Posted on Apr 17, 2021
US police and public officials donated to Kyle Rittenhouse, data breach reveals
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/16/us-police-officers-public-officials-crowdfunding-website-data-breach?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox= [login to see]
Rittenhouse, who became a cause célèbre across conservative media throughout late 2020, and was even supported by then president Donald Trump, held a fundraiser on GiveSendGo billed as a contribution to his legal defense. According to data from the site, he raised $586,940 between 27 August last year and 7 January .
Among the donors were several associated with email addresses traceable to police and other public officials.
One donation for $25, made on 3 September last year, was made anonymously, but associated with the official email address for Sgt William Kelly, who currently serves as the executive officer of internal affairs in the Norfolk police department in Virginia.
That donation also carried a comment, reading: “God bless. Thank you for your courage. Keep your head up. You’ve done nothing wrong.”
The comment continued: “Every rank and file police officer supports you. Don’t be discouraged by actions of the political class of law enforcement leadership.”
Another Rittenhouse donor using an official email address was Craig Shepherd, who public records show is a paramedic in Utah. This donor gave $10 to Rittenhouse on 30 August.
Donations also came to Rittenhouse associated with official email addresses for Keith Silvers, and employee of the city of Huntsville, Alabama, and another $100 was associated with the official address of Michael Crosley, an engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a body which is charged with maintaining the US’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
Rittenhouse, who became a cause célèbre across conservative media throughout late 2020, and was even supported by then president Donald Trump, held a fundraiser on GiveSendGo billed as a contribution to his legal defense. According to data from the site, he raised $586,940 between 27 August last year and 7 January .
Among the donors were several associated with email addresses traceable to police and other public officials.
One donation for $25, made on 3 September last year, was made anonymously, but associated with the official email address for Sgt William Kelly, who currently serves as the executive officer of internal affairs in the Norfolk police department in Virginia.
That donation also carried a comment, reading: “God bless. Thank you for your courage. Keep your head up. You’ve done nothing wrong.”
The comment continued: “Every rank and file police officer supports you. Don’t be discouraged by actions of the political class of law enforcement leadership.”
Another Rittenhouse donor using an official email address was Craig Shepherd, who public records show is a paramedic in Utah. This donor gave $10 to Rittenhouse on 30 August.
Donations also came to Rittenhouse associated with official email addresses for Keith Silvers, and employee of the city of Huntsville, Alabama, and another $100 was associated with the official address of Michael Crosley, an engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a body which is charged with maintaining the US’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
US police and public officials donated to Kyle Rittenhouse, data breach reveals
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....And?
Aside from a vicious move to dox folks, what is the purpose of this article? The article is written to make it sound like these people are doing something illegal. Which they are not. Or that there is some mass conspiracy to... I don't know... protect Rittenhouse from an overzealous DA?
$100 donations? 10$ donations?
These are normal, honest folks chipping in spare change for a legal defense which will prove to be very expensive. Even if Rittenhouse is found guilty, that STILL doesn't make these folks evil, or mean what they did was in ANY WAY wrong.
John Adams - one of our most respected leaders, founding father, and President - defended the British Soldiers in the Boston Massacre trial, because everyone is entitled to a good and proper defense. Even the guilty. Even the reviled.
Even if you hate Rittenhouse and think he is the scum of the earth who gets off on murdering babies, it is STILL not wrong to support his right to a proper defense. Which in *this* particular case, with an overzealous DA who has NO restrictions on cost (hey, it's just tax money, we can always get more), means he needs MONEY for a good lawyer - and for all of the work that good lawyer is going to have to do.
Aside from a vicious move to dox folks, what is the purpose of this article? The article is written to make it sound like these people are doing something illegal. Which they are not. Or that there is some mass conspiracy to... I don't know... protect Rittenhouse from an overzealous DA?
$100 donations? 10$ donations?
These are normal, honest folks chipping in spare change for a legal defense which will prove to be very expensive. Even if Rittenhouse is found guilty, that STILL doesn't make these folks evil, or mean what they did was in ANY WAY wrong.
John Adams - one of our most respected leaders, founding father, and President - defended the British Soldiers in the Boston Massacre trial, because everyone is entitled to a good and proper defense. Even the guilty. Even the reviled.
Even if you hate Rittenhouse and think he is the scum of the earth who gets off on murdering babies, it is STILL not wrong to support his right to a proper defense. Which in *this* particular case, with an overzealous DA who has NO restrictions on cost (hey, it's just tax money, we can always get more), means he needs MONEY for a good lawyer - and for all of the work that good lawyer is going to have to do.
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Guardian doxxing donors now? Would we hold the journalists liable for murder if the t hose people get lynched?
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