“We appreciate your service in the animal control division of the Ferguson police department”: GoFundMe Defends its Racist Fundraising Drive for Cop who killed Michael Brown

Stop Supporting White Supremacy. GoFundme was founded in May 2010 by racist suspects, Brad Damphousse and Andrew Ballester. Stop giving them your money. 

 From [HERE] GoFundMe typically takes 5% from the total raised by campaigns using the site, meaning that it stands to collect more than $11,000 from the fundraising effort for Wilson so far. In a statement released on Friday, a spokeswoman for GoFundMe said: “Some donors’ comments have contained content that is in violation of GoFundMe’s terms and have been removed accordingly.”

The website’s acceptable use policy states that it may not be used for activities relating to the sale of “items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance or the financial exploitation of a crime”.

However, the statement on Friday also said: “The content of the campaign itself is not in violation of GoFundMe’s terms of service.”

“Much like Facebook and Twitter, GoFundMe is an open technology platform that allows for the exchange of ideas and opinions within the bounds of our terms of service,” said the statement, which was attributed to Kelsea of “GoFundMe Customer Happiness”.

The company’s decision to allow the page to continue prompted calls for a boycott from Shaun King, a Los Angeles-based civil rights activist. “Unless the Wilson campaign is ended we ask that you never use the site again for new campaigns,” he said on Twitter.