据报道，罗伊·库珀2020年曾将有前科的帮派分子纳入刑事司法专项工作组
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前北卡罗来纳州民主党州长、现任参议员候选人罗伊·库珀2020年将臭名昭著的“血帮”前成员加入了一个“刑事司法中的种族平等”专项工作组。
据《华盛顿自由灯塔报》报道，在乔治·弗洛伊德2020年去世后，库珀通过行政命令成立了该专项工作组。
库珀任命时任州总检察长、现任州长乔希·斯坦牵头该工作组，并将州官员和社区活动人士纳入委员会，其中包括凯文·皮特曼。据该报获取的记录显示，皮特曼2007年因共谋谋杀罪被定罪，为此服刑14年。
检方在针对“血帮”成员迈克尔·孔特雷兹·琼斯的谋杀案审判中，也曾认定皮特曼是“血帮”的高级成员。
民主党顶尖参议员候选人的六位数私人安保法案引发共和党虚伪指控
2023年8月3日，北卡罗来纳州加斯托尼亚加斯顿县法院外，“解放北卡”组织的凯文·皮特曼在新闻发布会上与记者交谈。（路透社 资料图）
据《华盛顿自由灯塔报》报道，皮特曼因2006年驾车枪击案被定罪，受害者是19岁的贾梅尔·阿门斯·杰弗里斯。
皮特曼为自己加入该专项工作组的行为辩护，并辩称自己过去的行为源于青少年时期判断力不足。
“我之所以被邀请参与刑事司法改革的讨论，既是因为我的亲身经历，也是因为我在社区开展的工作，”皮特曼告诉《华盛顿自由灯塔报》。“我从未隐瞒过自己的过去。你提到的帮派参与和犯罪行为，都发生在我十几岁和青年时期，也就是19岁左右。我现在已经39岁了。”
伊琳娜·扎鲁茨卡遇害一周年：暴力犯罪引发北卡罗来纳州公共安全辩论
2024年3月3日，北卡罗来纳州民主党参议员候选人、前州长罗伊·库珀在罗利的初选之夜观察活动上与妻子克里斯汀·库珀互动。（马特·拉米/美联社照片 资料图）
“我年轻时做出的决定造成了严重后果，包括在监狱里度过了十多年，”他补充道。
据皮特曼的领英资料显示，该专项小组成立时，他就职于“解放北卡”组织。正如《华盛顿自由灯塔报》所报道的那样，该组织经常呼吁废除警察，并在2023年的一篇企业博客文章中写道：“维持白人至上一直是警察执法的目标。”
库珀目前正与前共和党全国委员会主席迈克尔·沃特利角逐参议院席位。在被问及《华盛顿自由灯塔报》的报道时，他提及了对手的过往记录。
民主党参议员候选人就数据中心转变立场，因电力成本上涨与竞选活动冲突
2023年3月3日，北卡罗来纳州民主党参议员候选人、前州长罗伊·库珀在罗利的初选之夜观察集会上发表讲话。（马特·拉米/美联社照片 资料图）
库珀竞选团队在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中表示：“罗伊·库珀的职业生涯一直致力于将强奸犯和暴力罪犯绳之以法，并作为州长签署了严厉的打击犯罪法案。而迈克尔·沃特利却任命一名曾因性侵儿童罪被定罪、服刑六年并作为注册性犯罪者长达十余年的人，在北卡罗来纳州共和党内部担任要职，使其得以接触涉及儿童的活动。”
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North Carolina Dem Senate candidate added former Bloods gang member to criminal justice task force: report
Roy Cooper reportedly placed ex-con gangbanger on criminal justice task force in 2020
September 5, 2026 4:58pm EDT / Fox News
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Roy Cooper, the former Democrat governor of North Carolina now running for Senate, added an ex-member of the notorious Bloods gang to a “Racial Equity in Criminal Justice” task force in 2020.
In the wake of George Floyd’s 2020 death, Cooper created the task force via executive order, The Washington Free Beacon reported.
Cooper, who tapped then state attorney general turned current Gov. Josh Stein to lead the task force, stocked the panel with a mix of state officials and community activists, including Kerwin Pittman, who was convicted in 2007 of conspiracy to commit murder, serving 14 years in prison for the crime, according to records obtained by the Free Beacon.
Pittman was also identified as a “ranking member of the Bloods” by prosecutors during a murder trial for Bloods member Michael Contrez Jones.
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Emancipate NC’s Kerwin Pittman speaks with reporters during a news conference, Aug. 3, 2023, outside the Gaston County Courthouse in Gastonia, N.C.(Reuters, File)
Pittman was convicted in connection to the 2006 drive-by-shooting of 19-year-old Jamel Amiens Jeffreys, the Free Beacon reported.
Pittman defended his involvement in the task force and argued his past actions were the result of poor judgment as a teenager.
“I was asked to contribute to conversations about criminal justice reform because of both my lived experience and the work I was doing in communities,” Pittman told the Free Beacon. “I have never hidden my past. The gang involvement and criminal conduct you reference occurred when I was a teenager and young man, at or before the age of 19. I am now 39 years old.”
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North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate former Gov. Roy Cooper, right, shares a moment with his wife, Kristin Cooper, left, as he speaks at a primary election night watch in Raleigh, N.C.(Matt Ramey/AP Photo, File)
“I made decisions as a young person that had serious consequences, including spending more than a decade incarcerated,” he added.
Pittman, according to his LinkedIn profile, worked at the time of the task force’s creation for Emancipate NC, an organization which, as the Free Beacon reported, has often called for the abolition of police, writing that “maintaining white supremacy has always been the goal of policing,” in a 2023 company blog post.
Cooper, who is running for Senate against former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley, referenced his opponent’s record when asked to comment on the Free Beacon story.
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North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate former Gov. Roy Cooper speaks at a primary election night watch party March 3 in Raleigh, N.C.(Matt Ramey/AP Photo, File)
“While Roy spent his career putting rapists and violent criminals behind bars and signing tough on crime laws as governor, Michael Whatley spent his appointing a convicted child sex predator who served six years in prison and spent over a decade as a registered sex offender to a top role within the North Carolina Republican Party that gave him access to events with children,” the Cooper campaign told Fox News Digital in a statement.
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Pittman and the Whatley campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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