Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade is making headlines for insisting the state should allow local police to cooperate with federal immigration to deport Biden’s illegal border busters.
But only if they are criminals, which is the exact same stance taken by Gov. Polis and Democrats across the state and is about to land them in legal trouble with the Justice Department.
Perhaps that’s why Mobolade thought to bring it up during his monthly press briefing, thinking it might give him some wiggle room with the feds?
Surely it didn’t have anything to do with news The Gazette broke just hours before his briefing about the chief suspect in the hate crime hoax to allegedly boost Mobolade’s election chances for mayor against a white man, Wayne Williams?
When last we left Derrick Bernard Jr., he was sitting in jail awaiting trial on the far more serious crime he’s also accused of in another case for attempted murder of a police officer.
A hearing was set in that case Thursday, but it turns out the Justice Department isn’t willing to let him return to state custody on the murder charges until they are done prosecuting him in March for the faux hate crime, which is a federal offense.
Mobolade has denied reports he had any knowledge of the staged burning cross in front of a campaign yard sign, despite evidence claimed by the Justice Department that Bernard was in contact with the then-candidate numerous times before and after the incident.
That seems to be far bigger news than Mobolade repeating the same immigration talking points as Colorado Democrats.
Stay tuned, that federal trial is set for March 17.