“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.

  • Zeppo
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    01 year ago

    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.

    • @pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
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      -11 year ago

      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

      • Zeppo
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        01 year ago

        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.

        • @pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
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          -11 year ago

          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.

          • Zeppo
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            11 year ago

            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.