It hasn’t been a good day for the Baltimore Fraternity Order of Police Lodge 3 (FOP). The police union published a public letter this morning that asked State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby to assign a special prosecutor to investigate Freddie Gray’s death and included a subtle threat to the political career of her husband, City Councilman Nick Mosby, only to have Marilyn Mosby announce charges against six officers a few minutes later. Baltimore citizens celebrated in the streets when the charges were announced, and Mosby got a flood of press coverage, with a New York Times headline announce she is “Seen as Tough on Police Misconduct” and a New York magazine post calling her a “certified bad ass.”
Then, FOP published a blog post on its website later in the day, saying that it had “been overwhelmed with the enormous generosity of people from around the world” and was trying to start an online fundraiser to “assist our [six charged] officers with their living expenses during their unpaid suspension. [sic] as well as to help defray their legal expenses.”
At 4:32 p.m., FOP tweeted:
We are raising money for Suppport Our Officers . Click to Donate: http://t.co/AtsWqg70UE via @gofundme
— Baltimore City FOP (@FOP3) May 1, 2015
Turns out, though, that it’s against GoFundMe’s Terms & Conditions to use the site to raise funds “in defense of formal charges or claims of heinous crimes, violent, hateful, sexual, or discriminatory acts,” as people on Twitter quickly pointed out. Less than an hour later:
Apparently our GoFundMe account has been suspended with no explanation. We are working to find a new site for donations. Thank you!
— Baltimore City FOP (@FOP3) May 1, 2015
Oops.
Charges are just that
Convictions , now that’s an entirely different deal
I’m not going to call her a badass or the judge until they prove what and who they are
All of that Police Union’s member need to have all their Assets Seized as anti racketeering “Asset Forfeiture”. That union needs to be busted and its assets seized as well. The proceeds of which would fund a common law special procedure.
I would nominate Randy Kelton of Texas. 🙂 That should be independent enough.
He can choose his staff. http://www.ruleoflawradio.com/
“… was trying to start an online fundraiser to “assist our [six charged] officers with their living expenses during their unpaid suspension. [sic] as well as to help defray their legal expenses.”
Anyone with THAT much chutzpah could ONLY have been trained in Israhell.
The only thing I’d consider ‘assisting’ those POS pigs with would be suicide.
DITTO! They have already done a good job as far as the SUICIDE goes…Makes me want too stomp my hands and clap my feet!
Agreed.