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Two blacks are charged with staging a hate hoax (burning a cross) to get sympathy for black mayoral candidate yemi mobolade. The defendants claim yemi was in on the plan.
www.denver7.com
may 19 2025 DENVER (AP) — In the run-up to the 2023 mayoral election in Colorado Springs, a racial slur was scrawled across a Black candidate’s sign and a cross set on fire in front of it.
It was a stunt to generate sympathy and support for the Black candidate, Yemi Mobolade, prosecutors have said, and two people accused of staging it are on trial this week, charged with making a threat against him. They are each charged with using a means of interstate commerce — the internet and email — to make a threat and convey false information about an attempt to intimidate Mobolade with a fire.
But one of the defendants claims Mobolade himself was a participant in the plan to help him win. And the defendant’s attorneys say their alleged actions were political theater — free speech that is constitutionally protected and wasn’t meant to cause harm. The U.S. Attorney's Office for Colorado, which is prosecuting the case, declined to comment on whether it had questioned or investigated Mobolade about whether he was involved in the cross burning.

Couple on trial over staged cross-burning in front of campaign sign for Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade
Before a mayoral election in Colorado Springs, a slur was scrawled across a Black candidate’s sign and a cross set on fire. Prosecutors say it was a stunt for sympathy. The accused are on trial.
