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Opinion: Can DA candidate Haggard work impartially with police, Canton man asks

Posted 6/14/17

To the Editor: In response to St. Lawrence County District Attorney candidate David Haggard earning the Working Families Party endorsement, Haggard states enthusiastically on his Facebook page: "I am …

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Opinion: Can DA candidate Haggard work impartially with police, Canton man asks

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To the Editor:

In response to St. Lawrence County District Attorney candidate David Haggard earning the Working Families Party endorsement, Haggard states enthusiastically on his Facebook page: "I am honored and pleased to accept the endorsement for St. Lawrence County District Attorney from the Working Families Party of New York State." Is the candidate aware that the WFP strongly supports the anti-police Black Lives Matter movement?

On the WFP's website, the party's National Director Dan Cantor writes that "state-sanctioned violence against African-Americans is part of the country’s DNA," and urges party members to donate to the Movement for Black Lives, an umbrella group of racialist organizations of which Black Lives Matter is the most prominent.

Does candidate Haggard feel, as does the WFP, that law enforcement is riddled with prejudice and brutality? If he does, how will he be able to work impartially with the law enforcement agencies that as district attorney he will come into contact with?

If he does not, why accept with such pleasure the endorsement of a party that makes no secret of its antipathy to the police?

Kevin Beary

Colton