The deputy responds, “Yes, you are going to jail.” “I’m not going to jail,” Cure says at one point. “You passed me going 100 miles per hour,” the deputy says. In the video, the deputy tells Cure to get out of his vehicle and says he pulled him over because he was speeding and driving recklessly. The pursuit lasts about one minute and 20 seconds. In the dash cam video, the deputy begins pursuing Cure with his sirens on after Cure’s vehicle passes his. On Wednesday, the Camden County, Georgia, sheriff’s office released body-worn and dash camera videos of the moments leading up to the shooting. “Lenny’s life mattered.”Ĭure’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. “He and his family deserved better,” the Innocence Project of Florida said in a statement. Two months after the state of Florida formally apologized to Leonard Cure for the 16 years he lost following a wrongful conviction for armed robbery, authorities say he was fatally shot Monday by a sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop just across the state line in Georgia.
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