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Three grand jurors in the Breonna Taylor case filed a petition with the state House of Representatives Friday, objecting to the conduct of Attorney General Daniel Cameron and calling for his impeachment.

This marks the third impeachment petition filed against a state official in recent weeks, following petitions filed against Gov. Andy Beshear and state Rep. Robert Goforth, which are now before a newly created impeachment committee in the House.

A press release indicated the attorney for three of the grand jurors in the Taylor case signed onto the petition on their behalf in order to protect their identities.

The petition alleges Cameron breached public trust and failed to comply with his duties by misrepresenting the findings of the grand jury in the Taylor case.

“The Grand Jurors did not choose this battle,” stated Kevin Glogower, the attorney for the three grand jurors. “This battle chose them. 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. 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. I am honored and humbled to serve them.”

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Breonna Taylor grand jurors file petition to impeach Attorney General Daniel Cameron

The grand jurors allege Daniel Cameron failed to comply with his duties by misrepresenting the findings of the grand jury in the Breonna Taylor case.
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Nothing is going to happen with this but it is important that he is never allowed to escape his role in all of this. Scott, Cain et al. are coons but this was something else. Just labeling him a coon isn't enough...
 
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Daniel Cameron, dump the panel and investigate the search warrant in Breonna Taylor's case

Reforming Kentucky’s search warrant process should begin with a thorough investigation of the warrant in Breonna Taylor’s case.
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Daniel Cameron, dump the panel and investigate the search warrant in Breonna Taylor's case
Ted Shouse
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In September 2020 Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced the results of the Breonna Taylor grand jury proceeding: A single officer would face charges for wanton endangerment of three people in apartments adjoining Taylor’s. At the same time, Cameron announced his intention to create a panel to study how search warrants are obtained and executed in Kentucky. On Jan. 21, 2021, Cameron established the makeup and duties of this panel. It is a disappointment.

Cameron’s panel is comprised of 18 members plus Cameron (or his designee) as the chairperson. Seven of the 18 are full-time law enforcement professionals. Six are police officers or prosecutors. One is the commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training — a position currently held by an ex-LMPD sergeant who was once the president of the River City FOP. Another three panel members will be appointed by Cameron at his unfettered discretion to represent the “Commonwealth at large.” That makes 10 of 18, plus the chair, with rock solid ties to law enforcement.

So what?

Only one of the 18 panel members has any experience advocating for people like Breonna Taylor who have their homes searched by the police. That is Kentucky’s chief public defender. One person out of 18.

The Kentucky League of Cities gets an appointment on Cameron’s panel. The Kentucky Association of Counties gets an appointment on Cameron’s panel. These are presumably for insurance reasons. Most Kentucky cities and counties purchase their insurance through these organizations and when search warrant executions go wrong, the police department and municipality are sometimes sued. So it seems that Cameron wants the insurance underwriters represented. But advocates for the private individuals? They get a single voice at the table.

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Cameron’s Jan 21 press release proclaimed his goal is to “establish Kentucky as a national model for how search warrants should be pursued and executed.” But he didn’t include a single nationally recognized expert on his commission. No law professor who has studied this issue? No national expert on the Fourth Amendment? Not even a criminal procedure professor from one of Kentucky’s three law schools? Instead he appoints county sheriffs and FOP officials. These appointments do not indicate an interest in becoming a “national model.”
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Cameron’s order states that the Commission “shall” conclude its work by Dec. 31, 2021. In legal language, “shall” is a command. It means that when the year ends, the commission will cease to exist — no matter what. Kentucky has a long history of blue ribbon panels and commissions that have been nothing more than talking shops where important issues go to die. Cameron’s commission feels like the latest in a long line of such commissions. Over half the members are intimately invested in maintaining the status quo. Another two are presumably there to avoid lawsuits. How much change can come from such a panel?

There is a far more practical way for Cameron to address the systemic problems associated with search warrants in Kentucky. When he presented the Taylor case to the grand jury, he withheld evidence regarding how the search warrant was obtained. Now we have former LMPD Detective Joshua Jaynes’ termination letter. In that letter former Chief Yvette Gentry clearly states her conclusion that Jaynes lied twice to a Circuit judge to get the warrant.

Surely we can all agree that lying to a judge to get a search warrant is wrong. We don’t need another commission to look at this. The answers are obvious. Reforming Kentucky’s search warrant process should begin with a thorough investigation of the warrant in Taylor’s case. If appropriate, the officers involved should be charged with crimes. That would send a clear message on how warrants should be obtained.

In an effort to insure this never happens again, Kentucky’s police and the courts should adopt a few simple reforms. The judges who review warrant applications should be randomly assigned. A recording of the interaction between judges and police officers should be made and shared with the defendant as soon as practicable after the warrant has been executed. Warrant applications that are rejected by judges should be filed and made available as exculpatory evidence to defendants. No-knock warrants should be banned statewide. Warrants based in large part on confidential informants should be given extra scrutiny — including revealing the name of the informant to the judge reviewing the application.

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Accountability and real reform are needed. A commission made up overwhelmingly of police officers and prosecutors and people with ties to the attorney general is not likely to lead to real reform.
 
durham said:
Hey Democrats, you BITCHES, this is how you use power, when you have it amd secure the future.

Kentucky is a fucking mess.
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These CACs be on a whole nother level

The Republican-controlled Kentucky legislature on Monday overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a bill that significantly changes the process for appointing lawmakers to vacant Senate seats.

The legislation, which has the support of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), requires the governor of Kentucky to temporarily fill a vacant Senate seat with a successor of the same political party as the departing lawmaker.

Additionally, the bill requires that the temporary successor be chosen from a list of three names put forward by the executive committee of the departing senator’s state party.

Historically, Kentucky’s governor has had the authority to appoint any individual, of any political party, to fill vacant Senate seats, whether the lawmakers are departing by choice, expulsion or death, according to the Kentucky Courier Journal.

The bill also mandates new conditions regarding how long a governor’s temporary appointment can serve in the Senate before voters can elect a permanent successor, which will mainly depend on when the vacancy occurs. In addition, the legislation lays out new regulations on how these elections would proceed.

The bill had wide support in the Kentucky legislature. The state Senate voted 29-8 to override Beshear's veto, and the state House voted 70-24 to override the veto.

The Kentucky Courier Journal previously reported on this legislation.

The legislation has the support of McConnell, who won reelection in 2020 by nearly 20 points, securing six more years in the Senate. If McConnell were to vacate his seat before 2026 — and there are no indications that he is planning to do such a thing — these new guidelines would be in effect.

“This bill improves how vacancies are currently filled and guarantees Kentucky would not go without representation in the U.S. Senate for an extended period of time," McConnell said in a statement to The Hill.

"It would also ensure Kentucky voters have the ability to choose who they think will best represent them in a timely manner, as opposed to leaving that decision to the governor, regardless of party," he added.

Kentucky has not had a Democratic senator since 1999. This new legislation effectively prevents Beshear from appointing a Democrat to a vacant seat.
 
It thought this was normal. Didn’t Cali do this with VP Harris seat, how Kelly cac Loefler got her seat in Ga? The Governor sits someone in his party. Nothing irregular, my two cents.
 
nuhtcboy said:
It thought this was normal. Didn’t Cali do this with VP Harris seat, how Kelly cac Loefler got her seat in Ga? The Governor sits someone in his party. Nothing irregular, my two cents.
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It's the opposite, they essentially said we give the gov options to pick from their short list. Mitch McConnel plan
 
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Feds Charge FOUR Louisville Cops Over Botched Breonna Taylor Raid

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The current and former officers are charged with federal civil rights violations.

Alice Tecotzky
Breaking News Intern
Updated Aug. 04, 2022 12:09PM ET / Published Aug. 04, 2022 10:34AM ET

At a bombshell press conference on Thursday morning, the feds alleged that the infamously botched raid that led to Breonna Taylor’s death was littered with criminal missteps and cover-ups, complete with a secret garage meeting between two Louisville Metro Police Department officers.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that four current and former LMPD officers—former detective Joshua Jaynes, detective Kelly Goodlett, former detective Brett Hankinson, and Sgt. Kyle Meany—have been arrested and charged with federal crimes, including civil rights violations and unconstitutional use of force.
The DOJ alleges that Jaynes lied on the search warrant application that let officers carry out the “no-knock” raid on Taylor’s apartment in March 2020. He wrote in the search warrant that he “verified with a U.S. Postal Inspector” that Taylor’s ex, whom police suspected of dealing drugs, had been receiving mail at her address. However, an internal investigation found that Jaynes had not verified the information with a postal worker himself, but rather relied on another officer’s false word.
In fact, the officer with whom Jaynes spoke, Jonathan Mattingly, was not in contact with a postal inspector either. Mattingly only ever got the information from a different police department. The investigation found not only that Jaynes lied about his verification efforts, but that there were never any relevant packages arriving at Taylor’s home.

Taylor had also broken up with the ex, Jamarcus Glover, some two years earlier, her family’s attorney said. Moreover, Glover was already in custody at the time of the raid.

Joshua Jaynes
Louisville Metro Police Department
The charges, Garland said, allege that Jaynes, Meany, and Goodlett knew that the information in the warrant was false and then engaged in efforts to create a “false cover story in an attempt to escape responsibility for their roles in preparing” the fraudulent warrant. Two of the officers, Garland said, stealthily met in a garage in the spring of 2020 and “agreed to tell investigators a false story.”
Jaynes and Goodlett also knew, the DOJ alleges, that armed officers would conduct the search, creating a dangerous situation for anyone in the home. According to Garland, the officers who carried out the warrant were unaware of the false statements and were not involved in drafting the warrant application.
In a separate indictment, Hankinson is charged with two civil rights violations related to unconstitutional use of excessive force. The charges allege he fired 10 unnecessary and unlawful shots through a bedroom window and sliding glass patio door, endangering not only Taylor’s life but the lives of her neighbors as well.
Hankinson was the only cop to be charged over the raid at the state level, but he was found not guilty by a jury earlier this year of endangering Taylor’s three neighbors, a verdict Taylor’s lawyer called “a slap in the face.”
Of the more recent charges, however, lawyer Ben Crump struck a different note. In a statement, he called it “a huge step toward justice.”
A separate DOJ team is conducting a civil investigation related to the LMPD as a whole, Garland said, probing whether the department has a pattern of law enforcement misconduct related to excessive force, improper searches, and racially discriminatory policing practices.
Officers stormed Taylor’s apartment in the dead of night, startling her boyfriend, Kenny Walker, from his sleep. He assumed they were being burglarized, so grabbed his legally owned handgun and fired a warning shot down the hallway that hit Mattingly in the leg. That prompted officers to unleash a hail of bullets into the apartment.
Officers shot Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT, eight times and she bled out on the floor as they tended to the injured Mattingly. No drugs were ever found in the apartment.
LMPD fired Jaynes in Jan. 2021; he appealed his dismissal, but lost the case. Hankinson was also fired from the department, and Mattingly retired after the raid.
Though Crump celebrated Thursday’s announcement, he said many victims of police brutality are still seeking justice. He ended his statement with what has become, heartbreakingly, a familiar refrain: “Say her name. Breonna Taylor.”


well, they'll do fed time. out of all of this sordid bs thats a good thing.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a...aked-being-an-fbi-agent-and-became-a-fugitive
https://www.thedailybeast.com/flori...torney-andrew-warren-for-defying-abortion-ban
 
BigDaddyBuk said:
Feds Charge FOUR Louisville Cops Over Botched Breonna Taylor Raid

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The current and former officers are charged with federal civil rights violations.

Alice Tecotzky
Breaking News Intern
Updated Aug. 04, 2022 12:09PM ET / Published Aug. 04, 2022 10:34AM ET

At a bombshell press conference on Thursday morning, the feds alleged that the infamously botched raid that led to Breonna Taylor’s death was littered with criminal missteps and cover-ups, complete with a secret garage meeting between two Louisville Metro Police Department officers.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that four current and former LMPD officers—former detective Joshua Jaynes, detective Kelly Goodlett, former detective Brett Hankinson, and Sgt. Kyle Meany—have been arrested and charged with federal crimes, including civil rights violations and unconstitutional use of force.
The DOJ alleges that Jaynes lied on the search warrant application that let officers carry out the “no-knock” raid on Taylor’s apartment in March 2020. He wrote in the search warrant that he “verified with a U.S. Postal Inspector” that Taylor’s ex, whom police suspected of dealing drugs, had been receiving mail at her address. However, an internal investigation found that Jaynes had not verified the information with a postal worker himself, but rather relied on another officer’s false word.
In fact, the officer with whom Jaynes spoke, Jonathan Mattingly, was not in contact with a postal inspector either. Mattingly only ever got the information from a different police department. The investigation found not only that Jaynes lied about his verification efforts, but that there were never any relevant packages arriving at Taylor’s home.

Taylor had also broken up with the ex, Jamarcus Glover, some two years earlier, her family’s attorney said. Moreover, Glover was already in custody at the time of the raid.

Joshua Jaynes
Louisville Metro Police Department
The charges, Garland said, allege that Jaynes, Meany, and Goodlett knew that the information in the warrant was false and then engaged in efforts to create a “false cover story in an attempt to escape responsibility for their roles in preparing” the fraudulent warrant. Two of the officers, Garland said, stealthily met in a garage in the spring of 2020 and “agreed to tell investigators a false story.”
Jaynes and Goodlett also knew, the DOJ alleges, that armed officers would conduct the search, creating a dangerous situation for anyone in the home. According to Garland, the officers who carried out the warrant were unaware of the false statements and were not involved in drafting the warrant application.
In a separate indictment, Hankinson is charged with two civil rights violations related to unconstitutional use of excessive force. The charges allege he fired 10 unnecessary and unlawful shots through a bedroom window and sliding glass patio door, endangering not only Taylor’s life but the lives of her neighbors as well.
Hankinson was the only cop to be charged over the raid at the state level, but he was found not guilty by a jury earlier this year of endangering Taylor’s three neighbors, a verdict Taylor’s lawyer called “a slap in the face.”
Of the more recent charges, however, lawyer Ben Crump struck a different note. In a statement, he called it “a huge step toward justice.”
A separate DOJ team is conducting a civil investigation related to the LMPD as a whole, Garland said, probing whether the department has a pattern of law enforcement misconduct related to excessive force, improper searches, and racially discriminatory policing practices.
Officers stormed Taylor’s apartment in the dead of night, startling her boyfriend, Kenny Walker, from his sleep. He assumed they were being burglarized, so grabbed his legally owned handgun and fired a warning shot down the hallway that hit Mattingly in the leg. That prompted officers to unleash a hail of bullets into the apartment.
Officers shot Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT, eight times and she bled out on the floor as they tended to the injured Mattingly. No drugs were ever found in the apartment.
LMPD fired Jaynes in Jan. 2021; he appealed his dismissal, but lost the case. Hankinson was also fired from the department, and Mattingly retired after the raid.
Though Crump celebrated Thursday’s announcement, he said many victims of police brutality are still seeking justice. He ended his statement with what has become, heartbreakingly, a familiar refrain: “Say her name. Breonna Taylor.”


well, they'll do fed time. out of all of this sordid bs thats a good thing.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a...aked-being-an-fbi-agent-and-became-a-fugitive
https://www.thedailybeast.com/flori...torney-andrew-warren-for-defying-abortion-ban
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BigDaddyBuk said:
Feds Charge FOUR Louisville Cops Over Botched Breonna Taylor Raid

HELD TO ACOUNT
The current and former officers are charged with federal civil rights violations.

Alice Tecotzky
Breaking News Intern
Updated Aug. 04, 2022 12:09PM ET / Published Aug. 04, 2022 10:34AM ET

At a bombshell press conference on Thursday morning, the feds alleged that the infamously botched raid that led to Breonna Taylor’s death was littered with criminal missteps and cover-ups, complete with a secret garage meeting between two Louisville Metro Police Department officers.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that four current and former LMPD officers—former detective Joshua Jaynes, detective Kelly Goodlett, former detective Brett Hankinson, and Sgt. Kyle Meany—have been arrested and charged with federal crimes, including civil rights violations and unconstitutional use of force.
The DOJ alleges that Jaynes lied on the search warrant application that let officers carry out the “no-knock” raid on Taylor’s apartment in March 2020. He wrote in the search warrant that he “verified with a U.S. Postal Inspector” that Taylor’s ex, whom police suspected of dealing drugs, had been receiving mail at her address. However, an internal investigation found that Jaynes had not verified the information with a postal worker himself, but rather relied on another officer’s false word.
In fact, the officer with whom Jaynes spoke, Jonathan Mattingly, was not in contact with a postal inspector either. Mattingly only ever got the information from a different police department. The investigation found not only that Jaynes lied about his verification efforts, but that there were never any relevant packages arriving at Taylor’s home.

Taylor had also broken up with the ex, Jamarcus Glover, some two years earlier, her family’s attorney said. Moreover, Glover was already in custody at the time of the raid.

Joshua Jaynes
Louisville Metro Police Department
The charges, Garland said, allege that Jaynes, Meany, and Goodlett knew that the information in the warrant was false and then engaged in efforts to create a “false cover story in an attempt to escape responsibility for their roles in preparing” the fraudulent warrant. Two of the officers, Garland said, stealthily met in a garage in the spring of 2020 and “agreed to tell investigators a false story.”
Jaynes and Goodlett also knew, the DOJ alleges, that armed officers would conduct the search, creating a dangerous situation for anyone in the home. According to Garland, the officers who carried out the warrant were unaware of the false statements and were not involved in drafting the warrant application.
In a separate indictment, Hankinson is charged with two civil rights violations related to unconstitutional use of excessive force. The charges allege he fired 10 unnecessary and unlawful shots through a bedroom window and sliding glass patio door, endangering not only Taylor’s life but the lives of her neighbors as well.
Hankinson was the only cop to be charged over the raid at the state level, but he was found not guilty by a jury earlier this year of endangering Taylor’s three neighbors, a verdict Taylor’s lawyer called “a slap in the face.”
Of the more recent charges, however, lawyer Ben Crump struck a different note. In a statement, he called it “a huge step toward justice.”
A separate DOJ team is conducting a civil investigation related to the LMPD as a whole, Garland said, probing whether the department has a pattern of law enforcement misconduct related to excessive force, improper searches, and racially discriminatory policing practices.
Officers stormed Taylor’s apartment in the dead of night, startling her boyfriend, Kenny Walker, from his sleep. He assumed they were being burglarized, so grabbed his legally owned handgun and fired a warning shot down the hallway that hit Mattingly in the leg. That prompted officers to unleash a hail of bullets into the apartment.
Officers shot Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT, eight times and she bled out on the floor as they tended to the injured Mattingly. No drugs were ever found in the apartment.
LMPD fired Jaynes in Jan. 2021; he appealed his dismissal, but lost the case. Hankinson was also fired from the department, and Mattingly retired after the raid.
Though Crump celebrated Thursday’s announcement, he said many victims of police brutality are still seeking justice. He ended his statement with what has become, heartbreakingly, a familiar refrain: “Say her name. Breonna Taylor.”


well, they'll do fed time. out of all of this sordid bs thats a good thing.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a...aked-being-an-fbi-agent-and-became-a-fugitive
https://www.thedailybeast.com/flori...torney-andrew-warren-for-defying-abortion-ban
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So they got the officers involved now they need to get the lieutenant and captain because I’m sure this isn’t the only time they have violated someone’s rights.
 
So the officers who shot Breonna Taylor were Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove.

3 of the officers arrested today (Jaynes, Meany and Goodlett) were involved in getting the illegal warrant. Hankinson was arrested for firing blind.

They need to go after Mattingly and Cosgrove too.
 

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