Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy raises $1.5M for family of slain cop Jonathan Diller
NY Post
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy announced Thursday that he has raised $1.5 million for the family of slain NYPD officer Jonathan Diller – after he vowed to match contributions.
“Thanks to everybody who donated. We raised 750k. With the matching of the funds that brings the total to 1.5 million that will go directly to the family,” the outspoken media personality wrote on X.
Earlier, he wrote that he’d “match whatever our total raised through midnight today is.”
The 31-year-old cop was shot and killed when a routine traffic stop in Queens turned into a shootout with alleged career criminal Guy Rivera, 34, on Monday night.
“I’m sure everybody has seen the story. Tragic. The New York City cop, Jonathan Diller, who was murdered,” Portnoy said in a video posted on X and TikTok, where he made a plea for donations
“Routine traffic stop, pulled over two guys, a million priors, been in and out of jail a million times and they just open fire on him, basically,” he said.“Tragic. Leaves behind a one-year-old child, his wife. We put T-shirts on sale. We’ve raised about $240,000 directly for the family. Every penny that we make goes to the family,” Portnoy continued.
