‘Yeah, b—‘: Video shows exonerated robbery defendant fighting deputy shortly before fatal shooting

A mere moment before Camden County sheriff

A mere moment before Camden County sheriff’s Staff Sgt. Buck Aldridge shot and killed Leonard Allen Cure. (Screenshot: Camden County Sheriff’s Office)

A Georgia prosecutor will not issue charges against a deputy who shot a previously exonerated robbery defendant to death during a traffic stop. The district attorney, Keith Higgins, of Brunswick Judicial Circuit, said Camden County sheriff’s Staff Sgt. Buck Aldridge was justified in opening fire on Leonard Allen Cure, 53, during a traffic stop on the side of I-95 on Oct. 16, 2023.

“Use of deadly force at that point was objectively reasonable given that he was being overpowered at that time,” he told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

But Cure’s attorneys disagreed with the decision.

“This decision is a devastating failure of justice, sending the message that law enforcement officers can take a life without consequence,” attorneys Ben Crump and Harry Daniels said in a statement to Law&Crime on behalf of Cure’s family. “Leonard Cure was a man who had already fought so hard to reclaim his life after a wrongful conviction, only to have it stolen from him again. His family will not stop fighting for accountability, and neither will we.”

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