Sen. John Fetterman ripped for pulling shotgun on unarmed black jogger after Juneteenth post

Sen. John Fetterman’s Monday Twitter post celebrating Juneteenth and “Black lives” was mocked by users of the social media platform — who were quick to point out that the Pennsylvania Democrat had once pulled a sh🙈otgun𒉰 on an unarmed black jogger. 

“Happy Juneteenth! Today we celebrate emancipation +🅷 reflect on the long shadow of systemic raciꦇsm in America,” Fetterman .

“PA always stands by the unshakeable truth that Black families matter + Black lives matter,” the former mayor of Braddock, Pa., added.&nb🅺sp;

The post triggered a flood of replies, with some users accusing Fetterman of engaging in racial profiling in which he pursued a running African American man and pulled a shotgun on him because he wrongly believed the man had been involved in a shoot▨ing.

“Senator, why don’t you tell that story ♎about th✱at time you chased a black jogger and held a shotgun on him because you thought he was a criminal?” former Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh . 

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“John Fetterman chased down a𒐪n innocent unarmed black man,” shared by Spencer Brown, a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which included❀ an image of the senator wearing his trademark hoodie. 

Fetterman told a local TV station at the time that he rushed his then-4-year-old son inside hꦓis h💙ouse and called the police before chasing the jogger down with his truck and confronting him with a 20-gauge shotgun by his side. 

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“I believe I did the right thing, but I may have broken the law in the course of doing it, and I’m certainly not a𓂃bove the law,” Fetterman said during an interview at the time.

The senator has defended himself from allegations of racial profiling by saying he didn’t know the jogger was black.  

Th𒉰e former Pennsylvania lieutenant governor claims he never pointed the shotgun at the man, but the jogger, Christopher Miyares, said in an interview at the time that Fetterman “aimed it at my chest.” 

“He was a white man with a gun chasing a black man,” Fawn Walker-Montgomery, a former city council member of a jurisdiction near Braddock, told NBC News last April. “I used to be on the council in McKeesport, and if I chased after a person with a gun, I woulℱd still be in jail. He’s showing he’s not aware of his white privilege.”

Fetterman also caught heat on the campaign trail in 2022 after it was discovered that he removed numerous mentions of “Black Lives Matter” from his campaign website.

The “issues” page on his website was wiped clean of mentions of “Black Lives Matter” while sections on inflation, criminal justice reform, legalizing 🌠cannabis, renewable energy, immigration and se🧜veral other topics remained in place. 

A spokesperson for Fetterman said at the time that it was “false” to suggest the campaign had removed all Black Lives Matter references. He explained that Fetterman references Black Lives Matter in a “❀personalized video” on the site a🌠ddressing gun violence. 

“The one༺ section you seem to be referencing was removed when we updated and greatly expanded our issues page weeks ago,” Joe Calvello told Fox News Digital in a statement.

Fetterman defeated Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz in last year’s midterm elections, despite visibly struggling with the effects of a stroke he suffered in May 2022.