Black Lives Matter reportedly used $6 million in donations to buy Southern California home

According to a report released on Monday, Black Lives Matter purchased an expensive home in Southern California at a price tag of roughly $6 million using donation cash.

Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Melina Abdullah – three of the prime leaders of the social justice movement – recorded a video in June outside the home while commemorating the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death.

At the time, Cullors noted that she was several weeks removed from being in what she described as “survival mode” after The New York Post reported the previous April that she had purchased four expensive homes in the United States for $3.2 million.

“It’s because we’re powerful, because we are winning,” Cullors said, discussing what she called right-wing media attacks. She went on, “It’s because we are threatening the establishment, we’re threatening white supremacy.”

Cullors and her colleagues did not offer any insight into the home featured behind them in the video, which was a 6,500-square-foot home with more than six bedrooms and bathrooms. The property was reportedly purchased in October 2020.

Cullors resigned in May from her position as the group’s executive director as she faced criticism over purchasing three homes in the Los Angeles area and another just outside Atlanta.

BLM’s purchase of the almost $6 million home was not previously reported, and according to the most recent news, the organization’s officials looked to keep its existence from a journalist investigating the transaction.