Freddie Gray: GoFundMe page for police officers charged with death deleted after 40 minutes
Source: International Business Times
Freddie Gray: GoFundMe page for police officers charged with death deleted after 40 minutes
By Taku Dzimwasha
May 2, 2015 17:21 BST
A fundraising page set up by Baltimore's police union to raise money for the six officers arrested in connection to Freddie Gray's death has been taken down 40 minutes after being launched.
GoFundMe.com said it has taken down the fundraising campaign because it violates the website's policies.
The Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police created the page on Friday in an effort to create a defence fund for their officers involved in the case, but it was swiftly removed because according to the company, "funds cannot be used for people accused of serious crimes".
The page had reportedly raised around $1,000 before it was deleted, the Daily Mail reported.
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/freddie-gray-gofundme-page-police-officers-charged-death-deleted-after-40-minutes-1499448
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)GoFundMe has done this before, though. The idiots will have to find a more sympathetic site.
-- Mal
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)They are suspended so they may be paid and third they are alleged murderers who do not degree the funding. Good for Go Fund Me.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)to pay for the defense.
avebury
(10,946 posts)found themselves suspended without pay.
avebury
(10,946 posts)found themselves suspended without pay.
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)I can only think of one reason why you'd want to contribute to such a fund beyond being a family member or a friend of the accused.
C Moon
(12,188 posts)Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)cstanleytech
(26,087 posts)style of justice.
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)Nobody is an absolutist when it comes to that.
dballance
(5,756 posts)Let their damned union support them or let them use the Public Defender.
I support "Innocent Until Proven Guilty." I also support them having to deal with their charges the same way every poor, African American they arrest must deal with charges.
cstanleytech
(26,087 posts)the odds are the union will probably foot the bill, that or some anonymous person or persons will step to pay for it.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)cstanleytech
(26,087 posts)if his case had gotten to court, sadly though we wont ever find out what verdict a jury would have rendered.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Possession of a legal knife? Running from people he believed would harm him? What crime do you believe he committed, that he would have to face a jury?
cstanleytech
(26,087 posts)Nope not the possession that would have probably been tossed because as its been pointed out the knife itself was legal.
"Running from people he believed would harm him?"
Running from the police is technically considered resisting arrest in alot of areas, just a FYI.
"What crime do you believe he committed, that he would have to face a jury?"
Personally? None. Legally? At most resisting arrest for running, I dont think a reasonable jury would have convicted him though but of course we wont ever know for certain now because of the apparent negligence of the officers that lead to his death.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)And arrested for actually doing something? But since he will never go to trial, he remains innocent, and will remain innocent, because he will never go to trial and be 'proven guilty'.
cstanleytech
(26,087 posts)Nope, resisting is resisting and if they told him to stop and he ran then its breaking the law just like if you are in a car and refuse to pull over for a cop even if all the cop was trying to do was tell you that you forgot to turn on your headlights which BTW happened to me once.
But anyway I suspect that the kids case would have been dismissed due to the lack of cause for the initial arrest unless of course he took a swing at one of the officers which I dont believe happened since the police would have been using that to justify their actions.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)He ran BEFORE they told him anything, and I've heard absolutely nothing to indicate that he continued to run after 'they told him to stop', if indeed they did tell him to stop before tackling him..
cstanleytech
(26,087 posts)or if he struggled after they grabbed him then its technically considered resisting arrest even though it likely that it would have been thrown out of court.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)It will be interesting to see how long the blue wall phenomena persists as it becomes recognizable that pukes like the Baltimore 6 are ruining things for honest cops.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)Anyone who gave a cent before it was deleted is scum.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Aren't allowing such things either. All the Slager funds were deleted as well
matt819
(10,749 posts)What's the latest with Slager?
marym625
(17,997 posts)I don't know when his trial is.
I am still waiting to hear about Tamir Rice's murderer being charged
bravenak
(34,648 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)And nothing!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)The Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police, bunch of cowards.
The Wizard
(12,482 posts)when you have the Koch brothers.
underpants
(182,283 posts)Hoppy
(3,595 posts)If so, the city pays the legal bill.
When I was a teacher, we had such a clause.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)It goes to show past pressure on them has worked.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)not that gofundme is all that useful. have a friend who uses that because he barely has enough money for food. site never seems to work
Monk06
(7,675 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)getting a legal defense. They are going to need all the help they can get. I want to see them in prison for 20+ years, despite any money they get (a fool and his money...).
I mean, you put a reasonably heathy person in your van, and you pull a broken, dying person out, there's no way in hell anyone could believe that nothing happened in the interim.
cstanleytech
(26,087 posts)If they get any time it will be between 2 to 10.