This is more of a comments thing than an article thing, but the way that Anthony's family handled this was disgusting -- trying to make it all about race and fundraising off of that. (Then blowing all the cash and hiring a doofus lawyer) Supporters repeatedly told news outlets that they had seen video evidence of the Memorial team ganging up on Anthony and he was only being charged because he was black. Disgusting.
Well, it wasn't a charity endeavor. They started at the right moment to attract all those voices walled off from all the usual outlets, and did pretty well. And all the lefty/progressives noticed and didn't want to miss out on this great opportunity to bypass editorial curation and write anything they wanted to and cannibalize on subscription money ("why subscribe to The Atlantic when you can subscribe directly to me and I'll reply to your comments!") and those guys all had established audiences to teleport over.
And Substack loves having them because they pay the rent for all the invisible little Stacks like mine. They can continue to seem magnanimous that they don't charge us a fee or demand that we charge our own subscribers.
But now the biggest source of revenue is from that side. Money talks.
I remember that idiot Charlie Warzel crying that nobody wanted to subscribe to him while all the Nazis were getting rich.
But I guess all you guys better download and save your Stacks, just in case. (I do all my writing on Word first and then paste it into my Stack so I already have all my deathless words saved.)
This was a kid looking for an excuse to kill a white boy. He instigated it, and he has shown no remorse that I can see. Let him rot in prison, and be an example to his fellows. This generation of black youth is completely out of hand.
Still, it’s a strange case. He set the whole thing up, refusing to leave the opponents’ tent, his hand on the concealed knife, attacking at the first minimal challenge, in a place with maximum witnesses, in a way that maybe in his own mind, but nobody else’s – and definitely not the law’s – gave him some sort of excuse. But then tried to run away, and at the trial certainly didn’t look like he wanted to go to prison any more than any other kid would.
If he just wanted to kill someone from the other school, or somebody white, or both, or just anybody, and get away with it, why not try it alone in the dark somewhere and take his chances?
(Honestly to me, it reminds me most of a kind of initiation stunt, but instead of smushing an egg in the face of a kid from the other school, he plunged a knife into his heart.)
This isn’t to mitigate: being weird isn’t a defense, and clearly doesn’t make him any less dangerous, but I wonder what he was thinking.
Maybe in a few years when he realizes there’s no reason to keep up the pretense, and he sees he’s not George Floyd or Jussie Smollett or Tawana Brawley and his fan club never reached critical mass and has dispersed, some writer will ask him what the deal really was and he’ll explain.
Don't some gangs have initiation rites like that, that you need to be "blooded" to become a prospect member?
But stuff like that ought to have come out when they investigated the murderer, so probably he's just a product of his environment.
If the trend and attitude in the USA among lower order coloureds of all kinds is the same as in EU-rope, then his reason for stabbing to death another person could simply be that coloureds have a "right" to hurt, rob and kill Whites. After all, they have been raised for over fifty years hearing that Whites are the source of all evil and that anything wrong in their lives is because there are White people.
Same as in Germany, a century ago, against the Jews, the Jehovas, the handicapped, the retarded and the Slavs.
Yes, but if you want to advance in the gang I don’t think you’re supposed to do everything possible to immediately get caught and sent to prison for decades, with lots of crying
You missed out. It was quite entertaining and everyone talked about it and analyzed it. Never have seen that with a court case, not since then either. The trap the prosecution fell into with the glove was a rookie mistake--heck, anyone who's ever dealt with leather gloves that had been previously wet and/or had been a kid struggling against a mom wanting to put a glove on, would have known what would happen. The not guilty verdict was my first exposure to the concept of jury nullification.
"The knife was only four inches" cool next time I want to kill somebody I'll be sure to use a pocket knife so it won't be murder.
"He only used it once" everybody knows the first murder is free right?
"I'm outraged" if only the jury had known you'd be personally upset perhaps the outcome would be different.
"The community is outraged" ah yes the widely known exception to the crime of murder, "friends of the killer would be upset by a conviction." too bad the imbecilic judge forgot to include that in jury instructions.
"My identity as a defense attorney is challenged" sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Hope he keeps drinking until the world is permanently rid of his whiney, phlegmy voice and aerospace-smooth brain.
@SCA our school had quite a to-do re crown act related issue and I have OPINIONS which I will not go into here; but I expect they are similar to yours.
I remember during the OJ trial, Harper’s published some of the jury selection transcripts. Some people sensed they were being selected for a “big” trial and didn’t want to be away from their lives for so long. So when they were asked what disqualified them, some people actually said, on record, “I am a racist.”
What I was thinking was about the reactions of the jury to the photos of what that knife did. If they had the moral strength to convict him of murder rather than the last-minute option of manslaughter, I hope that will carry them through.
But rather shameful of the prosecution. So much for the whole mythology of "this is Texas." An awful lot of bullshit is allowed to happen in Texas.
I don't know the intricacies of the law here, not sure if this is a standard thing or something the prosecution had to agree to. But I agree with you, the jury could have just gone with manslaughter if they thought it wasn't straight murder.
To the commentator: Well, sir. We listened to the evidence. Took a couple hours to convince the one hard head. Had to show them the evidence again. And why didn't the judge let the camera's in? 🤣😂🤣😂 Well, we are trying to keep the jury from being killed and I don't have time to advertise and film shenanigans for your Godundme.
This is more of a comments thing than an article thing, but the way that Anthony's family handled this was disgusting -- trying to make it all about race and fundraising off of that. (Then blowing all the cash and hiring a doofus lawyer) Supporters repeatedly told news outlets that they had seen video evidence of the Memorial team ganging up on Anthony and he was only being charged because he was black. Disgusting.
I always carried a knife in my gym bag when going to a pickup basketball game. It's standard practice, right?
Skin color is the most imortant thing.
Anthony didn't fall far from the tree.
100000% agree disgusting 🤮
Also the jury is considering sentencing right now so there will probably be more news at some point today.
Prosecution lost its nerve.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15886439/karmelo-anthony-austin-metcalf-murder-verdict.html
Pity.
Well, it wasn't a charity endeavor. They started at the right moment to attract all those voices walled off from all the usual outlets, and did pretty well. And all the lefty/progressives noticed and didn't want to miss out on this great opportunity to bypass editorial curation and write anything they wanted to and cannibalize on subscription money ("why subscribe to The Atlantic when you can subscribe directly to me and I'll reply to your comments!") and those guys all had established audiences to teleport over.
And Substack loves having them because they pay the rent for all the invisible little Stacks like mine. They can continue to seem magnanimous that they don't charge us a fee or demand that we charge our own subscribers.
But now the biggest source of revenue is from that side. Money talks.
How far we've come from the days of "Substack is for Nazis."
I remember that idiot Charlie Warzel crying that nobody wanted to subscribe to him while all the Nazis were getting rich.
But I guess all you guys better download and save your Stacks, just in case. (I do all my writing on Word first and then paste it into my Stack so I already have all my deathless words saved.)
This was a kid looking for an excuse to kill a white boy. He instigated it, and he has shown no remorse that I can see. Let him rot in prison, and be an example to his fellows. This generation of black youth is completely out of hand.
Still, it’s a strange case. He set the whole thing up, refusing to leave the opponents’ tent, his hand on the concealed knife, attacking at the first minimal challenge, in a place with maximum witnesses, in a way that maybe in his own mind, but nobody else’s – and definitely not the law’s – gave him some sort of excuse. But then tried to run away, and at the trial certainly didn’t look like he wanted to go to prison any more than any other kid would.
If he just wanted to kill someone from the other school, or somebody white, or both, or just anybody, and get away with it, why not try it alone in the dark somewhere and take his chances?
(Honestly to me, it reminds me most of a kind of initiation stunt, but instead of smushing an egg in the face of a kid from the other school, he plunged a knife into his heart.)
This isn’t to mitigate: being weird isn’t a defense, and clearly doesn’t make him any less dangerous, but I wonder what he was thinking.
Maybe in a few years when he realizes there’s no reason to keep up the pretense, and he sees he’s not George Floyd or Jussie Smollett or Tawana Brawley and his fan club never reached critical mass and has dispersed, some writer will ask him what the deal really was and he’ll explain.
Don't some gangs have initiation rites like that, that you need to be "blooded" to become a prospect member?
But stuff like that ought to have come out when they investigated the murderer, so probably he's just a product of his environment.
If the trend and attitude in the USA among lower order coloureds of all kinds is the same as in EU-rope, then his reason for stabbing to death another person could simply be that coloureds have a "right" to hurt, rob and kill Whites. After all, they have been raised for over fifty years hearing that Whites are the source of all evil and that anything wrong in their lives is because there are White people.
Same as in Germany, a century ago, against the Jews, the Jehovas, the handicapped, the retarded and the Slavs.
Yes, but if you want to advance in the gang I don’t think you’re supposed to do everything possible to immediately get caught and sent to prison for decades, with lots of crying
They look down on that.
True.
Maybe the simplest explanation simply is the murderer was rasied on racial hatred, grievance politics and lacked a sense of reality.
This should have happened to OJ.
I read Marcia Clark's book when it came out. Was a pretty convincing case, but I didn't follow along with trial really.
You missed out. It was quite entertaining and everyone talked about it and analyzed it. Never have seen that with a court case, not since then either. The trap the prosecution fell into with the glove was a rookie mistake--heck, anyone who's ever dealt with leather gloves that had been previously wet and/or had been a kid struggling against a mom wanting to put a glove on, would have known what would happen. The not guilty verdict was my first exposure to the concept of jury nullification.
Verdict: 35 years!
Beat me on this one!
You know what they say about boomers--"...sitting in front of the sofa watching cable news..."
Yeah! And crocheting moths and owl shawls to prove I ain't no slug!
That commenter was, in fact, remarkably dumb.
Commentator in linked video sounds already drunk.
"The knife was only four inches" cool next time I want to kill somebody I'll be sure to use a pocket knife so it won't be murder.
"He only used it once" everybody knows the first murder is free right?
"I'm outraged" if only the jury had known you'd be personally upset perhaps the outcome would be different.
"The community is outraged" ah yes the widely known exception to the crime of murder, "friends of the killer would be upset by a conviction." too bad the imbecilic judge forgot to include that in jury instructions.
"My identity as a defense attorney is challenged" sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Hope he keeps drinking until the world is permanently rid of his whiney, phlegmy voice and aerospace-smooth brain.
I want to know what this guy thought the facts of the case actually were.
But, as SCA said below, he's likely just a paid blowhard trying to stir shit up, and he doesn't even believe what he's saying.
@SCA our school had quite a to-do re crown act related issue and I have OPINIONS which I will not go into here; but I expect they are similar to yours.
I’m surprised bc during jury selection there were people saying they’d hate to put a young kid away and so on
Those people are tossed before jury selection. You can't be a juror if you can't agree to the rules of the trial. (aka, sentencing somebody to life)
Hmmm…I see
I remember during the OJ trial, Harper’s published some of the jury selection transcripts. Some people sensed they were being selected for a “big” trial and didn’t want to be away from their lives for so long. So when they were asked what disqualified them, some people actually said, on record, “I am a racist.”
Bringing up jury nullification is a good way to get tossed, too.
Why does it always have to boil down to a skin issue? Praying!
Some people require it to.
Yeah :(
well I guess we can be thankful he wasnt beheaded. what is wrong with people. i predict the sentence will be light as not to start a race war
We were feeling relieved too soon.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15886439/karmelo-anthony-austin-metcalf-murder-verdict.html
Dunno if the jury will go for that. He brought the knife.
What I was thinking was about the reactions of the jury to the photos of what that knife did. If they had the moral strength to convict him of murder rather than the last-minute option of manslaughter, I hope that will carry them through.
But rather shameful of the prosecution. So much for the whole mythology of "this is Texas." An awful lot of bullshit is allowed to happen in Texas.
I don't know the intricacies of the law here, not sure if this is a standard thing or something the prosecution had to agree to. But I agree with you, the jury could have just gone with manslaughter if they thought it wasn't straight murder.
To the commentator: Well, sir. We listened to the evidence. Took a couple hours to convince the one hard head. Had to show them the evidence again. And why didn't the judge let the camera's in? 🤣😂🤣😂 Well, we are trying to keep the jury from being killed and I don't have time to advertise and film shenanigans for your Godundme.
I was so afraid the court was giving him an “out” w/ the manslaughter charge. Glad he got the murder charge.
Does the Anthony family have to pay tax on the money they got?
I can't imagine not?
Anthony should kill more white guys before he gets locked up.
Fame is the Game. Kill Whitey.
His support will multiply.
Maybe run for Governor. Make the rest look like pussies.