The Clay Edwards Show

JORDAN CUMMINS SENTENCING, AN ULTIMATE LESSON IN FAFO'ING

Jordan Cummins (St. Paddy's Parade Double Murderer) was sentenced to 2 life sentences to run concurrently, he will not have a chance at seeing the outside of a prison until he's at least 65 years old. I use this whole situation as an opportunity to explain to people why you need to exit toxic relationships and if you plan on using your 2nd amendment rights to protect yourself, you better be damn sure that 12 jurors and the witnesses all see things the same way you did.
 

TUESDAY'S FULL SHOW (Ep #782) 06/25/24

1- Jordan Cummins (St. Paddy's Parade Double Murderer) was sentenced to 2 life sentences to run concurrently, he will not have a chance at seeing the outside of a prison until he's at least 65 years old. I use this whole situation as an opportunity to explain to people why you need to exit toxic relationships and if you plan on using your 2nd amendment rights to protect yourself, you better be damn sure that 12 jurors and the witnesses all see things the same way you did.
2- Trump was right, in most cases illegal immigrants are in fact animals and some are even lower than animals in some some cases. 
3- I continue to make the case for the state of Mississippi to call a special session to create a law to allow the state to put a municipal body like Jackson into a conservatorship of a decade or so and attempt to break this nonsense up at the door (to quote Kim Wade). This topic generates a great phone call from a longtime friend and ally of the show (Scott Anderson) with a very insightful and well thought out call.
4. We get live reports during the show that there is a woman walking down I-20 East through Jackson toting a wooden cross like Jesus, well low and behold a listener (Damian) who's also a christian, faith based podcaster here's me ask for a picture of her, he passes by and gets the photo. This then leads to me ranting about how dangerous that stretch of interstate is and telling the 2 different stories about the time I had flat tires on the same stretch of interstate which led to me having to pull a gun on a guy once before.
5. Jerry calls into the show with one of the best phone calls we've ever had, he explains that Jackson needs to build a good foundation and uses the offensive and defensive lines on a football team as his examples. 

Who's to blame for Mississippi leading the nation with highest rates of gun deaths, gun violence?

In the rural South, we are conditioned to a self-image of small communities like fictional Mayberry where crime and violence are almost non-existent and the real dangers from gun violence lurk on the streets and back alleys of Chicago, New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles.
However, the mean streets are not limited to the big cities. Rural Mississippians now live squarely in locales prone to gun violence. We don’t live in Mayberry in the rural South. We live in a region and a state with a dangerous rate of gun death and gun violence, and we are as a state among the nation’s leaders in household gun ownership.
The adage in television news is that “if it bleeds, it leads.” In Mississippi, the first 10 minutes of virtually every newscast recount shootings that occur with such frequency as to become commonplace.
In Mississippi, we consistently and strongly support the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms for hunting and self-protection. Mississippi does little to interfere with the right to gun ownership, possession, use or acquisition of firearms.
We are an open carry state, a Castle Doctrine state, a “stand your ground” state, and one with what are considered by the National Rifle Association and other pro-gun entities as some of the most Second Amendment-friendly gun laws in the country.
At the same time, liberal or “progressive” entities supporting limits on Second Amendment rights label Mississippi as having the worst gun laws in the country. The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence – named for gun violence victim former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona – describes Mississippi’s gun laws as follows: “Mississippi has the weakest gun laws in the country and the highest gun death rate…(the state) passed a dangerous permitless carry law in 2016 which allows almost anyone to carry hidden, loaded guns in public without a background check or law enforcement oversight.”
From across the political spectrum in the gun law debate, there is ample hyperbole and alarmist rhetoric. But the fact is that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ranked Mississippi as having the highest rate of gun deaths in the country at 29.6 per 100,000 residents. That’s just over double the national rate of 14.2 gun deaths per 100,000 residents.
Mississippi was an early milepost in the nation’s litany of school shootings when student Luke Woodham killed his mother at their home, then drove to Pearl High School and fatally shot two students and wounded seven others on Oct. 1, 1997. That shooting was a little more than a year after Jackson firefighter Kenneth Tornes killed his wife at home, then drove to Jackson’s Central Fire Station and killed four of his supervisors.
That was a quarter-century ago. Now, the scourge of gun violence has become more commonplace and pedestrian. Young people are settling what seems to be insanely inconsequential differences and disputes with deadly force using guns.
Last year, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s Surgery found that firearm deaths are more likely in small rural towns than in major urban centers. Data from the CDC showed that politically red states had the highest firearm mortality rates while the politically blue states had lower firearm mortality rates.
In Mississippi, 2020 research showed that of gun deaths, 47% were suicides and 47% were homicides. That compared with 61% suicides and 36% homicides nationally that year.
From a practical political standpoint, legislation restricting Second Amendment rights is a non-starter at the Mississippi State Capitol. But Mississippi’s increasingly consistent rank as the state with the highest rate of gun deaths should concern conservatives and liberals alike.
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities reports that the greatest impact of rising gun death rates is on Black youth. The group cited that “the rate of gun-related deaths for Black youth has increased every year since 2013, with a 108.3% increase from 2013 to 2020 compared to a 47.8% increase for white youth during the same time.”
The state with the highest percentage population of Black youth? Mississippi at 42.9%.

MONDAY - FULL SHOW (Ep #781)

1- The war on testosterone & fertility
2- Canton, Mississippi is aiming to take Jackson's crown as the deadliest city in America (per capita) for black folks
3- People are fed up with pretending the greatest threat to black Americans are anything other than their own people.
4- Something is rotten in Denmark, Smith Wills stadiums current tenants appear to owe the city around $500,000 in back rent while also taking in $370,000 in yearly rent from the VA for renting them a parking lot. Something fishy is going on, let's see if we can get to the bottom of it.

CANTON, MISSISSIPPI - THE DEADLIEST CITY IN AMERICA AFTER ANOTHER BLACK ON BLACK MASS SHOOTING?

Is Canton, Mississippi becoming the deadliest city in America (per captia), taking the crown from big brother Jackson, Mississippi? Looks like the most dangerous thing to be in Canton is a black man in 2024.
CANTON, Miss. (WLBT) - A teen is in custody after a shooting left five people injured and one person dead on Saturday. Canton Police Chief Otha Brown says the shooting happened around 12:30 p.m. on Hickory Street in Canton. Authorities tell 3 On Your Side that 19-year-old Jeremy Ollie Jr. is charged with murder and six counts of aggravated assault. Jontravious Warren, 20, was shot and pronounced dead on the scene. Five other people, including two minors, were also shot. According to Brown, their injuries are extensive. The victims were at a local popular hangout spot when a person randomly began firing shots into a crowd of people. Deputies are currently searching for a person of interest who they believe knows something about the incident. All activities on Hickory Street have been canceled until further notice. Updates will occur as more information becomes available.

Black Tunica County Man Wanted In Quadruple Homicide - Democrat Death Culture Strikes Again!!

Tunica County Sheriff’s Office has issued arrest warrants for 20-year-old Monterrius Woods of Tunica.
Woods has been charged with the shooting death of Steven Burts, 23, of Dundee; Tednequa Moore, 25, of Robinsonville; Moore’s unborn child; and the death of Deshun Isabell, 24, of Tunica, who died with injuries sustained from the car crash that occurred on Friday, November 10, 2023, on Casino Center Boulevard located in Robinsonville.
Monterrius Woods has been charged with:• 4 counts of Capital Murder• 4 counts of Conspiracy to Commit a Crime• 1 count of Drive by Shooting• 1 count Shooting into a Motor Vehicle
Woods is currently in custody of the DeSoto County Jail on unrelated charges. For more information visit https://www.desotocountyms.gov/225/Adult-Detention-Facility jail docket.
Capital Murder [Miss. Code Section 97-3-19(1) & (2) (j)] is punishable by life in prison or the death penalty.
There will be additional charges forthcoming, and more arrests made for the investigation related to the November 10, 2023, quadruple homicide. This investigation is active and ongoing. If you have any information regarding this incident, please contact TCSO at 662-363-1411. If you wish to remain anonymous, contact CrimeStoppers at 662-910-0400. Any information leading to an arrest can pay up to $1,000.00.
Tunica County Sheriff’s Office would like to thank the following agencies for their assistance in this investigation: Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives), Mississippi Highway Patrol Crime Scene Unit, and the Mississippi Highway Patrol Reconstruction Team.
 

Autopsy results released for black Mississippi man (Dau Mabil) found dead in Pearl River (06/21/24)

BILOXI, Miss. (WLBT) - A Belhaven man who was found dead in the Pearl River back in April died of drowning, according to the State Medical Examiner’s Office.
On Friday, the examiner released findings from the postmortem exam performed on Dau Mabil.
Mabil went missing back in March and was found dead, face-down in the Pearl River the following month.
“Based on the decedent’s past medical history, the circumstances surrounding the death, scene findings, autopsy results, and ancillary study outcomes, the cause of death is drowning,” the report states.
While the cause of death was identified, State Medical Examiner Dr. Ariane Robison couldn’t determine why he drowned, largely due to the condition of his remains.
“The state of postmortem decomposition of the remains and a lack of comprehensive contextual information precluded a conclusive determination about the manner of death,” she wrote. “However, if additional investigative details emerge in the future, this case will be re-evaluated and re-assessed accordingly.”
The report was signed off on by Robison and Medical Examiner Dr. Paul Uribe.

Pete Buttigieg visits JXN to highlight Medgar Evers Blvd. project and blame potholes on racism

United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg visited Jackson Friday to commemorate the beginning of a multimillion-dollar improvement project to about 1.5 miles of Medgar Evers Boulevard.
Friday, about a block away from the road's namesake, Medgar Evers and his family home in North Jackson, Buttigieg, joined by U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Jackson, Reena Evers Everette, Central District Transportation Commissioner Willie Simmons and others held a groundbreaking to celebrate the beginning of the project.
The Medgar Evers Boulevard Project is slated to be completed by 2026. The project is funded through a $20 million grant from Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity Discretionary Grant program in 2021. The City of Jackson will need to put up matching funds as well.
The scope of the work will include installing sidewalks and new streetlamps, repairing roads, building medians and even replacing sewer and water drainage infrastructure along the road. Buttigieg said those improvements would be necessary to reconnect the area to the rest of modern Jackson and spur economic development in the area.
Buttigieg added that the project represents a key aspect of the civil rights movement, which connects infrastructural needs for better transportation to disadvantaged communities so that everyone has the same opportunities to grow.
"As we bear the moral weight of our inheritance, it feels a little bit strange to be talking about streetlights and ports, and highway funding and some of the other day to day transportation needs that we're here to do something about," he said. "Equitable transportation has always been one of the core commitments, and for that reason has also always been one of the most important battlegrounds of the struggle for racial and economic justice and civil rights in this country."
Everette, who is Evers' daughter, thanked both Buttigieg and Thompson for their work in Washington D.C. and in Congress to secure the necessary funds for the project.
"(It's about) raising the bar of excellence for the community, to have pride in the infrastructure that starts from the very core that goes on to beautification that goes on to the best pride in the world for the communities," Everette said. "I just wanted to say thank you very much."
The road's namesake, Evers, was a prominent civil rights activist in Jackson and served as the NAACP's first field secretary until he was assassinated in June 1963 by Byron De La Beckwith, a white man from Greenwood.
Thompson said that the money USDOT has given to the city to begin the project should be seen as a steppingstone to other needs throughout the city, and a method to reconnect cities that were split by highways and other projects, leaving some out of the town's growth through the years.
"Statistics will show all throughout countries that communities were split by interstate highways, communities were divided," he said. "Here is a way of trying to reconnect and fix some of the errors of that. This is just one of those down payments on making a difference. This down payment, will fix some of the problems associated with years of neglect."
Buttigieg added that throughout his time visiting Mississippi communities throughout the last few days, he sees more and more areas that will need to be addressed to establish more equitable transportation, which he said is essential to growing an area.
"Better transportation can mean better opportunities for small business and for families," he said. "Good transportation can lead directly to economic opportunity in the same way that lack of access to transportation can cut people off from opportunity. We're here to make sure that transportation connects, that it doesn't divide."

BREAKING: COCK OF THE WALK REOPENS W/ PASSED HEALTH INSPECTION (06/20/24)

RIDGELAND, Miss. (WLBT) - Cock of the Walk is back open after its owners closed the restaurant on Wednesday.
The closing was prompted after a viral video inside the restaurant caught the attention of the health inspector.
According to the Department of Health’s website, the restaurant had insects, rodents, or animals present.
Additionally, the restaurant was not in compliance with possible sewage wastewater disposal.
After the inspection on Tuesday, the restaurant received a C on the Health Department’s report, meaning they had “critical violations.”
They now have a B.
According to Bill Prisock, president of Cock of the Walk restaurants, the Ridgeland location closed because of the burst pipe.
Prisock also stated that the restaurant has been open for 44 years and, in that time, never received a failing grade until the inspection this week
A Food Facility Inspection Result Form of the restaurant documented that ingredients were observed without lids, counters were unclean to sight and touch, the TCS foods walk-in cooler was not properly drafted or labeled, rodent droppings were discovered, the restaurant’s last inspection reports were not posted, and a broken pipe was observed broken with water flowing onto a floor where employees step and stand.
Cock of the Walk will have another inspection in 90 days.

WAS "COCK OF THE WALK" SABOTAGED BY FORMER EMPLOYEE?

Cock of the walk (restaurant) failed a health inspection and has decided to close for at least the next week till June 28th when they have their follow-up inspection., We discuss the viral video and take a deep dive into if this was a set-up by a former bitter employee