Kamala-Backed Bail Fund Puts Murderer on the Street
Vice president called for donations to Minnesota Freedom Fund amid George Floyd riots
A Minnesota bail fund championed by Vice President Kamala Harris helped free a repeat felon now charged with murder.
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 promoted the Freedom Fund on Twitter during the George Floyd riots in 2020, helping the group raise $35 million in a matter of weeks, according to the Washington Post.
Freedom Fund executive directors Mirella Ceja-Orozco and Elizer Darris defended the group's decision to post Tillman's bail in a statement Thursday, saying, "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."
Tillman'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.
When reached for comment, the Freedom Fund directed the Washington Free Beacon to its statement.
Tillman'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's past convictions.
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 murdered another man in a road rage incident, the Free Beacon reported.
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.
Minneapolis saw the highest number of homicides last year since the mid-1990s.
Not Even NFL Players Are Safe in Muriel Bowser’s DC
After thief shoots Commanders running back, mayor blames 'wanton use of a firearm'
Washington Commanders rookie Brian Robinson was shot on Sunday while on the streets of Washington, D.C.
Two men attempted to rob the running back after he left a store on H Street, though police have not yet said whether the men were attempting to carjack Robinson’s vehicle, ESPN reported. While Robinson was struggling with one of the assailants, the other shot him in the leg. Both men then fled the scene. While Robinson remains in the hospital, his injuries are not life-threatening, multiple sources reported.
"Surgery went well! Thanks for the prayers! God is great!" Robinson wrote on Instagram.
Carjackings in the district have skyrocketed under Mayor Muriel Bowser (D.), who in 2020 publicly sided with Black Lives Matter protesters. Bowser in March said a carjacker who murdered a doctor "probably didn't intend to kill anybody." According to a February Washington Post poll, 73 percent of D.C. voters say Bowser has done a poor job of combating crime.
Bowser on Monday blamed the use of a gun for the shooting of Robinson, the Post reported.
"What we saw in this case and others is just a wanton use of a firearm that hurts somebody," the mayor said.
The news comes days after Bowser faced pushback for banning unvaccinated children from attending school. The mayor's ban will likely hurt the district's black students, nearly half of whom are unvaccinated, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Landlord Problems: Illinois Dem Pays Thousands in Rent to Cocaine-Pushing Butcher
Rep. Danny K. Davis rents his Chicago office from a convicted drug pusher
Rep. Danny K. Davis (D., Ill.) rents his district office from a convicted cocaine dealer who was once affiliated with a Chicago drug ring, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Since January 2017, Davis's campaign account has cut regular $600 checks for "office rent" to Mario's Butcher Shop, FEC records show. The shop, which is registered as a corporation with the state, lists Mariano "Mario" Lettieri and his wife as the sole members of its board of directors and was at the center of Lettieri's 1990 conviction for drug trafficking.
Lettieri, whom the Chicago Tribune described as "reputedly tied" to a "crime syndicate," was sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison after authorities identified him as the primary supplier of cocaine to a major Chicago drug ring led by an ex-cop. The Drug Enforcement Administration reported that Lettieri trafficked as much as 80 pounds of cocaine over a six-month period. Lettieri also allowed heroin to be packaged in his butcher shop's boiler room and used "rib-eye steaks" as a code word when discussing drug prices.
Lettieri is an odd landlord for Davis, who has long championed efforts to fight drug abuse. Davis in 2006 called for $4 million in emergency aid funds to be allocated to Cook County to address the growing heroin problem in the area. Last year, Davis announced that he had formed a coalition of drug prevention organizations in Chicago to help address the growing opioid crisis. He told the local press that "there is no part of Chicago that is worse hit than the West Side." The West Side of Chicago is where Lettieri ran his drug operation in the 1980s.
Tumia Romero, Davis's chief of staff, would not directly address the congressman's payments to Lettieri but told the Free Beacon that Davis believes in giving people "second chances."
Davis is no stranger to controversy. In 2005, he took a trip to Sri Lanka funded by the Tamil Tigers, an ethnic terrorist group from that country. He is a close ally of noted anti-Semite and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and once participated in a religious ceremony with Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the controversial Unification Church. Moon, who died in 2012, was a convicted felon who said Jews deserved the Holocaust.
The congressman also attended the 2012 dedication of the Church of Scientology's Washington, D.C., lobbying office.
Davis, who faced a tough primary challenge this cycle, was boosted by an endorsement from President Joe Biden. The longtime congressman won his primary by single digits and is now expected to coast to reelection in November.
Reached for comment, a Mario's Butcher Shop employee said he would relay the Free Beacon‘s inquiry to the establishment's owner.
Oakland Police Chief Decries ‘Horrific’ Shootings After 5 Killed in 3 Days
Oakland Police Department Chief LeRonne Armstrong has decried what he calls a “horrific” series of shootings in the city after five people were murder in three days, bringing the total number of homicides this year to 83, near last year’s pace.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday:
Each day’s incidents were believed to be unrelated to one another but have raised tensions in the city.
Last year at this time, Oakland had 84 homicides on its way to its highest homicide toll in more than a decade at 123.
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The deadly shootings started Friday evening at about 7:30 p.m. in the 2800 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way in West Oakland when police found two men had been shot and another riding a bicycle had been struck by a car, possibly fleeing the scene, and killed.
The article listed the names of those killed: Capri Anderson, 22; Maurice Wilson; Devin Woodfox, 36; Tyrod Banks, 46; and Tonnell Williams, 48.
As Breitbart News reported, Chief Armstrong was outspoken last year in his criticism of the “defund the police” movement when the Oakland City Council cut $18 million from the police department budget and redirected it to other priorities.
President Joe Biden campaigned on “redirecting” police funding, while later claiming he campaigned on funding the police.
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WATCH: Good Samaritan Snatches Gun From Attacker in Upper Manhattan
Two people on a motorcycle attacked a pedestrian in Manhattan Saturday afternoon when a Good Samaritan grabbed their gun.
He was hit in the head for his trouble, but chased them on foot anyway as they took off on the motorcycle, The New York Post reports.
At least one of the individuals on the motorcycle was allegedly armed.
The pedestrian, a 28-year-old, was cornered by the suspects when the Good Samaritan ran up to take away the alleged robbers’ gun.
One of the suspects on the motorcycle punched the Good Samaritan, but he stayed in the fight, took the gun, and chased the suspects on foot as they fled on the motorcycle.
On July 17 Breitbart News reported that leftists went apoplectic because so many people were referring to a concealed carrier as a Good Samaritan after he opened fire on a would-be mass shooter at Greenwood Park Mall and stopped the attack.
For example, David Leavitt tweeted, “You’d never need a ‘Good Samaritan’ with a gun at Greenwood Park Mall or at any other place if there weren’t any guns to begin with.”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
35 Shot, 8 Killed, During Weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago
At least 35 people were shot, eight of whom were killed, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
Breitbart News noted that 15 people were shot, six of them fatally, Friday into Saturday night alone.
The deaths included a double homicide in which police were called Saturday at 3 p.m. because two men were lying in the street. Police arrived on scene to find that both men had been shot numerous times.
On Monday morning, ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported the total number of weekend shooting victims had reached at least 35, with two additional shooting fatalities.
Around 2 a.m. Sunday Police found a victim “in the 4900-block of West Superior Street” who had been shot in the neck. The individual later died at a hospital.
On Sunday night a 46-year-old woman was in a car with a 42-year-old man “on South Vincennes Avenue near Monterey Avenue” when occupants of another car opened fire on them. The 42-year-old man attempted to drive a police station for help but the car chased them down and more shots were fired, leaving the man in critical condition and the woman fatally wounded.
The Sun-Times homicide database shows there were 439 people killed in Chicago January 1, 2022, through August 28, 2022.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
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Dominate Minneapolis Gun Violence | VDARE Video Bulletin Virginia Progressive Prosecutor Freed Felon Who Went On To Murder Two Men A progressive Virginia prosecutor this year dropped charges against a felon with a history of gun charges. Months later, that felon killed two innocent men. In July, Francis Rose shot two "innocent bystanders" in the head while robbing an apartment complex in Alexandria, Va., according to police. In February, he was freed from jail by the office of Arlington County commonwealth’s attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti (D.). Rose, who was already on probation for illegally carrying a weapon in Washington, D.C., was arrested in October 2020 for possession of a firearm and possession of cocaine and fentanyl with intent to distribute. The double murder is the latest instance where soft-on-crime Virginia prosecutors enabled violent felons. Dehghani-Tafti’s ally Steve Descano (D.), Fairfax County’s top prosecutor, released three offenders with gun charges who each went on to murder. Both prosecutors’ campaigns received over $600,000 from the Democratic megadonor George Soros. Like Soros-backed prosecutors across the country, Dehghani-Tafti and Descano have abolished cash bail and pushed for decarceration. "What happened in Alexandria was senseless and tragic," Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares told the Washington Free Beacon. "Unfortunately, it continues to be true that the vast majority of violent crime is committed by the same repeat offenders." Police announced the double homicide of Adrian de Jesus Rivera Guzman and his step-son, Juan Carlos Anaya Hernandez, on Tuesday. Rose’s victims were landscape workers who had escaped gang-led violence in their native El Salvador. Arlington police arrested Rose during a traffic stop in 2020 after finding a loaded handgun, cocaine, and fentanyl on him. In February, a county judge ruled the search unconstitutional. The evidence was not legally admissible because the drugs and gun were "appended" to Rose rather than in the car, his defense attorney argued, according to the Washington Post. Dehghani-Tafti’s office dropped the charges following the judge’s ruling and criticized the arresting officers’ conduct. But before the ruling, a prosecutor in Dehghani-Tafti’s office praised the officers’ conduct, according to the Arlington Coalition of Police. Her office held Rose in jail without bond for more than a year before his trial, the law enforcement group said, implying prosecutors believed the officers had acted lawfully. Rose will appear in court on Oct. 28. He faces up to 40 years in prison for each count of second-degree murder. Juan Hernandez’s wife told the Post she hopes he will stay behind bars this time. "I know that if he’s in prison, my son and husband, they won’t come back," Laura Hernandez said. "But this man can’t get out. He can’t get out." This piece was updated to include comment from Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares. Double murder suspect charged with burglary By Kassidy McDonald | kmcdonald@alextimes.com Two men were shot to death the morning of July 16 after a botched residential burglary at 7:28 a.m. in the Assembly Alexandria apartment complex in the 100 to 200 blocks of Century Drive, according to a police report. The victims, Adrian Dejesus Rivera Guzman, 48, and Juan Carlos Anaya Hernandez, 24, were innocent bystanders to the burglary when they were both shot in the head by suspect Francis Deonte Rose, 27. The suspect is in custody on burglary charges and police said other charges are expected. According to ALXnow, Alexandria police radio traffic at the time suggested that the burglary suspect was the ex-boyfriend of an apartment resident and was known to carry a gun. This is not the first time Rose has been in trouble with the law, as he has previously been arrested in D.C. and Arlington County. In D.C., he was charged with carrying a pistol without a license, bench warrant, possession of unregistered ammunition and possession of an unregistered firearm. In Arlington a year later, he was charged with intent to manufacture, sell or distribute cocaine and fentanyl as well as possession of a gun and ammunition by someone convicted of a felony within the past 10 years, according to ALXnow. Rose was released from jail in Arlington after these charges were dropped following a judge’s decision to suppress evidence that the judge ruled had been illegally obtained, ALXnow reported. The investigation is ongoing and anyone with related information should reach out to APD Detective Stephen Riley via phone at 703-746-6225, email at Stephen.Riley@alexandriava.gov or call the non-emergency line at 703-746-4444 BLACKS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT SUBCULTURE IN THE WORLD! BLACK CAR JACKINGS EXPLODE ALL OVER AMERICA
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