I recall sitting in an audience while Cedric the Entertainer did a piece on the attitude difference between black folks and white folks. In his skit he discussed a hypothetical scenario of a movie theatre seat (or perhaps a concert). In this situation a white couple was supposedly in the wrong seat and was confronted by the rightful seat holders.
"Oh I'm sorry!" The white person would say as they readily gave up their seat.
Then the scenario changed. This time a black person (or couple) was in the wrong seat. And the attitude was "I wish a [n-word would] ask me to move".
I'm probably mistaken as to the details of the skit. It's been a very long time. The point he and I am making is that there is this attitude of confrontation that permeates black culture. He knew it, the audience knew it and Anthony followed it and commited a murder but now has thrown his entire life away.
I did not follow this trial like I did Michael Brown, Trayvon or Sean Bell. The major reason for this was because unlike those cases, it was very clear from the outset that Anthony was guilty. The only question was "of what" and what the defense would try to do to establish self-defense.
To the latter, I saw a video a few days ago where the defense strategy was laid out. First they sought to discredit the "friend" that Anthony had in the tent. On the stand he lied and said he wasn't close with Anthony. Defense then showed him pictures of he and Anthony in various personal situations. This clearly undermined the witness and established a narrative that Anthony was not randomly "invading" a tent. He, in fact knew one person there and that person could have intervened and de-escalated the situation. The second thing the defense tried was to establish reasonable doubt by suggesting that Anthony did not purposely stab Metcalf. They suggested that Metcalf was lurching forward to assault Anthony (the shove) and in the process fell onto the knife and impaled himself.
Honestly, absent the rest of the witness testimony as well as Anthony's own admission, this COULD have established reasonable doubt. Yes Anthony had the knife, but he took it out at the time that Metcalf had lunged on him and therefore the stabbing was entirely accidental and due to Metcalf's assault.
This failed for various reasons.
Firstly, expert testimony showed that the extent of the stabbing, having cut through the sternum meant that the force required was more than the force that would be present from a leaning person.
Secondly the testimony that Anthony gave upon his arrest sunk him. There is a reason you are advised that you do not need to speak and that anything you say can and WILL be used against you.
Anthony, in his haste to claim self-defense said that "he put his hands on me." He didn't say he was punched or otherwise in fear for his life or limb. He simply said "he put his hands on me." He also undermined his defense. If it had been the case that Metcalf had fallen on his knife, he would and could have said so. Instead he said, to the police that the stabbing wasn't "alleged". This negates any latter claim of "he fell on my knife".
You don't get to stab someone to death for "putting his hands on me".
Anthony talked to much for his own good and his sense of entitlement made him confident in his own ignorance.
Thirdly, multiple witnesses said that Anthony said "touch me and find out". This is clear intent to do harm. It is claimed that Anthony let a previous "touch" go and that the second "touch" was what precipitated the deadly force.
Again, you cannot kill someone who pushes you. You might brandish the weapon, but without clear danger of life and limb, knife to the heart is not self-defense.
Furthermore, multiple witnesses said that Metcalf said he's not fighting at a track meet. Showing he had no intentions of fighting. His intent, from what we know, was to only see Anthony removed from the tent. AND it is likely, though we'll never know, that if Anthony's friend had spoken up and said that Anthony was there with him, the entire situation would not have occured.
So one person was enforcing a known "etiquette" at the request of the school track coach. The other was breaking said etiquette and
"Wished a [n word] would."
Unfortunately a few black folks have gone on international media (the WWW) and shown their entire buttocks to the world. They are claiming not only that it's OK to stab someone to death for what would at best be "simple" assault, they are justifying and proving the "stereotype" that black people are more violent than the rest of the population.
These same people will be personally filled with rage if a white person clutches their purse or other belongings when they are around. They will be enraged when Asians refuse to get into the same elevator as them. Like they are supposed to know that this particular negro, won't be "the one".
You can't be out in the street justifying murder one day and be mad about people stereotyping the next day.
As for Anthony, real soon now he's going to be sitting in a cell thinking about his actions that day:
I wish a [n-word] didn't.
