Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron says Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘SNL’ performance became ‘disgusting’

Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron says Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘SNL’ performance became ‘disgusting’

Kentucky Attorney Total Daniel Cameron replied Tuesday to critics, along with rapper Megan Thee Stallion who slammed him all the blueprint by blueprint of a recent performance on “Saturday Evening Dwell” over his handling of the Breonna Taylor case, pronouncing it exposes their intolerance and hypocrisy.

At some level of the performance over the weekend, Megan Thee Stallion, whose precise name is Megan Pete, conducted an audio clip of social justice activist Tamika Mallory pronouncing Cameron is “no totally different than the sellout negroes that offered our folks into slavery.” The assertion became displayed in dapper white letters at the lend a hand of Megan Thee Stallion earlier than she acknowledged: “We deserve to offer protection to our Shadowy girls and look after our Shadowy girls. ‘Region off at the end of the day, we need our Shadowy girls.”

In a giant-ranging interview Tuesday on the Fox News morning place “Fox and Friends,” Cameron, the principle Republican legal professional frequent in Kentucky in better than 70 years and the principle Shadowy legal professional frequent within the utter, acknowledged he agreed “that we deserve to seem after and offer protection to our Shadowy girls.”

Megan Thee Stallion, heart, performs “Savage” on Saturday Evening Dwell on Oct. 4, 2020.NBC

“There’s no longer any search info from about that,” he acknowledged. “Nonetheless the truth that anyone would get on national tv and place disparaging comments about me on story of I am merely looking out for to realize my job is disgusting.”

Or no longer it is neither the principle time, Cameron acknowledged, nor will or no longer it is miles the closing time.

“On the end of the day, my duty is to present info and truth and signify and get up for justice,” he acknowledged.

Megan Thee Stallion’s performance became “a show cowl of anyone who in its keep desires to vogue info to a legend” that’s “merely no longer correct.”

Representatives for Megan Thee Stallion did no longer at as soon as return a search info from of for comment Tuesday.

Taylor, 26, a Shadowy medical worker, became shot and killed by Louisville, Kentucky, law enforcement officials in March all the blueprint by blueprint of a botched raid on her house.

A gigantic jury indicted a ragged Louisville police officer in September on three charges of wanton endangerment. He is accused of firing bullets into one other house with three folks inner, none of whom were injured. He pleaded no longer responsible and is free on bond. No charges were announced in opposition to totally different two white officers who fired shots March 13. No person became charged for inflicting Taylor’s death.

“As soon as more, it is miles a tragedy what took location to her however what you noticed on the cowl there and what your viewers noticed is something that I’ve needed to experience on story of I am a Shadowy Republican, on story of I get up for truth and justice as in opposition to giving in to a mob mentality,” Cameron acknowledged. “And these are the styles of issues that might be hurled at me on this job.”

He acknowledged he faced identical criticism in school at the College of Louisville on story of “I title with a particular political ideology and thanks to this proven truth that shades the manner folks ogle me.

“The proven truth that a celeb that I’ve never met earlier than desires to place these styles of statements, they hang no longer injure me,” Cameron acknowledged, along with that it exposes “intolerance” and “hypocrisy.”

“You detect a quantity of that from the left about being tolerant,” he acknowledged. “Nonetheless what you noticed there could be inconsistent with tolerance. If truth be told, it is her espousing intolerance on story of I’ve determined to get up for truth and justice.”

Cameron went on to snort that “there are a quantity of folks that detect look after me that ought to no longer shy anymore, that are drained of the comments and the derogatory remarks that are made thanks to our political philosophy.”

The case has garnered national consideration and lots of celebrities, along with NBA superstar LeBron James, media multi-millionaire Oprah Winfrey and Martin Luther King Jr.’s youngest daughter, Bernice King, have known as for the officers to be charged.

Cameron became moreover requested Tuesday about an open letter addressed to him that became written by civil rights legal professional Benjamin Crump and the 2 totally different lawyers representing Taylor’s household. Crump has represented the households of many Shadowy folks killed by police.

The letter asks Gov. Andy Beshear to appoint a brand contemporary special prosecutor to the case, arguing Cameron “did no longer attend as an neutral prosecutor” and “intentionally did no longer show cowl charges to the giant jury.”

“Right here’s the Ben Crump model,” Cameron acknowledged. “He goes into a city, creates a legend, cherrypicks info to level that legend, creates chaos in a community, misrepresents the info, after which he leaves with his cash after which asks the community to make a choice up the pieces. It is very irresponsible on his section to push such narratives, such falsehoods.”

Crump tweeted Tuesday afternoon: “We wouldn’t need the ‘Ben Crump Playbook’ if @KYOAG pursued justice for Breonna Taylor within the principle location. Now step apart and let anyone attain the job you FAILED to realize. #JusticeForBre.”

Earlier Tuesday, Crump tweeted a snippet of Megan Thee Stallion’s performance, pronouncing, “What a POWERFUL performance by @TheeStallion on @NBCSNL! Thanks in your nod to Breonna Taylor and for reminding others to offer protection to Shadowy girls and males on story of Shadowy Lives Topic!! #SayHerName.”

“Saturday Evening Dwell” airs on NBC Network, which is owned by NBCUniversal, the parent firm of NBC News and NBCNews.com.

A gigantic juror in Taylor’s case filed a court docket dash closing week looking out for the originate of the giant jury’s transcripts and permission from a preserve to issue publicly. The unnamed juror’s legal professional, Kevin Glogower, acknowledged per week ago the level of the total action is to get extra into the legend.

“Or no longer it is miles no longer genuinely about changing the legend,” Glogower acknowledged, “it’s about opening it up to a extra beefy truth for everyone to leer.”

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Janelle Griffith is a reporter for NBC News. 

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