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Fetterman once pulled a shotgun on a black jogger — yet Democrats are supporting him?
The Washington Examiner ^ | September 13, 2022 | Christopher Tremoglie

Posted on 09/14/2022 3:24:43 PM PDT by TBP

According to multiple reports, in 2013, while Fetterman was mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, he suspected a black man he saw jogging of committing a crime. Rather than call the police, Fetterman, a beacon of racial equality, chose to follow him in a pickup truck and pull a 20-gauge shotgun on him when he confronted the man. Fetterman used the gun to detain him until police arrived. Ultimately, the man was not involved in any wrongdoing.

Furthermore, when discussing the incident in a 2013 interview, Fetterman even admitted he probably broke the law but brushed it off because he felt he “did the right thing.”

“I believe I did the right thing, but I may have broken the law during the course of it,” Fetterman said in the interview.

Yet, somehow, Fetterman is the progressives’ choice this year?

Had this been a Republican, we all know what would be happening right now. Al Sharpton would be on every news channel, and Jesse Jackson would visit Pennsylvania. The mansion-purchasing, million-dollar-siphoning social justice group Black Lives Matter would be holding marches whining about systemic racism and white privilege. Democrats would condemn the candidate as unfit for office.


TOPICS: Editorial; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: black; fetterman; gun; racist
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"Racism is just a tool they use to exploit black people to help win elections."

No. it's a core value of their party, evidenced by the lifelong racist they put in our White House. Their view of minorities hasn't changed one iota since the day their party was founded 200 years ago.

The DemoKKKrat Party is institutionally, systemically racist.

1 posted on 09/14/2022 3:24:43 PM PDT by TBP
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“Y’all aint black if you don’t vote for me.” - President Joseph Biden

One of the most racist statements made in modern times and BLM and the Black Caucus supports him.

Shows what their understanding of “racism” means. Nothing above the party, nothing below the party.


2 posted on 09/14/2022 3:26:15 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: TBP

Hitler could run against a Republican and a bunch of Dims would vote for Hitler.


3 posted on 09/14/2022 3:27:34 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata

Well, his philosophy is so similar to theirs.


4 posted on 09/14/2022 3:29:30 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: TBP

Being a democrat absolves you of all your sins (past, present and future). Only leaving the party will undo all that.


5 posted on 09/14/2022 3:29:39 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: TBP

All one needs is to spout the globalist line and you’re good to go.


6 posted on 09/14/2022 3:29:47 PM PDT by toddausauras (Stop ALL immigration NOW. )
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To: TBP

He is part of the Tribe.


7 posted on 09/14/2022 3:31:01 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: for-q-clinton

They voted for a full Grand Dragon of the KKK for years.


8 posted on 09/14/2022 3:31:10 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: for-q-clinton

An old but famous news story....

Washington Post
Jun 15, 1988 — Syndicated newspaper columnist Carl Rowan, saying he feared for his life, shot and wounded an unarmed Chevy Chase man early yesterday who ...
(This was a famous black man who tried to scare off black teens who used his swimming pool without asking him.)
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9 posted on 09/14/2022 3:33:25 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're At gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Somehow bringing it up again will have an impact this time on the diehards.


10 posted on 09/14/2022 3:33:55 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: TBP

He’s stupid, sick, totally corrupt and completely obedient. Fills all the squares for the Marxists.


11 posted on 09/14/2022 3:34:00 PM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: Skywise
I may have broken the law during the course of it,” Fetterman said in the interview.

Like Hillary to FBI Director Comey, Fetterman didn't have an intent inside his mind when he broke the law so let him go.

12 posted on 09/14/2022 3:34:55 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're At gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: TBP

Trust fund layabout who never worked for a living. (The abandoned-town mayor role was basically unpaid volunteer work, with an honorarium of $250/mo.)

Drives around pointing guns at people, because he is a man-child with no connection to the real world.


13 posted on 09/14/2022 3:35:42 PM PDT by Dagnabitt
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With the Democrats it’s not about the man it’s about the brand. We’ve got to destroy the brand because Joe Biden proves the man can suck. Let’s assume there was no cheating in the last election all they did was vote for the brand. The only man that sucked was Donald J Trump. That’s a hard model for us to try to aspire to. But in Pennsylvania we can’t even decide on the Republican candidate.


14 posted on 09/14/2022 3:35:49 PM PDT by magua (It's not racism, it's just that thisBecause it’s being reported that a lot of this started in 2015.)
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For Fetterman, pulling a shotgun out to intimidate a black jogger is a résumé enhancement. The large contingent of racist WHITE Democrat Socialist voters view the blacks with whom they profess to be “friends” as possible turncoats that have been drifting away from the ideological purity now demanded of all True Believers. This talk of “BLEXIT” and “walking away” is beginning to trouble them, as the black people who listen to these revelations are hesitating, and for perhaps the first time ever, to cast doubt on the motives of the Democrat Socialists.


15 posted on 09/14/2022 3:36:55 PM PDT by alloysteel (A born skeptic is now living in a target-rich environment. SO many beliefs to challenge...)
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

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16 posted on 09/14/2022 3:39:05 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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I believe the incident is even worse than the article purports. IIRC Fetterman heard a gunshot, jumped in his car, and drove around until he saw a black man jogging. Those were the circumstances that led Fetterman to threaten to murder the man, he was black and was running, nothing else. There was no description of a shooter, there was no crime witnessed, there was no weapon to lead Fetterman to the conclusion that his victim was a criminal, just black skin in Fettermans neighborhood. Apparently that was justification enough in a democrat town with a democrat mayor and a democrat police force as Fetterman was not charged. BTW this was in 2013, not 1965.


17 posted on 09/14/2022 3:44:47 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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If the black guy had stupidly tried to grab the shotgun and Fetterman shot him precedent would indicate Fetterman would be in prison for the rest of his life, as well as anybody who happened to record the shooting.


18 posted on 09/14/2022 3:48:59 PM PDT by suthener ( )
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To: TBP

That’s right but they are too ignorant of history to understand it.


19 posted on 09/14/2022 3:56:32 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata
Hitler could run against a Republican and a bunch of Dims would vote for Hitler.

Turns out, Hitler did.


20 posted on 09/14/2022 4:00:54 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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