The Georgia State Police on USA released Wednesday the video of the arrest and confrontation between a sheriff’s deputy and an African-American man who had been stopped for a traffic violation, which ended with police to shoot him point blank.
THE Leonard Alan Cure, 53, died Monday after a Camden County sheriff’s deputy shot him. The officer’s name has not been released. Cure was acquitted in 2020 after being sentenced to 16 years in prison for armed robbery.
This case is the latest in a series of incidents in which police officers shoot unarmed African Americans. The family’s attorney, Ben Crump, known for handling many such cases, said the officer acted too aggressively. The Cambden County Sheriff’s Office said in an online post that the video was released due to rumors and misinformation circulating about the incident. The sheriff’s office released three videos: one from the sheriff’s deputy’s dash cam and two from his dash cam.
It looks like these deputy sheriff to stop Cure for speeding and immediately yelling at him to get out of his car. A sheriff’s deputy later said Cure was driving 100 miles per hour on Interstate 95 in south Georgia. In the confrontation between the two, which lasted less than 3 minutes, Cure is seen arguing with the deputy sheriffbut to comply with his orders to get out of his car and put his hands on the hood, as reported by APE-MPE.
However, Cure then disobeys the officer’s order to put his hands behind his back, and the sheriff’s deputy tasers him. That time the two men begin to fight. The deputy sheriff hits Cure with the globe of and subsequently shoots him at point blank range.
After yelling at him to “stay down” as Cure tries to get up, Deputy Sheriff puts him face down on the pavement and handcuffs him. The officer then begins to provide first aid to Cure, while other colleagues rush to help by applying pressure to the African-American’s chest. They finally put him in an ambulance.
Cure’s family watched the video yesterday with their lawyer before it was released. During a press conference organized by Crump’s law firm and streamed online, his brother, Wallace Cure, said there was “absolutely no reason for my brother to be killed for a traffic violation.” Cure’s family explained that he was returning home to Atlanta from Florida where he had gone to visit his mother. Crump accused the sheriff’s deputy of overreacting from the start, possibly “provoking” Cure, who according to his family is suffering from special stress due to his years in prison. “We don’t understand why more efforts weren’t made to de-escalate the situation,” commented the lawyer.
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Source: News Beast

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