Anti-Israel Microsoft Employees Arrested for Storming President’s Office Partner With Bail Fund Led By Murderer Who Bashed Man’s Skull With Hammer

When a group of current and former Microsoft employees was arrested for storming the office of the company’s president, they spent just a few hours in jail. That’s likely thanks to the Northwest Community Bail Fund (NCBF), a group that uses Democratic dark money to free heinous criminals convicted of violent crimes.

The Microsoft group, known as No Azure for Apartheid (NAA), has recently spearheaded a number of illegal demonstrations targeting the company’s work with the Israeli government. Seven of its members were arrested last week for storming Microsoft president Brad Smith’s office, setting up barricades, and clashing with police. Twenty were arrested the week before for establishing an encampment at the company’s headquarters and defacing a Microsoft sign. In both cases, the group called on its followers to donate to the NCBF’s “Protester Liberation Fund” to “support those arrested.” And in both cases, arrestees were swiftly released from jail.

The partnership reflects the growing role that bail funds like the NCBF are playing in supporting the illegal actions of anti-Israel agitators. A similar organization, the Community Justice Exchange, provided bail money and legal support to scores of “Free Palestine” protesters who blocked major airports, highways, and bridges in dozens of U.S. cities last year, the Washington Free Beacon reported. The NCBF itself helped free 46 anti-Israel agitators arrested for blockading traffic into the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and its “Protester Liberation Fund” explicitly goes toward “posting bail for protesters.”

Though the NCBF launched in 2016, it saw a surge in donations in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020, raising nearly $6 million that year. One year later, it received nearly $250,000 from the Tides Center, a dark money network that funnels hundreds of millions of dollars to left-wing organizations each year. Away from its affiliation with NAA, it is known for releasing—and, in at least one case, employing—heinous criminals.

NCBF executive director Cyril Walrond, described as “a committed anti-racist community organizer and advocate for racial and social justice,” spent nearly 20 years in prison following a murder conviction. In 2007, Walrond, armed with a sheetrock hammer, attempted to rob Vietnamese immigrant Dien Huynh outside of his home. When Huynh tried to flee, Walrond “chased [him] down and struck him on the head with the hammer four or five times,” a Washington court found. Walrond’s co-conspirators then robbed Huynh, who died two days later. Walrond, then 17, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, first-degree assault, and first-degree robbery.

Nearly 20 years later, Walrond’s organization provides bail to arrestees regardless of the crimes they’re accused of, though it does prioritize “Black, Indigenous, people of color, and LGBTQIA+, particularly transgender, community members.” It says its work is aimed at creating “a community whole and a community healed.” But in some cases, its work has caused suffering, not healing.

Some arrestees freed by the bail fund, for example, went on to face charges for grisly murders. In May 2022, the group provided Seattle homeless man Michael Sedejo with $5,000 to free him on bail as he faced fourth-degree assault and second-degree robbery charges. The next month, Sedejo stabbed a man 18 times at a local homeless encampment. The man died on the scene, and Sedejo was convicted of second-degree murder with a deadly weapon.

The year prior, in December 2021, the NCBF posted $10,000 to free another Seattle-area man, Kylan Houle, following charges of first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm, possession of a stolen vehicle, and attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle. The group put up another $100 to bail out Houle after he was charged with unlawful firearm possession a month later. Then, in May 2022, Houle broke into the home of Damon Allen, a father of six, in an attempted burglary, according to prosecutors. Houle fired several shots at Allen, knocking him to the ground before standing over him and shooting him at near point-blank range, “essentially executing Mr. Allen.”

In 2025, the NCBF, which did not respond to a request for comment, has spent over $1.2 million to free 418 people from jail. Suspects whom the bail fund has freed have a record of recidivism and skipping court, according to data from the King County, Washington, prosecuting attorney’s office. More than half of the defendants the NCBF bailed between mid-2020 and December 2022 failed to appear in court, while roughly 21 percent were rearrested for a felony charge. By comparison, 22 percent of defendants who didn’t receive the bail fund’s help skipped their court date and 15 percent faced a new felony charge.

It appears likely that the Microsoft employee group will seek the NCBF’s help in the future. After its office storming, NAA posted a video to Instagram alongside the caption “THE WORKER INTIFADA REMAINS UNDETERRED.”

“ORGANIZE, DISRUPT, ESCALATE,” the group wrote. “THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED.”

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