{"id":1657639,"date":"2022-09-26T05:08:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1657639"},"modified":"2022-09-26T05:08:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:08:56","slug":"fetterman-gave-nod-to-crips-street-gang-during-mayoral-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fetterman-gave-nod-to-crips-street-gang-during-mayoral-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman Gave Nod to Crips Street Gang During Mayoral Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffetterman-gave-nod-to-crips-street-gang-during-mayoral-campaign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1657639&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>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\u2019s connections to the notorious Crips street gang. After his election, he downplayed the gang\u2019s prevalence in his town, and attributed some of their gang activity to the acts of &#8220;disenfranchised&#8221; and &#8220;disenchanted&#8221; youth.<\/p>\n<p>During his first mayoral run in 2005, Fetterman adopted the slogan &#8220;Vote John Mayor of Braddocc,&#8221; a nod to the spelling that local Crips gang members used for the town. After he was elected, Fetterman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/local\/east\/2006\/04\/20\/Mayor-has-Web-site-plans-to-energize-Braddocc\/stories\/200604200425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">created<\/a> 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 &#8220;Braddocc&#8221; was &#8220;unofficially renamed&#8221; by the &#8220;young and disenfranchised for its Crip allegiance.&#8221; The Justice Department considers the Crips, founded in southern California in the 1970s, to be one of the country\u2019s most violent street gangs.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s prison inmates. As chairman of Pennsylvania\u2019s Board of Pardons, Fetterman <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dem-senate-candidate-voted-to-free-convicted-murderer-who-killed-18-year-old-for-heroin-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cast<\/a> the lone vote to free several people convicted of first-degree murder. His appointee for secretary of the board has called to &#8220;disarm the police,&#8221; and has referred to cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal as her &#8220;friend&#8221; and &#8220;buddy,&#8221; the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/fetterman-taps-friend-of-black-panther-cop-killer-for-board-of-pardons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman has denied that he glorifies the Crips or gang culture, though he has <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/slaughterhouse-live\/the-mayor-of-rust-goes-to-washington-8cb87038fbaf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acknowledged<\/a> that his embrace of the &#8220;Braddocc&#8221; nickname helped him in his 2005 campaign by attracting younger voters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately I carry their flag, because they\u2019re the ones that made the difference that I won by one vote that first election,&#8221; he said in 2015. &#8220;It\u2019s not a glorification of gang violence, or embracing gang violence,&#8221; he added of the &#8220;Braddocc&#8221; moniker, noting that he &#8220;caught some flak \u2026 because some people thought I was spelling it like a gangster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Fetterman promoted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s connections to the notorious Crips street gang. After his election, he downplayed the gang\u2019s prevalence in his town, and attributed some of their gang activity to the acts of &#8220;disenfranchised&#8221; and &#8220;disenchanted&#8221; youth.<br \/>\nThe post Fetterman Gave Nod to Crips Street Gang During Mayoral Campaign appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1657641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1657641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}