Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is urging state lawmakers to dismiss an impeachment petition against him.
The Associated Press reports, in doing so, Cameron is fighting back against allegations by three grand jurors from the Breonna Taylor death investigation. The grand jurors joined in seeking Cameron’s ouster from office.
The petition alleges Cameron breached public trust and failed to comply with his duties by misrepresenting grand jury findings in the Taylor case. Cameron says the petition is “so lacking in legal and factual support” that it should be dismissed.
The response was filed with the clerk of the Kentucky House late Friday.
Grand jurors in the investigation into the police raid that killed 26-year-old Breonna Taylor are calling for Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to be impeached, according to The Courier Journal. Three grand jurors filed a petition Friday, January 22 with state house representatives, claiming Cameron mishandled the case. They state Cameron is a liar who fed misinformation to the media in order to make himself look desirable.
In the petition, jurors say Cameron stated to the public that homicide charges were a possibility against the officers involved in Taylor’s death. The jurors, however, insist that’s not true at all. The only charge that was presented to them was the wanton endangerment charge against officer Brett Hankison for firing his weapon into a nearby apartment, according to the filing.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has reappointed Dawn Blair, assistant Hardin County attorney, to serve as a member of the statewide External Child Fatality and Near Fatality Review Panel for