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Fundraising for French cop who killed teen reaches €1M
(www.politico.eu)
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Part of the reason it's controversial is right here. Europe's main fund-raising platform denied the officer the opportunity to fundraise. He had to turn to US company GoFundMe to make the fundraiser. This also means that US political operatives may be donating to the cause. Isn't that a case of US people trying to influence French politics? Especially considering the US has one of the worst, most violent police gangs in the world?
@dingus Interesting, I could see why foreigners donating could inflate the popularity of the cause. But do people in the #USA really care that much? Most English language coverage of the event has been both poor and scant, especially here in the #USA. I had to translate French language news outlets to figure out what actually happened
I had very little trouble finding english language sources for information on this incident.
Secondly, yes, people in the US do care that much. Maybe not every US citizen, you're right, a lot of them won't even know that this happened or be paying attention. Yet....
Conservative groups, especially Evangelical Christian conservative groups, have a long history of dumping absolutely gobs of money into foreign countries to influence their politics.
Two recent examples would be the Canadian Trucker Protest,
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-american-right-wing-funding-for-canadian-trucker-protests-could-sway-u-s-politics
and the Ugandan anti-gay law:
https://globalaffairs.org/commentary-and-analysis/blogs/unholy-relationship-between-ugandas-anti-lgbtq-law-and-us
US conservatives absolutely are interested in being involved in supporting their brand of conservatism worldwide, and considering US conservatives are the sort who regularly sport stickers like "back the blue" or "the thin blue line" flags, it would be remiss to act like the quickly ascending money for the officer isn't politically motivated.