't we extend that requirement to congress and the judicial branch?
You are the most treacherous and truly worthless Republican leader in the history of the party. You even make Paul Ryan look like a plausible Republican, and there could be no lower bar.
Stop talking. You’re embarrassing yourself.