Bill Ackman Gave $10,000 to Jonathan Ross GoFundMe Created by User Linked to Nazi Salute Image |
After a U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week, rival GoFundMe campaigns emerged. One raised $1.5 million for the family of the slain mother of three. Another has pulled in nearly half a million dollars for Jonathan Ross — the ICE agent who killed her.
Among the donors to the Ross GoFundMe was billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who shared a post about the fundraiser on Saturday and donated $10,000.
A Facebook page for Clyde Emmons was using an extremist meme as a profile picture.
The fundraising campaign for Ross was created by an account using the name of Clyde Emmons, of Michigan. Other online accounts, linked to the GoFundMe and bearing the same name, posted white supremacist imagery and called Good “a stupod bitch who got what she deserved.”
At the time the GoFundMe page popped up, a Facebook page for Emmons was using an extremist meme as a profile picture. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the image used by the Emmons account depicts a Nazi salute and is a hate symbol. The “paper beats rock” symbol shows a Hitler salute hand over the Black Power fist and is considered an allusion to white supremacy, the ADL says in its explanation of the image.
A screenshot of a Facebook post from an account for Clyde Emmons showing the profile picture at the time the account posted a link to a GoFundMe for ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Screenshot: The InterceptGoFundMe is investigating the campaign, the company told The Intercept in a statement. (Neither Emmons nor........