Just one of the 19 co-defendants in the Georgia election fraud case that involves former President Donald Trump is being held without bail. He is a black man.
Harrison Floyd was booked into the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta on Thursday, charged with violating the Georgia RICO Act. He is also charged with conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements and writings, and influencing witnesses.
Floyd is the leader of Black Voices for Trump and the judge decided he was a flight risk.
“I do find that based on the open charge against you there are grounds for bond to be denied at this point,” Judge Emily Richardson said. “So I’m going to go ahead and find that you are at risk to commit additional felonies and a potential risk to flee the jurisdiction.”
Floyd represented himself, saying that legal counsel was something he could not afford, although it’s unclear why he did not accept a court-appointed defender.
Floyd is a 39-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran who was the director of the political group Black Voices for Trump during the 2020 election cycle. He is a graduate of George Washington University, has been active in the Republican Party in Georgia, and in 2019 ran for Congress, dropping his candidacy after just a month.
In May, he was charged with charged in a federal case for allegedly attacking an FBI agent who was serving him a grand jury subpoena in the Department of Justice’s investigation into events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
In that case, it’s unclear what occurred, but deduced from the FBI story is that Floyd body-bumped the FBI agent to get him to step back, and yelled some bad words at him.
