A South Dakota attorney general apparently wore the glasses of a man he hit and killed in a car accident interviews released Tuesday by the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.
The news of the interview comes after South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg (R) said he was not aware he had beaten the man until the next day.
The interview show detectives in the case that Ravnsborg is questioning about the glasses they found in his car.
“These are Joe’s glasses, so that means his face came through your windshield,” a detective said in the interview.
However, it appears that Ravnsborg sticks to his previous statement that he believes he beat a deer that night and did not realize that he had beaten and killed. Joe Boever, 55.
“He knew there was a dead man in the ditch,” Nick Nemec, Boever’s cousin, told The Washington Post in response to the interview. “He knew what he was hitting and he lied.”
In September, Ravnsborg is accused of beating Boever when he walked on the side of the highway to his car that was lying in a ditch.
Ravnsborg allegedly searched for a deer with the sheriff that evening, but found nothing. Ravnsborg returned to the scene the next day and it was then that he found Boever’s body and reported it to the authorities.
Following the announcement of the interviews, two articles of indictment were filed against Ravnsborg, who according to the Post refused to resign from office.
‘Now that the investigation has been closed and charges have been filed, I believe the Attorney General should resign. I have reviewed the material we are releasing today and I encourage others to review it as well, ”said South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem
Kristi Lynn NoemNoem will raise money at Mar-a-Lago funded by Donald Trump Jr. (R) tweeted.
Now that the investigation has been closed and charges have been filed, I believe the Attorney General should resign. I have reviewed the material we release from today, and I encourage others to review it as well.
– Governor Kristi Noem (@govkristinoem) 23 February 2021
“At no point did this issue hamper his ability to do the work of the office,” said Mike Deaver, Ravnsborg’s private spokesman. said the Argus leader.
Ravnsborg is facing three charges of misconduct of driving a vehicle while using a mobile or electronic device, a violation of the lane and reckless driving.