The Chicago Community Bail Fund (CCBF), which pays bond for people charged with crimes in America’s third-largest city, has raised millions since the George Floyd protests began.
Thanks to that massive influx of cash, CCBF has freed no fewer than 20 suspects charged with felonies — including attempted terrorism — amid the Windy City’s crime wave.
But that’s not all. (Washington Free Beacon)
The Chicago Community Bond Fund, which opposes cash bail and pretrial incarceration, has posted bond for the alleged felons, putting them back on the streets before their trials. The charity, like other community bond funds across the country, is now flush with cash, raising $3.5 million from 75,000 contributors in late May and early June. Bond funds together have taken in $90 million in the weeks following George Floyd’s death alone, according to the New York Times.
Much of that financial support came courtesy of celebrity donors like Harry Styles, Seth Rogan, Abbi Jacobson, and Lizzo, who urged fans to contribute to local bail funds. John Legend and Chrissy Teigen similarly announced that they would make a large donation to a national fund called the Bail Project.
Bond receipts obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show that the Chicago fund has posted bond for defendants charged with violent crimes. Of the 24 people the group freed on May 31 and June 1 in Cook County alone, seven faced weapons charges.
Among the individuals freed by the group is 25-year-old Christian Frazee, who was charged with attempted terrorism and possession of an incendiary device. Prosecutors say Frazee was detained in the early morning hours of June 1 as he approached squad cars wielding a molotov cocktail and a lighter. He allegedly had a butane torch lighter and a bat in his backpack.
CCBF simultaneously plays a lead role in organizing local anti-police protests. Thanks to its donors, the organization acts as a sort of insurance policy for rioters arrested by Chicago P.D.
While CCBF enjoys its new revenue spigot, it also faces growing scrutiny over its financial practices. CharityWatch, a nonpartisan watchdog that evaluates charities’ accountability and transparency, told the Washington Free Beacon that CCBF’s practices are dangerously close to being categorized as asset hoarding.
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Well, Isn’t that just great! Celebs supporting felons! Great job guys and gals!!
You know you make too much money and feel guilty about it when you donate criminal’s bail funds! So we know we should not have made the amount of money we have so we will destabilize the rest of society so no one will look at us. Sick, guilty people, the country is replete with them.
That’s right, go ahead, free the criminals, jail the innocent. Hypocrites all of you. Celebrities think they know everything just because someone wrote a script and told them what to say and do….. dance monkey dance! Fools!
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What’s happening to our Legal System? When City Government allows it’s Law Enforcement agencies to be belittled and disrespected, the Rule of Law goes out the window. Self-Preservation has never meant so much!
and this is why you execute them so assh-les like them don,t let them out