CBS News: “South Dakota House lawmakers on Tuesday began impeachment proceedings against the state’s attorney general, who is facing misdemeanor charges for striking and killing a man with his car and is already under pressure to resign. A bipartisan group of lawmakers filed a resolution in the House to impeach the state’s top law enforcement officer, Jason Ravnsborg, after he indicated he would not heed calls for his resignation. The Republican attorney general faces three misdemeanor charges but no felonies in the September death of 55-year-old Joseph Boever. Gov. Kristi Noem released videos of Ravnsborg’s two interviews with law enforcement late Tuesday. In the videos, investigators confront the attorney general with the gruesome details of the crash, at one point telling him, ‘His face was in your windshield, Jason, think about that.'”
“Ravnsborg appeared unsure of many details in the crash, but investigators told him Boever’s glasses had been found in the attorney general’s Ford Taurus and bone scrapings were found on the highway shoulder. As investigators described how his car swerved onto the shoulder and struck Boever, causing major damage to the car hood and windshield, Ravnsborg appears distressed. ‘I never saw him,’ he told the investigators. ‘I never saw him.’ CBS affiliate KELO-TV reports that during the first interview, Ravnsborg told investigators that he thought he may have hit a deer. ‘I’m thinking it’s a deer at this point, but I had, I did not see anything. I didn’t have a time to swerve or accelerate or decelerate or anything,’ Ravnsborg said. ‘I didn’t see anything.'”