The Washington Infomer - October 1, 2020

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5 Protests throughout the world demand police accountability and justice for Breonna Taylor. (Courtesy Flickr/Rosanda Tyskar)

apartment next to Taylor’s. Cameron and the grand jury never considered that an unarmed and innocent Taylor remains the victim. “I understand that as a Black man, how painful this is ... which is why it was so incredibly important to make sure that we did everything we possibly could to uncover every fact,” Cameron claimed at a press conference following the grand jury announcement. “My job is to present the facts to the grand jury and the grand jury then applies those facts to the law. If we simply act on emotion or outrage, there is no justice. Mob justice is not justice. Justice sought by violence is not justice. It just becomes revenge,” he belabored. Having spoken a month earlier at the Republican National Convention, Cameron has made his way onto Trump’s ever-growing list of potential Supreme Court nominees if the president wins in November. Following the grand jury’s decision, Trump praised Cameron. “Daniel Cameron is doing a fantastic job,” Trump swooned. “I think he’s a star.”

Now, approximately one week after the grand jury’s decision, Cameron doesn’t appear ready to release what he presented to the panel. An old legal adage says that a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich if he or she so desired. In layman’s term, if a prosecutor wants an indictment, there’s not much to prevent him or her from obtaining one. Taylor died on Mar. 13 after police mistakenly believed her home to be a drug house, breaking her front door off its hinges while she slept next to Kenneth Walker, her boyfriend. A frightened Walker, who had a licensed firearm, dialed 911, and when the first unidentified officer breached the apartment, Walker fired and hit the cop in the leg. The officers retreated but managed to blindly fire more than 20 rounds into Taylor’s home. Eight of the bullets struck Taylor and killed her. Taylor’s family reported that they never had any confidence in Cameron, a sentiment shared by many, including a long list of celebrities. “Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor,” NBA legend Jalen Rose demanded during a live ESPN

broadcast as the network headed toward a commercial break in its coverage of professional basketball’s playoffs. Expecting the pushback, Cameron attempted a preemptive strike against celebrities, athletes and others who he believed would take him to task. “There will be celebrities, influencers and activists who having never lived in Kentucky would try to tell us how to feel, suggesting they understand the facts of this case and that they know our community and the commonwealth better than we do,” stated the attorney general. “But they don’t. Let’s not give in to their attempts to influence our thinking or capture our emotions. At the end of the day, it is up to us. We live here together. We work here and raise our families here together.” In the age of social media, there remained little chance that Cameron would escape a wrathful public, including a large number of celebrities. “I’m just gon’ let this sink into your hollow skull @danieljaycameron,” superstar Rihanna tweeted. “Bulls--t decision!!! BLACK

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