(Congressional Agenda) – Vice President Kamala Harris championed a bail fund, which is now, according to a report from Andrew Kerr at the Washington Free Beacon, plummeting toward the bottom of the proverbial toilet bowl, as records show it suffered from a massive 98 percent drop in contributions back in 2021.
Harris is a big fan of the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which only pulled in a measly $837,000 in 2021, as declared on a Form 990 filing with the Internal Revenue Service. That’s a huge drop in donations from the $41.7 million the group managed to sucker people into donating in 2020 at the height of the George Floyd riots. At that time, Harris was gung-ho about pressuring folks to toss cash in the coffers for the organizations in order to “help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.”
The “protesting” Harris is talking about is progressive code for “rioting, looting, vandalizing, and burning down” businesses in the very same cities these miscreants called home. In other words, the funds were being used to bail out criminals so they would not have to face consequences for their actions.
“The Freedom Fund used those donations to bail out a host of violent offenders, including alleged murderers and pedophiles,” Kerr stated, going on to add, “The Minnesota Freedom Fund is just the latest social justice darling to suffer dwindling support after receiving a surge of cash during the 2020 riots. Black Lives Matter, which raised $90 million following Floyd’s death, reported last week that its revenues plummeted 88 percent in its 2022 fiscal year. The group blew a sizable portion of its windfall on luxury mansions and lucrative contracts for the family and friends of the group’s co-founder, Patrisse Cullors.”
If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota. https://t.co/t8LXowKIbw
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 1, 2020
“The Minnesota Freedom Fund’s financial windfall in 2020 was thanks in no small part to Harris’s endorsement of the group, according to American Bail Coalition executive director Jeffrey Clayton. At least 13 staffers who worked for President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign donated to the fund in days following Floyd’s death, Reuters reported,” Kerr continued.
The Minnesota Freedom Fund only ended up spending $210,000 to provide bail money for those facing protest-related charges.
So what happened to the vast majority of the funds raised by the group? It went to posting bail for folks who had been charged with committing violent crimes. People like Christopher Boswell, a man convicted not once, but twice for rape, along with Timothy Wayne Columbus, who was facing a sentence of 30-years in prison over allegedly sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl back in 2015. The Minnesota Fund fronted $75,000 each to help secure Columbus’s release in the summer of 2020 pending trial.
“Some of the violent offenders released from jail thanks to the Minnesota Freedom Fund went on to commit murders while awaiting trial. Career criminal George Howard shot and killed a man during a road rage incident in August 2021, three weeks after the Freedom Fund bailed him out of jail following a domestic violence charge,” the WFB report said. “Later, in May 2022, repeat felon Shawn Michael Tillman shot and killed a passenger on a St. Paul light rail platform after the Minnesota Freedom Fund helped secure his release from jail the prior month on a separate indecent exposure charge.”
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