The representative of Georgia, who fatally shot the man from Florida, is not charged, says district prosecutor

A representative of a Sheriff of Georgia will not be exposed to criminal charges Fatally shooting a black man during a traffic stop from 2023 This turned into a violent struggle, said the district prosecutor, who examined the body camera video and other evidence in the murder, on Tuesday.

The 53 -year -old Leonard Cure was only killed three years after the authorities in Florida had released him from prison after completing 16 years because of a crime he had not committed.

Staff Sgt. Buck Aldridge, a white MP in Camden County, Georgia, deducted on Interstate 95 near the Florida line on October 16, 2023. refused to put his hands behind his back. Body and Dash camera video Showed Cure defended himself back and had a hand in Aldridge's neck when he was a shot point blank.

“At this point, the use of fatal violence was clearly sensible at this point in time, since it was overwhelmed at that time,” said district attorney Keith Higgins of the Associated Press in a telephone interview on Tuesday.

The lawyers Ben Crump and Harry Daniels, who represented the family of Cure, insisted that Aldridge applied excessive violence.

“This decision is a devastating failure of the judiciary and sends the message that law enforcement officers can take a life without consistency,” they said in a statement. “Leonard Cure was a man who had already fought so hard to regain his life after an illegal conviction, just to steal it again. His family will not stop fighting for the accountability, and we don't either.”

In 2020, Cure was relieved of the Broward Prosecutor's Office in Fort Lauderdale for an armed robbery of a drugstore in Fort Lauderdale. He was the first person to be relieved of the review of the office.

The unit found that Cure had fixed alibis and that the case against him had no physical evidence or solid witnesses. CBS Miami reported.

“We were destroyed by Leonard Cure's death,” said Broward's prosecutor, Harold F. Pryor, at the time of his death. “The Leonard we knew was a clever, funny and friendly person.”

Seth Miller, the executive director of the Innocence Project of Florida, who was wrong on Cure's Falls, told CBS Miami after Cure's death that he had recently bought his first home in Georgia.

“He went there,” said Miller.

Miller said that people like Cure who were wrongly convicted often live in fear.

“The fact that the freedom that you work so hard after an illegal detention in order to achieve you so hard can be taken to be imprisoned,” he told CBS Miami.

The deputy Dalton Vernakes, a spokesman for the Camden County Sheriff, James Kevin Chaney, confirmed that Aldridge continues to be employed by Sheriff. Aldridge had been put on the administrative vacation while Cure's shoot was examined by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Vernakes said he did not immediately know whether Aldridge had returned to normal tasks.

A lawyer from Aldridge, Adrienne Browning, did not return an e -mail message that was looking for a comment on Tuesday.

Lawyers for the von Cure family said Delayed by the neighboring police authority of Kingsland in 2017 After a third time was disciplined to use excessive violence. Personnel records show that the sheriff hired it nine months later.

A year ago, Cure's family submitted a federal lawsuit against Aldridge and the then sheriff Jim Proctor to the US district court to look for $ 16 million. It accuses Aldridge to use excessive violence and procor, to have ignored the violence of the MP. Both rejected misconduct in court files. The case is still up to the US district court.