Judge Roach made a huge mistake keeping cameras out of the Karmelo Anthony trial. He underestimated the capacity of the young man's supporters spreading outright lies in the BLM social media ecosystem.
This is a long clip, but it must be seen to be believed. Morris Dwayne Turner, who protested outside the trial, tells a YouTuber with 100k subscribers an insane series of outright lies that would have been DOA if the arguments had been broadcast on video:
-A cell phone video of "the whole fight" was shared on Snapchat and Reddit
-Austin Metcalf pushed Karmelo so hard that he hit his head on a bleacher
-Karmelo "suffered from seizures" so any blow to his head was perceived as a potentially fatal threat
-Karmelo got "jumped" by a group of young men
-Jeff Metcalf invited all the witnesses to a barbecue and threatened their parents. This was "alleged in court"
-"The first person to throw a punch was Hunter. Hunter cold-cocked the boy"
-After the first punch, "they all start beating on Karmelo"
-Karmelo escaped the group but "Austin grabbed his hoodie and pulled him back. And on the video you can see his gray hoodie stretched out"
-Austin put him in a headlock -- "that's why you can see the ligature marks on the bottom of his neck"
-An "older white lady" who was inside the courtroom said "it was clear from what she saw that he fell" on the knife
-Karmelo was on the ground when Austin was stabbed --"Karmelo, sitting down, could never muster up that type of pressure. So, he had to fall on it."
-Karmelo ran away and went directly to coaches to tell them what happened
-The whole group chased after him, including Austin. Austin didn't go down until he came down the steps of the bleachers
-Hunter never went back to his brother to put pressure on the wound -- "never got close enough to him"
-Frisco PD policy mandates that when someone claims self-defense, everyone involved in the altercation must be arrested and taken in for questioning
-"They had Karmelo already booked and charged with the murder of Austin Metcalf before Austin Metcalf was even pronounced dead, because they already knew what they wanted"
-"The paramedics said he was he was purple and they had to administer blood to him and then he perked back up. His color came back."
-"They didn't think they were going to lose him" because the stab wound "wasn't anything grave"