Allie Beth Stuckey

That is a provocation.

That's not saying, hey, I feel like my life is in danger.

And by the way, even if so,

Even if it was a warning that, hey, this is how I'm feeling.

I've seen some activists saying, he said, he said, it doesn't matter.

If you say you're going to murder someone or you say that you don't like what someone is doing, that doesn't justify your murdering of them.

Okay.

Austin Metcalfe allegedly replied, according to these witnesses, I'm not going to fight you.

One of the witnesses, and I thought that this was really touching,

He said the reason it was Austin Metcalf who was kind of leading the charge and confronting Carmelo was because he was always the leader.

He was always the leader of the group.

He was always taking one for the team.

It makes me want to cry, actually.

Like he was always kind of laying himself down for his team.

And by the way, his team that was sitting there in the tent were filled with white and black kids.

This wasn't like some white on black situation.

And now this is my perspective, my interpretation of what's happening.

And Carmelo seemed to have gone in the tent to cause trouble and he was causing problems.

And I don't know why he was trying to provoke them.

I don't know if he was bothered by something, if he had been triggered by something.