Crowdfunding website refuses to let lawyer suing Black Lives Matter use its platform

Amber Randall, DCNF

A crowdfunding website removed the fundraising page of a lawyer seeking help to fund a lawsuit against Black Lives Matter leaders Sunday.

2016 AP YEAR END PHOTOS - A member of Baton Rouge police Cpl. Montrell Jackson's unit kneels and touches his casket during his funeral service at the Living Faith Christian Center in Baton Rouge, La., on July 25, 2016. Jackson, slain by a gunman who authorities said targeted law enforcement, is the last of the three Louisiana law enforcement officers killed in an ambush to be buried. (Patrick Dennis/Baton Rouge Advocate via AP, Pool, File) — (Patrick Dennis/Baton Rouge Advocate via AP, Pool, File)

Personal injury lawyer Donna Grodner created a fundraising page on the YouCaring site to try and raise $20,000 to fund two lawsuits on behalf of Baton Rouge police officers against Black Lives Matter leaders, reports PBS.

YouCaring removed Grodner’s page, saying that her page did not meet their community guidelines.

“In alignment with our mission, we removed this fundraiser because it was not within our community guidelines around promoting harmony,” YouCaring chief marketing officer Maly Ly told the NewsHour Weekend in an email. “We are not the right platform to air grievances, or engage in contentious disputes or controversial public opinion.”

Grodner has filed two lawsuits on behalf of Baton Rouge officers injured in relation to Black Lives Matter protests. The first one alleges that an officer was injured during a protest on the death of Alton Sterling, a black man. The other lawsuit, filed for an officer shot during an ambush, alleges that rhetoric from Black Lives Matter leaders influenced the shooting.

Grodner has since launched a new fundraising page on Go Fund Me, seeking $20,000 in order to help fight the “anti-police agenda” of the group through the lawsuits.

“Police officers in Baton Rouge have been seriously injured by militant protesters and activist. Black Lives Matter has been named in the lawsuit. Please give to help raise money to fund the prosecution of Black Lives Matter to hold them responsible for the injuries they caused whether in whole or in part through its anit-police agenda,” Grodner wrote on the page.

Only $70 has been raised for the $20,000 goal.

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