September 11, 2026

LINDSAY CLANCY FAN FINDING OUT HOLDOUT JUROR IS ‘BLACK’ MAY BE THE GREATEST THING ON THE INTERNET:

There are those watershed moments in internet history when it makes journalisming all worth it.

Such is the case when a Lindsay Clancy fan found out the mind-bending news that the lone holdout juror in the Clancy case who forced a mistrial was… *gasp“… black.

The TikTok crime pseudo-expert, who goes by the handle @paigearony, really sums up the absurdity of identity politics being involved in criminal cases.

“I’m a non-practicing white… it changes the landscape of the conversation a little bit. A lot of us were assuming it was a white man.”

I can’t get past the “non-practicing white” line. Here we have a person assuming that being white is like a social affliction, rather than the shorthand description for a person with sparse melanin content.

It’s apparently real — and spectacularly silly:

Posted at 7:45 pm by Ed Driscoll