In a shocking incident that has sparked outrage and disbelief, a pro-Palestinian extremist in Colorado reportedly launched a violent attack on peaceful demonstrators, hurling Molotov cocktails at the crowd.
The victims were participating in a silent march to commemorate the hostages held by Hamas. The assault, which occurred in Boulder, resulted in injuries to at least five individuals. The alleged perpetrator, Mohamad Soliman, was apprehended at the scene. Video footage captured him vociferously proclaiming, "Palestine is free" and "end Zionists" as he attempted to set innocent bystanders ablaze.
According to RedState, the aftermath of such a horrific incident would typically see the press setting aside their partisan biases for a brief period. However, this was not the case. In a particularly egregious example, CNN, which had recently disseminated a fabricated, Hamas-sourced blood libel falsely accusing Israeli tanks of killing dozens at an aid distribution site, chose to use the incident to launch an attack on FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
In the wake of the assault, CNN invited Andrew McCabe and Juliette Kayyem to criticize Patel and Bongino. The cause of their ire? The FBI officials had dared to label the Colorado attack as a terrorist act. Juliette Kayyem, a CNN law enforcement analyst, Harvard professor, and former Obama DHS official, referred to Patel and Bongino as "disorganized" and "juvenile" for their characterization of the incident.
Kayyem stated, "When the Boulder police chief comes out and says we don't have two plus two equaling four yet. In other words, this is obviously an anti-Semitic attack, and the victims were obviously part of that group. Therefore, we're not calling it terrorism. It adds a lot of, it's not, it's not good for the community. It's not good for the potentially targeted community. It makes law enforcement look disorganized, and it makes the FBI look so juvenile. Like, why are you getting ahead of the police chief who, who says, I don't know what this is?"
She continued, "It sounds, maybe it is what we all think it is, but maybe it's not. And he has no incentive to get it wrong. So, we're going to take a step back, not be responsive to tweets by two heads of the FBI who don't have a long history in local law enforcement, and we will wait and hope it isn't what we all worry it is, and if it is, then there'll be an investigation."
At the time of these statements, video evidence of the attacker shouting his motives was already available. The suggestion that the Boulder police chief, who is likely a far-left individual given the city's radical leanings, didn't have "two plus two equaling four" regarding motive is simply false. It's asking people to ignore the attacker's own words about why he carried out his heinous act.
To then accuse Patel and Bongino of making the FBI look "juvenile" because they chose to tell people the truth instead of tiptoeing around the issue of Islamic terrorism is absurd. Since when is the FBI expected to follow the lead of a local police chief? Especially one who is staring at the sky and insisting he doesn't know what color it is. That seems like a significant shifting of the goalposts, given the FBI typically takes the lead on terrorism cases once they arrive on the scene, and this event certainly qualifies.
Kayyem continued her tirade, asserting that the FBI labeling the attack as terrorism made them look "confused" while again pretending that there wasn't overwhelming evidence, including an on-camera confession, regarding what occurred.
Kayyem stated, "And if you go out believing it's one thing, you are going to miss lots of other things. And so, the Boulder police chief was clear, we don't know if the victims were specifically attacked for their, you know, for who they were, and we don't know exactly who the perpetrator is. So, this is a really, not great for the FBI to get so far ahead that everyone is sort of now having to sort of unwind and then maybe rewind or, or, or state the same thing consistently in the future if it does turn out being terrorism."
She added, "It's really a bad look overall, and I don't mean that politically. I just mean, like, people need law enforcement to work in a unified fashion to determine what happened, in particular, if this is a hate crime or terrorism directed towards the Jewish community, that, that community in particular needs law enforcement to not be in all different places and look, look confused."
Contrary to Kayyem's assertions, the FBI did not "look confused." On the contrary, Patel and Bongino were authoritative and clear in their pronouncement of this being an act of terrorism. Kayyem's claim that it's a "really bad look" while acting as if she's not speaking politically is simply absurd. We all know exactly what she was trying to do in attacking the FBI. To the extent that the Boulder PD was unwilling to state what they already had evidence of is on them, not Patel and Bongino.
This kind of partisan rhetoric is why the mainstream press is losing the trust of the public. Why is CNN inviting disgraced former FBI officials to act as "experts" on anything? McCabe and Kayyem are hacks, and no one should take anything they say seriously. The public deserves better than this kind of biased reporting. They deserve the truth, not partisan spin.
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