No Black Jurors Seated for Karmelo Anthony Trial Is a Positive Sign | Jason Whitlock Harmony
Fearless with Jason Whitlock
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And then the last hour. |
| 0:13.0 | And then the last hour, a jury has been chosen to decide the closely watched murder trial of Carmelo Anthony. |
| 0:18.0 | More than 500 people were on the list of potential jurors, |
| 0:21.9 | but the jury will not include anyone who is black despite this case being racially charged. |
| 0:28.3 | Fox 4's Alex Boyer, joining us now. Alex. |
| 0:32.5 | Hey guys, good evening. That's right. You know, and I can tell you that a court spokesperson |
| 0:36.8 | confirmed that there are indeed no black jurors on this panel. |
| 0:41.2 | And I can tell you that before this jury panel was seated, the defense objected to three black women being struck by the prosecution. |
| 0:49.3 | Now, the prosecution contended that it was due to the fact that the women were educators noting that this incident |
| 0:55.5 | happened at a school function with young students. The defense then pointed out that those were |
| 1:01.5 | three, that three of those, rather, were 100% of the available black jurors in what's called |
| 1:07.8 | the strike zone, adding that the state struck all three. |
| 1:15.0 | The judge went out and reviewed their questionnaires and came back and said that the defense's challenged to the three jurors being dismissed was denied. |
| 1:18.4 | The judge said the court found that the state had non-racial means to strike the jurors. |
| 1:23.8 | Now, background. |
| 1:24.7 | Carmelo Anthony, 17 at the time, is accused of fatally stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf last year. |
| 1:33.6 | Welcome to the Harmony Channel. I'm Jason Whitlock. Obviously, you understand that report. The Carmelo Anthony trial today started in day four. Yesterday, that report. report three they seated a jury and i got to say i'm overjoyed |
| 1:52.1 | and and i know people will be upset with me but i'm overjoyed there are no black people on this |
| 1:57.4 | jury overjoyed i don't want anybody on this jury that's sitting there thinking |
| 2:03.0 | about I got to do the black thing or I got I hear the facts different because I'm black. We don't |
| 2:08.9 | need a black perspective on this murder trial. We need a justice perspective on this murder trial and black people seem to struggle |
| 2:20.8 | American black people seem to struggle to take the racial lens off of how they see things |
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