{"id":1820648,"date":"2023-01-23T14:20:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T19:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1820648"},"modified":"2023-01-23T14:22:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T19:22:40","slug":"gofundme-allows-fundraiser-for-left-wing-activist-accused-of-shooting-cop-has-shut-down-right-leaning-fundraisers-in-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gofundme-allows-fundraiser-for-left-wing-activist-accused-of-shooting-cop-has-shut-down-right-leaning-fundraisers-in-past\/","title":{"rendered":"GoFundMe Allows Fundraiser For Left-Wing Activist Accused Of Shooting Cop, Has Shut Down Right-Leaning Fundraisers In Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgofundme-allows-fundraiser-for-left-wing-activist-accused-of-shooting-cop-has-shut-down-right-leaning-fundraisers-in-past%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1820648&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A GoFundMe campaign started Saturday to raise nearly $50,000 for the left-leaning protester who was accused of shooting an Atlanta State Patrol Officer last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The GoFundMe identification of the protester <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/for-family-of-manuel-tortuguita-paez-teran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fundraiser<\/a> as Manuel P\u00e1ez Ter\u00e1n, was shot and killed by police on Wednesday after he allegedly shot the trooper, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said. The activist\u2019s death <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/alleged-far-left-rioters-attack-police-smash-office-buildings-in-atlanta\">sparked unrest<\/a> Over the weekend, Atlanta. GBI Director Mike Register stated that the police had started removing protestors from a long-running demonstration in a forest area where a proposed training center for law enforcement officers was being built.<\/p>\n<p>While police attempted to remove protesters, P\u00e1ez Ter\u00e1n allegedly \u201cwithout warning shot a Georgia State Patrol Trooper,\u201d Register <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/01\/19\/us\/atlanta-cop-city-shooting-domestic-terrorism-charges\/index.html\">according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe individual who fired upon law enforcement and shot the trooper was killed in an exchange of gunfire,\u201d The director was also quoted.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/gbi.georgia.gov\/press-releases\/2023-01-20\/gbi-investigates-officer-involved-shooting-following-multi-agency\">news release<\/a> The GBI issued additional details on Friday and included a photo of its handgun that it claimed was used to kill the trooper. According to police \u201cthe projectile recovered from the trooper\u2019s wound matches Teran\u2019s handgun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An earlier press release, dated Wednesday, stated that police officers \u201clocated a man inside a tent in the woods\u201d And \u201cgave verbal commands to the man who did not comply and shot a Georgia State Patrol Trooper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther law enforcement officers returned fire, hitting the man,\u201d The press release stated that the GBI was releasing the statement. \u201cLaw enforcement evacuated the Trooper to a safe area. The man died on scene. The injured Georgia State Patrol Trooper was taken to a local hospital where he underwent surgery. A handgun and shell casings were located at the scene. The GBI is working the officer involved shooting and the investigation is still active and ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, police stated that they retrieved the item. \u201cmortar style fireworks, multiple edged weapons, pellet rifles, gas masks, and a blow torch\u201d from the protest area, though police did not say that any of these items belonged to P\u00e1ez Ter\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p>Activists involved in the protest have insisted that P\u00e1ez Ter\u00e1n did not open fire on police, with Defend the Atlanta Forest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/defendATLforest\/status\/1615796266973396993\">writing on Twitter<\/a> It believes \u201cthe officer shot today was hit by \u2018friendly fire\u2019 and not by the protester who was killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kamau Franklin from Community Movement Builders was another activist. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2023\/1\/20\/atlanta_cop_city_protester_killed\">told<\/a> Left-leaning outlet Democracy Now! that P\u00e1ez Ter\u00e1n, whom activists refer to as a \u201cforest defender,\u201d most likely didn\u2019t fire at the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo our knowledge so far, we find it less than likely that the police version of events is what really happened, the idea that he was sitting in a tent and fired out of the tent at basically a\u00a0SWAT\u00a0team, DeKalb County police, the Atlanta police and Georgia state troopers, who were there in great numbers to do the raid that they conducted in the park,\u201d Franklin said.<\/p>\n<p>GoFundMe had in the past stopped fundraising for right-leaning causes such as the \u201cFreedom Convoy,\u201d Claim the website \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/after-backlash-gofundme-says-it-will-automatically-refund-freedom-convoy-donors\">evidence<\/a>\u201d The protest was not peaceful and did not reveal any of the alleged evidence. GoFundMe also removed a fundraising page for Kyle Rittenhouse&#8217;s legal defence. Rittenhouse was acquitted on murder charges in Kenosha shooting deaths in Kenosha in 2020. The video evidence clearly showed that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense. GoFundMe explained to Medium that it had removed the Rittenhouse fundraising pages. \u201cTerms of Service prohibit raising money for the legal defense of an alleged violent crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GoFundMe didn&#8217;t respond to a Daily Wire query prior to press time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/alleged-far-left-rioters-attack-police-smash-office-buildings-in-atlanta\">Alleged Far-Left Rioters Attack Police, Smash Office Buildings In Atlanta<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A GoFundMe started Saturday has raised nearly $50,000 for the left-wing protester accused of shooting a Georgia State Patrol Officer in Atlanta last week. The protester, identified in the GoFundMe fundraiser as Manuel P\u00e1ez Ter\u00e1n, was shot and killed by police on Wednesday after he allegedly shot the trooper, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":1820651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4029,5327,7892,8135,16138,14142,5129,9925,4300,4008],"class_list":["post-1820648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-accused","tag-activist","tag-cop","tag-fundraiser","tag-fundraisers","tag-gofundme","tag-left-wing","tag-right-leaning","tag-shooting","tag-shut"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1820651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}