ICYMI: CBS’s King STUNNED as Clancy Juror Says Holdout Was Jury’s Only Black Person

In a now-viral clip first shared here, Friday’s CBS Mornings featured a jaw-dropping revelation from woke Karen and Lindsay Clancy juror Paula Devlin that not only was the lone juror holding out for hopes of a guilty verdict a man, but he was both a black man and the only non-white person on the entire 12-person jury.

Co-host Gayle King – who’s repeatedly expressed sympathy and understanding for Clancy and her claims postpartum psychosis caused her to brutally kill her three small children – had first asked Devlin about what the initial breakdown was when the trial went to deliberations. Devlin had said it started out as eight for not guilty, two for guilty, and two undecided.

It was then that King opened a can of worms she was unprepared for: “I am curious about the jurors themselves, because we know it was nine women, three men. What was the age range? What was the racial make-up? I haven’t heard any of that. What was it?”

Devlin’s age answer wasn’t controversial (“70ish to 22”) as well as the fact that “a lot of the jurors had children, but her revelation that there was “[o]ne person of color and then everybody else was white” that initially stunned King into asking follow-ups.

“One person of color? Was the person of color a woman or a man,” she wondered.

When Devlin confirmed the “person of color” was male, King continued to pull on the string to the ultimate question: “A man? Is the holdout juror a person of – a black man?”

Devlin simply replied, “yes.”

A flabbergasted King asked to confirm what she heard:

KING: A black man is a hold-out juror?

DEVLIN: Yes.

King showed her cards and stereotypes as she exclaimed, “Whoa, I have to sit with that for just a second.”

The CBS co-host returned to the topic at the end of the interview, asking for their age: “Very fascinated by the holdout juror, learning he is a black man today. Can you just tell me his age? I am very curious.”

When Devlin said she “would guess in his 30s,” King was stunned again: “Oh! Younger.”

In between, she asked Devlin to explain what “evidence that he was opposed to” (click “expand”):

KING: I think people struggle with the case when they think about the children. A lot of us do not understand postpartum psychosis, myself included. I have done a deep dive now since the case has started. Many people are hung up that you can Google about going, how long it takes, you can have a conversation with your husband, and you appear coherent. You don’t indicate that there is anything wrong. Did the jury struggle with that, how she was coherent but at the same time be having a psychotic break down?

DEVLIN: Yes.

KING: You all discussed that in detail?

DEVLIN: Yes. And I think that was one of the things that the hold out juror, that was one of his main points.

KING: Was what? He couldn’t wrap his head around that.

DEVLIN: That she could do this one at a time and then do all the steps she did to go commit suicide.

King also wanted to know “what did you do to try to convince him” and whether the 11 not-guilty votes “work[ed] together as a group to try to convince him” and defeat “his main resistance.”

Despite showing herself to be an insufferable liberal, Devlin insisted “we all worked together,” but she “felt very bad” for this holdout and, for a time, a second guilty vote “because they felt attacked, and there is no way to not do that, because that’s where we were talking.”

“Even in normal conversation when it is pointed at you and you have to defend yourself it’s a hard thing to do. We don’t have to always do that, so he – he really – just the way it happened, like the sequence of how things happened,” she added.

Devlin also ghoulishly said all the jurors have been “want[ing] justice for the children” and “never left our hearts.” King also stepped in it when wondering, “[F]or you, what would be justice for Lindsey, for you?”

“Justice for Lindsay?”

How incredibly tone deaf.

To see the relevant transcript from September 11, click here.