SAN FRANCISCO—Carole Lesnick, Socialist Workers Party candidate for district attorney here, addresses July 18 speak-out on police killing of Kenneth Harding.

The day before Lesnick and Lea Sherman, SWP candidate for San Francisco mayor, visited the neighborhood where Harding was killed to talk with workers and condemn the fatal shooting of the young man. They also denounced the July 3 cop killing of Charles Hill.

“In both cases the police have turned the victim into the criminal,” the SWP candidates said in a statement passed out here. “The police officers who brutally killed these two men acted as judge, jury, and executioner. They should be arrested, prosecuted, and punished.”

—ERIC SIMPSON