Amala Ekpunobi

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.

And of course, because this is a black kid who stabbed a white kid, it almost seems like the split on this is fully because of race.

The people who are calling for justice for Carmelo Anthony are heavily indicating that a lot of the reason

that he is facing a first degree murder charge is because he happens to be black.

That if the rules were reversed and this was a white kid who killed a black kid, that we wouldn't be having this conversation.

No, we'd be having the same conversation.

because the law still applies.

I honestly think if this was a white kid who stabbed a black kid, we wouldn't have, I don't know, $620,000 raised for him for 18,000 people.

But I don't know.

Our world is crazy now.