More than $150,000 dollars have been raised for a Georgia 19-year-old who was found sleeping in a tent outside the gates of his college last weekend.

Fred Barley, who is homeless, was discovered by two police officers responding to a trespassing call near a parking lot at Gordon State College in Barnesville. He told the officers he had ridden his little brother's bicycle six hours to register for classes for his second semester of college.

In addition to the bike, Barley had two duffel bags containing all his wordly possessions and two gallons of water. All he had to eat, according to a report by WSB, was a box of cereal.

"After meeting Fred, I could tell he was a good kid,” Gordon State College Police Officer Dicky Carreker told the Barnesville Herald-Gazette. “He was a young kid who had been dealt a bad hand and was trying to make the best out of it. All he wanted was a job."

Carreker and Barnesville Police Officer Maria Gebelein told Barley he couldn't stay in the tent, but they knew someplace he could stay. The officers brought Barley to a nearby motel and paid for two nights accomodation.

"The stuff that’s happening with police officers, I am black and he didn’t care what color I was," Barley told WSB. "He just helped me, and that meant a lot."

The story, however, doesn't end there. After Carreker posted the story on Facebook, members of the community rallied behind Barley. A GoFundMe page on Barley's behalf had raised $150,000 dollars as of Saturday afternoon.

The owner of a local pizzeria hired him as a dishwasher and promised to work around his class scheduled (Barley wants to major in biology). Other residents have donated clothes, food and a new bike.

"I was not expecting any of this support and am in awe of how this community has come together to help me,” Barley told the Herald-Gazette. “I was just trying to go to school, find a job and make it on my own. Now it seems as though I am part of a new community and have a new family."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/16/police-officers-pay-for-motel-room-help-raise-150g-for-homeless-teen-who-biked-six-hours-to-college.html

Black Lives Matter, you might want to read real stories like this before you go out and get wound up on your racist lies!

its always great to hear about people helping people,,,kudos to those involved

cops have a hard job, and I Believe the crooks and murderers amongst them are a small number


there are plenty that are helping too

only if they'll go cheack more detail of whom they will hire.......some time the memory can control human scence by the similar sistituation. i bet 1 dolar those cops who shooting at those black civiliance because of a bad memory in life with before.

Edited for off-topic.

soufie
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Another proof that not all of ANY group, are what those who proclaim anger against that group, want us to think is true.

I see Law Enforcement do this on a daily basis. I just wish the media would report on it more.

I catch people stealing food, mothers stealing formula because they are hungry or need to feed their babies. Unfortunately because of company policies we have a zero tolerance policy and have to refer to Law Enforcement on every arrest I make. Many times the cop will issue the citation then buy the items for the person if they are truly in need.

BLM is a movement calling out the racist coppers that shoot inacent people because of the colour of someones skin but understands that not all cops are racist scum

me thinks you might need to do a Tad more Research,and not in the Guardian or on BBC!

brits always understood these things better and faster than americans
thank you

You don't even realize that you are COPYING the part of BLM which you claim most to despise: the ones who insist that if ANYONE does something wrong, it means that the ENTIRE GROUP is wrong in exactly that way.

You are who you are complaining about.

More Liberal logic right there folks. According to the Libbos White cops wake up in the morning and say, "I think I will go kill a black man today!"

Have you ever protected or served? Do you know what dangers are out there?

Any cop, first responder, veteran, active service member, Loss Prevention Agent, private investigator, security officer, Bail Enforcement Agent will all tell you it is better to be judged by 12 then carried by 6.

I have been in a life and death situation that was a robbery and I had to defend myself, my partner and a customer in the store with force and unfortunately it was a tragic outcome that haunts me to this day. The last thing on my mind was the guys skin color or orientation. The only thing on my mind at the time was that I was going to go home to my daughter and girlfriend and parents that night.

Anyone who is a part of this BLM crap are nothing more then racist thugs no different then the KKK. Actions speak louder then words and when countless laws are broken at every protest, law enforcement are assaulted and killed and even lured into a turkey shoot well the whole thing has got to go.

oh seriously?


the kkk is hundreds of years old and has formed mobs to lynch, burn and otherwise kill people

how does BLM come close to such atrocity? not to mention it has no official membership and is only three years old


comparing hundreds of years of legal torture and killing to three years where a few dozen out of hundreds of thousands have said nasty things or obstructed traffic,, is a leap of logic so big as to be almost unbelievable



you have got to be joking,,,,

that's not at all what BLM says,,


or what it protests,,,

What you've said here, makes it quite clear that your opinions about BLM are neither based on facts, nor on logical reasoning.