I am the type of person that if someone needs some kind of assistance, I will give them assistance.
I give to charities pretty much on a regular basis. Added to that, there are instances where I will see people that are not doing well and try to buy them something to eat. Reason being, is that you can only do one thing with food.
Added to that, I remember that scam from a couple of years ago with that homeless guy and the couple that tried to raise money for the guy and it turned out they were all scamming people. Be careful who you give to.
Recently, rioters took to Grant Park in an attempt to destroy the Christopher Columbus Statue which they believe stands for white supremacy.
Officers were called in to protect the statute and disperse the crowd. Members of that crowd began throwing objects and attacking them.
One attack may well have left an officer blinded.
Enter Miracle Boyd, a poor teenager minding her business in the crowd and trying to calm tensions. Boyd was merely trying to help everyone when a big bad officer came along and punched her in the face for no reason at all, supposedly knocking a tooth out.
At least, that was the story when this incident happened.
A couple of weeks later, she stated it never happened.
She’s laughing at everyone who believed her, including 25th Ward Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez, who said after the alleged assault:
“We need to change our way to approach public safety, the way that we approach this kind of situation, because we can’t have teenagers – exemplary teenagers -being brutalized, you know, participating in their freedom to speak.”
Boyd’s account of what happened received international coverage and the attention of someone who set up a GoFundMe page for donations.
The donations reached over $80,000 before Boyd released a social media post talking about how rich she had just gotten, saying:
“These white people love a sad sob story.”
Her friend, also in the video added:
“Yeah, my friend really did get rich as hell of this [expletive] for real. The police really didn’t do [expletive] but just make her rich as [expletive] for no reason.”
Boyd added:
“They lame as hell.”
Although donations have been stopped on the site, it is not clear if GoFundMe will start pulling back donations for those who did donate that want their money back.