“He and his family deserved better,” the Innocence Project of Florida said in a statement. “Lenny’s life mattered.”
Cure’s quest to rebuild his life after being wrongfully convicted in 2003 ended tragically on the shoulder of Interstate 95 in South Georgia on Monday morning.
On Wednesday, the Camden County, Georgia, sheriff’s office released body-worn and dash camera videos of the moments leading up to the shooting.
In the dash cam video, the deputy begins pursuing Cure with his sirens on after Cure’s vehicle passes his. The pursuit lasts about one minute and 20 seconds.
Even a short stint in prison is a traumatic experience and this guy served 16 years of a life sentence when he was innocent. It broke him and no amount of money could bring him back. This cop is not to blame for his death but the entire justice system and the part of society that didn’t want him back regardless.
This cop is completely and entirely to blame for his death.
The cop immediately escalated the encounter. He had hundreds of opportunities where he could have not taken Cure’s life.
He pulled him over and was going to arrest him for reckless driving. The man began assaulting him. I don’t know why this needs explanation, the whole thing was on video. But why don’t you go ahead and tell us how you would have handled this, armchair cop.
I wouldn’t have walked out of my vehicle screaming at him to get out of the car, and most departmental policy agrees with me. I wouldn’t have tased someone who wasn’t behaving aggressively, and almost all use of force continuum guidance in America agrees with me.
These policies are adopted because the ideal outcome was Cure being arrested for reckless driving, his car being impounded, and possibly additional charges for resistance and assault. Instead he was summarily executed for a non-capital crime. If you think people should be executed for speeding, then maybe you should move to Saudi Arabia, because that isn’t my America.
What department policy is that? How do you expect to be heard without walking up to the window and jeopardizing your own safety? How does yelling at someone justify assault?
I don’t know how you can watch the video in the OP and pretend like he wasn’t behaving aggressively…
Yeah that’s not what happened. He was shot in self defense after attacking and getting the upper hand on a police officer.
If your strategy for this discussion is to blatantly lie about the events that transpired on camera, then I’m afraid we have nothing further to discuss.
No, he was not “summarily executed”, nor was he killed for speeding.
He was PULLED OVER, for speeding and dangerous driving. After such he refused directions, and was aggressive. Despite being used, he decided to go all-in and assault the cop, who he was managing to choke out. Cop pulled a baton and tried to use that but had no success while still getting choked, so finally went for his gun and - again while STILL being assaulted and choked - put a bullet in his attacker.
If he hadn’t done so, we’d probably be seeing dashcam footage ending with a dead cop while his attacker took off and was subject of a manhunt.
Even after the shooting, the cop called it in immediately and tried to render aid.
It’s that he didn’t pull over instantly. Cops are taught resistance or even slowness to comply is a threat to their authority and merits escalation. If the cop is not completely in control of the situation (or if they feel they aren’t), they’re taught to take control of it aggressively, regardless of the context of the situation. Resistance is a potential threat to be extinguished quickly, ask questions later.
They’re taught to be hyper aggressive cowards.
Here’s the full video. Please give it a watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGNIAozOIok
I once sped past a cop driving in an unmarked car (cruising in the left lane and not passing anyone). She put her lights on and I figured “well I’ve been caught, no sense in trying to slow all the way down” so I reasonably took like 30 seconds to find a place to pull over, driving at regular traffic speed.
She asked me if I was trying to run… Like, no, I’m just looking for a place to stop that isn’t the side of the road.
Cops almost instantly expect you to run or get violent, which causes people to get defensive anyway.