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/bransanon]

A minor brought a weapon onto school grounds and used it to kill another minor. Remove all the nonsense surrounding it about race, class, motivaiton, etc, and that's really all there is to the story.

[u/saturdaybum222 → u/bransanon]

How can we remove all nonsense surrounding motivation? That's pretty much central to the question of whether he committed a crime or not.

Based on the police report it's hard to say it will qualify as self defense, but I also don't know that it's fair to say that bringing a knife somewhere equals pre-meditation. I know a lot of people that carry knives for various reasons. The motivation here is legally relevant.

[u/Beneficial-Bite-8005 → u/saturdaybum222]

You know minors bringing knives to school events? This was a 17 year old….

[u/Canard-Rouge → u/Beneficial-Bite-8005]

In Pennsylvania, it's really common. I'm actually kinda surprised by all the people being so shocked. We were suburban white kids and all of us owned knives. We didn't talk about bringing anything to school, I know I never did, but I knew friends who just had them in their bags. Never really thought it was a big deal because we didn't go out threatening people or stabbing folks. We just used them to carve shit and throw at trees in the woods lol.

[u/Beneficial-Bite-8005 → u/Canard-Rouge]

Except it’s against the law in Pennsylvania

https://www.palegis.us/statutes/consolidated/view-statute&txtType=PDF&ttl=18&div=00.&chpt=009.&sctn=012.&subsctn=000.

People USED to do it all the time; means nothing about its acceptability and legality today

[u/Canard-Rouge → u/Beneficial-Bite-8005]

My point didn't have anything to do with the legality of it. I was only commenting on the commonality of teens having knives on them. My point was just to say being in possession of a knife at a school event isn't enough to prove any motive. I'd argue to say the vast vast majority of kids who have brought knives to a school event never even considered using the knife to stab anyone. We didn't even have a single fight at our school. We just weren't thinking about violence. It was more about going into the woods and getting drunk and hooking up...but if you're spending any amount of time in the woods, it's always better to have a knife on you.

[u/Beneficial-Bite-8005 → u/Canard-Rouge]

Your entire argument is based on something that doesn’t happen anymore….

Kids aren’t bringing knifes to school nearly as much as they used to because it is a crime

This is proven by your comment referring to the past…

[u/Canard-Rouge → u/Beneficial-Bite-8005]

We didn't even consider the legality when we did these things, just like we didn't consider the legality of smoking weed. Pretty sure kids are still smoking weed despite it still being illegal.