Three organizers with the Atlanta Solidarity Fund were recently granted bond following a multi-agency raid that ended with their arrests for alleged charity fraud and money laundering.
Since 2016, the nonprofit has primarily worked to provide bail and legal assistance to arrested protesters, including those opposing Atlanta’s planned public safety training center. The charges came just days before the city council’s training center funding vote and also drew scrutiny from some of Georgia’s congressional delegation.
On Wednesday’s edition of “Closer Look,” organizer Marlon Scott Kautz defended the fund’s work and called the charges politically motivated, citing the presiding judge’s own skepticism of the case.
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