“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.

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    You’re a fucking nutball.

    This wasn’t even just “hands around the neck”, he was actively choking the officer, who first tried the baton to get him off and then finally restored to the gun.

    It’s not a fucking hit job it was self-preservation in the face of a threat to his life.

    If it’s a message, maybe that message should be “don’t try and guy with a gun to death, especially a cop”

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      You’re not listening.

      What Mr. Cure did was irrelevant because if anything he did, including killing police officers, was done by a white dude, the white dude would have been arrested and still alive while Mr. Cure and any other Black man would have been murdered without hesitation.

      It is that simple.

      But we both know you’re not listening because you’re probably some racist ass who thinks it’s okay for police to murder Black men, especially high-profile ones who expose the tyranny of their system.

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        No you’re just a racist idiot who thinks everything boils down to black or white.

        Nobody is going to stop and say “I guess I should let this guy choke me to death because he’s white”

        Get a brain

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          No, you’re just a racist idiot defending cops because they killed a Black man and you like that sort of thing.

          Cops have literally just arrested and bought Burger King for white mass shooters before and you’re justifying them murdering an innocent Black man who just escaped having 16 years of his life taken away from him by them, and you don’t want me to sympathize with the Black victim but the white abuser.

          Grow the fuck up and be an adult.

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            I’m not defending cops at all. There are plenty of incidents of racist or corrupt pieces of shit who are trigger happy. This just isn’t one of them.

            The cops that put this guy in jail are garbage, ones that engage in the behaviour you described are garbage, this particular cop did none of that. As an adult, I can actually look at a situation and analyse that without being biased over a generalized hatred. You might want to work on that.

            YOU seem to have looked at the summary, decided “black man, white cop” and that’s all it took to render a decision of guilt without looking at the situation at-hand. Doubt you even watched the video but I doubt it would have affected your decision either way

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        Some people have a hard time believing this, but white people are sometimes killed by police too. The statistics are that black people are killed at a rate approximately twice as high as their occurrence in the population. Being white does NOT automatically mean you can get away with whatever you want and are never treated poorly by police.

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          Not nearly as often as Black people are, and not for the same reasons, but thanks for playing Let’s Ignore 500 Years Of Genocide And Oppression

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            Anyway my points is that people act like “if that person was black they 100% would have been killed” and “if that person was white they 100% would have gotten off with a warning and been bought a cheeseburger” but that isn’t totally accurate.

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              It literally doesn’t matter. Those numbers are so damn high it justifies bare minimum dismissal of any claims of innocent on a cop’s part at face value.

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                What numbers? Anyway, my view is that police shouldn’t be killing anyone. Making it a racial issue distracts from that and plays into the race war that wealthy people have drummed up to distract from financial oppression.