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Yes.
If it was, the reporter would have to be in on it as well as the person who started the gofundme campaign.
Regardless, currently it is ...
$489,324 of $200k
Raised by 16,513 people in 1 day
Support Memories Pizza by Lawrence Billy Jones III - GoFundMe
and increasing by the second.
No they actually wouldn't. The business could have seen an opportunity to do something bold for their business in seeing the reporter. With the recent trend we have seen with people making donations to people they see as victims, of either side, they could have figured on it getting them donations in some way, just nor necessarily knowing exactly how. Maybe they did think it would initially be like a CFA thing, or like the bakers or other businesses like them. Then they saw the opportunity expand with the Yelp! thing and other social media outrage. A couple of angry, irrational (empty) threats lister and they have a full blown sympathy grabbing, money making opportunity. Heck, they could have simply made the comment innocently figuring such a thing wasn't likely to happen to them anyway, and then saw the opportunity for profitable sympathy after the reaction.