re: Trial set to begin in murder of Austin Metcalf by Karmelo Anthony at high school track

Racists gonna racist and make excuses for racist behavior.

We have one in this very thread.

No Black Jurors Selected

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Jury Seated
What we know:
After meeting with the attorneys on Wednesday afternoon, Judge John Roach excused the first 150 jurors.

During the second round of strikes, the defense raised an issue over three potential jurors that the prosecution chose to strike. The defense argued that they were Black females and "similarly situated" as another white female that the prosecution did not strike.

Prosecutors clarified that the three women were struck for a non-racial reason. All three listed their occupations as educators, and it seems the prosecution does not want educators on the jury because the alleged incident happened at a school function with school-aged children.

The judge sided with prosecutors and agreed to strike the three women.

A 12-person jury was seated with a mixture of both men and women. No Black jurors were selected.

There is one educator on the jury, but she is an esthetician who teaches at a trade school in Dallas. She does not work in a traditional school environment or with high school-aged children.

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No Black Jurors Selected

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Lol, oh boy

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Howard also attempted to assert that Anthony's life was 'in danger' when Metcalf allegedly pushed Anthony and told him to leave the tent area.

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Every sporting event where players push and shove each other is grounds for murder…

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Howard is also telling the jury pool that Texas law allows people to carry a knife that is under 5.5 inches in a public place,

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This is true for the most part, but at a minimum it is against school and district policies and also against rules for district events. I am not sure if the state or local governments have laws making it a crime for a student to bring any knife onto school property or if punishment handled by the school or district. I do think an adult could have had a knife under 5.5” there. There are additional restrictions along with the clear bag requirement for certain stadiums including the one where the murder took place, but I can’t remember the specifics.

Whether or not bringing the knife to school property or at a school event is a criminal offense would only affect whether Anthony could be convicted of capital murder which is not the charge that is being tried.

He knew that he wasn’t supposed to have that knife on school property or at school/district events; other students including the victim would reasonably assume no other students had deadly weapons on them; and the killer would also reasonably and accurately assume that the victim did not have a deadly weapon on him (and one more reason he knew his own life was not in danger at a school function that is not in the ghetto).

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No Black Jurors Selected

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Black folks boarding their businesses as we speak.

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The defense argued that they were Black females and "similarly situated" as another white female that the prosecution did not strike.

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If the thug’s attorney got rid of all Republicans the white female may be just as good if not better for them. White liberal guilt overrides common sense.

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Howard said the case will come down to the question of whether Anthony had the right to defend himself that fateful day.

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It first comes down to whether he had a right to defend himself at all with non-lethal force and then if he had a legal right to defend himself using non-deadly force was he also justified in using deadly force.

Telling a black person something he doesn’t like or making him feel disrespected is not the use or attempted use of unlawful deadly force that would justify deadly force in response nor is a push.

High school athletes from opposing teams/schools getting into an extracurricular argument or fight during a sporting event is not justification for any one of them using deadly force.

Even the fake claim of bullying is not justification for using deadly force. There is nothing that justifies deadly force in this situation. Absolutely nothing. It’s murder.

Below is about justification for using deadly force after self-defense force is met.

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(2) when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary:
(A) to protect the actor against the other's use or attempted use of unlawful deadly force; or
(B) to prevent the other's imminent commission of aggravated kidnapping, murder, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated robbery.
(b) The actor's belief under Subsection (a)(2) that the deadly force was immediately necessary as described by that subdivision is presumed to be reasonable if the actor:
(1) knew or had reason to believe that the person against whom the deadly force was used:
(A) unlawfully and with force entered, or was attempting to enter unlawfully and with force, the actor's occupied habitation, vehicle, or place of business or employment;
(B) unlawfully and with force removed, or was attempting to remove unlawfully and with force, the actor from the actor's habitation, vehicle, or place of business or employment; or
(C) was committing or attempting to commit an offense described by Subsection (a)(2)(B);
(2) did not provoke the person against whom the force was used; and …

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Before factoring in any witness saying Anthony was ignoring being asked to leave, inflaming situation, and told the victim to push him again and see what happens (or whatever it was) he may have had right to push back or even punch the victim, and if one of those caused some freak health incident or started a chain reaction that ultimately caused the victim’s death he could claim that right. Instead he used immediate deadly force with zero justification for using that deadly force.

If the defendant was purposely staying in area of another school to instigate trouble and instigated getting pushed or asked to get pushed to start a fight he would have negated his right to use any force at all and claim it was self defense.

Justification for using force (non-deadly force)

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Sec. 9.31. SELF-DEFENSE.
(a) Except as provided in Subsection (b), a person is justified in using force against another when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to protect the actor against the other's use or attempted use of unlawful force…

… (2) did not provoke the person against whom the force was used; …

… (b) The use of force against another is not justified:
(1) in response to verbal provocation alone;
(2) to resist an arrest or search that the actor knows is being made by a peace officer, or by a person acting in a peace officer's presence and at his direction, even though the arrest or search is unlawful, unless the resistance is justified under Subsection (c);
(3) if the actor consented to the exact force used or attempted by the other;
(4) if the actor provoked the other's use or attempted use of unlawful force…

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If justice and common sense happen with the verdict during the punishment phase watch the defense attorney flip Anthony from having a fear of getting killed into the stabbing was the result of sudden passion and rage to get murder as a 2nd degree felony instead of a 1st degree felony.

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I walked up to ask if any of them wanted to interview and was immediately intimidated and told to leave.

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This is still not as bad the white leftist illegal loving family who actually attacked her in Minnesota (at least not yet).

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This is true for the most part, but at a minimum it is against school and district policies and also against rules for district events. I am not sure if the state or local governments have laws making it a crime for a student to bring any knife onto school property or if punishment handled by the school or district.

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(This is not directed at you in particular)
I don't give a shite about school or district policies. They are not laws, and even "red" Texas ISDs write al kinds of shite into policies that are garbage.

If I want to get access to my kid's school, I show my ID outside of the mantrap before the front desk opens the door. Fine. But "policies" do not decide what is illegal and what is not. Laws do. I cannot carry, by law, into my kids' schools. Gun goes into car safe (the 3" knife I have in my pocket is forgotten about 100% of the time.)

The explosion of "regulation" causes people to ignore them. My local Smashburger has a 51% sign on their door, and they don't sell any alcohol *at all.* Rinse and repeat with non enforceable "no guns" signs, or invalid 30.06 signs, young cops telling me I can't carry into the Rodeo before an old cop schools the young cop that they're incorrect as long as I'm not going to a "sporting event."

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victim would reasonably assume no other students had deadly weapons on them; and the killer would also reasonably and accurately assume that the victim did not have a deadly weapon

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Gun free zone, right?? Weapons free zone? Safe space?

Georgia law (I only bring that up because that is where I got my first permit, in a state that really, really did not want to issue them) 20 years ago said deadly force is permissible to prevent a forcible felony (rape, etc.) Even if Metcalf tossed this shitheads phone 40 yards, not a forcible felony or fear of death or serious injury.

None of those circumstances caused me to take out the little knife I had and stab someone, when a good old fashioned, "GTFO my face," would have sufficed. I can't carry a gun onto Alief ISD property outside of my car (danger: medium) any more than I can Katy ISD (Indians, and some whiteys.)
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I'm just frustrated with the bullshite excuses, constantly. Punch Metcalf in the face and dare him to leave. Get him in an armbar. Slap his momma. Don't pull out a knife, once you do, you are going to use it.

The entire concept of proportionate force seems to have vacated the brains (if it existed at all) of everyone covering this.