WASHINGTON — A popular crowdsourcing website that often raises money for people and families in crisis, including legal fees, has rejected a campaign for the six Baltimore police officers who have been charged in the arrest and death of Freddy Gray.
According to a report by The Baltimore Sun, a representative of GoFundMe said it was company policy that the site does not facilitate defense assistance for anyone charged or under suspicion of “heinous crimes, violent, hateful, sexual or discriminatory acts.”
The six officers have been charged with numerous crimes in relation to the death of Gray, 25, whose spine was 80 percent severed from his neck while in police custody. In an Associated Press report Saturday, the charges stem from their detention of Gray who the prosecutors says was not armed with an illegal weapon or suspected of a crime, their failure to seat belt him in the van, and secure his safety, and their negligence in getting him medical attention when he needed it.
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You this crowd source funding site appears to pick the lefty side allot?
ReplyDeleteThe Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3 Facebook has a link to a paypal site to make donations.
ReplyDeleteThey have it on their website but due to overwhelming support the site keeps on crashing. They hope to get it fixed once and for all soon.
Yet they are allowing fund raising for Michael Brown, the kid that tried to grab a cops gun.
ReplyDeleteThey did the same thing when someone set up an account for the Christian baker. They closed the account and sent the money back.
ReplyDeleteGofundme can be Gotohellyou any time.
ReplyDeleteThey shut the account down and sent the money already collected to the Christian baker, but it wasn't the total amount requested (see article on Washington Post).
ReplyDeleteThere are other ways to raise money on the web, but I think it's ironic that GoFundMe is exercising its right to operate in a manner in which they see fit, much like the baker, the florist, etc etc etc.
if the kops did nothing wrong, they have nothing to fear
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