Supporters of Harrison Floyd, one of two Black defendants in the Georgia election interference case, have raised more than a quarter of a million dollars to help pay for his legal expenses after he wasn’t granted a bond agreement and had to spend nearly a week in jail.
Floyd finally received that bond deal on Tuesday after being the only person out of 19 defendants in the case who didn’t initially receive one upon arrest.
After his release, Floyd thanked Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for a “negro wake-up call” and announced that he is “exploring running for a congressional seat.”
“She reminded me that our country and the state of Georgia will not be able to be a righteous nation if we stand on pillars of corruption, racism, lying and cheating,” Floyd said Wednesday. “And when we are governed by men and women who are concerned about things in the world rather than serving the citizens they’re sworn to protect, we end up going into more and deeper darkness. So the only thing we can do is follow God and lead by example.”
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Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee signed a bond order directing Floyd to pay $100,000 five days after he surrendered to Fulton County authorities and was booked into a county jail.
While Floyd was sitting in jail, one of his attorneys in an unrelated case started a fundraiser, which received nearly $280,000 in donations. The crowdfunding site where the fundraiser was posted states that Floyd is “innocent” and claims that he doesn’t have enough resources to hire an attorney for this case.
Confusion and questions have emerged over the absence of a pre-arranged bond in Floyd’s arrest.
Some people pointed to a fairly recent run-in Floyd had with the law back in May as one possible rationale for why he wasn’t granted a bond order. During that…
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