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Black Lives Matter Protester Admits Fraud Over Missing £30,000 Donations

by Will Jones
26 September 2023 9:00 AM

A woman who helped organise the Black Lives Matter protest that toppled the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston has admitted fraud after £30,000 donated by the public went missing. The Times has more.

Xahra Saleem, 23, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud by abuse of position after an investigation into a fundraiser linked to the BLM movement. Saleem, who describes herself as a screenwriter, was a co-founder of the All Black Lives Bristol group. She was named one of the 30 most influential under-30s in Bristol by Rife Magazine, a now-defunct youth publication.

Saleem, then aged 20 and known as Yvonne Maina, was one of five young people who got together to organise a protest on June 7th 2020, in Bristol city centre, in response to the murder of George Floyd by police officers in the U.S.

In the days before that march, she started an online fundraiser in the group’s name, with the aim of raising a few hundred pounds to cover the costs of the demonstration and pay for PPE to be handed out to protesters amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Organisers agreed before the event to give any money left over from this to a Bristol youth group called Changing Your Mindset, which planned to use it to fund a life-changing trip to Africa for young people in the deprived St. Pauls area of the city.

Avon and Somerset police investigated the GoFundMe page called BristBLM after the donation money disappeared.

During the summer and autumn of 2020, the youth group attempted to get the money transferred from the fundraiser but eventually called the police.

Changing Your Mindset closed down as a group during the investigation after the parents running it became disillusioned and exhausted by what had happened.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Anti-RacismBLMBristolFraudWoke Gobbledegook

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LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
1 year ago

It’ll play the race card and get a slap on the wrist

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FerdIII
FerdIII
1 year ago
Reply to  LaptopMaestro

Black Muslim – commits 2 major felonies – theft of funds and destroying public property. What happens to her – nothing.

You the White guy, yeah you, who refuse to replace your boiler with a heat pump – 6 months in jail and a large fine (public good, saving Gaia etc).

Last edited 1 year ago by FerdIII
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Monro
Monro
1 year ago

Vandals let off scot free by the courts move on to fraud…….

Astonishing…..not….

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

“Organisers agreed before the event to give any money left over from this (fundraising) to a Bristol youth group called Changing Your Mindset, which planned to use it to fund a life-changing trip to Africa for young people in the deprived St. Pauls area of Bristol.”

It would appear that the organisers were very confident that the fundraising would provide a few of them with enough money for a Wildlife Safari in, oh I don’t know, Tanzania. Forward planning, it’s all about forward planning.

Sadly, the chief organiser isn’t the sharing type.

‘Card madam?’

Race card. I never leave home without it.

‘That will do nicely. Have a nice day.’

Last edited 1 year ago by huxleypiggles
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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Lol if they think Bristol is “deprived” wait until they see Africa!

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Ah yes Africa, where huge numbers in the millions don’t even have electricity. But most of the equality and diversity people who likely also support climate policies are actually supporting keeping those people in abject poverty, as only fossil fuels can bring them out of it.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

Consciously or unconsciously a lot of these supposed “do gooders” seem to want to keep their pet “victim” group needy.

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
1 year ago

The funniest ad on TV is Macmillan. Its a drinking game called “spot the white”. You’ll go to bed sober

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Covid-1984

Love it.

Check out their income this year.

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