Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

The View co-host Sunny Hostin cited the Lindsay Clancy mistrial Tuesday to relate a celebratory story about how in 1991 she was a lone jury hold out who flipped for a cannibal killer who boiled a woman and literally served her as soup.

While the panel chewed over the Clancy debacle, Hostin announced she had effectively blocked a guilty verdict for Daniel Rakowitz - the East Village drifter known as the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park.

Hostin bragged that she walked the rest of that 1991 jury into an insanity acquittal, and called it justice.

THIS IS INSANITY! Sunny Hostin brags she was the holdout juror who kept the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park out of prison.

He murdered a woman. Chopped her up. Boiled her body parts. Served them as soup to the "unhoused."

And she still calls that justice.

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— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) September 23, 2026

This is the same moral compass we've been documenting for weeks around Clancy: the killer becomes a cause, and anyone who wants a conviction becomes the villain.

Hostin decided the real problem was the juror who would not acquit, stating "The insanity defense has been around in Massachusetts for 182 years, so I think it's well established. And I thought absolutely she was not criminally responsible by reason of insanity," Hostin said of Clancy.

She continued, "The reason I felt that - I feel so strongly about this holdout juror is because I was a holdout juror in a case, in the Daniel Rakowitz case. I don't know if people remember it, The Butcher of Tompkins Square."

Joy Behar: "The guy who ate the victims?"

"Yes," Hostin said.

Alyssa Farah Griffin gasped, "You were on that jury?"

Hostin produced a February 23, 1991 New York Times clip. "Several jurors questioned afterwards said one holdout juror was principally responsible for preventing them from returning a guilty verdict," she read, boasting "That was me!"

The same article quoted her under her birth name, Asuncion Cummings: "We don't think he intended to kill her. But once he did, he dismembered her body in an effort to commit the perfect crime."

She kept going. "Clearly I saw he was psychotic, he was in psychosis, he did not mean to kill her and once he killed her he panicked. He chopped up her body parts, yes, boiled her body parts, tried to commit the perfect crime."

Griffin stopped her: "And you got this guy off?!"

She's literally bragging that she set a man free who killed and ate people.

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Hostin's answer betrayed the ideology in one line. "That's how much I believe in the insanity defense, and he fed her body parts to the unhoused."

She added. "We were sequestered for nine days, one juror threw a chair at me, they were so angry with me but one by one I picked them off and said 'what about this, what about that,' and we ended up, all 12, unanimously voting that he was not criminally responsible by reason of insanity."

He is "still in a mental institution being treated," she added, as if that closed the books.

Rakowitz killed 26-year-old Swiss dance student Monika Beerle in their East Village apartment in August 1989. Accounts from the time describe a fight that ended with a punch to the throat hard enough to cut off her air. He dismembered her in the bathtub, boiled body parts on the stove, left her skull in a bucket of kitty litter at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, and - by the story that followed him into court - served remains as soup to homeless people in Tompkins Square Park. A witness testified the broth contained a human finger. Rakowitz bragged that he ate her brains.

On February 22, 1991, Hostin's jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity. He went to Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center on Wards Island, later the Manhattan Psychiatric Center. He was never sent to prison as a convicted murderer. Beerle never got another outcome.

In Plymouth, eleven jurors accepted the Clancy postpartum-psychosis defense. One juror, Michael Desronvil, would not. He later said he "didn't have any doubts" Clancy was criminally responsible. "Based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses and what the prosecution presents, I thought it was enough proof that she knew exactly what she was doing and planned it."

When Hostin held out, she blocked a conviction and recruited the room to spare a butcher. When Desronvil held out, he blocked an acquittal for a woman who killed three children. One stubbornness is framed as legal courage. The other is framed as a crime against empathy.

That is the same inversion at play with white liberal women on TikTok and a seven-figure GoFundMe to cast Clancy as the real victim while the murdered children recede into props.

As we've highlighted, hundreds of women in pink gathered outside Plymouth Superior Court for a "Stand in Peace" rally, cheering a confessed child killer. Organizer Renee Kimball told cameras, "I think that every one of us women believe that it could be any one of us." Another woman said, "It could be me."

By September the cause had moved from identification to enforcement. Supporters smeared Patrick Clancy, the father of the murdered children, with baseless claims he was involved in the killings - this after Lindsay confessed and after Patrick testified for the prosecution and said he forgave her as ill rather than evil. His lawyer, Howard Cooper, said the family had been hit with "a relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign" and warned, "Enough is enough."

Then the mob found the holdout's household. Relatives told the New York Post they could not leave home. "They are leaving notes at my mother's house. They won't leave us alone, and we don't know anything," the juror's brother said.

This cult evolved further when on Oprah's stage, a doctor demanded "the same passion for people who don't look like Lindsay," as if the scandal of three strangled children was an equity gap in pink-shirt energy. When a young woman in the audience said, "I do believe she's a murderer," Oprah answered, "After all you've heard today?"

These people would rather a psycho killer leave criminal court as a patient than sit in a cell as a convict.

They proved it in 1991 with a butcher. They are proving it now with a mother who killed three children, a father they slander, a juror's family they stalk, and a daytime host who still thinks flipping that old jury was the proudest duty of her life.

A system that cannot say a murderer is a murderer will not protect anyone.