Kerri Rollo, 23, and Kaylee Rollo, 22, both of Arkansas, claim their First Amendment rights have been violated, and are asking the public for help in raising money for legal fees.
Two sisters who got arrested for vandalizing a Charlie Kirk memorial are now begging for money on GoFundMe after one of them lost their job. Kerri Rollo, 23, and Kaylee Rollo, 22, both of Arkansas, claim their First Amendment rights have been violated, and are asking the public for help in raising money for legal fees.
"My sibling and I are being doxxed online, and my sibling was fired from their job," Kaylee wrote in the GoFundMe, which has a goal set at $22,000. "Please help my sibling while they look for another job and stand against the tyranny that is creeping into the country."
The Rollo sisters were seen on video kicking over candles and trashing signs for a Charlie Kirk memorial on the Benton County Courthouse steps. The incident went viral.
"F*ck, Charlie Kirk," Kerri yelled before flipping off a bystander. "Film all you want...Charlie Kirk died as he lived, promoting violence." Kerri screamed several more anti-Kirk profanities before storming off with her sister.
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View on XKerri and Kaylee were arrested on September 17 on charges including first-degree criminal mischief and obstruction of governmental operations. They were released from custody on a combined $22,500 bond.
The Daily Mail reported that after the sisters were arrested, Kerri lost her restaurant job and Kaylee's boyfriend dumped her. To add fuel to the fire, Kaylee's now ex-boyfriend's mom, Lacy Christian, kicked Kaylee out of her house, where she had been living for over a year.
"I will not allow someone living in my home to be OK to celebrate a murder," said Christian. "I will never allow someone to live in my home who is OK with destroying a memorial for someone else."
Benton County Justice of the Peace Joseph Bollinger said the arrests were not free speech violations, telling local news, "Everyone has a right to be able to express their freedom of expression. But what the issue is, when you trample on someone's memorial, the human act of grieving, you're not just trampling on their freedom of expression, you're trampling on the memory of a person. You're trampling on our Benton County values."
The Rollo sisters' GoFundMe has raised a little over $20,700 as of the time this report was published.
Kirk, a prominent conservative activist and father of two young children, was assassinated on September 10 during a Turning Point USA debate event on the Utah Valley University campus.
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