"CNN host Jake Tapper identified Washington, D.C. pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole as a 30-year-old white man on Thursday, just minutes before airing photos that showed that was clearly not the case. Brian Cole Jr., a 30-year-old white man from the D.C. suburbs, is charged with transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce and with malicious destruction by means of explosion, reported Tapper on his show The Lead. Just a few minutes later, however, Tapper aired photos of the suspect, showing that he was clearly black, not white."
"The FBI took Cole into custody on Thursday morning, years after a masked figure was caught on surveillance footage placing bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters in Washington, D.C. on January 5, 2021. Nearly five years after the incident, Cole was named as the suspect after the FBI placed him near the scene of the crime by trawling through license plate readers and cell tower data."
Brian Cole Jr., 30, from the D.C. suburbs, is charged with transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce and with malicious destruction by means of explosion. Photographs of the suspect clearly show he is Black, contradicting an earlier identification of him as white. The FBI arrested Cole after tracing him near the January 5, 2021 DNC and RNC bomb placements using license plate readers and cell tower data. The Justice Department credited the arrest to diligent investigative work and interagency collaboration. A prior on-air error similarly misidentified the race of a shooting suspect, who was later named as 27-year-old Shane Tamura.
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