The Clay Edwards Show

**Activist interrupts Jackson City Council over a “lynching problem” that the facts still haven’t produced.**
Celina Charles drove down from Little Rock, skipped the public-comment signup, and hijacked Tuesday’s meeting to accuse city and state leaders of ignoring what she called a lynching epidemic in Jackson. She named Tasia Fortune and Demartravion “Trey” Reed, demanded answers, and kept talking while Council President Vernon Hartley banged the gavel. Police Chief RaShall Brackney walked her out. No cuffs. Mission accomplished: scene made.
**What’s actually on the record**- Tasia Fortune, 29, mother of four, found hanging from a tree behind a vacant house on Road of Remembrance on Aug. 3. State medical examiner completed an autopsy weeks ago; results still not released to JPD. Chief Brackney says the case has been worked as a homicide from day one and warns against calling these “serial” race incidents. A person of interest, Terrence Anderson, was already locked up on a felon-in-possession charge after an argument with Fortune.- Trey Reed, Delta State student, found hanging on campus in September 2025. State ME ruled suicide. Family and activists still reject it.- Rasheem Carter (Taylorsville, 2022) also gets folded into the same narrative.- Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes wants the U.S. Attorney in the Fortune case and keeps invoking Emmett Till. He has no federal response yet.
Charles says she’s coming back for a march Friday focused on Fortune, Reed, “and all these lives.” Flyer has a hashtag and no location. Downtown Jackson is the default. South Jackson, West Jackson, and Northside Drive—where the bodies actually pile up—are not on the itinerary.
Jackson remains one of the deadliest cities in America, overwhelmingly Black-on-Black. Officials sat on a simple public statement for a month while the lynching rumor did the work of keeping eyes off the homicide spike. Brackney finally said the quiet part: a lot of misinformation, don’t treat these as a connected racial campaign. That should have been the first presser, not the one after an out-of-town activist crashed council.
False lynching claims don’t just waste oxygen. They torch whatever’s left of race relations and give every actual killer a convenient fog.

Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney told City Council the department is missing at least four vehicles — and they don’t know where they are or who they were assigned to.
Staff has been driving past garages spotting and recovering some of them. Public Works Director Lorenzo Anderson says his department is missing vehicles too. He wouldn’t give a number.
This is the same city that has spent years watching criminals strip rims and tires off marked JPD cruisers — including cars parked at the police academy. 2019 Daily Mail coverage. No public arrests. The tires were still missing then. Pattern recognition isn’t a hate crime.
You just can’t make it up.

Jackson dropping $10 million on a “Homeward Jackson” plan with a Houston consultant to house 300 chronically homeless. Clay’s take: most of that population is addiction fallout, not a housing shortage. Rehab, accountability, and jobs first — then maybe rental help. Official PIT count is 390. Make insane asylums great again instead of another downtown grift.
 

Hours after an Amazon cargo plane overran the runway in Miami and killed five people on the ground, content creators showed up to take selfies in front of the smoldering wreckage.
Kick streamer Bianca Garcia — turquoise hair, booty pose, “hurry take a picture” — crossed a perimeter barrier while NTSB was still working the scene. Five families lost people sitting in a van and a Corolla. Zero of them were on the plane.
Clay’s had it with clout culture. An active disaster site isn’t a backdrop. There’s a time and a place. This wasn’t it.

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The Clancy jury is in full mutiny. The women are shocked — shocked — that one male juror refused to rubber-stamp not guilty by reason of insanity after Lindsay Clancy killed her three kids.
They called him arrogant. Said he ignored the nurses on the jury and the toxicology. He watched the interview, admitted he had reasonable doubt, then still wouldn’t play along.
Clay’s take: momentary lapse of sanity isn’t a get-out-of-prison card. Serial killers were insane too. She’s in a wheelchair and looks fine now. An asylum would’ve let her walk in a few years.
One guy stood up and said no. That’s the story.

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Jackson’s getting another “state of emergency / death over bondage / stop the lynchings” rally this weekend. Clay’s tired of the lie.
Zero evidence white folks are hunting Black people in Mississippi. Plenty of evidence the opposite is true. Homicide tote board sits at 62 for the year — up 27% from last year. Those bodies aren’t dropping downtown. They’re dropping on McDowell, Northside, California Avenue.
Nolan Wells, Tasia Fortune, and Trey Reed are still being used as props after families and autopsies said otherwise.
Time for the adults on that side of town to tell their own people to quit creating racists and start snatching the young ones — and the females now in the game — out of houses.

**Clay Edwards Show with Creston Berch** — Jackson’s favorite dose of unfiltered reality.
Clay’s got the itch to throw another hell-raising fundraiser (twice a year, not every other year — we’re settling that debate live). Looking for people in *true* need or animal shelters, not self-inflicted hard times. Inspired by the snake rodeo model. Suggestions welcome.
Week 1 college football picks: Clay went 11-0 straight up, 6-5 ATS, 7-4 over/under and is currently beating Grok. Top-10 matchups plus Mississippi State (Southern Miss might sneak in). No gambling, just engagement and bragging rights.
Then the main event: those “state of emergency / death over bondage / stop the lynchings” flyers for Jackson this weekend. Clay’s tired of the lie. Zero evidence of white folks hunting Black people in Mississippi. Plenty of evidence of the opposite. Tote board sits at 62 homicides, up 27% from last year. March McDowell, Northside, California Avenue — not downtown photo-ops. Nolan Wells, Tasia Fortune, Trey Reed still being used as props after families and autopsies said otherwise. Time for the adults on that side of town to tell their own people to stop creating racists and start snatching the young ones (and the hood-rat females now in the game) out of houses.
Jackson dropping $10 million on a “Homeward Jackson” plan with a Houston consultant to house 300 chronically homeless. Clay’s take: most of that population is addiction fallout, not a housing shortage. Rehab, accountability, and jobs first — then maybe rental help. Official PIT count is 390. Make insane asylums great again instead of another downtown grift.
Also in the mix: clout-chasers posing in front of the smoldering Amazon cargo plane wreckage that killed five people on the ground in Miami. And the Clancy jury chaos — one male juror refused to rubber-stamp not guilty by reason of insanity after she killed her three kids. Clay’s position: momentary lapse of sanity doesn’t equal a get-out-of-prison card. Serial killers were insane too.
Carmelo Anthony’s newly dropped messages and photos showing racist rants and gun obsession after the murder. Plus the journalist who got scooped after she previously scooped Clay on the Nolan Wells phone and then blocked him.
Straight talk. No filter. Same as always.

**Episode 1290 – Clay Edwards Show**  Guest: Zach Service
Zach caught heat for sitting in this chair again. Campaign supporters dropped him. “Why would you give that racist your platform?”
He didn’t dodge it.
If the charge is true, the Christian move isn’t to hide on the other side of the room and hope the problem starves. It’s to sit at the table. Jesus didn’t interview the tax collectors for ministry advice. He showed up, said what was true, and let them deal with it.
Zach’s point: if you think Clay’s audience is the problem, wouldn’t you rather have a different voice in the room than leave the whole thing unchallenged? Marketplace of ideas. Face to face. Not a keyboard drive-by.
Clay’s counter: he tried polite first. Got the scarlet letter anyway. So he stopped whispering the quiet part. Racism is believing you’re a different, superior species because of skin. Most of what gets screamed at him is prejudice, pattern recognition, and a culture that happens to be rotten—ghetto culture, not “Black culture.” One of those is 90% of the population here and does the overwhelming share of the bodies. The other one isn’t.
They agree on this much: locking someone out doesn’t convert them. It radicalizes them. And the people who lecture about tolerance usually won’t take the invite when the mics are hot.
That’s the conversation.

**Episode 1290 – Clay Edwards Show**  Guests: Creston Birch (retired 30-year Clinton PD) and Zach Service
Labor Day hangover, an Ole Miss game that even a State fan had to respect, and two guys in studio who actually live in the Jackson metro instead of commenting on it from a distance.
Clay, Creston, and Zach stay on the local stuff: homeschool vs. the “good kid from a good family who still gets sucked into culture rot,” code-switching, school choice, and why one bad apple in the wrong hallway still poisons the bunch. Then they pivot to Southern Miss coach Blake Anderson walking out in a “Christ is King” shirt and the internet acting like he’d committed a hate crime. They play his postgame comments, talk recruiting, hypocrisy, and why the same people who demanded every other slogan on a jersey suddenly clutch pearls when it’s this one.
They cover the viral Ole Miss sideline girl, the death of communal TV (Game of Thrones was basically the last one), Deputy Tarian Bailey getting killed in Claiborne County while trying to clear a crowd, Jackson’s weekend body count, heat + idle time + three-day weekends, and why local media still treats certain stories like they don’t exist. Zach talks about his campaign coverage, the First Amendment lawsuit, and why sitting across the table from someone you’ve been told is the devil is still better than hiding in an echo chamber.
Racism vs. prejudice vs. pattern recognition. Marketplace of ideas. Why ostracizing people just radicalizes them. And why “Christ is King” on a coach’s chest is not the thing that’s actually killing people this week.
No ads. No station ID. Just the conversation.

**Shaun Yurtkuran and Creston Birch on the death penalty and DNA**
Attorney Shaun Yurtkuran has put a man on death row. Thirteen years later he still thinks about it — not because he has a moral problem with “you kill, you get killed” when the proof is ironclad, but because of how the system actually works. It does not deter the people on the street. They know what the cops do. They do not know what the courthouse does. It is expensive. And Mississippi has already put innocent men on the row.
Shaun walks through Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks — two Noxubee County child-murder cases from the early ’90s. One man sat on death row. DNA and a later confession freed both. The real killer was identified almost twenty years later. That is the part that scares him: human error before the science caught up.
Creston Birch, thirty years in law enforcement, started in 1993 when DNA was barely a tool. He has watched it go from infancy to the thing that actually closes cases. He also knows what jurors think they are going to see. The CSI effect is real. In a hundred homicide cases you almost never have the gun. Fingerprints are rare. Shaun has one footprint match in his entire career — a kicked-in door at Trent Lott’s house in Hinds County. Most of the time you still win with witnesses and the defendant’s own mouth.
They talk Baton Rouge in the ’90s: three separate serial killers, a Millsaps student among the victims, suspects released because the lab could not yet do what it can do now. DNA would have stopped some of those murders. It still does not replace old-fashioned police work. It just makes the work honest.
No moral grandstanding. No “just lock them up for life” slogans. Two men who have lived on opposite sides of the same cases explaining why the needle is easy to support in theory and hard to trust in practice.