George Soros provided financial support for an organization that supports the defunding of the police movement in the face of rising violent crime across the country.
According to records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon from the Federal Election Commission, the billionaire donated $1 million to Color Of Change PAC. The organization is called the largest online racial justice group in the country and claims to regularly support Democratic congressional candidates.
This sum was Soros’s largest political donation for the 2021 election cycle. It also supported the PAC’s efforts at reducing police budgets.
“The 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,” the racial justice organization said in a petition calling for action against police departments.
“Now it’s 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,” it continued.
“We know that policing doesn’t keep us safe, communities do. Policing doesn’t lead to thriving communities, investment does,” the petition also said. “We 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.”
Soros’s latest donation is part of a long line of financial donations to candidates or groups that support defunding police forces or are soft on crime.
A billionaire donated $2million to the campaign of Los Angeles District attorney George Gascon. Gascon is currently facing recall proceedings after he announced radical changes in criminal justice reform.
The effort included “an end to cash bail, a ban on prosecutors seeking enhanced prison sentences, and showing leniency to many low-level offenders.”
The Democratic megadonor also funds other local prosecutor races in the country. This includes Kim Gardner in Missouri, which released 34 of the 36 people arrested in the summer riots. District Attorney Larry Krasner, in Philadelphia, fired 31 prosecutors and ordered police groups lower their prosecutions and shorter probation and parole terms. Kim Foxx in Chicago, which ended felony prosecutions and deferred sentences in prison. Rachael Rolleins, in Massachusetts, ran on the platform of decriminalizing a variety of offenses
