LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — An attorney who was forced to give up a career as a police officer after a drunken driver struck him is running for Kansas attorney general next year as a Democrat.

Chris Mann, of Lawrence, launched his campaign Tuesday with a short video, promising to focus on public safety issues and to remove partisan politics from the attorney general's office.

Mann has never held public office and is the first Democrat to announce a bid for attorney general. He was a police officer in Lawrence but after being injured during a 2002 traffic stop, he earned a law degree and became a pro...