Leonard Allen Cure resisted arrest during a traffic stop, authorities say. He'd gotten $817,000 in compensation in August from Florida, where he'd been behind bars.

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.

  • jimbolauski@lemmy.world
    52·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      63·
      11 months ago

      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?

      • jimbolauski@lemmy.world
        23·
        11 months ago

        I mostly member outcome of the cases not the details that were presented when I initially read about it.

        The Jordan Edwards case comes to mind, police shot him as he was driving away, they initially claimed he was reversing twords them. Footage releases later proved otherwise.

        There was a case of a kid getting shot because he went to put something behind his car to stop it from rolling back and hitting the cops behind him.