As polls tighten in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race between Democrat Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and Republican celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz, Fetterman quietly scrubbed his website of its “Black Lives Matter” section.
NRO reports:
Archived copies of the webpage from as recently as August 22 show the movement was previously listed as one of Fetterman’s priorities, as Fox News first reported.
The Black Lives Matter section, which had been featured on the webpage since Fetterman first launched his senatorial bid in February 2021, read: “John served as mayor of a city that’s more than 80% Black, and has championed the idea that Black lives matter since long before it became a hashtag.”
The webpage has since been reconfigured and no longer includes any mention of Black Lives Matter. It features sections on inflation, criminal justice reform, legalizing cannabis, renewable energy, immigration and other topics.
Fetterman spokesperson Joe Calvello told Fox News the site has not removed all of its Black Lives Matter references, citing a “personalized video” on gun violence where Fetterman talks about the movement. Fetterman says in the video that he never saw the media or the public caring about “black lives mattering” in the past.
Fetterman has taken heat for previously calling the police on a black jogger. As NBC News reports:
What Fetterman did next, however, still haunts him nine years later as he campaigns for the Democratic nomination for the Senate in Pennsylvania: He chased the man down with a shotgun and detained him until police arrived.
It turned out that the man was jogging and wearing running clothes. According to a police report, the man was unarmed and said the sound of gunfire was actually fireworks, although two witnesses thought they heard shots.
The man Fetterman pulled a gun on is Black. Fetterman — the mayor of the Pittsburgh-area borough of Braddock at the time and now the state’s lieutenant governor — is white. Fetterman, 52, said he couldn’t tell the jogger’s race initially because of how he was bundled up in the winter cold.
Fetterman refused to apologize for the incident.