[3] Freeman joined the Indianapolis City-County Council in March 2010,[3] after being selected by Republican precinct committee members to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Lincoln Plowman.
[3] In 2016, weeks after the killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Freeman dismissed the Black Lives Matter movement, saying on a segment on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, "I just don't think it's helpful to the country.
[4] After Republican Senator Ron Alting sponsored a hate crimes bill in the state Senate in 2019, seeking to allow judges to increase sentences for bias-motivated crimes (Indiana is one of just five states without such a law), Freeman introduced an amendment that gutted the bill, removing the specified protection categories—race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability—and replacing them with a generic definition of "bias.
[8] In the state Senate, Freeman has been a prominent and avowed opponent of plans for an expansion of Indianapolis's IndyGo bus rapid transit system.
[12] Freeman defeated Democratic nominee Belinda Drake in 2020 to retain his seat in the Indiana General Assembly.