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Tyre Nichols fundraiser tops $1M in just two days — 100 times its goal
NY Post ^ | 01-30-2023 | Lee Brown

Posted on 01/30/2023 7:18:50 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

An online fundraiser for Tyre Nichols’ family has raised more than $1 million in just two days.

Nichols’ mom, RowVaughn Wells, started the GoFundMe with the modest goal of getting $10,000 for mental health treatment and to create a memorial skateboard park for her 29-year-old son who died after being brutally beaten by Memphis cops.

By early Monday, it was the site’s top fundraiser — having already raised more than $1.1 million with donations from more than 30,000 people.

“My husband and I have had our entire world turned upside down by what happened to our son,” Wells said of how cops “beat him to death for no good reason.”

“We are two hardworking, loving parents, that now have to turn our full-time attention to seeking proper justice for our son,” she wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: fundraiser; goal; nichols; tops
Just like the Floyd family getting all that money. I would be more worried about what to my Son then the money. But that is just me.
1 posted on 01/30/2023 7:18:50 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s too bad the jugheads won’t use that money to pay their student loan bills.


2 posted on 01/30/2023 7:23:51 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Spay and neuter your "migrants" and liberals.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Movin’ on up...............


3 posted on 01/30/2023 7:24:05 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Prime virtue signalling opportunity.


4 posted on 01/30/2023 7:25:38 AM PST by bigbob
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That will keep his family in gold teeth, gold chains, and flashy cars for a long time.


5 posted on 01/30/2023 7:27:19 AM PST by euram (allALL)
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To: bigbob

This is one time I have no issue with this sort of thing. After all it’s not your money.


6 posted on 01/30/2023 7:27:23 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It pays to be black in the USA today......white heterosexual family men; not so much...


7 posted on 01/30/2023 7:29:12 AM PST by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I didn’t watch the video. I’ve heard that by appearances the cops were black, in the wrong and are now facing charges.

All I know is that the people who tell me I should care a great deal about this situation didn’t care one iota (or were even glad) when Ashli Babbitt was fatality shot in the neck without warning so... 🤷


8 posted on 01/30/2023 7:30:01 AM PST by MountainWalker
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To: traderrob6

[This is one time I have no issue with this sort of thing.]

Pretty much the same feeling here.


9 posted on 01/30/2023 7:39:09 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Please don’t hire the grifter Ben Crump.


10 posted on 01/30/2023 7:40:45 AM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: MountainWalker
All I know is that the people who tell me I should care a great deal about this situation didn’t care one iota (or were even glad) when Ashli Babbitt was fatality shot in the neck . . .

Nor about the other unarmed woman who was beaten to death on the capitol steps by the capitol cop in remarkably similar manner as Tyre Nichols . . .

Do the presstitutes even know her name?

11 posted on 01/30/2023 7:50:58 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

From the article: “We are two hardworking, loving parents, that now have to turn our full-time attention to seeking proper justice for our son,” she wrote.”

It would be helpful if her concept of “justice” is defined. As I understand it the policemen have been suspended or fired from their jobs and have been charged with 2nd degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping and other charges. Assuming they go to trial, are convicted, and receive long prison terms, won’t justice have been served? Isn’t the process working without their full time attention?


12 posted on 01/30/2023 7:54:02 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work o)
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To: bigfootbob

Too late!


13 posted on 01/30/2023 8:06:03 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Actual justice requires quite a bit of money in order to grease the corrupt wheels of the courts these days.

Monetary compensation is a biblical substitute for the eye for and eye rule.


14 posted on 01/30/2023 8:15:37 AM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: rktman

Kill Cracker babies

https://youtu.be/IP_AChR2bdc


15 posted on 01/30/2023 8:32:46 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Just like the Floyd family getting all that money. “

bullshit ... floyd was a criminal and a drug addict ... the young man who the Memphis Scorpion thug cops DELIBERATELY beat to death was a working stiff who was a Fedex driver ... BIG F-ing difference ...


16 posted on 01/30/2023 11:09:49 AM PST by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You know, I read a bunch of comments before posting and Freepers have let me down. This young man was flat out murdered by the police and still you can’t help but make stupid and idiotic comments.

I worked with him and if they raise some money to do some good, then what does that hurt.

His Dad was at work today and I spoke to him for a minute. He’s hanging in there...just how would you feel if cops beat your child to death?


17 posted on 01/30/2023 4:13:38 PM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Soul of the South

What would YOU do if it was your son? Damn, do freepers have no souls?

I was hold the cops feet to the fire and try to make sure “justice” was served and not to happen again.


18 posted on 01/30/2023 4:16:49 PM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: catnipman

Thank God, someone who saw the film and knows what he is talking about.


19 posted on 01/30/2023 4:17:56 PM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: packrat35

Let h know many folks are praying for him and his family 🙏 No parent should have to endure what happened.


20 posted on 01/30/2023 4:21:53 PM PST by M_Continuum
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