Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn had reason to believe a Sunday afternoon attack on the Pearl Street Mall was terror.

At 1:26 p.m., a man had thrown Molotov cocktails at a group walking to raise awareness of Israeli hostages being held by the terrorist group Hamas.

So while he was driving over, he called the FBI’s Denver field office to tell agents about the attack.

“We had a very good idea this was terrorism. It’s one of the reasons the FBI was there, they were one of my first calls when I heard what had happened,” Redfearn said in an interview with the Daily Camera on Tuesday.

But it was still early in the investigation, and Redfearn was waiting to hear what Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the 45-year-old Egyptian national who was arrested in the attack that injured 12, told detectives a

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