Harris campaign dishes out six-figure donations to groups who support defunding police, reparations

FIRST ON FOX: The Harris campaign cut multiple six-figure checks last month for left-leaning groups that have been vocal about defunding the police, reparations, and are tied to radical activists who have supported notorious antisemite Louis Farrakhan.

The Harris campaign gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to a handful of Black advocacy groups who are mobilizing Black voters ahead of November's election next week, according to FEC filings released last week.

Black Voters Matters Fund, which received $150,000 from the Harris campaign on Sept. 19, has repeatedly called for defunding the police and has been vocal about pushing for reparations.

In 2020, the group also tweeted, "We are proud to be partner in the #DemocracyFrontlinesFund, created to leverage millions of new dollars to fund Black-led organizers fighting for free and fair elections, and working to defund prisons and police."

Black Church PAC, which also received $150,000 from the Harris campaign last month, has multiple controversial religious leaders on its board and recent social media posts show it is partnering with a defund the police group to help with "Get out the vote" efforts in Georgia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

The Black Church PAC board includes several pastors who have either called for defunding police, reparations or have praised Farrakhan, including Pastors Jamal Bryant, Frederick D. Haynes III and Michael McBride.

McBride, the lead pastor of The Way Christian Center in Berkeley, California, ranted in support of defunding police in 2020, saying on a livestream that defunding the police "ain't a slogan" and that it is a "declaration of a future that we deserve."

"Yes, we want these [police] departments to be shrunk," McBride added.

"We are the only marginalized group in America that hasn't been compensated," he added. "We went 42 miles because we never got 40 acres! Even if it's not on the ballot it needs to be on the agenda!"

Another pastor on the board is Haynes, the senior pastor at Friendship-West Baptist Church. He tweeted a photo of himself and Farrakhan in 2017, calling him a "wonderful and great man." In 2015, Haynes also lavished praise on Farrakhan, saying he was "a prophetic leader of our time."

He has also been a vocal supporter of reparations and spoke at an event called "Solidarity for Reparations," which was hosted at the church of Harris' controversial pastor and longtime mentor, Rev. Amos Brown. During the event, Haynes said, "America, you owe us. What you done to us has been immoral. It's been evil. It's been unjust. It's been downright wrong and the only way to bring salvation to America - you gotta pay us what you owe us."

The Harris campaign also doled out $2,050,000 to the civil rights group National Urban League; $300,000 to the Power Rising Action Fund, an "intergenerational power force of Black women from various sectors"; and $250,000 to the National Action Network, which was founded by controversial MSNBC anchor Al Sharpton, whose ties to Farrakhan go back decades.

During the 2019 National Action Network Convention, Sharpton asked Harris whether she would sign now-deceased Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's H.R. 40 bill, which would form a commission to study reparations for descendants of slaves, if it passed and came across her desk.

"When I am elected president, I will sign that bill," Harris said at the time. 

Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign, Black Church PAC and Black Voters Matter Fund.