DNC paints Har­ris as ‘law and order’ stan­dard-bear­er as past com­ments on ‘mil­i­ta­riza­tion of police’ resur­face

DNC paints Harris as ‘law and order’ standard-bearer as past comments on ‘militarization of police’ resurface

In the video intro­duc­tion to Rep. Jamie Raskin’s, D‑Md., speech on Mon­day evening, the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion aired a par­o­dy nar­ra­tion of an open­ing segue from “Law & Order.”“In the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem, the peo­ple are rep­re­sent­ed by two sep­a­rate yet equal­ly impor­tant groups: the police who inves­ti­gate crime, and the dis­trict attor­neys who pros­e­cute the offend­ers,” the nar­ra­tion went, in sim­i­lar form to the NBC standard.The video went on to paint for­mer Pres­i­dent Trump as a crim­i­nal defen­dant on the pro­gram, with the nar­ra­tor say­ing, “He lies, he rips off work­ers, he sex­u­al­ly abus­es women.””[T]o take on this ca …