9/11 Memories, Tasia Fortune’s Autopsy, and the Lindsey Clancy Jury Meltdown (Ep #1,293)

**Clay Edwards Show – Episode 1293**  9/11, twenty-five years later. First responders still dying. A hanging in Jackson that the usual suspects tried to turn into a lynching. And a Massachusetts jury that couldn’t bring itself to call a child killer a child killer.

Clay, Creston Berch (30-year Clinton PD, retired), and Shaun Yurtkuran sit with the anniversary that never really ended. Creston was standing in a car dealership lobby when the second plane hit live on TV. Shaun had just gotten out of the Marines and spent the day in a Jefferson Street apartment watching Fox News with eight friends until midnight. Clay woke up to the second impact, then watched 99 Jams keep spinning hip-hop while every other station in the market flipped to the news. That moment, he says, is when the culture war started for him.

They talk about the 9–10,000 additional deaths from the pile, Flight 93 and the two unarmed fighter pilots who were prepared to ram it, Bush on the rubble, and what the day would have looked like if everyone in those towers had a smartphone and a live stream. They also cover the first big public gathering after the attacks: WWE SmackDown in Houston, paid for by Mattress Mack so the city wouldn’t eat the overtime.

Then they pivot to two local/national cases that keep revealing the same double standard.

Tazia Fortune was found hanging behind an abandoned house on Road of Remembrance. The lynching narrative got national oxygen. Clay broke that the state crime lab and DPS have now turned the completed autopsy over to JPD and the Hinds County coroner. Cause of death is not expected to match the story that’s been sold. JPD and some local media spent weeks blaming the state for the delay. The state’s response: we finished it; y’all asked for every extra test.

Lindsey Clancy: the holdout juror who refused not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity was a Black man. The women on the jury are publicly furious he wouldn’t go along. Gayle King had to sit down when she heard it. An Oprah panel then cheered a doctor arguing that Black women who kill their children deserve the same “energy” Clancy got. Clay, Shaun, and Creston don’t buy the postpartum-plus-meds-plus-doctor excuse as a get-out-of-prison-free card.

No station IDs. No sponsor reads. Just the conversation.