{"id":1659379,"date":"2022-09-27T05:49:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T09:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1659379"},"modified":"2022-09-27T05:50:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T09:50:49","slug":"fetterman-under-fire-over-progressive-stance-on-crime-connections-to-crips-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fetterman-under-fire-over-progressive-stance-on-crime-connections-to-crips-gang\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman Under Fire Over Progressive Stance on Crime, Connections to Crips Gang"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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-under-fire-over-progressive-stance-on-crime-connections-to-crips-gang%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=1659379&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>Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-john-fetterman\">John Fetterman<\/a>, who is under attack from Republican opponent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mehmet-oz\">Mehmet Oz<\/a> over his progressive views on criminal justice reform, attracted criticism from recent a TV ad that chronicled a 2013 incident when he chased down an unarmed black jogger and detained him until police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Pennsylvania\u2019s lieutenant governor is answering questions about a Washington Free Beacon article that reported how he touted connections in Braddock, Pennsylvania, to the Crips street gang when he was running for mayor of the borough in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, Fetterman used the slogan \u201cVote John Mayor of Braddocc,\u201d which reflected how local Crips gang members spelled the name of the town.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman was elected mayor, and a 2006 story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote about how he claimed there were two Braddocks\u2014one with the original spelling used by older residents who remember when the borough flourished, and the other \u201cB-R-A-D-D-O-C-C,\u201d which he said \u201cacknowledges an allegiance that many of the younger residents there have with the Crips gang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Using his own money, Fetterman created websites with the domain names <a href=\"http:\/\/www.braddocc.com\/\">http:\/\/www.braddocc.com<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.15104.cc\/\">http:\/\/www.15104.cc<\/a> to promote the borough.<\/p>\n<p>The second domain name showcased Braddock\u2019s zip code, which is tattoed on Fetterman\u2019s forearm.<\/p>\n<p>The websites are no longer active, but they described how \u201cBraddocc\u201d was \u201cunofficially renamed\u201d by the \u201cyoung and disenfranchised for its Crip allegiance,\u201d according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.<\/p>\n<p>Braddock, the site explained, was a \u201cflourishing city of 20,000 residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHome to Andrew Carnegie\u2019s first steel mill and free library. Wealth, amenities, expansive shopping district, dozens of churches, movie theaters, furniture stores, breweries, schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBraddocc,\u201d the site reported at the time, was \u201ca malignantly beautiful town of 2,500 residents. Unofficially renamed by dropping the \u2018k\u2019 for a \u2018c\u2019 by young and disenfranchised for its Crip allegiance. Still home to Carnegie\u2019s first steel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman, who is under attack from Republican opponent Mehmet Oz over his progressive views on criminal justice reform, attracted criticism from recent a TV ad that chronicled a 2013 incident when he chased down an unarmed black jogger and detained him until police arrived. Now, Pennsylvania\u2019s lieutenant governor is answering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1659379","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\/1659379","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\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}