BS BULLETIN:

• A Lindsay Clancy supporter went viral after learning that the lone holdout juror responsible for the 11-1 mistrial was a Black man.
• The woman said many Clancy supporters had assumed the holdout was a white man and admitted the revelation “changes the landscape of the conversation.”
• Her description of herself as a “non-practicing white” may have stolen the show.

The Lindsay Clancy case has produced a mistrial, bitter juror accusations, an alleged courtroom mystery and enough online debate to keep true-crime TikTok occupied until Christmas.

Now we have the “non-practicing white.”

One of the best liberal woman quotes ever: https://t.co/VZwytJiWP4

— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) September 11, 2026

A video circulating widely on X shows a Lindsay Clancy supporter processing the revelation that the lone juror who refused to acquit Clancy was not the white man she and others apparently assumed he was.

He was Black.

And apparently that complicated things.

“I’m a non-practicing white,” the woman says during the video.

Then she gets to the holdout.

“It changes the landscape of the conversation a little bit,” she acknowledges.

Why?

“A lot of us were assuming it was a white man.”

That assumption just ran into reality.

The clip exploded online after the identity detail became public during an interview Friday on CBS Mornings.

Juror Paula Devlin told Gayle King that the jury consisted of nine women and three men, ranging in age from about 22 to 70.

King asked about its racial makeup.

“One person of color, and then everybody else was white,” Devlin said.

King quickly zeroed in.

Was the person of color a man or woman?

A man.

Was the holdout juror Black?

“Yes.”

King herself appeared momentarily stunned.

“A Black man is the holdout juror?”

“Yes.”

“Whoa,” King responded. “I have to sit with that for just a second.”

King returned to the subject later in the interview, saying she was “very fascinated” by learning the holdout was a Black man and asking Devlin his approximate age.

Devlin estimated he was in his 30s.

The revelation has become another flashpoint in the already heated debate surrounding Clancy’s mistrial.

Clancy admitted killing her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — in January 2023.

Her defense argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible for the killings.

After seven days of deliberations, 11 jurors favored finding Clancy not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility.

One juror refused.

Other jurors have subsequently criticized the holdout, describing him as “arrogant” and alleging that he acknowledged reasonable doubt but still wouldn’t acquit.

The holdout has not publicly given his side of the story.

And the story became even more complicated Friday when NBC10 Boston reported that the juror had previously faced domestic violence allegations and had an active restraining order against him while serving on the Clancy jury.

NBC10 reported that court documents and interviews with relatives revealed a prior domestic violence case, a restraining order involving his nephew and a pending eviction case.

The outlet stressed that juror questionnaires aren’t public, so it cannot establish how the man answered questions during jury selection.

None of that has anything to do with his race.

And that’s precisely what makes the viral reaction video so revealing.

The holdout’s arguments didn’t change when people discovered he was Black.

The evidence didn’t change.

The jury vote didn’t change.

The dead children didn’t change.

What changed was apparently how some people felt permitted to talk about him.

MY QUICK TAKE

I’m sorry.

I didn’t make it past “non-practicing white.”

Is there paperwork for this?  (Census Bureau adds ‘non-practicing white’ after overwhelming public demand)

Do you surrender your Costco card? Stop ordering mayonnaise? Turn in your Hallmark Christmas movies?

But underneath that spectacular phrase is something considerably more interesting.

“We assumed it was a white man.”

Why?

And why does discovering that he’s Black “change the landscape of the conversation”?

Same juror.

Same vote.

Same evidence.

If your opinion about his decision requires a racial software update after discovering the color of his skin, perhaps the problem isn’t the juror.

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