Matt Walsh

And Pera supposedly is a close family friend of Anthony's girlfriend.

Carmelo Anthony, the lawyer said, had reason to remain in the tent with this acquaintance because it had begun raining.

Evidently, Carmelo Anthony's high school centennial didn't have their own tent.

They only had a tarp.

Now, the problem is that Carmelo Anthony remained in the wrong tent for between five to ten minutes.

And Metcalf, who was told by his coach to be a leader and run things, recognized that this was a problem.

As the prosecutor said, tents are like locker rooms for teams, including a safe space to avoid things being stolen.

Or maybe it's like, if you're on the football team, this is your bench, your sideline.

And if someone from another team comes and sits on your bench, you can't do that, obviously.

They're going to tell you to leave.

And if somebody's loitering in your locker room for an extended period of time, it's normal and appropriate to tell them to leave.

After all, you have no idea if this person inside your tent is a violent sociopath with a lengthy record of degeneracy who's liable to stab someone at the slightest provocation because he has no impulse control whatsoever.

I mean, that's one of the morbid ironies of the defense here.

People saying that, well, Austin Metcalf had no reason to tell Carmelo Anthony to leave the tent.

Well, apparently he did.

Apparently he did.

Apparently he had very good reason to tell this guy to leave.

He was carrying a knife and he was willing to murder people.

But it's really a moot point because there's still no reason to kill Austin Metcalf, even if the tents were completely open to everybody, which they weren't.

Defenders of Carmelo Anthony had claimed that video footage would show some violent attack by Metcalf, but that simply did not happen.