Posted on 05/29/2025 8:19:19 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A Colorado couple who burned a cross in front of a black mayoral candidate’s campaign sign to generate voter sympathy was convicted Friday of conveying false information about a threat.
Prosecutors argued that although Ashley Blackcloud, who is indigenous and Black, and Derrick Bernard, who is Black, orchestrated and broadcast the hoax to aid the candidate, their actions still amounted to a criminal threat.
The cross burning happened in 2023 during the run-up to the mayoral election in Colorado Springs, the state’s second-largest city.
Images and video of the episode were emailed to local news outlets to boost the campaign of Yemi Mobolade, now the city’s first black mayor.
Blackcloud’s attorney did not deny in the trial this week that she participated in setting up the cross burning and defacing the sign.
Bernard denied participating but acknowledged during testimony that he disseminated the images even though he knew it was a hoax.
Because cross burning is protected by the First Amendment, the case came down to whether the act was a threat.
Prosecutors argued that even though Blackcloud’s and Bernard’s intention was to help Mobolade, he perceived the actions as a threat, with his family buying fire ladders and a medical trauma kit for their house.
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Isn’t it offensive that ‘ap’ failed to capitalize the “I” in indigenous but did capitalize the “B” in black. Asking for a friend. 🤔😂👍
So which is it, AP? Always capitalize the word "black" or not? Better check today's style manual.
Because, reality.
So that is how Colorado Springs, long the bastion of Rocky Mountain conservatism, home of the Focus on the Family, and the vanguard of the evangelical movement, ended up with a raucous, revolutionary liberal Nigerian mayor. Through brilliantly manipulated white guilt.
Images and video of the episode were emailed to local news outlets to boost the campaign of Yemi Mobolade
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Dems found yet another way to cheat in the elections!
Blackcloud’s defense attorney, Britt Cobb, said the cross burning was merely “meant to be a political stunt, political theater" and “did not mean this as a real threat of violence,” Cobb said.
It is far worse than that, it was an attempt to smear Whites in Colorado Springs as racist and violent and to sway an election via fraud.
There should be heavy jail time for this.
>> Through brilliantly manipulated white guilt.
And decades of Californication of all of Colorful Colorado.
But there is also a locus of Christian power in Colorado Springs, as you point out. It is an earthly proxy for the spiritual war in the heavenlies.
That's damn near a trifecta.
What about adding queer or trans?
There SO MUCH RACISM in the US that they have to MAKE IT UP!!
Actually theres a good bit of racism but not on the side being blamed.
The cross burning happened in 2023 during the run-up to the mayoral election in Colorado Springs, the state’s second-largest city.
Hopefully the new FBI will start throwing the book at these types of cheats and thugs.
Upper case B Black is supposed to be African-American, a recognized distinct cultural/ethnic group.
The mayor is a Nigerian-American, and lower case b black.
The writers were very precise and adhering to their guidelines.
Wait a generation and the Descendents of African Immigrants will be asked their capitalization preference.
Good grief! I cannot keep up. Wouldn’t it be easier to simply capitalize everything? Then there would be no unintentional slights against the grammatically preferred group.
Probably just a pretindian, but you can’t tell because of her melanin. Far too nany red-headed “Indians” out there.
“Indigenous and Black?”
AND female!
There is your trifecta!
“Good grief! I cannot keep up. Wouldn’t it be easier to simply capitalize everything? Then there would be no unintentional slights against the grammatically preferred group.”
You are correct. However, knowing the communists, they would simply complain about, “Hey! You capitalized my group and we are offended! We demand that you change it to lowercase!”
Looked up pics of them.
Wish I hadn’t.
Blechhh.
But not distinguishing certain groups by an honorific capitalization would be felt as a slight, like failing to salute an officer, or in the old days, not tipping a hat to a lady.
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