KARMELO ANTHONY TRIAL: They Shut Down the Entire Courtroom... (Day 1)

Hinzugefügt: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]I do not have my mic today, but hold on, let's see.

[00:00:05]Oh.

[00:00:06]Okay, I'm back. All right, so hey y'all, today I am reporting live from the Carmelo Anthony trial. This is day one where they are starting jury selection.

[00:00:17]Today, there has not been a lot going on for us to report on. Actually, they have everybody in a secluded room away from the jurors, away from everyone. We can't see anything. It's just us in a secluded room sitting there looking at each other, look at each other, basically.

[00:00:37]But, there is a strict gag order in place, so there is not much, like I said, happening. But, before we get into the case, I wanted to let you guys know a little bit about the judge, the climate, and everything that has been taken on today so far. So, we got here early in the morning to kind of get a feel of what's going on, make sure we get a seat inside the courtroom, and make sure that we are here for these proceedings. When we came, we were met with a lot of other independent media who came out here to cover the case as well. Also, Carmelo Anthony has a big support group of people that are congregating back there. They are peacefully wearing all purple in solidarity or for him, support for him, and there are um dedicated legacy media that is in there as well. So, the way that we thought that things were going to be happening was that we weren't going to see the jury selection, but we were going to hear the jury selection. But, so far we haven't heard anything. There's no audio, there's no there's no nothing. But, I wanted to come to kind of give you guys a brief thing that I've read about the judge.

[00:02:00]And if you guys don't know, I'm covering the Carmelo Anthony trial, and we're here. So, the judge that's presiding over the trial, his name is Judge John Roach Jr. He presides in Collin County, Texas, and he has a long stint as a judge. He has a very, very, very, um, like, he's like an advocate of like veterans, but he's very, very strict.

[00:02:31]So, here what it has written, it says, "He is a textbook legalist. In public statements and candidate surveys, Judge Roach has consistently defined his judicial philosophy law and not creating it from the bench.

[00:02:47]Expect a highly literal, by-the-book application of Texas evidentiary and procedural rules." It says that he is a veteran advocate, and it says, "Beyond the standard of the criminal docket, he serves as a presiding judge for the statewide, um, Valor program, which is the Veterans Accessing Lifelong Opportunities and Rehabilitation." And it says that because this case is high-profile, they have pulled out all the stops. So, this entire court is shut down for only this trial. So, there is no other like business happening. They have shut down the entire court to only operate in business for Carmelo Anthony's trial. There is a heavy, um, sheriff's presence. They definitely let it be known that they are no nonsense.

[00:03:42]They have a bunch of sheriffs right in the beginning, and then they have a bunch of sheriffs inside, and they have like heavy, it's heavy, heavy, heavy sheriffs present here and they are making sure that everybody is by the book, that you can't bring any electronic devices in, you can't bring a cell phone in, you can't bring an Apple Watch in, you can't bring a glass your glasses if they look like they might be meta glasses. You can't bring in anything that may look like it might be able to record, you can't bring nothing.

[00:04:18]So, everybody had to take their phones to the car. The people who traveled here that didn't come with a car and that came in like a Uber or something like that, they can't they had nowhere for their phones to go. They had to figure it out.

[00:04:34]Um they're very, very strict and it's and they it's interesting all of the legacy media that they selected, they look exactly like I predicted them to look, okay? Like older, you know, generational people. You know, that's who they selected for legacy media. Now, around I want to say after we have been in there for like an hour, it in came this woman in a suit like, you know, like she just commanded the room and she was looking for like the front row of seats.

[00:05:09]I don't know who she was, but she wanted the front row to whoever the people were that was with her and they wanted to move everybody that was on that side away. They ended up, I guess, not having enough seats to accommodate, so she didn't come in. I don't know if she's in a special room. I have not seen um anybody from the Metcalfe's family here, but I have seen individuals who identify Carmelo Anthony's family. It's like three or four individuals. It's not like his mom or anything. It may be like extended family. But, um there is a lot of people that are in support. I thought, just from the tone of social media and the way that, you know, the online chats were going to be, I thought it was going to be more, um, non-melanated people. But, actually, there is a lot of people who look like me here, um, covering it. There's a lot of independent media here covering it. And it's not that I mean, aside from legacy media, it's not that many people here that don't look like us, if you get what I'm saying. So far today, but that's just today. Um, the actual trial does not start until Thursday. So, they're going to be doing, uh, jury selection all the way up until, um, Wednesday. Uh, there's nothing happening tomorrow.

[00:06:39]There's going to be, uh, jury selection today, uh, jury selection Wednesday. And then they're going to start with their opening statements on Thursday. And that's when the actual, um, trial will start. I was overhearing the bailiff.

[00:06:57]They said that there was roughly about 600 people that were selected to be, um, pulled for the jury. And right now, while we were waiting inside, they basically said that the people that were coming to do jury duty, they were, um, coming to just like pick up a packet.

[00:07:19]And basically, the packet is like a questionnaire on whether they can serve or not serve or whatever the pre-requisites are. I don't know what's in the packet, but they were coming, filling out a packet, and then, uh, you know, people were coming and going like that. I don't know if they were like excusing people or if they were letting people, you know, leave to go fill out the packet or what have you, but that's basically what is going on. I don't know if you guys can see the I'm trying to make it so where y'all can see that it says Collin County.

[00:07:52]Behind my uncle is behind the camera, y'all.

[00:07:56]>> [laughter] >> Holding it down, cuz yesterday my tripod was moving every which a way.

[00:08:03]Um So, today I was trying to make sure it wasn't so flimsy, but anyway. So, yeah, so that's pretty much what's going on so far.

[00:08:14]Um Yeah, I really don't have much. I wanted to have more for you guys. Once I start hearing, you know, what questions they're going to be asking, when I start hearing like what you know, what what they're fishing for as far as the jury, then I'll keep you guys updated, but make sure you put your notifications on, because I'm going to be here covering this case, giving you guys all the ins and the outs of it. Um you said is there a crowd? So, behind the camera, there is people like at the end of the parking lot, a few people, and then there are there were like, you know, people here, but they went inside. The gallery for the courtroom that we're in is pretty big. Um it's one of the biggest like courtrooms that I've been in, so it's very spacious and comfortable, I might add. The um the seats are very comfortable inside.

[00:09:19]So, um so, that's that. Let's see what else I wanted to talk to you guys about. I'm going to definitely do a very extensive breakdown of the case. Those of you guys who don't know who um Carmelo is, or you don't know anything about the case, I'm going to do a an extensive breakdown. Yesterday, that was my plan, that was my goal, but it didn't work out like that. It was I was I was exhausted from flying in, from um all of that rigmarole, so So, yes. So, all right. So, the judge Back Okay, so this case is barely going to trial today.

[00:10:00]But, all the way back in July of last year, the judge issued a gag order. So, nobody from his family can make a statement, none of the attorneys can make a statement, and normally in cases, they normally don't have the gag order put in place until trial starts. But, this judge put in um a gag order to where all of the pretrial motion, all of the um any any evidentiary things that are coming in, all of that type of stuff is under seal. Normally, whenever there's a case, you can see what the pretrial motions is. If you guys are following the David case in Los Angeles, you see how the prosecution, they put out, you know, what they intend to show at trial.

[00:10:51]They put out, you know, their preliminary findings. They put like we were able to find out stuff about the David case before and what evidence they intend to use. As far as this case, there is nothing out. Like they have not put nothing out. There's no um there's no no evidentiary stuff, no preliminary stuff, no nothing. So, anything that we hear is because we're going to hear it right here and right now.

[00:11:21]Um And I guess the judge did that so that I guess, you know, he can have a fair trial.

[00:11:27]So, we're going to see. I'm going to keep you guys updated.

[00:11:32]Um, let's see.

[00:11:36]So, it says da da da da.

[00:11:38]So, right here it says that we should expect a highly controlled, tightly managed, um, Judge Roach is a no drama, no nonsense judge and it says his courtroom is designed to completely block out the viral noise. All right, so his whole thing is blocking out the viral noise.

[00:12:01]So, that's kind of, you know, why this case has such strict, uh, rules to it and everything. Um, later on, like I said, I'm going to go through the case. I'm going to go through more things. I'm going to go through more details. I'm going to show you guys who the defendant is. I'm going to show you guys who the victim in the case is. I'm going to share with you guys the online chatter that everybody has, um, surrounding the case and everything like that. There is a divide on what people believe as far as Some people believe that it was self-defense. Some people believe that there was no business of him to have a knife at the school. So, there's people like on extreme ends of it. I seen that there were people who were doing commentary, who was rage baiting, um, like I seen a particular person who is non-melanated that was trying to make this as racist as possible and trying to rally a particular narrative on the more racist side. So, you have that as well.

[00:13:15]Them trying to rally up like a a lynch mob is what it felt like from reading the post. So, you have all of that. So, I was expecting that it was going to be more non melanated people inside which it wasn't but it's not the official trial yet. The official trial um starts like I said like the official trial start the official trial starts with jury selection but we won't hear any testimony until later on in the week.

[00:13:46]So, I just wanted to give you guys an update on that. I will definitely be coming to you guys each and every day that I'm here and um filling you guys in on what I find.

[00:13:58]So far the staff has been friendly to us. There hasn't been like any mean staff even though you know they may have a particular look.

[00:14:08]They're not mean.

[00:14:09]>> [laughter] >> None of them have been mean. Like if they don't like if you just look at them you would think like hmm is that part of the you know what I mean? But none of them have been mean. They have all been nice friendly um the sheriffs have been nice friendly. They haven't been like you know cuz sometimes when you go certain places they will try to like push their weight around to make you know you know what I mean? There hasn't been any of that. So, it it kind of it kind of has been like chill you know no nobody has really been doing anything anyways so I just thought I might add that. There is different news stations all around here um covering it and that's all I got for now. I'm going to be more detailed later.

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[00:15:41]I don't know what y'all talking about.

[00:15:42]Anyways, that's all for now. I'll talk to you guys later.