“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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    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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      1 year ago

      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