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May 5, 2025

BSSA demands removal of GoFundMe for alleged cop killer


From the Buckeye State Sheriff's Association:

For Immediate Release

 

The Buckeye State Sheriff's Association Demands GoFundMe Remove.

Fundraiser for Cop-Killer who taunted Deputies at Arraignment

 

Columbus, Ohio Robert Cornwell, Executive Director of the Buckeye

State Sheriff's Association demanding that the online fundraising

platform GoFundMe shut down the multiple fundraisers supporting

Rodney Hinton, Jr. The man is currently charged with murdering a

Hamilton County Deputy Sheriff while working a special duty detail on

May 2,2025.

 

On behalf of the Law Enforcement Community in Ohio and the nation,

we implore the GoFundMe organization to immediately take-down the

efforts of fundraising for an assassin.

 

The BSSA represents all Sheriffs in the State of Ohio as well as over

3,000 deputy sheriffs and 17,000 private citizens.

 

Me. Hinton and his family and friends should not benefit at the

 

expanse of a Law Enforcement Officer that was doing the job he was

hired to perform.


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