Almost two weeks ago in Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. The incident kicked off protests in the racially divided town, and Wilson has been in hiding since the shooting.

Four days ago, a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to support Wilson was launched, and as of Friday afternoon it had brought 5,901 donations totaling $234,990. However, money wasn’t the only thing people were giving to the crowdfunding campaign: the campaign page quickly found itself drowning in hateful, racist commentary.

"We are NOT gonna let that racist bastard Sharpton and his kind railroad you into prison," said a $50 donor under the name Mark Milazzo. "Wake up White America!"

"I am so sick of the blacks using every excuse in the book to loot and riot," said another $50 donor using the name Diane Schroeder.

A donor with the name Brad Moody stepped up the game, sending $100 and a note that read, "I thank all Police, you are the 'Thin Blue Line' protecting normal americans from aggressive and entitled primitive savages."

Things went from bad to worse when the 4chan community got involved, tossing small donations into the mix under names like "Adolf Hitler" and filling the donation comments with bizarre 4chan-esque screeds.

The cesspool of racist and ridiculous comments brought with it calls from around the Web for GoFundMe to terminate the crowdfunding campaign for being in violation of the site’s terms of service (specifically, the part about not using GoFundMe to "promote hate, violence, racial intolerance"). Finally, on the evening of August 21, GoFundMe took action—it left the campaign live but stripped out all comments.

At about 12:55pm CDT Friday, the original campaign abruptly ceased taking donations. According to the statement posted by the campaign organizers, they were able to locate a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation to manage their donations, and they needed to terminate the existing campaign and set up a new one so that GoFundMe could direct new donations to the charitable foundation. The money already raised will go to Wilson, the statement says, and new donations will have the added benefit of being tax-deductible.

As of press time, the new campaign has been operational for about 30 minutes and has raised $3,140 from 81 donations; comments were initially enabled, but the few donations that rolled in with comments attached have since been stripped.

Simply striking comments hasn't appeased vocal critics of the campaign itself, though: allegations of racism and emotionless capitalism still flowed across the Twitterverse after the removal. "What about the campaign itself, @gofundme. Or are you ok if racists *silently* reward a child-murderer," tweeted one.

"You need to delete the campaign," tweeted another. "Don't subsidize killing."