A Georgia sheriff plans to release video of a traffic stop where a deputy fatally shot a Black man who three years earlier was released from prison after being wrongfully convicted
Mary Cure holds a framed photo of her slain son, Leonard Cure, as she speaks to reporters Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, in Woodbine, Ga. A Camden County sheriff's deputy fatally shot Leonard Cure after pulling him over for reckless driving on Oct. 16, 2023. Three years earlier, he was freed from a Florida prison after serving 16 years for an armed robbery that officials later concluded he didn't commit. WOODBINE, Ga.
“I don’t feel, no matter what happened, that he should have been killed," Mary Cure said as she grasped a large, framed portrait of her slain son."That’s the bottom line. His life should not have been taken.”She knew her son was dead before the officers told her: “How do I know that? Because I lived with that fear and so did he.”
A sheriff's deputy pulled Cure over Monday along Interstate 95, a few miles north of the Georgia-Florida line. Authorities say Cure had been speeding, driving faster than 90 mph , and faced a reckless driving arrest. “He is someone that was failed by the system once and he has again been failed by the system. He’s been twice taken away from his family,” Seth Miller, executive director of the Innocence of Project of Florida, said Wednesday.
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