The hate crime hoax that was intended to help elect Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade goes a lot deeper than originally reported, and as usual the Front Range media missed the story.
It turns out the FBI wanted to prosecute Mobolade for making false statements during their investigation, but the Justice Department refused to for political and racial reasons, reports the Daily Wire.
Justice didn’t want to indict the first Black mayor of Colorado Springs, an FBI official told the publication.
Three people were indicted last week for staging the bogus KKK-style hate crime just as Mobolade faced former Secretary of State Wayne Williams in a campaign runoff election last year.
The alleged ringleader of the hoax is Derrick Bernard, who has a history with the law having already served nearly three years in prison on charges he tried to kill two police officers, the Wire reports.
When the indictments were handed down, Bernard was already back in prison on a murder charge.
Bernard along with the other two suspects are charged in this case for “using interstate commerce to make a threat and convey false information, but not with a hate crime or election interference,” the Wire reported.
Whoever the FBI official is that’s talking to the Wire, they seem to have first-hand information of the investigation as it unfolded in Colorado.
When Mobolade was first questioned about the text messages and a phone call with Bernard before and after the cross burning, the mayor scrolled through his phone to aid his memory, not realizing law enforcement already had those messages in hand.
“(H)e was literally skipping over text messages,” the official told the publication.
The story gets even more outrageous after the indictments were made public and Mobolade tried to interfere with the official statement issued by federal officials.
Read the whole story here at the Daily Wire This is what real reporting looks like.