Posted on 01/13/2017 5:49:42 AM PST by RummyChick
(CNN)The video was shocking: A special-needs teen bound and beaten, taunted and tortured live on Facebook.
The response, however, is heartwarming. Thousands -- from all 50 states, and from countries as far away as Australia -- have donated to a GoFundMe account set up for the teen. A 10-year-old North Carolina girl sent in all $7 of her tooth fairy money. A Star Trek club challenged other fleets to donate. Another person wrote, "We heard your cry. You didn't ask for us, but your burdens are ours, so we are here to forever walk with you." The fund, started a week ago, asked for $5,000. By Thursday, it had surpassed $160,000. Donations came from 40 countries, a GoFundMe spokesman told CNN. CNN attempted to reach the Reddit user who started the GoFundMe page but was unsuccessful. The user, Razor Sheldon, has said he doesn't want to "shift any focus away" from the victim or the campaign. "There are a lot of people who felt helpless when they saw that story and this gave them an opportunity to do something about it," he told the Washington Post.
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be warned..there is the video clip and it auto loaded for me.
Razor didn't get back to CNN....I think he was worried about Fakenews.
Chicago Bulls have reached out to the family
Now let’s start a GoFundMe account to build the gallows on which the four animals who tortured him can be hanged.
And yet if they didn’t show it on facebook, and even (God Forbid) KILLED him, his family wouldn’t see a dime.
And in a few weeks or months, it will be forgotten and people will still get beaten and maybe die by the Chicago animals.
I am glad about the money for him.
I haven’t watched or read really anything about the story because it is too infuriating, so I dont know how he is disabled.
But if it is mentally, the money will come in handy for the guy either now or down the line.
The situation is interesting in that the Pooh Bear Gang has disavowed them.
So what happens in prison. Do they have any protection because the father of Cooper is close to the Pooh Bear Gang . Do they get attacked for being part of the Pooh Bear Gang.
Do the KKKers come after them?
PBG Kemo said something like Cooper was “off” before this..as in not right in the head kind of thing.
I suspect they are in for a world of trouble in prison.
Unfortunately only God can bring justice to the perpetrators behind the perpetrators.
Schizophrenia and ADD..but the comments from the lawyer say to me that he really has never been properly diagnosed with full scale treatment. The family has no money...and now maybe he will get the diagnostics and care that he needs.
I have a relative that is on the schizo scale. It is possible that Austin may really be something else on the scale of mental illness. My relative has been misdiagnosed more than once.
Then the money could well change his life.
The right diagnosis and taking the medication daily is Very Important. Many who live on their own stop taking the meds and that leads to trouble.
I am sorry that your relative has had to go though multiple diagnoses. It is frustrating.
That’s Good!
Poor kid was terrorized for Days.
Traumatic for the strongest of us.
I’d donate enough rope to hang the four racist torturers.
Now let’s start a GoFundMe account to build the gallows on which the four animals who tortured him can be hanged.
pure evil these people
Impure evil, actually.
Reality check
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