Sen. John Fetterman ripped for pulling shotgun on unarmed black ...

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 shotgun on an unarmed black jogger. 

“Happy Juneteenth! Today we celebrate emancipation + reflect on the long shadow of systemic racism in America,” Fetterman wrote on the social media platform.

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

The post triggered a flood of replies, with some users accusing Fetterman of engaging in racial profiling during a 2013 incident in which he pursued a running African-American man and pulled a shotgun on him because he wrongly believed his quarry had been involved in a shooting.

“Senator, why don’t you tell that story about that 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 said in a tweet. 

“John Fetterman chased down an innocent unarmed black man,” read a graphic 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 his house and called the police before chasing the jogger down with his truck and confronting him with a 20-gauge shotgun by his side. 

“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 above the law,” Fetterman said during an interview at the time.

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

The former Pennsylvania lieutenant governor claims he never pointed the shotgun at the man, however, 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 would 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 several other topics remained in place. 

A spokesperson for Fetteramn 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 addressing 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 at the time.

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.