July 22 2024
The Washington Examiner: "Vice President Kamala Harris is coming under renewed scrutiny as she embarks on her second White House bid over her promotion in 2020 of a bail fund that helped free convicts, including murderers and serial domestic abusers.
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The Minnesota Freedom Fund, a previously little-known organization that tax forms show raised a staggering $41 million in 2020, was notably promoted in June of that year by then-Sen. Harris, who posted on social media, 'If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.' Formed in 2016, the MFF 'has paid more than $26 million to free 3,000+ people from pre-trial jailing and immigration detention' and 'pays criminal bail and immigration bonds for those who cannot otherwise afford to as we seek to end discriminatory, coercive, and oppressive jailing,' according to MFF’s website.
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Court records show that the Harris-endorsed MFF was used to bail out violent criminals, including Shawn Michael Tillman of St. Paul, who was sentenced to life in prison this March for first- and second-degree murder. George Howard, another man that the MFF freed, pleaded guilty in 2023 to second-degree murder for shooting and killing another man in 2021 in Minneapolis.
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One person who benefited from the MFF, Christopher Boswell, is a twice-convicted rapist.... Another person, Darnika Floyd, was later sentenced in 2021 to prison after being charged with second-degree murder in 2018 for stabbing a man to death who did not want to have sex with her."