Friends of Slain Brooklyn Activist Create GoFundMe Page—for Themselves

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Claudia Morales watched as Brian Dowling “randomly” stabbed her lefty activist boyfriend, Ryan Carson, to death in the neo-hipster, ghetto-riffic Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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Carson left a legacy of Marxist hate on social media, even celebrating the death of Rush Limbaugh. His moll, Morales, has been photographed wearing an “ACAB” t-shirt (ACAB is an anagram for All Cops Are B**tards).

Though Morales didn’t run, scream, or call the police as her boyfriend was getting filleted, a group of his friends was quick to set up a GoFundMe page to procure funds for… themselves.

According to the internet tip-cup page, Ryan’s friends are asking people to donate $20,000 so Morales and other friends can take time off to grieve. As of this writing, they’ve wrangled $71,330.

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FACT-O-RAMA! My mother died suddenly on a Thursday. I was back on stage by Saturday.

The ghoulish online panhandling page reads:

Hi everyone.

We are a collective of Ryan’s close friends, reeling from a brutal loss. We are asking for your help on behalf of his partner in easing the burden and stress of this horrifying situation so that we can have space and time to grieve, and remember Ryan. Immediate needs are to offset the costs of working class people taking time off of work to properly mourn.

If you Google ‘Ryan Carson’, you’ll hear (and now see) about the tragedy that struck on early Monday morning. But if you look past the breaking news, you’ll see news on his legislative victories, you’ll probably find his social media accounts filled with thoughts and memories, and you’ll find collections of his artistic works to date. We hope you may find his thoughts on mutual aid, his works of advocacy, and understand that his radical principles of community care, justice, and dismantling an individualized profit-centered way of life are worth carrying forward in our own communities.

It is this time of remembrance and healing that will allow for reflection; we thank you in advance for any material support you can provide.

In pain and gratitude,
Ryan’s Friends

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A since-deleted post from a donor read something along the lines of, “I will happily pay the $5 minimum donation to say you’re disgusting for profiting off the death of your boyfriend.”

You can watch Dowling murder Carson in the video below. After putting a knife into his heart, Dowling kindly spits at Morales.

Authorities apprehended a teary-eyed Dowling in his home near the crime scene, and he is being charged with second-degree murder.

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