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Posted on 09/26/2022 5:39:14 PM PDT by conservative98
As a mayoral candidate in 2005, Senate hopeful John Fetterman adopted a unique tactic to appeal to the youth of Braddock, Pa.: tout the borough’s connections to the notorious Crips street gang. After his election, he downplayed the gang’s prevalence in his town, and attributed some of their gang activity to the acts of "disenfranchised" and "disenchanted" youth.
During his first mayoral run in 2005, Fetterman adopted the slogan "Vote John Mayor of Braddocc," a nod to the spelling that local Crips gang members used for the town. After he was elected, Fetterman created the website Braddocc.com as part of a revitalization project to appeal to young people in the dilapidated steel town. The now-defunct website, which Fetterman launched with his own money, explains that "Braddocc" was "unofficially renamed" by the "young and disenfranchised for its Crip allegiance." The Justice Department considers the Crips, founded in southern California in the 1970s, to be one of the country’s most violent street gangs.
Fetterman, the Pennsylvania lieutenant governor, has come under fire during his Senate bid for his progressive views on criminal justice reform. Republicans have portrayed Fetterman as soft on crime for calling for the release of up to one-third of Pennsylvania’s prison inmates. As chairman of Pennsylvania’s Board of Pardons, Fetterman cast the lone vote to free several people convicted of first-degree murder. His appointee for secretary of the board has called to "disarm the police," and has referred to cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal as her "friend" and "buddy," the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Fetterman has denied that he glorifies the Crips or gang culture, though he has acknowledged that his embrace of the "Braddocc" nickname helped him in his 2005 campaign by attracting younger voters.
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“Ultimately I carry their flag, because they’re the ones that made the difference that I won by one vote that first election,” he said in 2015. “It’s not a glorification of gang violence, or embracing gang violence,” he added of the “Braddocc” moniker, noting that he “caught some flak … because some people thought I was spelling it like a gangster.”
While Fetterman promoted Crips lingo, he downplayed the gang’s presence in Braddock after his election win. In 2006, he said gang graffiti that appeared on buildings in the borough were the act of “a disenfranchised young person who is disaffected and has few options.”
“You have ‘C’z Up’ and ‘Ghuttacide,’ but at the end of the day it’s not a movement; it’s not a reflection of what’s going on. One shouldn’t make the erroneous assumption that it’s some kind of movement, some kind of criminal element,” he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2006.
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Fetterman Gave Nod to Crips Street Gang During Mayoral Campaignhttps://t.co/aogdfJFevC— Dr. Mehmet Oz (@DrOz) September 26, 2022
Fetterman’s nod to the Crips can still be found at his loft in Braddock, where a city sign emblazoned with the gang’s graffiti hangs above his refrigerator. The New York Times photographed Fetterman in front of the sign for a 2011 profile. Fetterman’s wife posted a photo to social media in 2020 with the sign in the background.
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Progressive Democrats cannot defeat crime because in their heart of hearts they agree with them and admire them.
I have never seen a bigger bum of a politician in my life.
Cause when you’re a Crip, you’re a Crip all the way
From the first Fent’nyl sale to your last dying day...
Of course there is, Shapiro base of power and lives in Philly area.
Fetterman is fro SW PA… would expect lots more Shapiro signs in Philly area, it’s his historic political base.
Another stroke can't come soon enough for this dirt ball.
Looks like Fetterman, if he wins, will be the first “out” Senator for Street Crime. Great!
“””Fetterman adopted the slogan “Vote John Mayor of Braddocc,” a nod to the spelling that local Crips gang members used for the town.”””
Lots of news about Fetterman in the past few weeks. Are PA voters banned from the internet????
It seems there are a whole bunch of low information voters in PA.
Mastreano has run a terrible campain. Not 1 add run. He let Shapiro define him with no answer. Weak, wak canidate.
No, he isn't. But that's what he wants everyone to think. Fetterman in reality is from a wealthy upscale community just east of York, not far from Philadelphia. He is not blue collar. He is not a hard hat.
In reality Fetterman has no ties to Western Pennsylvania other than recently relocating to a run down mill town in order to become mayor.
to appeal to young people in the dilapidated steel townPerhaps revitalizing the local economy never occurred to the Marxist mayor?
There’s that “I will make you hurt” tatt on his right arm. What a disgusting puke.
The only thing he renovated was his loft apartment, paid for by his very wealthy dad.
Fetterman is a totally fabricated politician, and just the opposite of the persona he is trying to project to Pennsylvanians.
I lived in So Calif for 29 years.
He is very wrong to glorify or excuse any gang behavior-—especially Crips.
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