BREAKING NEWS – Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – A new 30-second television ad released by a political committee supporting Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz blasts his Democrat opponent, John Fetterman, over a 2013 incident when he pulled a gun on a Black jogger he mistakenly suspected of a crime.
The ad, titled “Chase,” was released by American Leadership Action and says Fetterman, then mayor of Braddock, “chased down an innocent, unarmed Black man.”
Fetterman then says in an interview he believes he did “the right thing” while saying he probably broke the law in doing so.
“I am not a racist,” Fetterman later explained. “I just wanted to uh… uh…uh, show the black person I was chasing that I can sprint, just like they can. Black people have set countless records in the 100 meter dash, and uh, um, uh… I just wanted to show that black guy, that we Caucasians can be just as competitive… while carrying a firearm.”