Georgia deputy shoots, kills Black man who spent 16 years in prison on wrongful conviction

[Reptile]

KINGSLAND, Ga. (AP) — A Black man who spent more than 16 years imprisoned in Florida on a wrongful conviction was fatally shot Monday by a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop, authorities said.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is reviewing the shooting, identified the man as Leonard Allen Cure, 53.

Cure had been represented in his exoneration case by the Innocence Project of Florida. The group’s executive director, Seth Miller, said he was devastated by news of the death, which he heard from Cure’s family.

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Georgia deputy shoots, kills Black man who spent 16 years in prison on wrongful conviction

A Black man who spent more than 16 years in prison in Florida on a wrongful conviction has been fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop.

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Good Shoot.

 

[StevieP]

What's his skin color got to do with it?

 

[not new guy]

What's his skin color got to do with it?

To half the country his skin color is more important and more relevant than what actually happened.

 

[Reptile]

What's his skin color got to do with it?

Ask George Floyd.

 

[In God We Trust]

Ask George Floyd.

 

[Twigg]

I'd like to know why he was pulled over in the first place.

 

[BigTimber]

I'd like to know why he was pulled over in the first place.

Going 100mph when he passed the cop. And after watching the video…

 

[Twigg]

I guess that's reasonable suspicion.

 

[Andy in NH]

From the lack of hearing the report, I'd guess that the officer made a contact shot and that the guy took the bullet and all the expanding gases into his wound?


View: https://youtu.be/7GrcptVf8Yk

 

[Reptile]

From the lack of hearing the report, I'd guess that the officer made a contact shot and that the guy took the bullet and all the expanding gases into his wound?


View: https://youtu.be/7GrcptVf8Yk

That is one dumb azz gentleman.

Definitely a little diminished in the prefrontal lobe on account of his not recognizing the consequences of his actions.

He would have been alive today if he was not freed from prison.

 

[whatluck]

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*counterfeit $20 dance*

 

[LakeTrout]

It’s a little weird that they felt the need to tell us what color he was

 

[Reptile]

It’s a little weird that they felt the need to tell us what color he was

Would anybody care if the victim was White?

#BLM

It's all about the clicks and web traffic to the site that has the story.

Most people would prefer to watch a Black man being killed instead of a White man being killed.

Increase in ad revenue.

 

[In God We Trust]

From the lack of hearing the report, I'd guess that the officer made a contact shot and that the guy took the bullet and all the expanding gases into his wound?


View: https://youtu.be/7GrcptVf8Yk

100% Clean shoot. I understand why the dead guy may have a problem with cops and the law, but you have to let that shit go or this is the end result.

I didn’t hear a shot either. Sometimes mics filter out sharp sounds like that or as you said he became a human suppressor

 

[rogersmithiii]

Why can't they just obey the officer, be polite, and follow instructions?

If they have a beef with the cop, anyone with any brains knows that the cop is not the one to take it up with.

 

[Blackmore]

A reasonable person will watch the video, realize it was 100% justified and get on with their lives. Unfortunately there is a certain demographic looking for any excuse to get frosty and will start acting out.

 

[TJ4]

Well that taser did absolutely nothing to the driver and then the cop tried a second non-lethal with the baton which was less effective.

 

[Fixxah]

FAFO. Glad it ended the way it did and not with the perp killing the cop. Some never learn.

 

[walter62]

Why can't they just obey the officer, be polite, and follow instructions?

If they have a beef with the cop, anyone with any brains knows that the cop is not the one to take it up with.

Dare I say 'They're just not wired that way'.

All "issues" need to be solved with expedient violence.

 

[pastera]

What's his skin color got to do with it?

In Kingsland?
It could have a lot.

 

[pastera]

From the lack of hearing the report, I'd guess that the officer made a contact shot and that the guy took the bullet and all the expanding gases into his wound?


View: https://youtu.be/7GrcptVf8Yk

100% clean shoot

 

[pastera]

Well that taser did absolutely nothing to the driver and then the cop tried a second non-lethal with the baton which was less effective.

Guy knew how to counter a taser

 

[Edek Kasica]

What an unbelievably bad luck streak this guy had.

 

[pastera]

What an unbelievably bad luck streak this guy had.

Stupid people, stupid things, stupid places at stupid times
I'm certain he participated in multiples of the above in abundance.

 

[bigbravehog]

this is the definition of FAFO

 

[Edek Kasica]

Stupid people, stupid things, stupid places at stupid times
I'm certain he participated in multiples of the above in abundance.

Yeah certain people have extremely bad luck.

 

[HARRYM]

So, if you read about his case at the time of his arrest a search of his home turned up the clothes used in the robbery. His lawyer tried to suppress that evidence based on a warrant lacking issue.

These groups that want to empty prisons use the passage of time to do it. Many years down the road some have passed on, some their memory has slipped, and the defense paints a picture of nobody knows anything and the perp walks. They do thgis all the time. Sure, some innocents have been wrongly convicted but that number is very small. The vast majority of these old "they were wrongly convicted" were guilty from day one.

 

[Amputee Marksman]

Why can't they just obey the officer, be polite, and follow instructions?

If they have a beef with the cop, anyone with any brains knows that the cop is not the one to take it up with.

FTFY.

I don't need to be polite. Just keep quiet, don't say sh!t, and follow instructions.

 

[FPrice]

What's his skin color got to do with it?

To a small part of the country but most of the mainstream (aka "lamestream") media his skin color is more important and more relevant than what actually happened.

@not new guy FIFY.

 

[not new guy]

The unfortunate reality is that a large part of the country lives and breaths by what the media tells them, or at least by what they think their peers (who listen to the media) want them to believe.