Emotional AG: Accept ‘truth’

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron choked up Wednesday as he urged the Louisville community to accept a grand jury’s decision to clear three police officers in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

But Cameron’s plea did little to quell the violence as protesters descended into the downtown area shortly after the decision.

“Our reaction to the truth is the society we want to be,” Cameron said. “Do we really want the truth? Or do we want a truth that fits our narrative? Do we want the facts? Are we content to blindly accept our own version of events? We, as a community, must make this decision.”

Cameron (inset) grew emotional while saying he sympathizes with people angry over the decision.

“I understand that as a black man, how painful this is,” he said. “My heart breaks for the loss of Miss Taylor. And I’ve said that repeatedly.

“My mother, if something was to happen to me,” he said, pausing as his voice faltered and he held back tears, “would find it very hard.”

Cameron also warned that illadvised celebrities and outsiders would try to use their influence to stir up emotions.

“There will be celebrities, influencers and activists who, having never lived in Kentucky, will 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,” he said. “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.”

Actor George Clooney, a Kentucky native, said he was “ashamed” of the grand jury’s decision.

“The justice system I was raised to believe in holds people responsible for their actions,” Clooney said in a statement to Deadline.