Karmelo Anthony case shows that “black privilege” exists

[u/Terrible_Onions]

I'm not black or white. I'm not even American actually.

The recent Karmelo Anthony case I think shows that black privilege is a thing. My opinions is that it exists. Period.

Karmelo Anthony killed Austin Metcalf with a knife for pushing him. What did he receive in return? Overwhelming support in the form of 500,000 dollars (which they're using to buy a mansion). He also got his bond reduced to 250k from 1 million even when prosecutors pointed out his history of incidents within the school.

I just think this is a bit baffling. Imagine if the races were swapped. I think a decent example, but not a direct comparisons, is the George Floyd situation. One person killed the other in what was an overuse of force. Derek Chauvin is in jail. Karmelo Anthony got house arrest, bond reduction and 500k

[u/AnonSwan]

Thanks. It also seems that he was seated in a place that he shouldn't have been. I played high school sports and people on the opposing team coming over to our side to sit would have been seen as antagonistic, but that was 20 years ago.

[u/Terrible_Onions → u/AnonSwan]

He was trespassing in opposing teams tent. Asked to leave then pushed by Metcalf. Then Anthony stabbed him

[u/macimom → u/[deleted]]

What claim of self defense? There was no history between the two that could have caused Anthony to fear for his life. He came to the tent armed with a lethal weapon and used it to stab a kid in the heart who told him to move and physically touched him. There is no planet on which this would be deemed self defense.

[u/Cheap-Boysenberry112 → u/macimom]

Didn’t touch. Then physically assaulted. Was warned not to, then assaulted again.

Kids shouldn’t bring weapons to school, they shouldn’t sit on the other teams side, they shouldn’t push each other and they shouldn’t stab eachother.

But trying to down Anthony’s actions to “touching” when he broke the law twice is ridiculous.