The Clay Edwards Show

Breaking Down The CORNELL 7 Rape Case, Clay Get's Very Personal!!

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Episode 1306 of The Clay Edwards Show, with Creston Berch. JPD hiding under the stack on I-20 catching Rankin County folks on the way into Jackson, a shackled suspect whooping detectives in an elevator at headquarters, Kenneth Stokes mad about armed marchers on California Avenue, and a Tennessee execution that didn’t take. Hour 2 opens with Patrick Kelty of Kelty Tile, Marble & Home Remodel.
Clay opens by snitching, which he hates doing. JPD is set up westbound under the stack on the Rankin side of the Pearl River, tucked behind a beam, while Jackson still has plenty of its own problems. Construction zone, 50 mph, flow of traffic be damned. Then the story that started as a FAFO video and ended with the award going the other way: 22-year-old Cameron Mitchell, on probation for felony fleeing, in for a robbery interview via the U.S. Marshals. Interview stops, two detectives escort him toward detention, elevator turns into a brawl. Handcuffed and shackled, headbutts, knees, chains. Five detectives pulled in, one hospitalized, all back at work, Mitchell still in jail. Chief Rochelle Brackney calls it a bloody fight in close quarters and says they’re reviewing how suspects move through the building. Clay and Creston get into front-cuffing versus belly chains, weapon retention, the 2013 Eric Smith killing inside headquarters, and why “wrap your arms around him and tell him you love him” is not a use-of-force policy. WLBT’s correction on the strangling detail gets a nod, and so does Chris Fields’ glow-up from night runs to the studio suit.
Hour 1 stays local. Mississippi Free Press is the source Clay would rather pour bleach in his eyes than cite, but the topic is the topic: Kenneth Stokes sees about 30 armed people from the Fred Hampton Gun Club, the Black Clan, and the Black Panther Party marching California Avenue over what they frame as lynchings. Brackney says no street closure, no noise waiver, no permit required, and that the Second Amendment covers it. She also says Fortune was not hung by a roving band, three men are in custody, Wiley is still under investigation, and Wells’ cause of death is undetermined. Clay’s correction: three black men, not the white-supremacist posse the internet ordered, and “national scrutiny” is not a couple of loud accounts. Stokes wants the legislature to rethink open carry marches and floats the KKK hypothetical. Question of the day: two or three people open-carrying down the middle of a Jackson street, permit or not?
Also in the mix: a Fondren/Belhaven scold keeping a little list of who advertises with Mississippi talkers he doesn’t like. Clay’s read is that advertisers already know where their ads run, because they paid for them.
First segment of hour 2 is Patrick Kelty, Kelty Tile, Marble & Home Remodel. Family shop started in 1997 by the youngest brother, Patrick and Mark in a few years later, thousands of remodels since. Showroom at 115 Ridgeland Plaza in Ridgeland, right off Highway 51 near CC’s, about 6,000 square feet, granite fab on site. They want the estimate in the house, then the client in the showroom, materials in hand, job not started until they can finish it. Bathrooms, kitchens, tile, marble, quartz, quartzite, waterfalls, custom emblems, lighting, plumbing and electrical when the scope needs it. Pan-test a leaking shower before you assume it’s the plumber. Byram High, class of ’96. keltytile.com, showroom line (601) 607-7227.
They close on Krista Pike. Tennessee tried twice with lethal injection, she was still snoring, Governor Bill Lee halted the rest of the year’s executions for a review, and they hauled her to the hospital. Clay digs up why she was there: 1995, Job Corps in Knoxville, she and two others beat, slashed, and carved pentagrams into 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer over a boyfriend and “feeling mean.” Shipp was 18 and ineligible for death; Peterson testified for the state. Clay’s position doesn’t move. Football Friday and an FAFO award or three tomorrow.
Podcast at clayedwardsshow.com.

**Jamie Creel (Shelter Insurance) sits in with Creston Berch.**
First hour is the unsexy stuff nobody wants to talk about until it’s too late. Jamie’s old player’s dad dropped dead of a heart attack at 51. No warning. Family left picking up pieces they didn’t even know existed. Life insurance, a will, a simple sheet of paper with the passwords and policies, video walkthrough of everything in the house so you’re not guessing what’s gone after a fire or theft. Inland marine for the guns, guitars, art, and collector junk—even if you rent. Express term life with no physical if your driving record isn’t trash. Tesla insurance isn’t automatically more expensive with them. Thirty days to get a dead person’s name off a vehicle policy, ninety on a house. Practical, not a sales pitch.
Second hour: Copiah County finally charged Whit Tyler Holmes with capital murder in the 2021 killing of Floyd Alex Rosemond. Five-year case. More arrests coming. Snitches matter.
Protect College Sports Act cleared the Senate 77-22. House delay until after midterms is the only real snag. One-time transfer, injured players keep the scholarship plus five years medical and ten years to finish the degree. Salary cap talk. No more mid-season coach raids. Good for State and Ole Miss fans who don’t have oil money or a Nike sugar daddy.
Clay also recs Dave Mustaine’s *In My Darkest Hour*—cancer, faith, not the liberal you assumed. And he needs a dog groomer who won’t take political opinions out on Libby, the Yorkies, or the Corgi. Cash or trade-out. Text the usual line.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders ran a reelection ad making a white dude named Brad on a beanbag with a VR headset the face of Arkansas welfare fraud. Young white men are among the least likely groups on SNAP. Per capita numbers tell a different story. They picked the one face guaranteed to piss off their own base instead of just putting the policy on screen. Friendly fire. Consultants who don’t talk to actual people.
 

Kratom is next. Two Ole Miss students dead after S-Max / pseudo-7OH tablets — concentrated, lab-tweaked alkaloids, not leaf powder. Clay’s been on the “don’t ban it, regulate it” side for years. He’s sitting this one out. If gas-station product is killing kids, conscience matters more than the fight. Doctors and lawmakers are already lining up the next ban. Listen to why the “natural doesn’t mean safe” line is the one that actually matters.

Scott Gilbert (Michael Reinwald’s attorney) and Shaun Yurtkuran break down yesterday’s Capitol Police trial in the Jalen Lewis shooting. Steven Frederick — not guilty. Reinwald — hung jury. Lynn Fitch immediately declined to retry. The state’s theory was imperfect self-defense manslaughter plus “acting in concert.” A car coming at you is a weapon. Unmarked vehicles don’t make officers the aggressors. The jury was never instructed to view it through the eyes of a trained cop. That’s the charge that never should have been brought.
Chilling effect is real. Departments already can’t hire. Good cops watch this and ask if the job is still worth it. Discretion exists so prosecutors don’t file the weak ones. This was one of the weak ones.
Zach Servis closes it as a Jackson resident living on the edge of the CCID: response times, a gunshot next to his wife, and the same AG office that went after these two officers while $77 million in SNAP fraud sat there.

**The Clay Edwards Show – Capitol Police Verdict, Sarah Huckabee’s SNAP Ad, Kratom Fallout, and Mr. Belding**
Hour 1 with Creston Berch and Zach Servis. Hour 2 with Scott Gilbert and Shaun Yurtkuran.
Dennis Haskins — Mr. Belding — died at 75. That one landed different than it would have twenty years ago. Midlife talk, Motley Crüe tour shirts, Guns N’ Roses opening, grandmother still hanging on at 94, and why 75 doesn’t sound old once you’ve already blown past the halfway mark.
Then the unforced error: Sarah Huckabee Sanders ran a reelection ad making a white dude named Brad on a beanbag with a VR headset the face of Arkansas welfare fraud. Young white men are among the *least* likely groups on SNAP. Per capita numbers tell a different story. They picked the one face guaranteed to piss off their own base instead of just putting the policy on screen. Friendly fire. Consultants who don’t talk to actual people.
Kratom is next. Two Ole Miss students dead after S-Max / pseudo-7OH tablets — concentrated, lab-tweaked alkaloids, not leaf powder. Clay’s been on the “don’t ban it, regulate it” side for years. He’s sitting this one out. If gas-station product is killing kids, conscience matters more than the fight. Doctors and lawmakers are already lining up the next ban. Listen to why the “natural doesn’t mean safe” line is the one that actually matters.
Hour 2: Scott Gilbert (Michael Reinwald’s attorney) and Shaun Yurtkuran break down yesterday’s Capitol Police trial in the Jalen Lewis shooting. Steven Frederick — not guilty. Reinwald — hung jury. Lynn Fitch immediately declined to retry. The state’s theory was imperfect self-defense manslaughter plus “acting in concert.” A car coming at you is a weapon. Unmarked vehicles don’t make officers the aggressors. The jury was never instructed to view it through the eyes of a trained cop. That’s the charge that never should have been brought.
Chilling effect is real. Departments already can’t hire. Good cops watch this and ask if the job is still worth it. Discretion exists so prosecutors *don’t* file the weak ones. This was one of the weak ones.
Zach Servis closes it as a Jackson resident living on the edge of the CCID: response times, a gunshot next to his wife, and the same AG office that went after these two officers while $77 million in SNAP fraud sat there.
No sugar. No “positive solutions” lecture. Just what happened and why it matters.
Guests: Creston Berch, Zach Servis, Scott Gilbert, Shaun Yurtkuran.

**The Clay Edwards Show – Ep. 1303**  Co-host: Creston Berch
Clay overslept Friday. Body finally called timeout after two weeks of four-hour nights. Chip and Creston held it down. Today we catch up and then some.
Ole Miss walked into the perfect letdown game at Florida and got stomped. Defense still can’t stop the run. They’re sitting ninth in the AP, 12th in the coaches poll with an open date then Vandy. State looks legit, 16th in the coaches poll, Alabama coming to Starkville. Rankings are still living in last year. First month of the season should move. It isn’t.
Clay vs Grok week four: Clay 17-9 ATS + totals on the 10-12 best games (plus the Mississippi ones). Grok 15-11. Season: Clay still beating the computer. Emotion and letdown spots still matter more than last year’s recruiting rankings. That’ll flip once the data pile gets bigger. We’ll see.
Ellis Autoplex question of the day: pinpoint the exact moment society got substantially worse. Answers poured in — COVID, Great Society, parents asking kids what they want for dinner, Obama, prayer and discipline leaving schools. Locally Clay’s line is Harvey Johnson telling Caterpillar/Puckett/Stribling to kick rocks on the drainage work at Lynch & 80. Anchor tenant leaves, corridor dies, wave rolls east and west. You cannot pay for a city with housetops.
Then the Ben Crump / Christine Wansley circus. Thursday’s press conference was half-truths and open-ended “facts” designed for you to fill in the horror movie. Snapchats were deleted — by other people in the group chat, which is how the app works. Phone left on the boat because he was standing in four feet of water and service sucks at the island. No blunt force trauma in any report. Red discoloration. Dry drowning explains empty lungs and stomach: larynx spasms, airway slams shut, no water ever gets in. Simplest explanation is usually the right one. He drowned. The boys are innocent. Crump and Wansley are doing a disservice to Nolan’s memory while she globe-trots instead of grieving.
Same playbook on Tasia Fortune. Third arrest. Drug debt. Hanging was staged after she was already dead. Sister said she weighed a hundred pounds soaking wet. Third Black face of “white supremacy” in Jackson. Stop inventing lynchings when the culture is eating itself at gas stations.
Kamario Taylor says maroon and white. Half the internet immediately assumes he’s on the first NIL bus out of Starkville. Let the kid play. Loyalty still exists.
Unfiltered. No sugar. Facts over feelings. Same time tomorrow.

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