Amala Ekpunobi

When Metcalfe told Anthony that he needed to move, Anthony reached into his bag and allegedly replied, touch me and see what happens.

Now, it's alleged that he reached into the bag because, of course, that's where his knife was.

That's where the weapon was.

So if you reach into a bag and you have your hand on a weapon and you tell somebody, touch me and see what happens, what are you doing?

First of all, you're provoking them into a violent altercation with you.

And it seems like you have somewhat premeditated your response to them acting in any sort of way towards you that involves violence.

Touching.

So I'm so confused as to how people are coming up to this case and screaming justice for Carmelo Anthony.

I guess the main argument is that Austin Metcalf approached him in the beginning to tell him that he needed to be out of the tent and thus started the altercation.

But when you say touch me and see what happens to somebody and then they touch you and you stab them in the chest, you've committed murder.

And they're going to run with this self-defense narrative.

That's what the defense is saying.

Taylor, you said you looked into this.

yeah it's it's so insane to say you know touch me and see what happens to somebody to then go on to do that i mean there's a ton of people around presumably people who work for the school coaches things like that i i can't i find it hard to believe that they're going to argue that he thought his life was in danger in any way shape or form at the hands of austin metcalf here yet when this story was released when it hit the news immediately

hundreds of thousands of dollars were raised for carmelo anthony and here's his gifts and go they've actually raised the goal on this um as things are taking place and as this trial is underway so far six hundred and twenty thousand dollars raised

by what, over 18,000 donors on this who are calling for justice for Carmelo Anthony.

And I'm confused because I think justice is going to be served here.

And it's going to probably be a guilty verdict for this young man.

I can't see it going any other way.

And I don't know how the defense is going to pull out of their bag some sort of self-defense argument for what ended up taking place.