GoFundMe Suspends Candace Owens’ Fundraiser After Controversial Comments About George Floyd
GoFundMe wants no parts of Candace Owens. The company suspended the conservative political commentator’s fundraiser for an Alabama cafe whose co-owner criticized the George Floyd protests. Michael Dykes, said Floyd was a “thug” and protesters were “idiots” in a text message to a co-worker that was posted online. Following his remarks, three of his employees quit and he faced heavy backlash on social media. Owens also came under fire for her controversial comments about Floyd while speaking with Glenn Beck.
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“The fact that he has been held up as a martyr sickens me. George Floyd was not a good person, I don’t care who wants to spin that. I don’t care how CNN wants to make you think he changed his life around,” she said in an interview with Beck. “He was just after his sixth or fifth stint in prison.”
I don't care WHAT George Floyd did. The officer should have never treated him like that and killed him! But we still must ask: Is he a HERO? BLEXIT founder @RealCandaceO gave her thoughts: "The fact that he has been held up as a martyr sickens me." pic.twitter.com/0Tm47x5Cc8
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) June 4, 2020
Owens took to Twitter on Sunday and revealed that her campaign to support Dykes’ cafe was suspended by GoFundMe after the company found her fundraiser “to be in support of hate, violence, harassment, bullying, discrimination, terrorism, or intolerance of any kind.” She tweeted,
”After raising $205,000 in a few hours @gofundme decided to halt my campaign for the Parkside Cafe in Alabama. At their discretion, they deemed that funds raised for a conservative business constitutes “intolerance” They WILL however give the funds raised thus far to the cafe…
She added,
“Guess my message to little kids would be for them not to idolize men that: Get high on fentanyl, get high on meth, use counterfeit bills, shove guns into the stomaches of pregnant women while robbing them, go to prison 5 times. What a truly horrible message I carry,” she wrote.
As we previously reported, George was killed after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin placed his knee on his neck during his arrest for nearly 9 minutes. He later died at a local hospital. All four officers involved have since been arrested and charged.
Derek Chauvin will make his first court appearance later this Monday afternoon.