Defense attorney Mike Howard is trying to pull off an inside straight to get the jury to acquit Karmelo Anthony.
Under Texas law, he needs to prove ALL of the following to the jury:
-Anthony had a right to be present at that location (Stand Your Ground Doctrine);
-did not provoke the person against whom the force was used (Initial Aggressor Rule);
-was not otherwise engaged in criminal activity at the time , such as carrying the knife on school grounds (Part of the Stand Your Ground Doctrine);
-reasonably believed that deadly force was immediately necessary to protect against the other’s use or attempted use of unlawful deadly force (Reasonable Belief Doctrine);
-and that the threat of unlawful deadly force (or serious bodily injury) was imminent (Imminent Harm Requirement)
This is absolutely ludicrous.
1. Did you not here the coach's testimony? The tents were specifically set up so that each tram had a space to themselves.
2. Equipment a personal belongings were kept there.
3. Common knowledge/etiquette to stay out of other teams areas.
4. Team members had every right to ask and tell Anthony to leave.
5. He had no legitimate reason to be there especially, after being asked to leave.
6. His entrance, remaining, and carrying a weapon are all direct actions by Anthony that led to the altercation/stabbing.
7. Why is it y'all lack impulse control? I mean, can't a couple high school kids push/shove without resorting to weapons? Ever seen a football game?
Good grief...
@JessicaPusser@elonmusk@BreannaMorello 💯
The coach even testified to this. Its the teams space where they keep equipment and personal belongings. Its an understood rule/etiquette that you stay out of other teams tents.
@KashLeeKelly1 Black people use words all the time to segregate themselves and that you think alike. We simply accept that's the way your community is. Whites, especially conservatives are very independent/non tribal.
So the only ones who can change this perception is black people.
In America today, White people have two options when black people are literally trying to kill them:
1) Defend yourself, get arrested and go to prison.
2) Die.
It is important to remember that disparate impact law essentially makes it illegal for schools to prevent these tragedies by punishing or expelling black students because the rate at which they do so is significantly outsized compared to white students.
Disparate impact law, which was enshrined as American law by HW Bush’s 1991 civil rights act, makes it essentially illegal for schools to punish minority groups at outsized rate compared to white students.
So despite Karmelo‘s past behavior, it would be generally illegal for the school to try to stop him from, say, showing up to a track meet with a knife with which he stabbed Austin Metcalf to death
I concede that the Chud case IS very similar to the Karmelo Anthony case.
The white Chud, like the white Austin Metcalf, was subject to a violent unlawful deadly force attack by a black man.
Unlike poor Austin, Chud was the one with a deadly defensive weapon at hand when he was unlawfully attacked by the black Joshua Fox, so white Chud LIVED.
In the case of Austin, it was the black unlawful aggressor Karmelo who had the deadly weapon, so white Austin DIED.
There’s a lesson there for white people, but I rather doubt it was the lesson you intended.
This man’s language was worse/more dangerous than Chud’s
No one will try & get this man fired.
No one will put a hit out on this man.
(Like some did to chud).
No one will say he got what was coming to him if a white person responded violently.
If we continue to permit this racial double standard in our society, it will lead to a race war.
I don’t want that.
But I fear that’s where we’re headed.
White Americans have paid literally trillions of dollars in reparations into the black community, only to receive ever greater degrees of crime, poverty, and degradation.
It seems a poor plan, really.