The popular online fundraising platform GoFundMe is apologizing after multiple fundraisers for Rodney Hinton Jr., a man in Ohio accused of killing a deputy after officers killed his son, were launched and raised thousands within days of his arrest.
On Monday, May 5, the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police released a letter demanding that GoFundMe take down fundraisers supporting the 38-year-old suspect, WPTV reported. They were all removed by Tuesday.
Ohio FOP president Jay McDonald said in the letter that it was “absolutely outrageous, to fundraise off the assassination of a law enforcement officer. The 23,000 members of the Fraternal Order of Police of Ohio demand that GoFundMe take these appeals down immediately.”