PHILADELPHIA — With the latest polls showing a tightening race, Mehmet Oz returned to Philadelphia on Sunday night to meet with local Black clergy members to press his case to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
The Kingdom Empowerment International Ministries was celebrating its 13th anniversary as a congregation with prayer services, live music, and a visit from the Republican candidate. A dozen clergy members, GOP ward leaders, and a visiting doctor from Haiti gathered for a round-table talk with Oz about topics including safer neighborhoods, better schools, and accountability for where federal tax dollars go in the city. The subject on everyone’s mind was gun violence.
“It’s not just the shooter and the victim, but everybody that pays the price,” Oz told those gathered at the ministries’ offices in Northeast Philadelphia. “Ten percent of small kids have witnessed these shootings, and the impact is similar to having PTSD, like being in a war zone.”
