Emmer’s Misleading Republican Convention Claim about Harris

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. During his speech at the Republican National Convention, Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota talked about “rioters” in Minneapolis after the death of George Floyd in 2020, and misleadingly said that Vice President Kamala Harris “freed” from jail one of “the criminals” who “went on to murder a man” in neighboring St. Paul. Emmer is distorting the facts. The congressman was referring to Shawn Michael Tillman, who in March was sentenced to prison for a 2022 murder. But he was not a protester Harris encouraged the public to help get out of jail in 2020. “When Minneapolis was in flames and businesses were in ruins, Kamala Harris encouraged and enabled the criminals and the rioters,” Emmer, the House majority whip, said in his July 16 remarks. “She even promoted a fund to release the criminals from jail. It doesn’t get reported much in our media, but one criminal Kamala Harris freed in Minneapolis went on to murder a man in St. Paul, Minnesota.” As we’ve written, Harris did use her social media accounts in June 2020 to encourage donations to a nonprofit, the Minnesota Freedom Fund, “to help post bail for...