A GoFundMe crowdsourcing site that raised nearly $235,000 to support Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson has been shut down, and people are asked to donate to him via Shield of Hope, a charitable foundation run by the Missouri Fraternal Order of Police.
A message on the Missouri Fraternal Order of Police website asks people to make checks out to Shield of Hope, FOP Lodge 15, 9620 Lackland, Overland, MO, 63114. Or people can donate through Shield of Hope’s GoFundMe site.
An explanation on the old GoFundMe site said that the administrators of the page began the site after a Facebook page “Support Darren Wilson” grew and they wanted to create a way for people to donate.
But when they found Shield of Hope, which had been “designated as the authorized charity for donations” for Wilson, they worked together to set up the new page. They had to end collecting on the old page, they explained. Shield of Hope is a certified nonprofit, and donations may be tax-deductible.
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By 4:30 p.m. Friday, the new page had collected nearly $80,000.
