Regarding the police assault upon a lawyer,
“In a statement on behalf of the Durham Regional Police Association (DRPA) on Friday morning, president Andrew Tummonds said members requested the matter be referred to the province’s police watchdog.
The police association statement critiques a few select members of the local bar that it says partook in “opportunistic conduct.”
“It is both hypocritical and professionally distasteful to see criminal defence lawyers — individuals whose entire careers are built on the ‘presumption of innocence’ — abandon that principle the moment it suits their political agenda or personal brand,” Tummonds said.
“It is particularly galling that as these lawyers stand on their soapboxes today to disparage our profession, they do so under the protection of the very officers they are baselessly attacking,” he said. “We stand firmly with our officers and look forward to the facts of the investigation.”
