Fundraiser Explodes As Candace Owens Steps In To Help Officer Fired For Donating $25 To Rittenhouse

A fundraiser started by Candace Owens has raised more than $230,000 for a police lieutenant who was fired after a data leak showed he donated $25 to support teenager Kyle Rittenhouse.

Owens set a goal Sunday of $100,000, but quickly surpassed it — more than doubling the benchmark and still climbing.

Norfolk, Virginia, Police Lt. William Kelly was fired in April after The Guardian leaked the names of police officers and public officials who donated to a defense fund for Rittenhouse, The Blaze reported. Kelly reportedly donated $25, using his department-issued email address when making the donation anonymously.

“God bless,” Kelly wrote to accompany his donation. “Thank you for your courage. Keep your head up. You’ve done nothing wrong. Every rank and file police officer supports you. Don’t be discouraged by actions of the political class of law enforcement leadership.”

Officer William Kelly via GiveSendGo

“By now you know there is nothing I hate more than media lies and its corresponding mob justice,” Owens posted to the fundraiser, hosted on GiveSendGo. “Perhaps some of the greatest media lies over this last year, were pertaining to the Kyle Rittenhouse case.”

“Former Lieutenant William Kelly” was “punished for siding with the truth,” the BLACKOUT founder said. “When left-wing hackers released the details of those who anonymously donated to Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense fund last year—Lt. Kelly’s name was among them.”

The lieutenant’s “spineless police chief, Larry Boone, a radical BLM supporter who attended BLM rallies in uniform— allowed the double standard of his firing to occur because to Boone, delivering mob justice mattered more than siding with truth,” Owens wrote.

Kelly has been “surviving on his savings and his wife’s teacher salary” since his firing, Owens said. “This is unacceptable. The routine threats, lies, and duress that our police officers nationwide are made to face to satisfy the black lives matter radical narrative cannot continue.”

“Kyle Rittenhouse is innocent. So is Lieutenant Kelly,” the “Candace” host closed the post. “Please support him.”

Since Rittenhouse’s not guilty verdict on all counts, Kelly has said he wants his job back.

On Tuesday’s episode of “Candace,” Kelly will make an appearance on the show, and be presented with the check from the funds raised.

Read the full message from Owens, below:

Hey guys— it’s Candace Owens. By now you know there is nothing I hate more than media lies and its corresponding