Biden staff donate to group that pays bail in riot-torn Minneapolis

reuters.com ^ | 05/30/2020 | Jason Lange, Trevor Hunnicutt

[massmike]

Campaign staff for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden are advertising their donations to a group that pays bail fees in Minneapolis after the city’s police jailed people protesting the killing of a black man by a white police officer.

At least 13 Biden campaign staff members posted on Twitter on Friday and Saturday that they made donations to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which opposes the practice of cash bail, or making people pay to avoid pre-trial imprisonment. The group uses donations to pay bail fees in Minneapolis.

Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement to Reuters that the former vice president opposes the institution of cash bail as a “modern day debtors prison.”

Biden’s campaign staff, in their Twitter posts, called attention to U.S. inequities based on race and income. “It is up to everyone to fight injustice,” Colleen May, who identified herself as an campaign organizer for Biden in South Carolina, Wisconsin and Florida, said in a Twitter post that included an image of her receipt from donating $50 to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.

[piasa]

That’s the thing- this fund received some 20 million in donations during the rioting...in a normal year they only spend about $100,000 on bail for the ‘poor.’
Even with the 20 million windfall, they self reported that they have spent about $250,000 on bail for rioters [not including their usual bailouts, presumably.]
What are they doing with the remaining millions? That 19+ million has to go somewhere as it is a ‘nonprofit.’

So, they are going to have to launder it through a bunch of other nonprofits ...

[Eleutheria5]

“administrative costs”