Austin Metcalf's Father Banned from Press Conference | @XAVIAER | PragerU

well when it comes to this whole Austin Metaf murder and with Carmelo Anthony this black teen that killed him it's been allegedly you still have to say allegedly for whatever reason even though he admitted it it's really blowing me away how every single time we get details about the situation it seems to get messier and more chaotic and you guys if you haven't seen everything that's gone on so far go ahead and watch all the videos recapping i have been covering this literally since the day that it all went down cuz I I saw it on Twitter from day one and it is just getting crazy so now the parents are getting more involved the parents are starting to speak out there's all these different narratives going on and we have to talk about this press conference so you see Carmemelllo Anony's parents here and the guy that is there representing them he is not the attorney he is essentially Dallas's local Al Sharpton his name is Dominique Alexander and here is what first actually before I even play the clip before I even play the clip I just have to get y'all give y'all some more context austin Metav's father Jeff decided to appear at the press conference and from the reports I'm seeing I don't see anything that shows that he was being angry or violent or hostile or anything in that capacity and yet he was still escorted out he was kicked out of the building before the press conference started so here is what Dominique had to say about Jeff Metaf being kicked out uh the father being at this press conference these are my words don't quote anybody is a disrespect to the dignity of his son next Generation Action Network from the beginning has respected the loss of life no matter our opinion of it we have kept our opinion closed we have not attacked we have not shared like imagine the information that was shared with us about Austin Medclaf because we respect the dignity of life where do I even start first of all imagine representing this highprofile murder case where a 17-year-old kid was murdered and you can't even pronounce his name correctly metclaf are you serious what a joke this guy's an absolute joke okay and like I said he is Dallas's local version of Al Sharpton we're going to get more into his background and also later we're going to get more into what he's insinuating in the beginning of this video where he starts to talk about how there's so much information that he's withholding about Austin we're going to get into all that i first want to talk about just the disrespect and the gaslighting to say for him to sit there and say that Jeff Mat for him to sit there and say that Jeff Metave showing up to this press conference was disrespectful and against the dignity of his deceased son how dare you how dare you have the courage the courage ner I can't even speak i'm so irritated the courage the nerve and the audacity to try to condemn this father because if I were the father first of all I would have crashed out a long time ago but I would want to know every single thing that you have to say and really the parents should feel great shame because imagine standing there and looking the father looking the father of your son's victim in the eye and then sitting there still trying to present this narrative like Austin was this terrible kid just disgusting to kick him out of the room if there's anybody in the room that you should want to talk to it should be him cuz you should be apologizing profusely and showing remorse and empathy for what happened to his family and what makes it even more disgusting and cuz it feels like this case has been going on for so long and we haven't even gotten we don't even know if there's going to be a trial officially yet and it feels like this has gone on for so long it has gone through so many waves of information that I had to go back and remind myself this is the same father who forgave Carmelo Anthony for killing his 17-year-old child the day that his child was murdered let's look back at this clip austin is being remembered as an outstanding student at Memorial High his football team's MVP and a young man of faith his father grappling with loss and forgiveness i'm not trying to judge but what kind of parents did this child have what was he taught he brought a knife to attract me and he murdered my son by stabbing him in the heart the son the guy was in the wrong place they asked him to move and he bowed up this is murder i don't know i know they have someone in custody yep we do and you know what i already forgive this person already already god takes care of things god's gonna take care of me god's gonna take care of See that is such a beautiful God-fearing Christian approach but he's a better man than me he is a better man than me and considering that the position that Jeff Maf is in he justifiably could be leading a hate train against Carmelo and his entire family okay we see if you guys are following me on X or following any of this situation on X you have seen that it has been a bloodbath of debate and argument regarding so many different elements around and within this conversation uh or in this tragedy I should say and all that said Jeff Metaf has still kept it kept it graceful he's kept it classy and his wife Mrs metaf you know she was on news and she was asked alongside Austin's brother how they felt about it and if they also felt that same sentiment of forgiveness and they were honest and they were transparent and they said that they're not there yet all they feel inside right now is anger and I understand because I would be crashing out beyond comprehension but even whether they're stating that they forgive him or they're stating it with honesty that they're not yet ready to forgive what they have done is they have been relatively quiet they have been classy they have been mourning in privacy they have not made this into a messy ugly crazy situation but he could have and if he would have I wouldn't have judged him for it i can only imagine the range of emotions that this man is going through on a daily basis and then to be kicked out of the press conference he's the only person relevant in the room in my opinion and then to be shamed by this broke down off-brand great value Al Sharpton you have to be kidding me the audacity the pure audacity now let's talk about this raggedy wannabe Al Sharpton Dominique so again he's a Dallas activist he's the f the founder of And this is like a 30-minute press conference i watched the whole thing this man never misses an opportunity to plug his organization so I'm going to try not to even say it because you're not getting a dime out of me sir okay this man is a notorious grifter who just like Al Sharpton takes every opportunity he can to get in front of a tragedy that has to do with black people whether they're in the right or in the wrong more often than not the wrong because it's more profitable that way and he goes out and he leads this grift he leads the this entire grift where he goes and makes it into this civil rights movement Harriet Tubman freeing the slaves type of ordeal okay over there looking like a microwavable brownie chewed up Tootsie Roll looking self anyway so this man he again is not the attorney for the Anthony family thankfully for them cuz they would have already lost this case but he is the person that's helping represent them now without being involved in the legal defense the fact that they even hired him for public support tells me a lot it tells me a lot it told me from the very beginning of the conference that oh this is the type of guy that you bring when you want to do damage control and make it into a race situation so that people back your side and now and don't try to call me a hypocrite because I y'all know me I zoom out and I view this from all angles what I have said before anybody tries to clock me is that there are a lot of people who are supporting Carmelo because they feel that he was in a situation of self-defense there's a lot of people who are defending him also because um of the narratives online that are racial a lot of the people that are attacking all black youth you are not helping the situation you are actually making a lot of people without even looking into the details just be like you know what I'm gonna support the black kid because all the white kids are being racist now that's basically what's happening with a lot of the defense however up until this point I am a firm believer that the majority of the people who were supporting Carmelo did not only support him because he's black and I get it and let me know in the chat how you feel because Lord knows y'all will people have been eating me up for that but you know what maybe I'm wrong i am more than willing to admit maybe I'm wrong but that being said what I can say going forward is oh they're going for an OJ Simpson case they're definitely going for an OJ Simpson case and it is being fueled largely because of white people on Twitter saying crazy things about black people and I'm not saying at all that I'm defending the narrative i'm just saying it's only going to get uglier and imagine the OJ Simpson case but in an era of social media i'm genuinely scared of what this is going to mean for society because I really thought that 2025 was going to be the year of unity and healing but here we are again in a situation where we are about to be divided over something so ridiculous as race and politics particularly identity politics but this is where we are and the Anthony family they know what they're doing they know what they're doing by doing this and shame on you know what let me not do too much because I don't know every single detail yet but going off of what I know so far or what I have read so far and how I feel so far shame on the Anthony family because if my family member committed this heinous crime yes I would still love that family member as much as it hurts but what I wouldn't do is tear down the whole country to try to take care of my own i'm a ride or die kind of person but what I'm not about to do is sit there and destroy everything around me and destroy my own integrity for the sake of protecting someone who just committed murder so this family based on the information we have so far should be really ashamed that they're trying to make this into this huge racial OJ Simpson type of case to have their kid walking free i'm not a parent i can only imagine how a parent must feel in this situation where their son just committed murder their son who track record contrary to some of the narrative online their kid was a good kid 3.7 GPA two sports involved in the community no criminal record he was a good kid what happened i don't know what happened that led up to this situation i would like to hear it i would like to see it i'm going to be locked in and glued on this entire case because I have so many questions but back to this raggedy microwavable TV dinner brownie mr alexander I'm trying to stay calm cuz y'all know me i want to crash out so bad right now i'm like literally trying not to shake i'm so irritated by this whole thing but you know Alexander uh Dominique Alexander he got up there and he's claiming that the stabbing was racially motivated okay so towards the end of the episode or not the episode towards the end of the clip you start to hear him insinuate more and more that this whole situation had to do with race and he's calling he's trying to call for this to be deemed a hate crime and he's criticizing the school he's criminalizing the criminal justice or the criminal uh the ju the juvenile ju I can't even speak he is criticizing criticizing the juvenile justice system for their handling of this whole issue and before I play more clips from this whole press conference I want to show you more of Dominique so first of all pull up his list of mug shots please Will so here's some of his many mug shots i don't know if that's all of them or not but he sure has a fair share of mug shots to his name just completely degenerate humiliating humiliating never beating the allegations I fear for the black community of know just being repeat offenders and you know and this list that I'm about to pull up I haven't fact checked all of them i will say that but I fact checked the the big ones for sure um can we pull up this crime list okay you see a long list of crimes including severe bodily injury to a 2-year-old that he barely did any time for uh for assault misdemeanor assault on his ex-girlfriend for violating probation many many times he has a long track record of criminality and nefarious behavior so this already had me like Anthony family you guys look pretty successful are are you not capable of researching who you're having represent your son cuz it's like you're trying to throw away the case this is not a good look for you to have this man representing you and when I saw all this it was actually after I saw the press conference and it makes so much more sense now why Dominique is up there painting this picture that he's he goes up there and says that he is a testimony that someone can grow he is a testimony of growth and how rehabilitation can happen but really in my opinion while you're sitting there Dominique trying to paint this narrative to show how far that you have come really what you're showing me is that repeat offenders need to stay in prison and or jail because how many violent crimes do you have to commit before we just lock you away okay I'm all for criminal justice reform and I really do think that the prison system should be focused much more on what it's supposed to be which is rehabilitation rather than just punishment but at a certain point come on now come on now at a certain point you need to just stay in jail cuz it was in 2011 that he severely injured the 2-year-old just for and crimes in between then and his next one the 2015 is when he had the misdemeanor citation for assaulting his girlfriend the year later the next year 2016 is when he violated probation that was only 10 years ago so it doesn't shock me now that within that 10 years you've now started this fraudulent Al Sharptonesque nonprofit and you're up here defending criminals so you can get your bag and then constantly promoting his organization while he's up there at this press conference i see what you're doing you're trying to get your bag you are a race hustler you should be disgusted by everything that you are and everything that you represent and everyone whom you represent if we're going to be honest can we play this video now of him pulling the race card admittingly this is for everybody black people in America while the current occupant sits at 1600 Pennsylvania don't have to pull the race card it's what we live as a reality every day it's what we have to teach our children we don't want to that's crazy but we have to we don't like to but if we want to sleep at night we got to i ain't pulling no race card i live it i'm reminded all the time that I'm a black man in America and what y'all just showed to Judge Tucker is just reminded that hate and bigotry and racial reconciliation in this country we have respected the process i believe that Austin Medaf is about to have his funeral and I wouldn't dare even with the information I know and plenty people can share that and all that but we have to prevent it from speaking about that in these type of public forums it will come out they have a more than well-capable attorney and this family will go through a process of being able to get prepared for this trial um so I just say this real quick this is our final time speaking to public and holding a press conference regarding this particular case now the Next Generation Action Network oh cut cut it cut it cut it not him doing the promo see I told y'all always sitting there promoting his organization so let's just break that down really quick so in the beginning he starts to talk about you know President Trump being in office he's saying that he doesn't have to pull the race card every single day he's living it are y'all not tired are y'all not tired of sitting here playing this victim mentality okay just in February I was I had my black self at the White House in a room full of Oh I almost said it i almost said it like I'm in mix not in mixed company a room full of black folk just a couple months ago a room full of black folk at the White House with Donald Trump having the time of his life for Black History Month and you're still still trying to push this narrative that because of Trump our country is racist if our country was racist you wouldn't be at that mic you would be picking cotton you would be at a colored only venue you would be doing something reductive and even if you want to talk post Jim Crow okay because you know it took a little bit for the racism to die down in our community but the fact you know what you know what really just let me put it this way what really debunks the narrative that America is a racist country is how dependent black leftists are on the the narrative that America is racist because you would not constantly hear black people talking about America is racist if America was actually racist the reason that they're constantly saying that America is racist is because they know that that comes with sympathy empathy and handouts do you know who when they said that things were racist did not get sympathy empathy or handouts black people while America was still racist do you think Harriet Tubman was going around saying that this country is racist when she was free when things were actually still racist but while she was on the field she wasn't saying that she was doing what she has to do to get by when we were in the Jim Crow South when black people did not have proper civil rights yet do you think they went around all the time saying that this is racist no because if they did they would just be told to shut up because it's like yeah things are racist at that point you did not get the sympathy and the empathy and the handouts for talking about racism the reason that you do now is because we have come so far from where we were then we are officially unburdened by what has been and you continuously try to push this narrative that America is a racist country that doesn't even make sense that literally does not even make sense if America was racist you would not build a platform on the fact that you think America is racist if America was racist they would take away your mic but every single you can go up to anybody on the street and if there is one thing that if there's truly one thing that everybody in America hates it's a bully but really even though a little bit of bullying does need to come back because y'all are getting too soft but if there's anything that pretty much everybody in America hates it's a racist if I I work at a conservative organization if I went around and told anybody that something super racist happened to me everybody's going to be disgusted because that's the times that we live in and that's a blessing and instead of being happy and proud of the fact that we get to live in this free country today where we don't have to constantly deal with racism you constantly try to bring it back up to try to be the Achilles heel of white people but this is why white people are pushing back so hard white people are tired of being told that every time they say something common sense is racist the narrative is tired but then for him to go in and insinuate that Austin Metaf was racist that's what he's trying to imply now that being said we don't know what kind of receipts he claims to have he's saying that it'll play out in court i would like to see it because you know what I'm going to say even when I see it oh wow worst case scenario worst case scenario let's say Austin Metaf really did say or do something racist I'm going to be like oh wow that's kind of messed up that's for sure messed up still didn't deserve to die somebody calling you out of your name pushing you bullying you grabbing your backpack that that does not warrant stabbing them in the heart and when it's all said and done Carmemelllo was ultimately going to prison this self-defense argument can only go so far and he is not going to be able to prove based on the information we have thus far he is not going to be able to prove that he truly felt like his life was in danger so trying to now stomp all over the name and the legacy of this 17-year-old child who was just stabbed in the heart and died in his twin bro his twin brother's arms you are now a grown man Dominique really i should have made him the goofy of the day but he is so much more than goofy he's evil you are an evil man if you were trying to slander the character of a deceased teenager in order to get a check disgusting and I just want to clarify a little bit of my stance because y'all know my good friend CJ Pearson we actually got into a little debate today because he didn't understand what my stance was and I have been accused a lot of flip-flopping on the issue i am not flip-flopping on anything i've been very consistent i am zooming out and trying my best to examine the complexities of this situation and before anybody says it's a simple situation it's black and white he committed a murder yeah I agree i get it i get it i get the sentiment of that but if it were that simple of a situation you wouldn't see the massive divide that we have now so there are plenty of voices out there if you just want to hear a very one-sided narrative i am trying to give you the full picture of what I'm seeing what I'm observing what I'm predicting and what needs to stop so the quickest easiest way I can clarify my stance do I think people should be angry particular because overall I'm anti-Carlo i am anti what he did so do I think it's justified for people to be angry yes do I think it is justified for people to be racist no should people lie about purchases no should people lie about the gifts and go no and should people lie about the event details or act like they're irrelevant no because they're not relevant in the court of law do I think that people should be demanding justice for Austin Metaf absolutely yes and I want people if you're going to be angry about this situation as I said earlier I am because I literally was shaking trying to explain this in a calm manner earlier if we're going to be angry about a situation let's not act like the left everybody loves to say if it were the other way around the left would be doing this this and this well there's a reason why the left lost let's not take anything out of their playbook because it clearly did not work out for them now I love the New York Post but they posted this and this is just inaccurate information and this is sloppy this is sloppy from the right we can't be doing this carmemelllo Anthony his family renting a $900,000 home um in gated community with and then saying that they bought a car all of that now if you go and read you read the article their credible source was allegedly a neighbor of the Anthony family how I'm surprised they haven't taken this down yet or because they might get sued cuz this whole narrative is just a mess first of all there's all these different people saying that they went and took the gifts and that the Anthony family went and bought this mansion or is renting out this bougie mansion with the money from the gifts and go first of all open up the schools because if you think that you can get money out of a give andgo account and within 72 hours get the money go buy a house and move in open up the schools even if you're renting that is not how it works okay they factually speaking have not touched the money yet and I and that's a whole another conversation about the money in the first place which I've talked about before that is a mess i do not even support the premise of that gift and go but it is partially to help them relocate i am in favor of them relocating because as much as I am disgusted by Carmelo Anthony his siblings did nothing his parents after this press conference I'm looking at his parents sideways but as of now criminalitywise his parents have not done nothing wrong the kids have done nothing wrong carmemelllo Anthony is the one to be mad at don't go and send threats and bully and harass his family members i hate that because I know so many people including myself who have had people in our families do things that were less than stellar and then everybody that has the same last name is expected to take accountability for it that's not how this works okay now the narrative that they went and bought a car this Escalade narrative is crazy crazy and just to clarify again because I said this in a prior episode Carmemelllo Anony's family the house that's going viral they already lived there that beautiful big home that they lived in that $863,000 home that was where they were already living they were renting that home for 3 years okay so the narrative that they went and bought that house that is not true the other narrative that they're renting from somewhere else yes of course they are because the whole family is getting threats if your whole family is getting threats and your address is leaking online you need to move now the the escalade narrative that just needs to stop altogether everybody is going and saying that the Anthony family bought an escalade with the gift and go money no they did not the post that people are talking about is from 2023 now here's a screenshot now the extra colorful text on there please ignore that i couldn't find a version of the screenshot without it and I didn't want to go scrolling on the Facebook of this family per member but the added text on here like the hashtagmelo all of that that was added on by somebody else but the circle up at the top the 2023 that is when this post is from so them celebrating that they bought an Escalade was in 2023 and when I tried to explain that on Twitter people were saying to me "How did they buy a 2025 Escalade in 2023 open up the schools please open up the schools." They did not buy a 2025 Escalade they already had or sorry they Yeah they did not buy a 2025 Escalade they already had at 2023 or at least they bought an Escalade in 2023 meaning they did not take this money and go buy a car so all the people who are saying that and have not walked that back and I hate to say it but on the right shame on you stop spreading false information that is what the left does the right is better than this now the other thing I thought was crazy is uh but at the same time as crazy as I think it is after this press conference I get it i get it i hate to say it i get it there's a big protest that's about to happen on the 19th i shouldn't even be talking about it but ch people already going now there is a protest about protecting white Americans that is apparently going to happen in Frisco Texas and they're doing it in the parking lot of a high school i'm tired i thought that we were so beyond the era of racially driven protests i definitely think that there I think it's totally fair to have you know marches and protests or whatever peacefully in the name of Austin Metaf but making it about protect white Americans oh it's weird it's weird it's weird do you guys get why I think it's weird and it's not weird because I think white lives shouldn't be protected period white lives matter period shout out to white people shout out to you white people but all that being said protect white Americans being the theme of the protest I don't think Austin Metaf's legacy should be tied to a race war i think he deserves better than that okay I don't even want to make the comparison of like George Floyd being attack or attached to this whole movement for black people but I just because it's so opposite so you know what i shouldn't have even said let me just not even make that comparison but you guys get I hope you get what I'm trying to say it's like don't make racial tension be in the vein of this tragedy i really would hate to see Austin Metaf go down in history as the face of a race war because while I know there's a lot of people who want to go to this and a lot of people who want to support this because they're supporting Austin Metaf you have to remember how ugly this situation can potentially get with the direction that people like Dominique and his long rap sheet and I'm just happy Al Sharpton hasn't stepped in yet but Lord knows he's probably just waiting for more cameras and getting his perm done and his suit pressed right now but all that said Austin Metaf his legacy deserves better and I hope this doesn't get tooaa chaotic and ugly and that's all I have to say about that thank you guys for tuning in for another messy chaotic episode of Respectfully i am in Israel for the next two weeks so I'm going to finish recording some episodes tomorrow to for you guys to see um the show is still going to be going on we're just going to be pretending it's live but y'all know it ain't going to be actually live like today was but I am so excited if you guys have any recommendations for me of what to see in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv it is my fourth time going but there's so much to see and do out there I would love to hear your recommendations and pray please for safe travels because you know it is still a war zone it is a long flight and while I trust God's got me I'm going back to the Holy Land god has got me it is always very welcomed for safe prayers for travel uh be sure to head over to prageru.com check out a lot of our educ or all of our educational videos our shows our kids shows have your kids watching Prager You kids rather than going to prom and all that said leave your comments share i love you guys i'll see you soon [Music]