‘Scares me’: Minnesota woman whose attacker was released by Harris-backed bail fund speaks out

EXCLUSIVE: A 79-year-old Somali American woman in Minnesota who was shot by an assailant was eventually released with the help of a guarantee fund backed by Vice President Kamala Harris, is speaking out against the vice president, telling Fox News Digital that her record raises questions about her “judgment and priorities in office.”

Halima Farah, who came to the US in 2005 and became a citizen in 2011, opened up about her “traumatic experience” on January 2, 2021. She was shot and robbed of her rent money outside her Minneapolis apartment by De’Seanna Williams, police. said at the time. Farah said she suffered fractures to her shoulder blade and skull, bleeding in her skull, cuts to her face and a gunshot wound to her thigh and buttocks.

Williams was arrested after the attack, but was rescued by the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a fund that Harris received his PhD during the 2020 George Floyd riots.

In a blog post on Medium on May 31, 2020, then-Sen. Harris asked individuals to “contribute to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, an organization working on the ground in Minnesota to post bail for arrested protesters.”

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Harris also supported the Minnesota Freedom Fund in June as protests over the police death of Floyd in Minneapolis swept the country.

“If you can, please appeal to the @MNFreedomFund now to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota,” she posted, along with a link to donate.

The post is still on the site, and the link now points to an ActBlue page headlined “Kamala Harris for the People,” encouraging individuals to “make a donation to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.”

“Your support will help pay bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota,” the website said.

Only a fraction of the more than $41 million raised actually went to freeing rioters, according to A FOX 9 report in 2020. The Minnesota Freedom Fund has reportedly rescued suspects from Minnesota prisons charged with murder, violent crimes and sex crimes.

The Minnesota Freedom Fund did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

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Farah, who does not speak English, provided her answers to Fox News Digital’s questions via her email translator.

Farah told Fox News Digital that Harris’ promotion of the fund “should raise questions and debates about her suitability for senior office.”

“I believe that a president should not support measures that could lead to the release of violent criminals,” Farah said. “The implications of such policies are serious and require careful consideration.”

“Kamala Harris does not deserve to be President of the United States, and her tenure as Vice President has weakened my rights,” Farah continued. “Additionally, her encouragement of donations to the Minnesota Freedom Fund is devastating to my safety and my life.”

Farah said: “The idea that the Vice President would support bail for violent offenders concerns and scares me.”

“It raises questions about her judgment and priorities in office,” she said.

After being released on bail with the help of the Minnesota Freedom Fund for beating, shooting and robbing Farah, Williams committed a non-violent crime: forging checks. Williams later pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree aggravated robbery and one count of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon. She was sentenced to prison as part of the plea agreement and is expected to be released in April 2025.

“I realized I wasn’t getting any justice at all,” Farah told Fox News Digital, saying the Minnesota Freedom Fund “promotes criminal behavior and doesn’t give victims a sense of justice.”

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Farah condemned Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, for rising crime in the state.

“I don’t feel safe in the United States right now, especially in our state of Minnesota after the George Floyd riots and its aftermath under Governor Walz’s watch,” Farah said.

Under Walz’s leadership, murder rates in Minnesota have risen.

Walz was sworn in as governor in 2019. Minnesota Department of Public Safety data reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that the state recorded 104 homicides in 2018, the year before Walz took office, a figure that increased by more than 12% from 2018. 2019, when the state recorded 117 murders. The number of homicides in the state in 2020, as violent crimes rose nationally, shot up to 185. In 2021, the state recorded 201 homicides, 182 in 2022 and 172 last year.

State data shows that in the four years before Walz came to power, from 2015 through 2018, the state averaged about 113 homicides each year, increasing to 171 homicides, according to the annual average under Walz’s five murders. years as governor.

FBI crime data reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that homicides fell slightly nationally in 2017, Trump’s first year in office, from 15,320 in 2016 to 15,312 in 2017. The data shows that violent crime fell again in 2018, to 14,604 murders, and again in 2019. to 14,678, before skyrocketing to 18,965 murders in 2020, due to the riots.

Farah told Fox News Digital that she believes “former President Donald Trump is tough on crime and criminals.”

“I would feel more comfortable and relieved if Trump were in the White House,” she said. “I would also encourage anyone who loves this country not to vote for her.”

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Farah said she hopes to “meet with former President Trump or his running mate JD Vance before the election to share my concerns and fears.”

The Harris-Walz campaign declined to comment when reached by Fox News Digital.