Georgia DA Declines Charges Against Deputy who Fatally Shot Previously Exonerated Man at Traffic Stop

A Georgia prosecutor will not issue charges against a deputy who fatally shot a previously exonerated robbery defendant during a violent 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, because Cure was violently resisting.

“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, MSN reports…

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