The grand jurors in the case of Breonna Taylor haven’t hid their dissatisfaction with Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s handling of the proceedings, a sentiment they
aren’t alone in.
A number of the jurors have come out to challenge Cameron’s initial description of the guidance prosecutors gave them regarding what charges could be laid against the cops involved in Taylor’s killing. According to
the Louisville Courier Journal, now three of those jurors have filed a petition to the Kentucky House of Representatives outright accusing Cameron of lying to them and the public, and asking him to be impeached as a consequence.
As you’ll remember, none of the officers from the Louisville Metro Police Department who fatally fired on the 26-year-old multiple times after entering her home on a no-knock warrant nearly a year ago have faced criminal consequences for her death. When announcing last year that neither Detective Myles Cosgrove or or Sgt. John Mattingly would be indicted in the incident, Cameron emphasized that the grand jury was walked through “every homicide offense” and was “ultimately the one that made the decision” to only charge one officer, former Detective Brett Hankinson, with wanton endangerment for shooting into a neighboring apartment.
But the three jurors who filed for Cameron’s impeachment say in their petition that “neither Cameron nor anyone from his office mentioned any homicide offense to the grand jury. Not only were no homicide offenses presented as alleged, no charges of any kind were presented to the Grand Jury other than the three wanton endangerment charges against Detective Hankinson.”
“These are randomly selected citizens who were compelled to sit on a grand jury and were terribly misused by the most powerful law enforcement official in Kentucky,” said Kevin Glogower, the attorney representing the unnamed jurors behind the petition. “It is truly a testament to the Kentucky Constitution that they are able to be here today and to expose injustice and demand public accountability.”
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