Source: Fox News
Summary
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing backlash for calling law enforcement “opportunistic cowards” in a since-deleted Reddit post from June 2020. Platner made the comments in response to a post criticizing the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department for seeking approval to purchase “riot gear.” The post is the latest in a string of anti-law enforcement remarks Platner made well into adulthood. Platner has said many of his comments were taken out of context and attributed some of them to struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. The Platner campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
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As expected, the matter has reached another stage.
Graham Platner’s comments about law enforcement have been criticized by state Rep. Donald Ardell, a retired federal special agent and criminal investigator. Ardell said conversations with current law enforcement officers and former colleagues reflected widespread disgust with Platner’s comments. Platner’s comments have raised questions about his fitness for office as he seeks to unseat Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. Platner has also faced scrutiny over comments declaring himself a communist, disparaging rural White people as “racist” and “stupid” and mocking a female teenager’s suicide attempt.
The sequence of events follows a familiar pattern.
