During the tumultuous 2020 presidential campaign, then-VP candidate Kamala Harris famously promoted a bail fund to help Black Lives Matter-affiliated protesters and rioters post bail and leave prison:
Harris received criticism for promoting the fund, which at the time was paying bail for accused murderers and convicted sex offenders, among others. Now the bail is back in the news for freeing a man who has since been charged with murder:
An alleged Minneapolis domestic abuser has been arrested and charged with murder he is said to have carried out weeks after being released thanks to a bail fund backed by Vice President Kamala Harris.
George Howard, 48, was bailed out by the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF) on August 6 after being held on a $11,500 on charges of domestic abuse.
The victim has been identified as 38-year-old Luis Damian Martinez Ortiz who was pronounced dead after he was shot in the chest by Howard.
The bail fund had this to say in a now-deleted statement:
In response to the event, the MFF tweeted on Friday: 'We are aware of reports of the tragic and fatal shooting in Minneapolis earlier this week allegedly involving George Howard, an individual the Minnesota Freedom Fund had previously provided with bail support.'
'MFF believes that every individual who has been arrested by the law enforcement is innocent until proven guilty, and if a judge deems them eligible for bail, they should not have to wait in jail simply because they don't have the same income or access to resources as others.'
Alternatively, we shouldn't nonchalantly release violent people back into society because they support our political agenda.
Vice President Harris has lately been campaigning for California Gov. Gavin Newsom ahead of that state's recall election.
I'm sure she'll tack this on to the various things she'll eventually get around to addressing!
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