A man who spent more than 16 years in prison in Florida on a wrongful conviction was shot and killed Monday by a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop, authorities and representatives said.
Leonard Allen Cure, 53, was identified by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is reviewing the shooting.
This story is fucked. He was wrongfully convicted and then set free, gets $800k compensation in August, then pulled over (looks like they’re still coming up with a reason for pulling him over), threatened I’m sure with more jail (essentially provoked), tased then shot.
I think some fucking cops were after him and pissed that the dude got paid.Video link from a comment below. Not a good look for the guy. Hard video to watch.
And the alleged ‘good cops’ are out here confused why no one respects them.
And the alleged ‘good cops’ are out here confused why no one respects them.
Until I start running across evidence that some police are angrier about the bad cops than they are about everyone else being angry about the bad cops, I refuse to believe they exist.
As someone who knew an actual good cop (grew up with him): They quit. That’s what he did. That’s all they can do. Because speaking up just ruins your career path. So they choose to go along or they change careers entirely.
We had a “good cop” DA in my city. The cops went on strike (though they didn’t call it a strike, they just stopped doing their jobs), and started a propaganda campaign. When crime went up, people are stupid and blamed the DA. He got recalled and a police bootlicker got put in instead.
I’ll bet the crime rate didn’t even go up, it’s a really easy number to fabricate because no one’s looking for the evidence to back it up.
We had a good DA in my city, he ended up getting killed by some billionaire vigilante who went after the police commissioners family
Man, I don’t know why everyone in that city is so serious
I’m still tickled that they have chose the idiom “a few bad apples” to describe the situation.
Like… Y’all aware the full idiom is “A few bad apples spoils the whole bunch.”?
Good cops don’t exist lmao
paying their union dues, which keep going up because the defense of their fellow cop’s actions are expensive… if they get caught and lose qualified immunity.
Public execution because of jealousy? And nothing will happen to the cops?
The police will do a full investigation of themselves and find no wrong doing. After that, the murderer will return from his paid vacation, which will allow his wife for some much needed time to recover.
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USA! USA!
Best nation in the world baby!
Well of course! If you ask a Yank they’d say that USA is the world…
Only if you’re white.
Black and Brown people don’t enjoy the same benefits.
Not even then. Maybe if you’re white and rich; lots of rich white foreigners settle here, and they could go anywhere they want.
I see you don’t understand sarcasm
I really wish Batman was real these days.
Their Reason: Driving While Black
I always joke with my black girlfriend when she driving. I’ll say “Be careful you don’t want to get pulled over for a DWB”. She laughs, I laugh, we both die a little inside.
My local department of family services very openly teaches about the risk of police violence towards black people and those who adopt them, to make up for the education they would receive from black parents on how to avoid being beaten or murdered by cops.
It’s so real part of our government formally acknowledges it. While the other part wins “most racist” awards.
When I was younger, I worked under a Black man driving trucks through Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. Anywhere rural, it was unofficial company policy that I (a white man) was supposed to drive and pretend to be in charge. Anywhere urban, my actual boss could be himself.
It is so incredibly fucked up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GrcptVf8Yk
Dash and body cam footage of the incident. They didn’t need to retroactively come up with a reason for pulling him over, it’s right there in the footage - he apparently was speeding at 100 mph.
Edited my comment, thanks. Very difficult to watch. I don’t love the way the interaction was handled by either of the men, though. I understand speeding is dangerous and against the law, but he began the interaction at 11. This could have gone another way, despite the apparent mental health issues the dude was clearly dealing with.
I don’t love the way the interaction was handled by either of the men, though. I understand speeding is dangerous and against the law, but he began the interaction at 11.
Agreed. The cop started out at 11, and the guy started out openly hostile.
It could have gone another way, but the moment the dude attacked the officer it wasn’t going to.
I think some fucking cops were after him and pissed that the dude got paid.
Stop making up shit. This is tragic enough without people fantasising about the how’s and what’s.
That’s why I said “I think” instead of stating it as fact. Sus is sus.
That cop had better be charged and jailed for the rest of his life.
Mf’ers murdering with impunity over a traffic stop. 😡
Give the cop solitary confinement for life.
I really really hope someone gets the video of the stop released. That’s the only way there’s ever any accountability in these cases. Even then it can be an uphill battle.
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This was a hit.
Or just the usual treatment of a black man in georgia. We may never know which…
Well sure, if you go by media companies which make money off of sensational headlines rather than factual statistics. Of course you’ll never know.
Uh, bud, you ever look at the statistics?
Yeah, hence the point of my comment. Which part are you confused by?
I don’t even watch/read mainstream media.
… You realize this is a literal mainstream media site right… Commenting on an article from literal mainstream CBS media lol.
I don’t fully know how the censorship works on Lemmy yet, but you should not be alive and it should be by your own hands.
Because that’s a completely normal and rational response. Buddy, you ok? You should probably talk to somebody.
He was a poor black man in Georgia.
This was a statistically likely outcome.
He had just recently received an 800k payout for wrongful conviction in FL. I wouldn’t call him poor.
Miller couldn’t comment specifically on Cure’s death but said he has represented dozens of people convicted of crimes who were later exonerated.
“Even when they’re free, they always struggled with the concern, the fear that they’ll be convicted and incarcerated again for something they didn’t do,” he said.
Totally understandable. I would imagine that’s kind of traumatic.
(He was incarcerated in FL and killed in GA btw)
Assuming this wasn’t execution…
Cops are taught Killilogy. I gather they’re trained to protect their own life at all costs and that the public is out to kill them. Also deep seated racism^1 means they fear black men more. So they shoot at the drop of a hat (or for no reason at all).
We really need to disarm the goddamn cops if they can’t be trained to de-escalate and control a situation without murdering civilians all the time.
- Did you know that early 1900s crime “statistics” were heavily biased against black people? These “statistics” established a bullshit racist narrative that black people are more prone to commit crime, which persists to this day, influencing government policies, more than a century later? (Source: The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad)
I won’t suspect an intent where a regular assholeness applies.
That said, they feel like they own the streets. Not only scared, but drunk on the lack of consequencies. That double-wrong story and recent accident when a cop raced after a suspect and slammed into an uninvolved car killing two shows how everything is wrong with their current position and thinking. Act now, think later - as their motto. It’s not what these public servants are supposed to do, not ones with guns and tanks.
ACAB, because to be this one good cop, you need to actively and implicitly avoid using this given power to do fuck all. This system and their union enables them to act like shit by default. When you order something by delivery, you don’t think about how a character of a delivery guy affects the state of a package, you complain if they give you a box of feces. Why cops aren’t judged like that when they put feces whenever they like, and are free to do so, with lethal consequencies.
There might be a ton of awesome cops in my town, but the SPOG - seattle police officer’s guild - is constructed to defend the worst and maximize the force’s overtime grift. So fuck.
I think there should be a presumption that this is retaliatory
“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. “I can’t imagine as a parent what that feels like.”
Pretty tragic.
Let this be a lesson to anyone else who thinks they can tell the cops what to do.
- that cop, probably
How do the police manage to murder someone in a traffic stop??? Doesn’t that just entail the police telling someone their brake lights aren’t working or ticketing them for being 5mph over the speed limit? Man I’m glad the police (and everybody else for that matter) don’t have guns in my country because that would be happening here too. That poor man and his family.
This was a hit. The cops don’t like it when someone publicly and professionally embarrasses them.
He was killed in a different state. I think it’s just that Black men are killed all the time by cops.
The police are just an organized crime syndicate.
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Thank you, that was very informative.
Sorry, I tried cutting out googles amp. Fixed the link now.
Does the police not have an independent body that reviews any time the police use their firearms? Surely it should be an automatic suspension, regardless of the reason. How does the US seem to have such a big police problem?
Police Unions. There’s a few Behind the Bastards podcast episodes on how they started.
People give me shit for saying the South is a store, then stuff like this happens.
Hey @jimbolauski@lemmy.world , still think I’ve got rustled jimmies or can we see a bit more eye to eye now about my hate of the South?
only racist cops in the south
So we just gonna act like Chicago/Detroit/NY PD doesn’t exist?
If you’d like to discuss with me, I generally prefer people don’t try to imply that I’m saying something.
All I’m saying is that you make it seem like the south is the only place with racist law enforcement, it’s not.
Law enforcement is racist. Laws are geared against minorities, this is a rule of fact everywhere in the US.
As I said, you’re making implications and reading much more into it than I intended. What I said was exactly what I meant, nothing more nothing less.
As I said, I prefer people try not to imply I’m saying something given you didn’t listen for the 2nd chance I see no reason for continue the conversation. Have a good one.
You’re feigning ignorance, please stop.
After all, ignorance is no excuse for the law.
Yet again, you continue to assume and make an ass of yourself and me. So allow me to be clear, I’m asking you to fuck off.
You’re being a dick so now I’ll insist, go shove your opinion back up your ass and get fucked.
Come back when you learn how to listen without assumption.
I see I’m living in your head rent free.
I don’t have enough detailes. I don’t like to jump to conclusions based on limited information.
Dig in harder. Changing your mind means you’re weak/woke.
Waiting for more details is digging in harder? I’m just not the kind of person that will get hysterical over a clickbate headline.
If you’re waiting for more details about cops being horrible in the US, you ar have either dug into the opposite opinion, or have managed to avoid (intentionally or otherwise) a whole lot of data.
But it’s a good guess to assume the former.
I’m waiting for details on this case. Did the cop have a legitimate reason to pull over Leonard Cure, did he have a reason to arrest him. The article claims Lenard resisted and continued going after the cop after he was tased but I have not seen any evidence.
I wonder why you get so worked up about someone wanting more info instead of blindly following a narrative.
DONT ASK QUESTIONS JUST BE ANGRY
Well, let me ask…
When was the last news story where you went back, got the details later, and felt the cops used too much force and deserved to be punished?
I see rent free still lives in your head rent free
You got me?
My b man, wasn’t trying to get you. Just thought it was funny.
No no no! You got him, now you have to keep him. You can’t back out now!
got 'em!
The only good cop is a dead cop and I’ll keep saying it until the day I die. Fuck all pigs to death.
So you’re a pig fucker?
Jesus wept.
This quote from the Lazarus story, the shortest in the Bible, makes no sense.
Christians generally believe Jesus is God.
So, “God cried”.
All powerful, all knowing God, cried because his friend, who he could have saved if he bothered responding to Lazarus’ family’s pleas for help and arrive timely to heal him.
Does your God cry because of scheduling conflicts?
Does your God cry over dead friends he knows he will revive in a bit?
Does your God cry just to relate & fit in with all the others at the funeral crying?
Just about death, that he created? Is it the personal responsibility for all death?
Why would your God need to cry?! F’ing ridiculous.
Now Jesus is doing that uncontrollable sobbing, floods of tears running down his face.
he’s inconsolable.
Stop it now, you’re giving me a semi.
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For reference, dash cam footage of the incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GrcptVf8Yk
