{"id":239289,"date":"2021-07-24T05:47:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T05:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239289"},"modified":"2021-07-25T07:03:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T07:03:38","slug":"george-soros-funneled-1m-to-defund-the-police-movement-as-violent-crime-continues-to-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239289","title":{"rendered":"George Soros funneled $1M to defund the police movement as violent crime continues to surge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laurence Richard \u2013 Yahoo.com July 22, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

George Soros has provided financial support to an organization backing the defund the police movement as violent crimes surge across the country.<\/p>\n

The billionaire, who regularly backs Democratic congressional candidates and attorneys general, donated $1 million to the Color Of Change PAC, which calls itself the nation\u2019s largest online racial justice organization, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission<\/a> and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The sum was Soros\u2019s largest political donation of the 2021 election cycle and supported the PAC\u2019s efforts to slash police budgets.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and so many more at the hands of police violence have left us all outraged, but our movement is stronger than ever,\u201d the racial justice organization said in a petition<\/a> calling for action against police departments.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow it\u2019s up to us to hold them [the Minneapolis Police] accountable, push for further systemic changes, and not lose the momentum needed to change the institution of policing forever,\u201d it continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that policing doesn’t keep us safe, communities do. Policing doesn’t lead to thriving communities, investment does,\u201d the petition also said. \u201cWe must begin to envision the society that functions for ALL of us and we must begin by divesting from and dismantling the systems that unjustly harm Black people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soros\u2019s donation is the latest in a string of financial contributions toward groups or candidates that advocate for defunding the police or that are soft on crime.<\/p>\n

The billionaire donated $2 million<\/a> for the campaign of Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, who is facing a recall effort after he announced radical criminal reform changes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The effort included “an end to cash bail, a ban on prosecutors seeking enhanced prison sentences, and showing leniency to many low-level offenders.”<\/p>\n

The Democratic megadonor has also funded other local prosecutor races<\/a> across the country, helping Kim Gardner in Missouri, who released 34 of 36 individuals<\/a> arrested during the summer riots in her city last year; District Attorney Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, who fired 31 prosecutors from his office and ordered police groups to lower prosecutions<\/a> dramatically and shorten probation and parole periods; Kim Foxx in Chicago, who ended felony prosecutions for a number of crimes and deferred prison sentences<\/a>; and Rachael Rollins in Massachusetts, who ran on a platform of decriminalizing an array of offenses.<\/p>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The donation to the Color of Change is the latest in a series of financial contributions to groups or candidates that advocate for defunding the police or that are soft on crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-The_Oligarchs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239292,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239289\/revisions\/239292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}