Zero bail advocacy and laws eliminating bail requirements have sprung up in cities and states around the country since the killing of George Floyd and the 2020 summer of riots, burning, looting, and killings. Bail, you see, is considered racist and classist, criminalizing poverty and a violation of the principle that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
During the worst of the mostly peaceful events in Minneapolis, then-future Vice President Kamala Harris urged her supporters to contribute to a fund to spring those unlucky enough to have been caught and charged with violent felonies like arson, looting, assault, and more .
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