Posted on 04/24/2021 9:05:21 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
After a Norfolk, Virginia, police officer was fired for donating $25 to Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal defense fund when a hacker-connected group gave “breached” data about anonymous donations to the media, the Christian crowdfunding site that processed his donation is now collecting donations for him.
Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDOS), which the Department of Homeland Security deemed a “criminal hacker group,” obtained the email addresses of anonymous donors to various crowdfunding campaigns on the site GiveSendGo, an alternative to GoFundMe that allows people to send prayers or money to people.
The Guardian, a British newspaper, used the data to dox rank-and-file police officers who had donated to legal support funds of colleagues who had garnered the ire of Black Lives Matter, including Rusten Sheskey, who faced a probe after shooting Jacob Blake. Investigations into Sheskey’s conduct ultimately cleared him of wrongdoing, finding that he did his job properly in apprehending a knife-wielding suspect.
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It also doxed police and paramedics who gave money to the legal defense fund of Kyle Rittenhouse, who is charged in the shooting deaths of two people during an anti-police riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that came in the wake of Blake’s shooting. Rittenhouse said he was in Kenosha “providing first aid for, like, minor injuries to people” and used the gun to defend himself against rioters. One of the people killed was “a homeless man with a criminal record who was discharged that day from a psychiatric hospital.”
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Using illegally obtained information to fire him smells of something criminal.
Also, even though every private enterprise has the right to set whatever rules they want on its employees, it is problematic that they apply outside the workplace and if they were not specifically defined before the incident.
I hope he is suing for wrongful termination. In the meantime we should bombard Norfolk PD and make them publicly state they do not allow free speech by its employees. Ever.
We don’t have gulags in the USA (yet) but this gives the equivalent result. You are fired in the USA for supporting someone who is not on the side that the party approves of.
This is not the land of the free.
The Cop needs to retain Counsel and sue the Living Crap out of the City.
He needs to add any promotion he may have gotten. And pay advances.
He needs to sue for his potential retirement pension. For years of that.
He needs to sue for public libel and slander.
“Using illegally obtained information to fire him smells of something criminal.”
No doubt the FBI and DOJ are on the case. Unfortunately Hillary’s emails, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and Epstein’s videos have higher priority.
Is WI still prosecuting this kid?
This is just as bad imo. Lets see what the left along with the SILENT GOP are doing. they are making it criminal to protest of be a conservative.
Kyle wasn’t rioting or “storming” a Gov building.
He defended his life against low life paid for criminals who were out burning and looting.
Oh btw these same officials in our government give the Marxist street rioters the wink and nod to continue their destruction.
Whatever it takes to let them gain more power and grab more money.
You betcha!
or* be a conservative
The officer ought to sue for denial of the constitutional right of freedom of association.
I’d guess that any donations going to help these officers out are being tracked by the government. If you donate, they’ll screen you and see if there is a way to cause you problems either with your employer or use something to base a charge on, even something as trivial as a parking ticket or overdue book. If you’re not in step with the leftist government, lawfare is in your future.
The goal for Kelly is 25K, they have now raised $17,326.
That should be enouhh to cover Kelly’s move to a red state where he can be hired by a Constitutional police department.
https://www.givesendgo.com/WilliamKelly
There is justice after all. I too hope he’ll be able to retire on the settlement with the city. Shameful.
Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDOS), which the Department of Homeland Security deemed a “criminal hacker group,” obtained the email addresses of anonymous donors to various crowdfunding campaigns on the site GiveSendGo, an alternative to GoFundMe that allows people to send prayers or money to people. The Guardian, a British newspaper, used the data to dox rank-and-file police officers who had donated to legal support funds of colleagues...
Everybody has the right to privacy, and that includes monetary donations to the cause of their choice!
These ‘doxxers’ deserve no such thing.
bttt
has the police union said anything? arent these guys usually unionized?
Still a lot of info not released on this one, but I did read, yesterday, that the officer used his official, municipal email account to communicate with Kyle.
That may well be the grounds for his termination...
He was a LT. Chances are pretty good he knows the rules.
That said, I do agree he should be working with legal counsel to be properly assisted and protected through this issue.
Thought police. Always forgetting America is supposed to be a free country.
We don’t have gulags in the USA (yet) but this gives the equivalent result. You are fired in the USA for supporting someone who is not on the side that the party approves of.
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This is actually the communist method. After Stalin death, the communists somewhat mellowed and massive executions and massive Gulags abated. (they never stopped)
Firing from job then became the main method of persecution of anybody opposing them. After being fired, they would assign you some menial job, like digging ditches in mountains of Siberia. Technically no Gulag, but practically not too much better.
The cancel culture is nothing original, just recycled 100% Brezhnev idea.
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