New CCTV Appears to Put Brian Cole Jr. on the Other Side of the Capitol. So Where the Hell Is Black Lives Matter?

Some stories you read once and move on.

This one I've read about twenty times out here in the Midwest, and every time I get angrier.

My wife has started leaving the room when I open the laptop.

A young autistic man with no criminal record has been sitting in a jail cell for more than ten months.

He's accused of planting the pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic national committee headquarters on January 5, 2021, the night before January 6.

His name is Brian Cole Jr.

And on Sunday, a piece of footage surfaced that, if it shows what Steve Baker says it shows, should have him home with his mother by Christmas.

I'm going to tell you where I stand up front.

I voted for Donald Trump.

I'd do it again.

But I swore a long time ago I'd never be anybody's cheerleader.

And on this case, in my view, my own side has some explaining to do.

There's an old line I keep taped above my desk: the law is for the obedience of fools and the guidance of the wise.

I like to think I'm on the wise end of that.

So let's use our heads instead of just doing what we're told.

THE FOOTAGE

On October 18, Steve Baker posted what he called a "BREAKING Exclusive": never-before-seen Capitol CCTV that, he says, shows Cole "walking on the northwest side of the Capitol at EXACTLY THE SAME TIME as the real suspect was distributing devices on the southeast side."

The video work was done by an analyst who posts as @accabbat, known as Armitas.

Baker and former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin then broke it down frame by frame.

Look at the timestamp on that frame. 7:57pm.

According to the FBI's own affidavit, the bomber placed the device at the DNC at about 7:54pm and the one behind the RNC at about 8:16pm.

So if Baker and Armitas have the right man, Cole was strolling on the other side of the Capitol complex right in the middle of the bomber's run.

How did they find him?

Baker says Cole told the FBI during his interrogation that he'd gone to a rally that evening.

The legally permitted "Jesus Lives" event on the Capitol grounds.

Baker's team had spent almost a year hunting for Cole on the south side near the bomb sites.

Then they looked where Cole said he'd been.

And there, they say, he was.

Here's what gets me.

Baker posted pages from the interrogation transcript itself.

Asked what he did with the hour he spent there, Cole told the agents he would "just walk around, sit around, look around, just wishing I had my headphones."

Asked about the rallies: "I only attended that -- I only attended that protest, that was it."

That's not a man building an alibi.

That's a man describing a lonely walk.

And according to Baker, Armitas found exactly that on camera: a lone young man who'd turned up late, after the event wrapped, wandering and steering clear of the crowd.

The FBI had that answer on tape on December 4.

Did anyone at the Bureau go and check the cameras on the side of the Capitol where he said he was?

Because Baker's volunteers apparently did.

Baker points to the details.

New Balance shoes, size 12.

A habit of walking on the backs of his sneakers, which his mother says is why she eventually switched him to Crocs.

And a maroon-and-gold face mask in the old Washington Football Team colors, one of the masks his mother sewed for the family because Brian hated the white N95s.

The bomber wore what looked like a white mask.

Baker says when he showed Brian's mother the screenshot, she started crying.

She knew it was her son.

Then came the update.

Baker says Cole's grandmother, Loretta Cole, phoned him to say the jacket in the video was the exact jacket she'd given him for Christmas two weeks earlier.

That, Baker says, explains the tag still hanging off it.

Baker's message to the Bureau was simple: go and get the purchase record from Kohl's.

I'd add one thing.

If the FBI is so sure of its case, it should be sprinting to the mall for that receipt.

I'll even drive.

MASSIE ISN'T MINCING WORDS

Congressman Thomas Massie watched the video and didn't hedge.

"Newly unearthed CCTV of Brian Cole Jr shows he was elsewhere on J5 and couldn't have planted the pipe bombs," he wrote.

"To keep him imprisoned is criminal."

He tagged FBI Director Kash Patel.

This wasn't Massie's first shot.

Back on September 21 he said everyone who took credit at the podium for Cole's arrest was "complicit, either through negligence or malfeasance."

On September 30 he went further: "What the two of them have done to this autistic black man is inexcusable."

At a minimum, he said, release Cole on an ankle bracelet until trial.

And he's still going.

On Sunday night he wrote: "Trump's @FBIDirectorKash locked up an innocent man and @SpeakerJohnson congratulated him."

Johnson, he said, should have said "all of Congress except Massie," because "I didn't fall for this."

He also asked what the consequence should be for members of Congress, "tasked with oversight of these agencies, who intentionally look the other way?"

And when Benny Johnson, yes, him again, posted a list of reasons the bomber was "a young black guy" and a "radical anti-Trump activist", Massie replied with six words: "Might want to delete this and apologize."

That's a sitting Republican congressman talking about a Republican-run FBI.

Thanksgiving is going to be awkward.

THE MAN WHO GOT THERE FIRST

To understand why so many people smell a rat, you have to go back to November 2025.

Baker, then reporting for Blaze News with Joseph Hanneman, had been on the pipe-bomb case for years when nobody else cared.

On November 5 he told Glenn Beck he'd found his suspect.

On November 8, Blaze published the story.

Baker's "person of interest" wasn't an autistic kid from Woodbridge.

It was a former Capitol Police officer who, according to the report, had moved on to a security job at the CIA.

Here's the evidence as Baker and Blaze laid it out.

Gait analysis.

A software algorithm that measures how a person walks, including knee bend, hip extension, speed, step length, cadence and variance, rated her a 94% match to the hooded figure on the January 5 video.

The veteran analyst who ran it put the match at 96% to 98% once human review was added.

Two more sources familiar with gait analysis looked at the comparison and agreed.

Height.

The FBI's own photogrammetry put the bomber at about 5 feet 7 inches, including headwear.

Baker told interviewer Frank Volpe that her college soccer profile listed her at 5 feet 7.

Shoes.

The bomber wore Nike Air Max Speed Turf sneakers.

Baker says the color scheme matched the semi-pro soccer team she'd played for.

And Kyle Seraphin, who did FBI surveillance on the case, told Blaze his team had been placed one door away from her address within days of January 6, then "pulled away for no logical" reason.

Now, in fairness, and I mean this, those are Baker's findings, not proven facts.

The FBI says it investigated her and found "zero evidence" linking her to the bombs, and that she had an alibi: she was at home in Virginia, reportedly on video playing with her puppies.

She denies any involvement.

Blaze retracted the story, and she is now suing Blaze Media and its reporters for defamation.

I'm not naming her, and I'm not accusing her of anything.

But nobody ever got arrested for asking questions.

Not yet, anyway.

If this really was a set-up from day one, wouldn't the FBI have every reason in the world to hand its first suspect a nice, tidy alibi?

And how exactly does a Capitol Police officer end up in what Baker reported was a security job at the CIA?

Cushy work if you can get it.

Who opened that door, and when?

She has lawyers, and she's suing.

Fine.

That's her right.

But a lawsuit isn't an alibi, and neither is an FBI press release.

Show me the evidence, both ways, in open court.

I'll make up my own mind.

I'm not saying anybody bought anybody anything.

I'm saying I want those questions answered under oath, not at a podium.

I am also noticing the calendar.

Baker named his suspect on November 8.

On December 4, less than four weeks later, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino and Jeanine Pirro stood at a podium and announced they'd caught the bomber.

A different one.

After nearly five years of nothing.

"There was no new tip, there was no new witness," Bondi said.

Just good police work on evidence that had been "sitting there collecting dust."

Maybe.

Five years of dust, then a breakthrough three and a half weeks after a reporter goes public with a different name.

Pure coincidence, I'm sure.

Tucker Carlson put it more bluntly than I would.

They "grabbed this random autistic guy and put him in jail like right after Steve Baker named his federal employee as the pipe bomber."

"HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO EXPLAIN THAT I'M INNOCENT?"

Then there's the confession.

The FBI says Cole admitted it.

His lawyers filed the full transcript last month, asking a judge to throw the statements out.

I've read the excerpts.

I spent years in talk radio listening to people squirm.

I've never read anything like this.

According to the defense filing, Cole was walking to a 7-Eleven when he found agents pointing guns at him.

Hours into the interview he was wrapped in a blanket, fighting the urge to vomit and repeating the same lines to himself.

"Please tell me this is a misunderstanding."

"I did not place the devices," he said, "I did not place them," and "I'm maintaining my innocence."

"How am I supposed to explain that I'm innocent?"

Four times, according to the filing, in a single breath.

Agents showed him surveillance footage.

"Do you recognize that person?" an agent asked.

"No," Cole said.

Then came the warning: "Lying to federal agents is breaking the law," followed by "That's another crime, so more lies just makes it worse, okay?" and then "No, look at me."

Seconds later: "So, is this individual you?"

"Yes."

His lawyers say agents also told him his family would be dragged in for interviews.

Prosecutors say the confession is backed by purchase records, a license-plate hit near the Capitol and phone data.

A judge will decide.

Trial is set for February.

But I know what I'd call a frightened autistic man saying "no" until he's told "no" is a crime.

I wouldn't call it a confession.

This is a man who, the New York Post reported, made My Little Pony fan art.

A classmate remembered him being laughed at for carrying a My Little Pony backpack to school.

Bullied then.

Bullied in that interview room, in my view, now.

Tucker summed it up in September after sitting down with Cole's parents, Brian Cole Sr. and Delicia Cole.

Autism.

No criminal record.

No connection to J6.

In prison without bail.

His parents think he's been framed, Tucker wrote, and "We agree."

WHERE THE HELL IS BLACK LIVES MATTER?

And now the question I can't stop asking.

Where is Black Lives Matter?

Here is a young Black man with autism.

No record.

Arrested at gunpoint.

Held without bail.

Questioned for hours, until, in my view, he said what the agents wanted to hear.

And now there's footage that, his supporters say, puts him on the other side of the Capitol.

If you had designed a case to test whether BLM meant what it said, you couldn't have done better.

And the silence is deafening.

When a video platform yanked my old talk-radio clips for "misinformation", I made more noise about it than the biggest civil-rights brand in America has made about this young man.

And nobody was locking me up.

I searched.

I couldn't find a single public statement from Black Lives Matter on Brian Cole Jr.

Not a hashtag.

Not a vigil.

Not a march on the Justice Department.

For years we were told that a Black man's life matters, that the system is rigged against him, that you don't stay quiet when the police get it wrong.

We were told silence is violence.

So what is this?

Baker has been asking too.

He's publicly called out BLM, the NAACP, Al Sharpton's National Action Network and Ben Crump by name.

"Who silenced ALL of you on Brian Cole Jr.?"

Even Tucker asked it.

"What about the civil rights establishment?" he asked, and then: "Like, where's Sharpton?"

Brian's mother, Delicia: "I have no idea."

And here's the bit that really stings.

According to the Daily Wire, Cole's own father appeared with Ben Crump at a 2021 press conference about racism.

This family is not new to the fight.

The movement just doesn't seem to want this fight.

My guess?

Helping Brian Cole means agreeing with Thomas Massie, Tucker Carlson and a reporter who was at the Capitol on January 6.

It means admitting the people who say "J6 was an inside job" might have a point about something.

And for some activists, it seems, the politics matter more than the man.

That's not justice.

That's branding.

WHAT I WANT

I'm not saying I know who planted those bombs.

I'm saying the people who arrested Brian Cole owe the country a lot more than a podium and a press release.

Get the Kohl's receipt.

Release every frame of the Capitol CCTV from that night.

Explain why a five-year cold case "cracked" less than four weeks after a reporter named someone else.

And let Brian Cole out on bail while you do it.

Not because he's on my team.

Not because he's on anyone's team.

Because if the government can do this to a quiet autistic guy who draws cartoon ponies, it can do it to anyone.

Director Patel, you told us you'd clean up the FBI.

Start here.

Here's the deal.

Anonymous exists to help the people who can't help themselves.

A young autistic man with no voice, no lobby and no hashtag is exactly who we're here for.

So if BLM won't make noise for Brian Cole, we will.

And we're loud.

And Remember:

Trust no Single Source

Trust Your Gut

and Stay Curious

Jesse

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