{"id":1720364,"date":"2022-11-01T16:04:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720364"},"modified":"2022-11-01T16:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:04:22","slug":"fetterman-touts-endorsements-from-celebs-who-want-to-defund-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fetterman-touts-endorsements-from-celebs-who-want-to-defund-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman Touts Endorsements From Celebs Who Want to Defund Police"},"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\">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-touts-endorsements-from-celebs-who-want-to-defund-police%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=1720364&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> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Singer John Legend says there should be &#8216;significantly fewer police&#8217; with less funding<\/p>\n<p>    Democratic Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman \/ Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 November 1, 2022 4:00 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman\u2014who has blasted Republican Mehmet Oz as a celebrity who has no place in the Senate\u2014is touting endorsements from two Hollywood celebrities who support the movement to defund police.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman on Monday cited endorsements from actress <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnfetterman\/status\/1587217480074031105?s=46&#038;t=bmCafqCX-RQpj0qG2af0aQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kerry Washington<\/a> and singer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnfetterman\/status\/1587126151994314754?s=46&#038;t=bmCafqCX-RQpj0qG2af0aQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Legend<\/a> as part of a last-minute fundraising plea before next week\u2019s election. Both celebrities have called to defund law enforcement. In a June 2020 social media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thekerrywashington\/photos\/a.160891780607757\/3291337244229846\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a> with the hashtag #DefundThePolice, Washington referred to police as a &#8220;system that continues to kill us and put us in cages.&#8221; Legend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnlegend\/status\/1269683474903871488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> &#8220;there should be significantly fewer police,&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnlegend\/status\/1267156213034151936\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> to &#8220;take away police funding and reroute it towards community needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest example of Fetterman cozying up to anti-police activists while claiming to support funding for law enforcement. As lieutenant governor, his appointee to serve on the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons called to &#8220;disarm the police&#8221; and referred to cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal as a friend, 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>. Fetterman <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/fetterman-to-hold-pro-abortion-rally-on-9-11-with-anti-cop-activist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hosted<\/a> a campaign event on 9\/11 with an activist who supports the Defund The Police movement. He toured Philadelphia in September with three city council members who have called to defund police.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have hammered Fetterman over his support for progressive criminal justice policies, highlighting his past calls to decriminalize all drugs and to release one-third of all state prisoners. The wave of negative ads, as well as questions about Fetterman\u2019s health following a stroke, have cut into what was once a double-digit lead for Fetterman over Republican Mehmet Oz. A poll conducted after their debate last week had <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/fetterman-fades-in-post-debate-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oz leading Fetterman<\/a> by roughly two points.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman has defended his record as chairman of the Board of Pardons, which he has called a &#8220;bully pulpit&#8221; to advance progressive criminal justice policies. Fetterman has voted to commute life prison sentences for several first-degree murderers, often over the wishes of victims\u2019 families. When asked in an interview this week whether he regrets his votes to free killers from prison, Fetterman <a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=whoopPGJ5fg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> he was &#8220;proud&#8221; of his record fighting crime as mayor of Braddock, Pa.<\/p>\n<p>As mayor of the Pittsburgh suburb, Fetterman was best known for pulling a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman has allied himself with two celebrities who support the movement to defund police.<br \/>\nThe post Fetterman Touts Endorsements From Celebs Who Want to Defund Police appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1720367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720364","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=1720364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1720367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}