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All right, folks, welcome back to Crime Wire Weekly. We're
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gonna start off with the topics of what we're gonna
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be covering today. The verdict is in in the Carmelo
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Anthony case in Texas. We're gonna be talking all about that,
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biggest story in the country right now, and.
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A lot of social disruption to follow.
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Yeah, DWI arrest in Louisiana has led to an alligator attack,
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also a big story. I'm gonna move that.
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We start giving badges to animals.
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Right A Louisiana sheriff has assaulted a podcaster in a steakhouse.
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Got a lot to say about that one. In California,
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actor in top Gun Maverick is killed by his stepson.
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Then we're going back to Louisiana, where in one parish
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apparently instigating is a crime.
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You know, I hope not because I've been known to
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instigate a time or.
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Yeah, I mean this is legit. I know, it's not
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a shocking. So a man is sentenced in the all
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Pair affair murder trial. We're going to be talking about
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that big case. Changes have been charges rather have been
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dropped in a case involving Arkansas's Aaron Spencer that's.
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Big, and I was glad to see it.
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Very big. A hero dad in Ohio sadly passes away
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dies after trying to save a woman from being strangled.
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That he didn't even know. That's what makes this case
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even wilder.
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Yeah, horrible, awful case coming out of Ohio. Lustful lawbreakers.
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We're going to Palm Beach this week for a let's
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just say it's a very foot fetishy type situation. We're
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going to in Palm Beach, Elevated offenses, going to Texas.
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We're gonna tell you about something to do with airplanes,
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utterly unrelated. Is bringing you all the way to Nepal
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for actually a really great story in Florida, a man's
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game of hide and seek with police finally comes to
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an end, and you won't believe where he was hiding.
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I would actually believe it, But I'll tell you why later.
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All right, And then we're gonna go, of course, into
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overtime after that, and we'll tell you about those topics later.
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But let's kick this one off because we're gonna be
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here a while on today's episode, and it's all about McKinney,
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Texas and a Collin County jury. On Tuesday convicted now
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nineteen year old Carmelo Anthony of murder in the April
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twenty twenty five stabbing death of seventeen year old Austin
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Metcalf during a high school track and field meet in Fresco.
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This is after less than three hours of deliberation, which
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is important. The jury sentenced Anthony into thirty five years
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in present. The verdict was levered June ninth at the
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Collin County Courthouse before Judge John Roach Junior. Anthony, who
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was seventeen at the time, was tried as an adult
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on first degree murder charge. He had pleaded not guilty
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and argued self defense. The jury rejected both the self
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defense claim and a sudden passion argument that could have
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resulted in a lesser charge or sentence. The fatal stabbing
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took place on April second, This is in twenty twenty five.
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It was around ten am at a stadium during a
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district track championship that had been delayed by thunderstorms. Anthony,
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then a student at Frisco Centennial High School, was in
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the area under the Memorial High School team tent when
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that confrontation began. Now, witnesses testified that Metcalf and others,
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including his twin brother Hunter, told Anthony to leave that
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team space. According to testimony and police reports, Anthony then
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reached into his back and said something to the effect
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of quote, touch me and see what happens. Metcalf then
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grabbed Anthony by the shoulder, according to testimony, and it
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was at that point that Anthony pulled out a black
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four inch pocket knife and stabbed Metcalf once in the chest,
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striking his heart. Metcalf then ran down the bleachers, clutching
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his chest before collapsing, and was later pronounced dead at
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the hospital. Anthony fled, but surrendered to police shortly afterward,
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and he told officers he had acted in self defense
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and admitted to the stabbing. Now prosecutors arguing the killing
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was not justified. They described it as a provoked and
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unjustified act, noting that Anthony brought a knife to a
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school event and that the grab on the shoulder did
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not legally justify the use of deadly force. Quote. You
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do not get to meet a shove or grab with
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a stab, especially if you provoke it. This was not
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self de defense, folks, It's murder playing and simple. Now,
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the defense maintained that Anthony feared for his safety in
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the moment after being physically confronted by Metcalf, who was larger.
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They described his response as a split second reaction. Anthony
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did not take the stand during the trial. Austin Metcalf
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was a junior at Memorial High School and he was
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a standout football player, track athlete, big guy six six
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foot tall, two hundred and fifteen pounds, solid muscle. Carmelo
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Anthony was a senior at Centennial High School and a
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member of the football and track teams, and both were
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described as good students as a matter of fact that
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Anthony had a four point zero record and no prior
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criminal offenses. In the punishment phase, the jury assessed thirty
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five years in prison. Texas law allows for a range
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of five years all the way up to ninety nine
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years for murder. In this case, Anthony will be eligible
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for parole after serving at least seven ten years of
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this sentence. Now. After the verdict, Anthony reportedly became very
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emotional and cried medcast twin brother addressing court saying, quote,
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now I want everything taken from you. You took everything
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from me. The Fristco Independent School district issued a statement
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acknowledging the ongoing impact on the community and committing to
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support students Anthony will service sentence in Texas prison system.
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So there's a lot going on here, and what frustrates me. Okay,
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And admittedly I did not, you know, watch the trial.
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I haven't followed up hugely on this one other than
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I did.
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You know, follow it in the news, so to speak.
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But when when you know.
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About high school, okay, one thing that we inherently know
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is that, especially when sports come up, is that competitiveness
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and you know, rivalries, high school rivalries. We all remember
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that kind of stuff. Whether these two teams were rival
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or not is irrelevant. But there's one thing I do
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know there. I ran track in high school and in college,
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and there are rules of track meets and they are
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known rules. And this is where I start in this
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entire case, is that the rules of a track meet
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are you stay in your lane and you stay with
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your team. That's why they put up the team tents.
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That's why they have the designated areas where you set
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up shop. So this so Carmelo number one brought a
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weapon to a weapon free zone, which means from the
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get go. He brought a weapon for a reason. Whatever
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that reason you want to argue it is, I don't care.
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But he had one when he should not have. Number two,
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he was out of area. He was in a place
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that he knew he was not supposed to be. So
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then he goes and talks shit. Basically whenever the kids
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tell him, hey, you need to leave. This isn't your tent.
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Any kid would say this is not your tent. Any
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kid would do that. Any coach I have told before
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as a coach, hey you need to go back over
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there with your team football games. We mitigate this as
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faculty to keep kids separate because we don't want any
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type of confrontation or anything. So then he says, touch
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me and see what happens. I find that to be
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a provoking statement. And then something else not mentioned in the.
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Article is that.
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Metcalf basically called his bluff because he had his hand
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in his bag. Once Carmelo put his hand in his bag,
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that meant he was thinking about grabbing that weapon before
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anything happened. He could have stood up and walked away,
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but he didn't. He decided to say touch me and
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see what happens. Nobody was supposed to be armed. If anything,
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it should have been a fistfight. Okay, if anything, But
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when he grabbed him and said move, and then Carmelo
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pulled that knife out, he was done. He was done
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at that point, I agree, you cannot. We do not
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live in a society we're stabbing someone. Stabbing someone is
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the acceptable response. And it's bs to me to say
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that Metcalf was larger. Well, then if Carmelo is this
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weak little kid and you saw this bigger kid, don't
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talk crap and go where you're supposed to be.
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I feel very.
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Strongly about that. And maybe it's all the years of
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teaching behind me, but nothing good could have come out
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of going in an area you weren't supposed to be
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and and it escalated from there.
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Well, and you know, I don't know if there's any
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truth to this, but I did see his defense team
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and and look, I want to start this off with
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I'm I'm team Metcalf here. I think that the what
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was done here was the proper thing to do. But
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I also think, you know, I'm also someone who's mind
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works were I always look at both sides of something
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you should and I try to see was there something
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that led to something. In this case, according to some reports,
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I've heard a coach for that team actually knew this
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young man and said, hey, you can you can get
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under our tent, and that he wasn't saying anything to anybody.
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And it was several kids that walked up to him
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and said, hey, you need to get out of our tent.
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And they basically asked him twenty one times and so on.
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The twenty first time was when apparently Metcalf kind of
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got in his face and said you need to leave
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the tent. And he stuck his hand in his bag
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and said touch me and see what happens. And he
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touched him, and he pulled out the knife and jugged
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him with it in chest. Now, it's interesting with the
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knife because it is true that you can't bring these
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two sporting events, but it's also not illegal to carry
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the particular knife he had because it's under five point
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five inches and it's pocket knife and a lot of
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kids carried but I carried a pocket knife.
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Yeah, but you're not in today's school if you have
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any knight.
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No, I'm not saying school, I'm saying state LA state law.
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What he had on him was not illegal, and that's
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it's an important point. Now. The other important point to
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that is just because it's not illegal, doesn't make it
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legal to stab somebody like it. Okay, I can understand
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someone carrying some thing for self defense. I totally get that.
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And self defense is a tricky thing. And look in Florida,
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they've come up with the defense for this, or I said, Florida, Texas.
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Rather the defense for this in his mind was standing
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your ground law. And he's saying I stood my ground,
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and stand your ground law means that someone can't force
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me to leave an area, especially during a thunderstorm and
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all this sort of stuff. And so I looked up
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the core principles of self defense in Texas, because they
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don't call it stand your ground law, they just call
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it the self defense principles. You have no duty to retreat.
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You're not required to flee or run before using force,
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provided you have the legal right to be in the
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location where the confrontation occurs, not the aggressor. You cannot
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claim self defense if you started the fight or provoked
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the altercation, not engaged in criminal activity. You cannot use
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these protections if you are in the middle of committing
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a crime, and the fourth is immediate or proportional threat.
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And this is where I think he got got uh.
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You must have reasonable, genuine belief that the force is
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immediately necessary to protect you against unlawful force. Deadly force
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is only justified if you reasonably believe you're at the
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risk of death or serious bodily injury. I don't think
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he was in a situation where he thought he was
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going to be killed right there. No, there's that's the
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whole question. This thing, had this other had this other
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guy or had ten guys jumped him and he was
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just getting the ship beat out of him and he
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pulls out this knife. That's a different situation. But that's
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totally different. That's not what happened here.
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That's why the rules of engagement or whatever you want
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to call it here matters so much. And this is
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why we are stickler about the rules.
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The rules are.
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You are not to go out of your area whether
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and and listen, if a coach and I'll play the game.
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If a coach said, hey man, it might rain, you
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can stand under our tent. All Carmelo had to do
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was walk over to the adult and say, hey man,
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they're telling me to leave, coach, you said, I could
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stand here like you know what I'm saying, that's common sense,
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that is common sense.
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Yeah, but that could go both ways. I mean, the
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kids could have went up to a coach and said, hey,
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he needs to leave, he doesn't need to be down
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the run.
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Yeah, but the kids would have never expected the coach
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to tell him he could stay under another team's tent
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because that's not the rules. So either way, either way,
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I don't believe that happened. I don't. I don't think