New case in the US of fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man. The latest victim is Leonard Allan Cure, a 53-year-old African-American, shot dead this Wednesday by a police officer after being stopped for exceeding the permitted speed limit. The man had been released from prison three years earlier after more than 16 years behind bars for a crime of armed robbery that he did not commit.
The events occurred when Cure was detained in Camden County, near the Florida border, by a sheriff's deputy around 7:30 in the morning, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The county office itself has published the video to, they say, avoid rumors and misinformation. However, it is not a complete sequence, but rather a series of fragments. The agency is conducting an independent investigation into the fatal shooting by the police officer.
The videos released show the following. Initially, when the police and detainee park on the right shoulder of the road, Cure is receptive to the agent's instructions, despite questioning them and not understanding the vehement attitude with which he addresses him for exceeding the limit. permitted speed. "You passed me at 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)," the officer yells, to which the victim replies that this was only the subject of a fine and that he was not going to go to jail for it.
Before the brawl, the police officer threatens to put him in prison. The images allow us to appreciate the tension with which the victim manages it. The agent, upon seeing the reaction he was having, decided to fire an electric discharge with his taser in order to reduce the man. That's when Cure stirs and a struggle breaks out between the two.
The brawl, which sees both of them get into a fight and grab each other's necks, ends with a shot with the service weapon at kidney level, which the officer delivers to get the civilian off of him. The shot would end up being fatal, since, after several resuscitation attempts applied by the security forces who would immediately respond to the police call, they were unable to keep Cure alive.
The victim's family has put the case in the hands of Ben Crump, who has already been a lawyer in several cases of police abuse of power over black people in the United States and has obtained large monetary compensation amounts for the affected families. "There is no reason for him to be killed during a traffic stop," said the victim's brother, Wallace Cure.
