{"id":1626056,"date":"2022-08-29T18:19:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T22:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1626056"},"modified":"2022-08-29T18:19:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T22:19:47","slug":"kamala-backed-bail-fund-puts-murderer-on-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-backed-bail-fund-puts-murderer-on-the-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala-Backed Bail Fund Puts Murderer on the Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkamala-backed-bail-fund-puts-murderer-on-the-street%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1626056&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A Minnesota bail fund championed by Vice President Kamala Harris helped free a repeat felon now charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Freedom Fund on Thursday acknowledged it helped secure the release of Shawn Michael Tillman, who in May shot and killed a passenger on a rail platform in St. Paul. Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kamalaharris\/status\/1267555018128965643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promoted<\/a> the Freedom Fund on Twitter during the George Floyd riots in 2020, helping the group raise $35 million in a matter of weeks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/09\/03\/kamala-harris-tweeted-support-bail-fund-money-didnt-just-assist-protestors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> the <em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom Fund executive directors Mirella Ceja-Orozco and Elizer Darris defended the group&#8217;s decision to post Tillman&#8217;s bail in a <a href=\"https:\/\/mnfreedomfund.org\/updates\/2022\/8\/25\/statement-in-response-to-kstps-reporting-on-shawn-tillman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> Thursday, saying, &#8220;It is neither just nor effective to respond to violence by denying bail and preemptively punishing people who are disproportionately poor, Black, brown, and Indigenous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tillman&#8217;s criminal record includes multiple counts of indecent exposure, as well as assault and unlawful possession of a firearm, court records show. He is now in custody with bail set at $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>When reached for comment, the Freedom Fund directed the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> to its statement.<\/p>\n<p>Tillman&#8217;s most recent felony conviction was in November 2018 for indecent exposure in the presence of a minor. He had seven prior counts of indecent exposure at the time. Ceja-Orozco and Darris said convictions play into their decision to fund those charged with crimes. They did not list any of Tillman&#8217;s past convictions.<\/p>\n<p>Tillman is not the first person to commit murder after being bailed out by the Freedom Fund. The group helped free a man charged with domestic abuse last year. Weeks later, he <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/kamala-backed-bail-fund-freed-alleged-domestic-abuser-now-charged-with-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murdered another man<\/a> in a road rage incident, the<em>\u00a0Free Beacon<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The group also shelled out $75,000 in cash to release Jaleel Stallings, who was charged in May 2020 with attempted murder after shooting at police during the Floyd riots.<\/p>\n<p>Minneapolis saw the highest number of homicides last year since the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Minnesota bail fund championed by Vice President Kamala Harris helped free a repeat felon now charged with murder. 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