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The Matt Walsh Show

Ep. 1794 - Karmelo Anthony Found GUILTY. Here's What Comes Next

10 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What was the verdict in the Karmelo Anthony case?

0.098 - 22.166 Matt Walsh

Immediately after Carmelo Anthony was convicted of murder for savagely stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf through the heart at a track meet, he broke down in tears and began sobbing uncontrollably. He had been out on bail for the duration of the trial thanks to a favor from an activist black judge, and now he was faced with the reality that he'd be going to prison for a very long time.

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Anthony was so distraught that his lawyer pleaded with the judge to allow him to take Carmelo somewhere to pull himself together. But the judge, a Marine veteran named John Roach, denied the request. The judge informed Anthony that he was now in the custody of the government. And then the judge said simply, things move differently now.

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It was obviously a difficult statement for Anthony, his family, and his supporters to accept, but it's true. Things do move differently now. And they aren't just moving differently for Carmelo Anthony. After decades of coddling terrorists, degenerates, and black supremacists, the people of the Western world are tired of it. We've simply had enough.

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Chapter 2: How did Karmelo Anthony react to his conviction?

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We're tired of the intimidation, the violence, the fraudulent narratives, the manipulation, the censorship. We're done with pretending that the police are racist as a way to excuse black violence. We're done with pretending that asylum claims are real and that the great replacement is not. It's hard to pinpoint exactly when this transformation was complete.

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81.428 - 102.862 Matt Walsh

It was sometime in between the slaughter of a white teenager at a track meet and the near beheading of a white man in Northern Ireland. But there's no denying that things are indeed moving differently now. Carmelo Anthony is in prison. Northern Ireland is on fire. And white men are finally stepping up. There will be no more excuses.

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102.922 - 119.245 Matt Walsh

The new civil rights movement, a civil rights movement that protects the civil rights of all people to live in peace without the threat of violence following them everywhere they go, has begun. And unlike the old civil rights movement, we're not trying to discriminate against anybody on the basis of race.

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We want to remove from society anyone of any race who would make the Western world uninhabitable. And if the people we remove from society happen to belong disproportionately to one demographic group or another, well, that's just how it goes. Things move differently now. Just as Anthony struggled to accept this new reality, all of his supporters seemed gobsmacked by the guilty verdict.

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142.765 - 159.303 Matt Walsh

They truly were not expecting this outcome. And to be honest, from where I'm sitting, I don't understand what they're so upset about. Carmelo Anthony's parents famously wanted their son to live in a gated community. And now he will. So it all worked out for them in the end, you might say.

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But for some reason, outside the courthouse, the mood was less than enthusiastic among Anthony's biggest fans. They seemed genuinely furious and also more than a little bit confused. Watch.

173.118 - 190.804 Dominique Alexander

What do you want us to do? What do you want us to do at this point? What? I'm lost for words. I don't know what to do. I got five boys. I don't know. I ain't got nothing to tell them no more. You can't walk away no more. Rest in peace, Trayvon Martin.

190.824 - 210.741 Matt Walsh

What do you want us to do, she asks. She's totally perplexed. The black guy is going to jail for murdering somebody, and now she has no idea what she's supposed to do. And I've reflected on this question, and admittedly, this is a very far-out idea, and it's never been tried before, so I would completely understand if this woman rejects my suggestion.

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But after a lot of careful consideration and meditation, I have one idea for what you could do going forward if you don't want to end up in prison for 35 years. You could not murder people. That's one thing you could do. Now, I know it sounds totally ridiculous, implausible, but hear me out. If you don't stab innocent people through the heart for no reason, you'll be fine.

Chapter 3: What implications does this case have for civil rights movements?

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I don't know if he's announcing that he's trans or what, but it would help explain why he's so, you know, enraged and unstable. Apparently this guy's name is Michael Jafar. He obviously shouldn't be allowed on television ever again. if you can count being on court TV as being on television.

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421.611 - 441.467 Matt Walsh

He made all seven viewers in the audience, who presumably were only watching because it was on TV in a dentist's waiting room or something, much dumber for having listened to him. And by the way, this guy was not an aberration at court TV. All of their analysts were shell-shocked by the verdict to a degree that was, frankly, hilarious. Watch.

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Besides wow, which a lot of us are feeling, thoughts? I was not expecting the top charge. I really was thinking that they would see manslaughter, still guilty, but manslaughter, different sentencing, but guilty of murder, so- You know, that's heavy. Wow. And I hope everyone just does not seem like everyone's going to be calm. It seems like we're going to have a problem there. This is dumb.

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486.27 - 487.873 Unknown

You can see the... This is dumb.

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491.819 - 515.463 Matt Walsh

That's heavy. Wow. Shocking. Wow. Now that reaction would be appropriate if a, I don't know, a bald eagle had broken through the courthouse window and like pecked Carmelo Anthony's eyes out or something. I mean, they're acting like something totally unexpected and horrific just took place. And there are supposed to be legal analysts who do this for a living.

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For a legal expert, a guilty verdict in a case where even the defense's own witnesses said the defendant was at fault, should be just about the least shocking development of all time.

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Manslaughter would have made sense if Anthony pulled out the knife and then Austin Metcalf tripped and impaled himself on it, which, by the way, is something the defense attorney offered as an actual explanation for the murder, as we remember. If that had really happened... which it didn't, then Carmelo Anthony would not have intended to kill somebody.

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Instead, he would have done something very reckless that led to a homicide, and therefore he would be guilty of manslaughter. In reality, Anthony brought a knife to a track meet, which is something no other athlete did because it's insane and also against the rules, and he was intent on using it.

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That's why he kept threatening Metcalf until the moment Metcalf touched him, at which point Anthony instantly stabbed him with enough strength to penetrate his sternum before running away and tossing the murder weapon. If that doesn't qualify as an intentional homicide, as murder, then nothing does.

Chapter 4: How are supporters of Anthony reacting to the verdict?

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If that's not a murder, then no murder has ever happened in the entire history of the human race. This is rudimentary law, which is why the jury returned a verdict about as quickly as they possibly could. I mean, you know, they took a lunch break, read the forms, maybe made some small talk, filled out the forms, and they were done. The whole process took less than three hours.

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And there's a reason for that, even if Court TV pretends not to understand it. But Court TV was not alone when it came to pointing out, to putting out embarrassingly bad coverage of the verdict. Here was CNN always stepping up to the plate with bad coverage. Just for another example, watch.

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Carmelo Anthony said, well, push me. See what happens then. And he pushed him. And that is when Carmelo Anthony rummaged through his bag, took out a knife. And the jury has determined that when that knife went into the chest of the victim, Austin Metcalf, that that was murder. And there was a very wide range of five to 99 years.

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And the defense is going to try to get that down as close as they can to the five years. But the issue is he had a knife. We don't know why he had a knife. He did not take the stand. This was a self-defense case.

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And what was in Carmelo Anthony's head was so important because if he subjectively believed that he was going to be killed or seriously bodily injured by Austin Metcalf, who is the victim now, then he had a right to take out a knife. But he did not take the stand to testify in his own defense. So we don't know what was in his mind.

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attorneys argued that the killing was in self-defense, and a social justice group supporting Anthony compared him to Kyle Rittenhouse. What do you make of that comparison and the fact that the jury did not find that this was self-defense?

679.506 - 697.191 Unknown

I'm really shocked by this decision by the jury. Look, this is going to be a difficult case for this country in this moment. It's going to be challenged by civil rights groups. You have a young black man who has now been charged with murder of a young white man by an all-white jury in Texas.

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And we know there are bats and challenges, challenges to the exclusion of black jurors by the defense attorneys for Anthony. Those challenges were not recognized by this court. So we should expect to see an immediate appeal on that basis. And I'm sure there's some other things that the defense attorney will appeal on.

716.476 - 729.837 Matt Walsh

Yeah, the Kyle Rittenhouse comparison is just amazing. These people have no shame. Kyle Rittenhouse was being chased down the street by an armed mob. And also, by the way, all of these so-called civil rights groups said that he was not justified.

Chapter 5: How did the media react to the guilty verdict?

1460.092 - 1476.218 Dominique Alexander

It's self-defense. You put your hand on me and see how I respond. What will the Anthony family do? What will the people that are standing behind the Anthony family do? That's the question you should ask. We're going to stand behind them and we're going to fight.

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That's what's going to happen. What is your relationship with the Anthony family?

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1479.884 - 1494.317 Dominique Alexander

I have no relationship. We're brothers, we're black, we're brothers and sisters, we're blacks, we're the indigenous people of this earth. Ain't nobody out here giving me a bitch, we black.

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It's a repeat.

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1494.637 - 1518.105 Dominique Alexander

Black people, black sisters and brothers, black kings and queens, we gotta stick together. This makes no goddamn sense. That young boy, he was defending his goddamn will. Donald Trump is a goddamn bully. So it's an instant classic.

1518.125 - 1537.73 Matt Walsh

You've got the angry black woman vaguely threatening to stab the reporter to death if he touches her, just like Carmelo Anthony stabbed Austin Metcalf. She says black people are the indigenous people of the earth, which implies that, you know, white people arrive from outer space, I guess. descended down like celestial beings. I don't know.

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And then she says that she supports Anthony solely because he's black, as if there was any doubt about that. And everybody agrees with her. It's all very normal stuff. Clearly the sign of a healthy, functioning democracy. And then right when you least expect, the camera quickly pans to a random guy wearing a white towel who declares that Donald Trump is a bully.

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And everyone just kind of looks around awkwardly before the woman continues her rant like nothing happened. So A lot of great stuff. I need to point out here again how absurd it is that some people are claiming that this trial had nothing to do with race.

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You know, when you have mobs of black people outside the courthouse saying that it is about race, and when they're donating $600,000 to the killer solely because he's black and his victim was white, then it is indeed about race. You might not want it to be about race. I don't want it to be about race, but it is. There's no getting around that. Whether you like it or not,

Chapter 6: What comparisons are being made between Anthony's case and others?

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It's one of the most common occupations for migrants living in the country. What the leaders of the UK need to understand is that while these comments are obviously offensive and ugly to their sensibilities, they're also the moderate option. Mocking foreign invaders and deporting them is the more measured path.

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The radical one, the one that's surfacing now in Belfast, is the one that nobody should want. It's the much uglier thing that nobody should want to see. I certainly don't. The radical path is chaos that no one can control. And that outcome becomes inevitable the more the British government takes the side of invaders over their own citizens.

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We're talking about citizens who should be heirs to an empire. Instead, they're a global laughingstock, and it's all because of open borders and decades of globalist rule. It's an untenable situation. This photo from PAYR sums up the situation about as well as anyone can.

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Chapter 7: What is the significance of the jury composition in this trial?

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There's a transit bus on fire in the background, and on the public display system, which hasn't been affected by the blaze, on the public space system, a message reads, apologies for any inconvenience. So it's an effective and sobering illustration of the state of the UK, which is currently in a state of managed decline.

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They're expected to be polite and proper as foreigners slaughter them in the streets and as their country falls apart from within. But a lot of them aren't going along with it anymore. And as the Carmelo Anthony verdict demonstrates, neither are we. The genocidal anti-white, anti-Western race hustlers are losing. They are flailing. They are defeated. They are barely coherent.

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And they are desperate. We still have a lot of work to do if we want to restore the Western world to what it once was. But the first step, which is always going to be the hardest, has just been taken from the UK to Texas. The step was to listen carefully to the complaints of a deranged, violent mob.

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to comprehend exactly what they're saying and what they're trying to do, and to respond simply, things move differently now. The fact that we can finally take that step without apologizing for ourselves is the single most important development in Western civilization in living memory. The reason they're in a panic is that, as dumb and incoherent as they may be, even they can see it too.

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That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed. Last month, we judged Martin Luther King Jr. not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. American school kids spend a lot of time hearing about MLK and Rosa Parks.

3230.507 - 3251.012 Matt Walsh

Have you noticed no one ever asks what Birmingham, Selma, and Montgomery are like today? The legacy of the civil rights movement wasn't a racially harmonious utopia. hollowed out urban cores, hundreds of thousands of dead Americans, raped grandmothers, ethnic cleansing entire neighborhoods.

3251.032 - 3271.472 Matt Walsh

This month, we surveyed firsthand accounts of the historic wave of nonviolent crime, riots unleashed on this country by the civil rights movement, which caused more enduring damage on America's greatest cities than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Who were the winners? And who were the losers? What's the truth about redlining, white flight, affirmative action?

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Don't want to miss the second part of our special on the civil rights movement, The Looting of America, on Daily Wire Plus.

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