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GoFund Me - TAKE OFF THE RACIST: "STAND-UP" SITE!!

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In just five days, more than 5,000 people have donated more than $200,000 toGoFundMe’s Support Officer Darren Wilsonpage. Wilson is the officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson nearly two weeks ago.

Someone with the username “Stand Up” started the fundraiser on Sunday and says “proceeds will be sent directly to Darren Wilson and his family for any financial needs they may have including legal fees.” The effort has been wildly successful, and the campaign keeps hiking up its goal—it’s up to $250,000 now.

As a crowdfunding platform, GoFundMe collects five percent of each donation—meaning that at the time of publication, GoFundMe stands to profit $10,924.10, and that number is expected to rise.

Aside from the moral issue attached to profiting off of Michael Brown’s death, critics are pointing out that fundraising supporters have made blatantly racist comments on the site—both are potentially violations ofGoFundMe’s own terms, which prohibit “items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance, or the financial exploitation of a crime.” Wilson’s not been charged with a crime, but if he is, it’s unclear whether raising funds for his legal fees is allowed on the platform. And Wilson supporters on the site have made overtly racist comments, which Twitter users have made clear in their call for GoFundMe to remove the campaign immediately—threatening a boycott if the fundraiser isn’t pulled down.

One supporter refers to Wilson as an “animal control officer,” who killed a “criminal thug”:

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