A spokeswoman for the government-funded Wisconsin nonprofit Freedom Inc. declared Wednesday that all black people in jail are “political prisoners” after arrests at a protest it helped lead.
The group partnered with the activist coalition Free the 350 Bail Fund to raise money for demonstrators or other detainees’ bail after police cleared an anti-cop protest encampment in Madison that blocked streets, Freedom Inc.’s Instagram page shows. The nonprofit group — which received millions of federal, state, and local tax dollars in recent years — portrayed the city as oppressive for enforcing laws.
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