Posted on 10/17/2023 6:17:10 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts
KINGSLAND, Ga. — 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.
“I can only imagine what it’s like to know your son is innocent and watch him be sentenced to life in prison, to be exonerated and ... then be told that once he’s been freed, he’s been shot dead,” Miller said.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said a Camden County deputy pulled over Cure as he drove along Interstate 95 near the Georgia-Florida line. He got out of the car at the deputy’s request and cooperated at first but became violent after he was told he was being arrested, a GBI news release said.
The agency said preliminary information shows the deputy shocked Cure with a stun gun when he failed to obey commands, and Cure began assaulting the deputy. The GBI said the deputy again tried using the stun gun and a baton to subdue him, then drew his gun and shot Cure when he continued to resist.
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“Not a word about his criminal history in all the hagiography being cranked out by the local Miami media.”
Right. Even if criminals aren’t guilty of a particular crime, they’re often guilty of others and deserve justice.
The media ought to at least mention the whole truth. Pretending he is pure as the wind driven snow is fake journalism.
“Pretending he is pure as the wind driven snow is fake journalism.”
Most “journalism” now is fake. We shouldn’t be surprised. Trayvon. George Floyd. Etc. Hagiography with them, too.
The usual BS.
Somebody didn’t have fun in booking on a Friday night. Maybe consecutive Friday nights. Or maybe 4-6 months of in house research.
There are 790,000 cops in the U.S. Yet, you decide to smear them all in your ignorance (and a few others from the shallow end of the gene pool with you).
What if someone judged Freepers by just looking at you posts? See? Broadly hating those who keep us safe and try and find and take criminals off the street is... well ungrateful at the least.
O.K. Enough beating a puppy. I feel small for engaging you in posts at your level.
LOL, that was a silly post, it read like you have been drinking all night.
I can see that to people lost in irrational bigotry they would see it that way. They don’t like facts.
You must be a binge drinker.
Sorry not playing with the kids anymore. Go be nasty in the corner somewhere.
As a troll you don’t use this backup account very often, why expose it all when you don’t really need it?
Looks like a far left website to me.
Doesn’t matter who they are, the example is what matters.
The various forms of corruption are nationwide.
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