IndieGoGo Hosts Fundraiser for Accused Memphis Cop Killer and Family

Supporters of Tremain Wilbourn, the Memphis ex-con accused of shooting Officer Sean Bolton when he interrupted a drug deal on Saturday night, have started an IndieGoGo campaign to funnel money to him and his family.

Wilbourn turned himself in after a two-day manhunt. “I want you to know that one, I’m not a cold-blooded killer and two, I am not a coward,” he reportedly told Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong. The campaign repeats his claims and says that cops are waging “terrorism” on black communities, and so they have to support ex-cons who kill.

The description of the campaign reads in full:

This year, police have killed 558 people. 68% of those people were black. Most of them were unarmed. Police brutality and terrorism on the black community remains largely unchecked and less than 1% of those police officers who murder black people without cause are charged with murder or manslaughter.

Tremaine Wilbourn turned himself in to police on Monday, August 3rd for fatally shooting a police officer during a traffic stop and he wanted to make clear two things: one- he is not a cold-blooded killer, and two- he is not a coward. While the murderers of Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, 12 year old Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland and countless others are free to enjoy their families and lives, these men are no longer among the living.

These barbaric, unjustified murders of black men, women, and children are supported under the rule of law. We have to step up and support our people like the murderers of these men, women, and children have been supported. Please donate anything you can to support Tremaine’s children and his family during this difficult time for them.

So far, the campaign has raised $116 with 12 funders out of its stated $61,000 goal.

“We have to support our people,” the campaign’s founder, “PK EI” wrote as a comment. “If Darren Wilson can raise enough to put his children through college twice, we should be able to put together this change for Tremaine’s family.”

“We Should Always Support Our Own People, Especially When The Situation Is Grime And Questionable, Or When We Are Completely Within Our Rights. Because We Are All We have To Support Us,” reads another from user “thinkanotherway.”

The campaign declares that Wilbourn did in fact, shoot Bolton to death. If nothing else, its adherence to IndieGoGo’s community guidelines is questionable: “Indiegogo is not a place for hatred, abuse, discrimination, disrespect, profanity, meanness, harassment, or spam,” the community guidelines read. “Do no [u]se the Services to promote violence, degradation, subjugation, discrimination or hatred against individuals or groups based on race, ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.”

IndieGoGo did kill an April campaign helping a cop accused of murder: South Carolina police officer Michael Slager, charged for shooting fleeing suspect Walter Scott to death. 

“Our Trust & Safety team regularly conducts verifications and checks and this campaign did not meet their standards,” the company said at the time.

Email Katie at kmchugh@breitbart.com. Follow her on Twitter: @k_mcq.

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[VIDEO] Police find person of interest after Memphis police officer killed during traffic stop

Memphis Police said Sunday they have apprehended a person of interest in the search for the gunman who shot and killed an officer during a traffic stop the previous night.

Officials told Fox News that no charges have been filed against the person of interest and that the investigation into the shooting of Officer Sean Bolton, 33, is still ongoing.

Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong said during a news conference that police were alerted about 9:18 p.m. Saturday that an officer had been shot multiple times. Armstrong said the officer was transported in critical condition to a hospital, where he died.

In a statement Sunday morning, Memphis Police said that a civilian had used Bolton's radio to notify police about the shooting. No further details were released.

Armstrong said police are using all available resources to find the shooter and that officers are grieving, adding that "this is just a reminder of how dangerous" the job is. 

"Sadly to say, we've been here before," he said.

Bolton is the third Memphis officer to be fatally shot in slightly more than four years. Officer Tim Warren was killed while responding to a shooting at a downtown Memphis hotel in July 2011. In December 2012, Officer Martoiya Lang was killed while serving a warrant.

Memphis Mayor A.C. Wharton Jr. said Bolton's death "speaks volumes about the inherent danger of police work" and asked others to "pray for the family and pray for our city."

"The men and women in blue have certain rules of engagement that they have to follow, but at any given minute in a 24-hour day they're dealing with folks who have no rules of engagement."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Via: Fox News

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Civil Rights Activist Who Marched With Martin Luther King Posts Blunt Billboard About ‘Black Lives Matter’

“Black lives matter. So let’s quit killing each other.”

One man feels so strongly about that message that he put it in big bold letters on a Memphis, Tennessee, billboard, just steps from where he goes to work everyday.

Image source: WMC-TV

“We’re going to have to wake up. We’re going to have to say to ourselves that black lives matter, and we’re going to have to refrain from killing each other out of our own frustration,” civil rights activist Fred Davis told WMC-TV.

The sign was put up at Airways Boulevard and Park Avenue southeast of downtown. Davis said he wanted to get the message across to people because he was a part of the history.

“I think that gives me a license as an experienced observer to push and to advocate to the black community – let’s stop it,” Davis added.

Image source: WMC-TV

Davis is an Army veteran who served in France for two years. He was also the first black man to receive a masters of business administration degree from the University of Memphis, the first black chairman of the Memphis city council, and walked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when the iconic civil rights leader made his last march in Memphis in 1968, the year of his assassination.

Today, Davis has his own insurance agency at the same intersection where he put up the billboard.

Via: Brave

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THIS IS NOT A JOKE: YOU ARE ACTUALLY LOOKING AT A STREET LINE PAINTED OVER A PILE OF LEAVES — AND IT WAS ALL DONE ON PURPOSE!

 

A white, freshly painted street line going directly over a sizable pile of leaves might look like an accident — or the epitome of laziness. But the local street crew in Memphis, Tenn., that painted the line said they knew what they were doing and painted over the leaves, instead of just brushing them aside, on purpose.

“Once this large convoy gets rolling, it’s really safer and more efficient for it to just keep rolling. We don’t want to, particularly on a busy street, to stop the convoy,” Memphis City Engineer John Cameron told WMCTV-TV of the three-vehicle crew’s operations.

“We have over 750 miles of street that we stripe. We try to do that over a three year cycle,” Cameron said. “It was done per our policy.”

A smaller street crew eventually came back to move the debris and fill in the stripe of paint. (Image source: WMCTV-TV)

While it might seem amusing in photos, some residents were not laughing about the six- to seven-foot gaff on Crumpler Road:

Comments on Facebook included “I pay taxes and this is an absolute misuse of taxpayer dollars” and “I know there are some good workers, but as a whole it is pitiful the apathy and lazy attitudes in the Memphis city organizations.

Via: The Blaze

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TEA PARTY GROUPS NATIONWIDE UNITE AGAINST AMERICAN ATTACK ON SYRIA

Republican leaders in Washington, including SpeakerJohn Boehner (R-OH), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), and Senators McCain (R-AZ), Graham (R-SC), and Corker (R-TN), are supporting President Obama's call for an American attack on Syria, but Tea Party groups around the country are united in their opposition to such military action.

Tea Party activists appear to be virtually unanimous in their support for the position taken by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who said on Tuesday the United States "should not serve as Al-Qaeda's Air Force."

Lynn Moss, co-organizer of the Mid-South Tea Party in Memphis, Tennessee, expressed a view held by many Tea Party activists around the country. Moss told Breitbart News on Thursday, "both sides of the conflict in Syria are enemies of the United States. It would be foolish," she said, "and self-defeating to involve ourselves in this already volatile situation."

Joanne Jones, vice chairman of the Charleston Tea Party in South Carolina, told Breitbart News Thursday that "conservatives of many stripes are opposed to U.S. military intervention in Syria. Particularly in light of today’s account of al Qaeda-linked rebels murdering residents of a Christian village, it is becoming increasingly difficult to convince us that the United States would indeed be helping the 'right' rebels." 

Bobby Alexander, chairman of the Central Kentucky Tea Party Patriots, told Mother Jones, "[c]onservatives in Kentucky do not want us involved in Syria." John Kemper of the United Kentucky Tea Party added, "[t]he things I'm seeing and emails I'm getting from folks around the state, they're not in favor of [an American attack on Syria.]"

Mark Kevin Lloyd, a Tea Party activist in Virginia, told Breitbart News that "the Obama administration and some in the Republican leadership seems overly concerned about the president's credibility in the eyes of the world. Both President Obama and Speaker Boehner need to understand they each have the same credibility problems in the eyes of the American people. 

Via: Breitbart

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