Matt Walsh

From the moment Carmelo Anthony killed Austin Metcalf in front of dozens of witnesses, it was obvious he was guilty.

Anthony brought a prohibited knife to a track meet, trespassed into the other team's tent, refused to leave, reached into his bag in a threatening manner, challenged people to fight him, brutally stabbed an unarmed 17-year-old who lightly shoved him in response, then ran away and tried to hide the murder weapon.

Now, not too long ago in our country's history, somebody like Carmelo Anthony in that kind of situation would already be executed for his crime at this point, and rightfully so.

And yet, even with these facts in mind, the trial of Carmelo Anthony has revealed a slew of new details that underscore just how horrific and premeditated this murder was.

It's not an overstatement to say that Anthony's defense has imploded far more quickly than anyone had anticipated.

As bad as you thought this case was for Carmelo, it's much worse.

The trial has also revealed that everybody in that tent, including Carmelo Anthony's friend, a defense witness in this case,

understands that he was culpable.

But before we get into the latest developments in the trial, and we'll cover it fairly and comprehensively, we need to establish at the outset that this trial isn't really about Carmelo Anthony in isolation.

This trial is also about the $600,000 that was donated to Anthony's defense, mostly by black people, solely because he murdered a white teenager.

This trial is about the hordes of black activists outside the courtroom cheering for a murderer and endorsing his violent, depraved behavior, again, solely because he murdered a white teenager.

It's also about our post-1960s legal system, which prohibits schools from punishing dangerous black students like Carmelo Anthony and which forces white people to live around them.

Today we're launching part two of our documentary on the civil rights movement on The Daily Wire called The Looting of America, which demonstrates in graphic detail exactly how we ended up in a country like this.

We talk about how many white people came to be terrified in their own neighborhoods, at schools, at track meets, everywhere, because of court-ordered busing, public housing policy, and so-called urban renewal efforts.

We talk about the development of a fundamental unstated rule of modern society, a rule we're all familiar with and which Austin Metcalf broke, which states that you're supposed to tolerate antisocial behavior by a young black male, no matter how offensive it may be, or else you'll end up dead.

It sounds like an overstatement, but it's not.

We're all expected to go about our lives with the understanding that if we dare to offend a young black man,

We could end up in a body bag.

As the writer Patrick Casey put it, Austin Metcalf's murder is particularly salient because almost everyone, regardless of race, has encountered a black person carrying out an antisocial act, cutting in line, mouthing off, blasting music on the subway, etc., which is accompanied by the implicit threat of violence.

Most people don't want to share society with people who routinely violate public norms and are prepared to murder anyone who objects.