According to financial disclosures from the White House, Vice President Harris and her husband have repeatedly donated to anti-police, pro-sanctuary city nonprofits.
The money went to Legal Aid DC, a nonprofit legal organization that provides services to Washington’s poor, but in addition to helping the poor, the organization also calls for cuts to the police budget and fewer patrols in high-crime areas.
“We are concerned about any solution that involves increasing police and security in DC public housing, especially given the ongoing protests. #BlackLivesMatterDC,” the group’s official account, then Twitter, “X,” tweeted days after the 2020 death of George Floyd, following reports that the city’s top prosecutor was suing the housing authority for failing to address drug and gun crimes.
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Demonstrators participate in a protest following the death of George Floyd, in Washington, DC, on June 6, 2020. (Brendan Smiarowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Less than a week later, the group denounced a proposed budget increase for the Washington Metropolitan Police Department.
“The Legal Aid Society joins the call to defund the police and reinvest in our communities,” the organization posted.
The posts were made in 2020 shortly after Floyd’s death and as anti-police riots erupted across the country, first in Floyd’s hometown of Minneapolis, and then in major cities including Washington, New York and Chicago.
Demonstrators clash with police during a protest over the death of George Floyd in Lafayette Square Park near the White House on May 29, 2020. (Tasos Katpodis/Getty Images)
In Washington in 2020, 52 U.S. Park Police officers were injured trying to keep rioters away from the White House, according to Ken Spencer, president of the Fraternal Order of the U.S. Park Police.
“We condemn politicians who support institutions that create dangerous situations for the police officers and citizens we protect,” he told Fox News Digital.
The department was already suffering from historic staffing shortages and, like many other police departments, experienced an exodus of officers after the riots, he said.
Tim Walz would expand voting rights for felons, and Kamala Harris previously proposed going even further.
The Washington Examiner first reported the financial reports about the donations made by Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff.
“So in 2023, the year the DC mayor had to declare a state of emergency on juvenile crime, Kamala donated to organizations working to cut the police budget,” former NYPD Inspector Paul Mauro said. “You can see the results in the comprehensive crime reform bill our nation’s capital recently had to pass to counter the ignorant and destructive agenda of public officials posing as campus activists. How dare a prosecutor say this? No wonder our city is like this.”
In November 2023, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser Public emergency on youth violence.
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“In the first nine months of 2023, 458 juvenile arrests were made for carjacking, murder and robbery, including assault with a dangerous weapon, which is 10% more than similar arrests in all of 2022,” her office said at the time.
And crime wasn’t just a youth problem.
Protesters take part in a demonstration near the White House on May 31, 2020. (SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images)
Washington crime statistics through August 12 Metropolitan Police Department Murders in the city are down 30% so far this year.
But this comes after 274 homicides citywide in 2023, the highest number in the past 20 years. Between 2004 and 2023, the number of homicides in a year has topped 200 only three times: in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
Robberies were up about 70% in 2023 compared to 2022. Carjackings soared by more than 80%. Both are down double digits since the start of the year.
On June 8, 2020, then-Senator Kamala Harris, along with other House and Senate Democrats, knelt for eight minutes and 46 seconds in silence in memory of George Floyd at the U.S. Capitol Visitor’s Center. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“It’s funny how a little crackdown can make a difference,” Mauro said.
Earlier this year, Washington state lawmakers voted almost unanimously to roll back some of the post-Floyd reforms.
Legal Aid DC also called on the Washington City Council to commit to being a “sanctuary” for undocumented immigrants. Call out He amended the bill in hopes of extending housing benefits and other social security to homeless migrants who arrive by bus from Arizona and Texas.
Meanwhile, migrant shelters require more police resources to maintain public safety.
“It also shows that the accusation that Camara did nothing as President Biden’s ‘border secretary’ is untrue,” Mauro said. “While unvetted illegal immigrants flooded the border and prison gangs like Tren de Aragua were based here, Camara was funding groups working to turn the nation’s capital into a permanent sanctuary city. We got that wrong and now we need to correct it.”
The couple also donated thousands of dollars to several other charities based in California and Washington, including Howard University, the University of Southern California and the Matthew Silverman Memorial Foundation, which works to prevent teen suicide.
But Legal Aid DC is not the first far-left nonprofit that Harris has supported.
In 2020, she solicited donations from supporters for the Minnesota Freedom Fund, ostensibly to pay bail for Black Lives Matter protesters arrested during the anti-police riots that erupted in the spring and summer of 2020 following Floyd’s death.
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But the group also pays bail for people accused of violent crimes, including at least two who were arrested on murder charges after making bail.
Domestic violence suspect George Howard has been released and is accused of shooting and killing another man during a violent street altercation. Shawn Michael Tillman A year later, he was released on bail with the help of a fund, after which he allegedly spotted a rival at a train station and fired six shots at him.
Harris’ office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
