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Conflicting witness accounts on who initiated contact, how the confrontation escalated, and what actually happened in the critical seconds create reasonable doubt This isn’t a 1st degree murder case. #karmeloanthony
@Notwokenow https://t.co/7m56lU1P62
My issue is that Karmelo isn’t guilty of 1st degree murder.
Manslaughter at most.
If Karmelo was White, and Austin was Black. I’d feel the same way. This isn’t a 1st degree case.
@HorseOneThms@TinaWillard@BlackAndNative1 Being under another team’s tent is not automatically trespassing. Testimony indicated that students regularly visited friends from other schools during downtime and he was invited to the tent by another Memorial High school student.
@DavideZ1911@realAFLF it is not an established fact that the knife was already open inside the backpack before the confrontation. You have no proof of that and that is simply a “theory”
Nice try bro
@Nonamedonteven@BlackAndNative1 Also yes, Karmelo warned Austin before any stabbing occurred, the warning was an attempt to deter further confrontation, not evidence of a planned killing. A person intending to carry out a deliberate murder doesn’t typically issue a warning to disengage.
@Nonamedonteven@BlackAndNative1 Stand Your Ground does not require a person to wait until they are injured before responding. It turns on reasonableness under imminent threat, not on whether a statement was made seconds before a chaotic physical encounter. Austin threatened to “Beat Karmelo’s Ass”.