Posted on 09/03/2022 1:41:28 PM PDT by conservative98
The story seems familiar; a Caucasian yahoo brandished a firearm and used a pickup truck to pursue a jogger because he suspected that the latter committed a crime. This was how Ahmaud Arbery got murdered, but this story is not about Ahmaud Arbery.
John Fetterman, who is running against Dr. Oz to fill the U.S. Senate position being vacated by Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, chased after jogger Christopher Miyares while brandishing a shotgun because he believed that Miyares might have been involved in a crime.
Fetterman says it wasn't about race, and there is no reason to doubt his word on this, but his actions nonetheless exhibited an appalling lack of judgment and total incompetence regarding the lawful use of firearms for self-defense. He heard noises that he took for gunshots (turns out some kids were setting off bottle rockets), saw a man jogging in the area and heading toward an elementary school, and took it into his own hands to detain the man while threatening him with a shotgun.
While I cannot give legal advice, the two ingredients for lawful deployment of deadly force consist of (1) a verbal or visual threat to cause death or serious injury and (2) the immediate means of putting the threat into effect. Menacing another person with a firearm constitutes both a threat and the immediate means of acting on it. If this is the entire story, Miyares would have been perfectly within his rights to draw a concealed firearm, had he been carrying one, to shoot Fetterman, who was clearly not a law enforcement officer with either authority or cause to detain him. Fetterman also stipulates that he "might have broken the law," which, while I cannot give legal advice, he might indeed have done.
Pointing a Gun = Aggravated (Felony) Assault
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The fact that somebody like John Fetterman thinks he is qualified to lecture anybody about responsible firearm use, much less enact laws to regulate firearms, is a compelling argument to "use your head and vote red" for House and Senate this November.
Uncle Fester?
How can somebody be so fat above the belt (gut, man-boobs and all) and carry it all around on those stork-like bird legs?
Uncle Festerman defies gravity with every step.
Uncle Fester w implants
Doctor O Z’s peeps should be all over this.
(In his more recent commercials, Fetterman has been wearing a white hoodie, which makes him look like less of a thug.)
Only a libtard could take this apparition seriously.
You have to space the ads out and build up to it. This would be a good final nail in the coffin.
See Harris and Turnip-Head 2020.
Anything is possible for dems.
Ahmaud Arbery was NOT murdered, any more than George Floyd was “murdered”. The convictions were entirely political. Let’s Go Brandon
Is the jogger suing? filing charges?
I get Foghorn Leghorn.
It was a 2013 incident. The jogger apparently moved on after getting the runaround from local police and no charges were filed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZ4x12Mb40
No here’s the backstory on the jogger. He actually is voting for Fetterman . Hard to believe. John takes a 12 gauge shotgun to the guys body gets in his Ford pick up and points gun at the guys head. The guy also said Fetterman knew that the guy was black. Even though he had a baklava cap on. But the black dude is supporting Fetterman. Here’s the people who are not supporting him in the town of Braddock PA. Only two of the councilman out of seven are supporting him. The rest say he did a terrible job. Do you want to see how bad he did his job go look at “abandon Braddock PA.”
Fetterman missed his calling in life which was to be a Big Bird character. That should be a career option after Nov. 8.
You are wrong. Those guys chased that guy down and murdered him and conspired to do so and the evidence showed that. It was political not to charge them. Finally justice prevailed. Read before you conclude.
Conor Lamb delivers a perfectly polished response re Christopher Miyares saying that he hopes Fetterman gets to be senator.
Lamb explains that CM is currently incarcerated and Fetterman sits on the parole board. #PAsen pic.twitter.com/dUwQcfdfA7— josecanyousee (@josecanyousee_) April 22, 2022
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