During the 2008 presidential election, Freeman endorsed Barack Obama’s presidential bid, although he said he would not join Obama’s campaign.[193] He provided the voice of the narrator for Disney World’s The Hall of Presidents when Obama was added to the exhibit,[194][195] and when The Hall of Presidents re-opened on July 4, 2009, at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida.[195] On day four of the 2016 Democratic National Convention, Freeman provided the voiceover for the video introduction of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.[196][197] On September 19, 2017, Freeman appeared in a video by the Committee to Investigate Russia group,[198][199] in which he declared “we [United States] are at war” and accusing Russia of “launching cyber attacks and spreading false information”.[200][201] Freeman also endorsed his friend Bill Luckett, who unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Mississippi in 2011.[202]
In June 2021, he and Linda Keena, a professor at the University of Mississippi, donated $1 million to the university, establishing the Center for Evidence-Based Policing and Reform.[203]
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