Vice President Kamala Harris is actively raising money for a bail fund that busts violent criminals from jail as her nascent presidential campaign signals her candidacy will lean heavily on her roots as a tough-on-crime former prosecutor.
Harris urged her followers to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund in June 2020 as Black Lives Matter rioters wreaked havoc in Minneapolis in the days following George Floyd’s death. Harris’s fundraising efforts helped the fund raise more than $41 million in 2020, but the group only used a small fraction of that bounty—$210,000—to bail rioters out of jail. The remaining funds helped post bail for violent criminals such as Christopher Boswell, a twice-convicted rapist who was freed from jail in 2020 pending kidnapping and sexual assault charges after the Minnesota Freedom Fund paid $350,000 for his release.
The Minnesota Freedom Fund continues to reap dividends from Harris’s fundraising efforts well into 2024. The vice president’s fundraising page for the group, which contains a photo of a triumphant Harris before a crowd of supporters alongside her 2020 campaign logo, is active and accepted a contribution from this reporter on Monday morning.
Harris criticized the cash bail system as a major contributor to systemic racism during her failed 2020 presidential campaign. But Harris sang a different tune about cash bail when she served as San Francisco district attorney in 2004. Back then, Harris touted cash bail as an invaluable tool to reduce violent crime in her city {snip}
Top Harris aides signaled Monday that Harris will adopt a “prosecutor for president” framework for her 2024 campaign, CNN reported. Former president Donald Trump’s campaign said Monday it will highlight Harris’s support of the Minnesota Freedom Fund to counter her tough-on-crime persona. (source: https://www.amren.com/)
