Posted on 05/29/2020 7:01:20 PM PDT by bitt
In the wake of the brutal death of George Floyd, the Minneapolis man killed by a white police officer while in custody, people all over the country have united to protest police violence and call for charges to be brought against the police officers responsible for his death. Others have backed up social action with dollars, flocking to grassroots organizations in the state of Minnesota to support protesters on the ground.
One of these organizations is the Minnesota Freedom Fund, an abolitionist-focused group working toward ending cash bail in Minnesota and nationally. Over the past few days, a Twitter trend where people match donations to the fund has gone viral, generating tens of thousands of tweets thanks in part to celebrities like Rob Delaney and Lin Manuel Miranda boosting the organization. Others, like Seth Rogen and Steve Carell, simply tweeted matched, linking to other users calls to donate to the fund.
The national support has been overwhelming, says Tonja Honsey, the executive director of the Minnesota Freedom Fund. The fund is currently working with the National Lawyers Guild and Legal Rights Center to help reduce the burden of bail for protesters whove been arrested. Though she says she isnt sure yet just how much money has been donated to the organization, she says that it has received tens of thousands of donations to the fund to bail out protesters.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
Taxable?
When the riots started, my sympathy for the protesters dissolved. I still feel really horrible about George Floyd’s death and condolences to his grieving family.
Minnesota Freedom Fund also fundraises to bail out illegal immigrants. Their staff includes:
Tonja Honsey, Executive Director
Greg Lewin, Board President
Jeff Strier
Michael Friedman, Board Member
Steve Boland, Treasurer
Simon Cecil, Founder
Octavia Smith, Emeritus Board President
Honsey, a meth dealer with a record as a check forger and thief, also founded a group called We Rise! for incarcerated mothers. Smith is linked to an organization called Voices for Racial Justice, led by a Somali Muslim advocate named Mustafa Jumale.
Minnesota Freedom Fund. The fund is currently working with the National Lawyers Guild and Legal Rights Center
Who heads up these two entities? Hmmmm?
Smells of $oros.
They are not protestors at this point, they are rioters / looters / arsonists. Any legitimate protestors should have gone home.
There should be no bail.
Ah! A Somali connection.
Let them eat cake.
If one is merely “protesting”, why are they being arrested? these scumbags are largely raising money for rioters.
Where are the freaking water cannons??!!
Blast the skin off all of them. So none of them HAVE a skin color left to bitch, moan, destroy, hate, or vilify over.
Well DUHHH, they shouldn't be there.
They should be home safe practicing social distancing.
NO good will come of forcing police to stop this HISTORIC civil rights protest.
Watching CNN now.
CNN headquarters still standing unlike the Targets Stores in MN
Sounds like CPUSA tactics.
Does anyone have a burner phone? Call that number saying you need bailed out, and gather intelligence.
We should have picked our own cotton!!!!!
Klapper, Comey and Brennan are not there defending CNN?
..or at least planted more polyester..
Repeat a lie often enough...
Huge crowd outside 5th precinct station in Minneapolis per tweet at Agenda-Free TV
https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/team
Tonja Honsey, Executive Director
https://minnesotareformer.com/author/tonja-honsey/
Tonja Honsey is the executive director of the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a Soros Justice Fellow and the first formerly incarcerated member of the Minnesota Sentencing Commission.
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