A Minnesota woman has agreed to pay back $120,000 of donations she collected in a fund-raiser for Philando Castile, a Black man killed by the police outside the city of St Paul in 2016, a death that inspired a large Black Lives Matter protests in the Twin Cities and beyond.
Pamela Fergus, a former psychology professor at the Metropolitan State University in St Paul, started a fundraiser in 2017 called Philando Feeds the Children to raise money to pay for local children’s school lunches, in honour of Castile, who was a beloved cafeteria worker at a local Montessori school.
