The Harris campaign is handing out six-figure donations to groups that support police defunding and reparations

FIRST ON FOX: The Harris campaign last month cut multiple six-figure checks to left-wing groups that have been vocal about defunding police and reparations and have ties to radical activists who have supported notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, according to a report the Federal Election Commission (FEC) documents. rated by Fox News Digital.

The Harris campaign gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to a handful of black advocacy groups that are mobilizing black voters ahead of next week’s November elections, according to FEC filings released last week.

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

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“The answer to police violence against communities of color is not more money for the police,” the newspaper said the group wrote in February 2023. “It is time to defund the police and direct those resources to building strong, healthy communities.”

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

“There are more than 3,000 sheriffs in the US, almost all of whom are elected, the group said in another post. “We’re working to defund sheriffs and build voter power. Reinventing the system also means taking action!”

The group’s co-founder Latosha Brown, who regularly visits the Biden-Harris White House, has posted repeatedly on the group’s reparations, saying in a 2021 X-post that she has been working on the issue for 27 years.

“We deserve to be compensated for the literal blood, sweat and tears our ancestors had to bring into this country,” the Black Voters Matters Fund wrote in May. In another post last year, the group called reparations “critical to recognizing past injustices and moving toward a more just and equitable future.”

Black Church PAC, which also received $150,000 from the Harris campaign last month, has several controversial religious leaders on its board and recent social media posts indicate it is working with a police group to assist with “Go Vote” efforts in Georgia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

“We are mobilizing 100K Strong: Knock for Change, Vote for Justice volunteers in GA, PA and NC to knock on doors and have REAL conversations with REAL voters on the REAL issues that matter most,” the Black Church PAC posted last week on social media. The post also noted that they were working with Until Freedom, which was co-founded by disgraced Women’s March leaders Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour.

Until Freedom has repeatedly advocated for defunding and abolishing the police is selling a “defund the police” shirt on its website.

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Mallory previously came under fire for her close ties to Farrakhan, calling him the “GOAT,” meaning “the greatest of all time.” Her social media profiles are also littered with social media posts showing her attending Nation of Islam events and praising Farrakhan.

“One of the reasons I support Kamala Harris is because I know what she did when she was in the Senate.” Mallory said during a “Breakfast Club” interview a few months ago.

Mallory has also pushed back against people who say Harris does not support reparations. She says she has heard Harris say “over and over again” that she supports reparations. While Harris has been coy about what her recovery plan would look like during her presidential campaign, she has been more reserved said De Wortel during her failed 2019 campaign, she said “there has to be some form of reparations” for Black Americans.

The Black Church PAC board includes several pastors who have called for defunding the police or reparations or 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, supported defunding the police in 2020, saying on a livestream that defunding the police is “not a slogan” and that it is a “statement of a future we deserve.”

“We don’t deserve to have police departments have 40, 50, 60% of the general resources of every black majority city in this country, while we don’t have food, while we don’t have housing, while we don’t have ‘We don’t have equitable education, but we have a growing police budget’ McBride said.

“Yes, we want to see these (police) departments downsized,” McBride added.

“You should read @mearest @arthurrizer’s article if you want an inside look at police culture,” McBride said in another post. “My takeaway: How can you capitalize on this? You don’t have to abolish and defund the police and rebuild a new one…”

McBride has also repeatedly supported reparations, including praising a $15 trillion plan which was proposed by Jennifer Epps-Addison, a self-described “Radical Truth Teller.”

Bryant, who hosted Harris at his church earlier this month faced backlash for repeatedly praising Farrakhan, saying he was “humbled” to be in his presence and “honored” to host him. He has also attacked gays, previously saying it is their “responsibility” to make gays and other sinners “uncomfortable in (their) sin.”

Bryant has also been a long-time advocate for reparations. In one Instagram post last month, he called it a “monumental moment” when he and another pastor walked from Baltimore to the White House to “bring to the government’s attention that black people deserve #reparations for 400 years of oppression.”

“We are the only marginalized group in America that has not been compensated,” he added. “We traveled 42 miles because we never got 100 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 of Friendship-West Baptist Church. He tweeted a photo of himself and Farrakhan in 2017, calling him an “amazing and wonderful man.” In 2015, Haynes also praised Farrakhan, saying he was “a prophetic leader of our time.”

He was also an outspoken proponent of reparations and spoke at an event called “Solidarity for Reparations,” hosted at the church of Harris’ controversial pastor and longtime mentor, the Rev. Amos Brown. During the event, Haynes said: “America, you owe us. What you have done to us is immoral. It has been evil. It has been unjust. It has been downright wrong and the only way to bring redemption to America – you must pay us what you owe us.”

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The Harris campaign also distributed $2,050,000 to the civil rights group National Urban League; $300,000 to the Power Rising Action Fund, an “intergenerational powerhouse of Black women across industries”; and $250,000 to the National Action Network, which was founded by controversial MSNBC host Al Sharpton, whose ties to Farrakhan go back decades.

During the 2019 National Action Network Convention, Sharpton asked Harris if she would support the late Democratic Rep.’s HR 40 bill. Sheila Jackson Lee would sign, which would form a commission to study reparations for descendants of slaves, if it were passed and landed on her desk.

“If 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.