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.