A GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign for Jonathan Ross — the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who killed Renee Good, a queer mother of three — has raised nearly $500,000 as of Monday evening. GoFundMe has said it’s “reviewing” whether the campaign violates its own policies forbidding fundraising for the legal defense of people charged with a crime. (Ross hasn’t yet been charged with any crime.)

Clyde Emmons, the person who established the campaign, wrote that they began the campaign after “seeing all the media bs about a domestic terrorist [Good] getting go fund me.” Emmons was referring to a separate GoFundMe campaign that has raised over $1.5 million for Good’s widow and their child.

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“I feel that the officer that was 1000 percent justified in the shooting deserves to have a go fund me. Funds will go to help him,” Emmons wrote.

GoFundMe told Newsweek that its Trust and Safety team is reviewing all crowdfunding campaigns on its platforms associated with Good’s shooting death in Minneapolis. Its policies “prohibit fundraisers that raise money for the legal defense of anyone formally charged with a violent crime,” and added, “Any campaigns that violate this policy will be removed.”

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While Ross hasn’t been charged with crime, officials in Minnesota are investigating the shooting to determine whether Ross broke any laws. Ross is a “committed Christian,” a MAGA supporter, and husband to an immigrant Filipina wife, according to numerous sources. He called Good a “f**king b**ch” moments after shooting her three times in the face, and leaving her car to roll down the street with a dead woman behind the wheel. Ross fled the scene soon after.

The current presidential administration has claimed that Good was a “domestic terrorist” and “a professional agitator” who “viciously ran over the ICE officer,” even though multiple videos of Good’s shooting show that she didn’t run over Ross. 

Trump referred to Good’s wife, Becca Good, as Renee Good’s “friend” and said that they were both “highly disrespectful of law enforcement.”

Becca Good said, “Renee leaves behind three extraordinary children; the youngest is just six years old and already lost his father. I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way.”

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