Brian Cole Jr. Trial: Everything I said here back in May was exactly what happened in the confession. It was obvious from the strung-together answers in the criminal complaint. (safe to read) The interviewing agent fed Cole every single detail about the case and then asked Cole to respond with the details in hand. In the very few instances where Cole was asked open-ended questions, Cole was either unable to remember, gave incoherent answers, or gave truly senseless answers, like pulling out his phone to watch Star Wars videos when he sat down at the DNC. When it got to the construction of the devices, which would provide the best test of whether Cole was innocent or guilty, the interviewing agent fully described the components and how they worked together, while Cole would just answer “yeah.” When asked specifics, like why he used alligator clips, he would give senseless answers: “Just to clip it, just more metal, more electricity.” Many of his “answers” were intoned upward like a question, as if he were peeking at the agents to see if that was the answer that would please them. Some of the things Cole got wrong, and the agents quickly tried to rush him past the answer. While they were asking questions about the first time someone sat at the DNC bench, the agent moved Cole to the CBCI, where Cole sat down on the ground. Then Cole just interjected that he planted the timer for 60 minutes right there at the CBCI rather than the DNC. They later asked him when he set the timer on the RNC device, and Cole, who clearly doesn’t know where it was set, says “Just right at the spot,” and the agent has to intervene and say, “When you bent down to place the RNC device.” These people went into that interview with one goal: get a confession. They drove, tortured, and threatened someone with special needs into giving that answer. Pursuing justice means allowing a person to show that they are not innocent, and they bypassed every opportunity for that by feeding Cole all the information before having him answer. They were given a directive to get a confession out of this guy, and they performed.