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A fundraising page dedicated to South Carolina police officer Michael Slager was shut down by GoFundMe on Wednesday.
Slager was charged with the murder of 50-year-old Walter Scott after video surfaced of him shooting at the unarmed man eight times. GoFundMe’s public relations manager, Kelsea Little, told The Huffington Post that the page's removal was "due to a violation of our terms and conditions.”
Controversy swirled around the establishment of two GoFundMe pages that raised money for Darren Wilson, the officer responsible for the fatal shooting of Brown in July. Combined, they had raised nearly half a million dollars before they disappeared from the Internet late August.
According to a ThinkProgress report, GoFundMe confirmed that the campaign violated the site's terms and conditions; while that statement didn't confirm which terms were violated, GoFundMe's rules page explicitly forbids "campaigns in defense of formal charges of heinous crimes."
By that morning, the heretofore unidentified operators of the Support Michael Slager campaign had launched an identical legal defense fundraising campaign at IndieGoGo. That site's terms do not forbid such fundraising campaigns, though the rules use vague language to forbid "scams," and the current campaign could fall into that category due to a lack of hard information that answers how any raised money will be used or where it will be sent.
The eyewitness who filmed the harrowing moment a white cop fatally shot an unarmed black man in the back has revealed he told officers at the scene about his video - but became afraid and decided to flee with the vital evidence still in his possession.
Feidin Santana, a 23-year-old barber, has been hailed a hero for keeping his cellphone camera trained on Officer Michael Slager as he fired eight shots at Walter Scott, 50, in North Charleston, South Carolina on Saturday.
Slager is shown shooting Scott multiple times in the back as he attempted to flee the scene. The video also shows Slager apparently planting a taser next to Scott’s body.