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Dashcam Video Released of Leonard Allan Cure Incident

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0:00 cuz I feel like two onone is always a little bit safer if I see someone put the hands on the truck like this I'm already calling for backup you're like this guy is CRA we need some we need a SWAT he's in his hands on the truck yeah but he's doing it weird he's not doing it like normal [Music] people all right I'm going to tell you guys the story of a man named Leonard Allan cure Nick throughout this story I'm going to take pauses and if you think think it's the end of the story let me know if it's not just go like this okay see if you can tell when the story actually ends okay I can do that I like this I like this I thought it was going to be a bigger task and I was nervous so here it is in the late in the late '90s early 2000ish this guy Leonard Allen Cur he's racking up some convictions for robbery

0:51 and other crimes but then he straightens out his life and he gets a construction job and um after being a great worker with perfect attendance they give him a permanent position cool end of the story end of the story sounds good dude lunch time huh boys I'm glad we cover the best news that's a happy ending if I ever heard one I wish that's America okay and in in the morning of November 10 2003 Leonard visits an ATM on his way to the job site but workers of a Wallgreens claim that he robbed them at gunpoint so then they choose him out of a lineup these Witnesses the workers at the Walgreens and uh they circled his face on official documents and those documents actually had his face multiple times which you're not supposed to do uh

1:41 and then uh what happens is he ends up being the prime suspect for the robbery the case goes to court but the jury reached a mistrial okay they reached a mistrial and then Leonard was offered a plea deal to just hey just plead guilty you get S years but he refused because he knew he was innocent so a second trial be again and this time the Walgreens employee now testifies that um he's actually not sure if Leonard was the robber at all oh Jesus Christ okay this is back then when there wasn't cameras at the ATM machine no there's no cameras it's all Witnesses so then um eyewitness got so many people in jail High witness is dead yeah so then the jury even though the worker said actually I'm not sure if that's him the jury still voted Leonard guilty of armed robbery and assault and due to having a prior criminal history the

2:32 judge sentenced him to life in prison oh my ████ what what color is Leonard probably black we already know we already know we already know leard is a black dude this happened to a lot of black eony alert yo now that's an eily alert yeah that's what they should be used for wrongful conviction bro wrongful conviction alert so so then Leonard files an appeal right like as you do he files it in 2006 cool yeah they denied his appeal so then in 2015 he files a second appeal I guess they denied it as well they denied it too and then uh in 2016 he he filed his third and final appeal wow uh you only get three and then it was denied Y and then

3:23 uh in April 2020 his C re his case reached the innocent project is it there big guy this case it reaches innocent project and they're able to determine that his conviction was unlawful so the judge dropped all the charges and released him oh my God he get a fat check on the after 16 years in prison at age 53 oh my God please give them like a fat ass check or something do they get fat ass checks they should I think they should right 16 years dude he tried to turn his life around too him a fat ass check yeah they gave him $817,000 for that's not a fat ass I don't think that's enough where he living for 00 for 16 years nah F that's got to be in the Mills homie that's true

4:13 I need 8 m so I need a mill for each year I did especially for how they ████ up 16 Ms yeah all that tax dollar bro they gave him 817k for his wrongful conviction and uh upon his release he started the process of buying a home he got a security job where um and also he's giving motivational speeches oh that's cool so um and he's also preparing to enroll in college at 54 dude this guy just keeps Trucking like he just all it happened can't stop W stop pretty great huh stop stop pretty great huh does he get wrongfully convicted for something else yeah Brian sorry sorry let's go let's go holy ████ are you serious it keeps going 3 years later he's visiting his uh sick mom don't be visiting dude just stay at home dude don't go anywhere stay at home with your ████ luck Amazon Prime

5:04 everything with your luck stay the ████ home bro don't do Postmates is for don't go to ATM we're all talking about his sick Mom that's what Postmates is for Postmates and zoom zoom your mom task rabbit your mom he's not going to go visit someone special all think and it's like yeah ████ don't go she's sick ████ that FaceTime her so that he's driving home through Camden County Georgia oh there it is he's driving like apparently he's driving almost 100 miles hour so he gets pulled over apparently and uh well that's what they clock him at me the case kind of probably cuz the gun was faulty yeah okay I have you check that thing sir so he's asked to get out of the truck which you have to do when you're speeding like when you're driving like in some states yeah above a certain amount it's going to be reckless driving it's no longer going to be a speed like a criminal it's a criminal I

5:54 think it's like over 35 mph over the speed yeah so they ask him to get out of the truck and initi he's he's compliant but he's also like he's like here we go again well he's really like flashbacks he's physically compliant at first but he's verbally confrontational like ████ Y'all yeah of course he's like I've been locked up for 16 years yeah not again sir ████ lose Cannon dude so then the officer starts uh telling him to put his hands on the truck which he does and once the officer tells him that he's under arrest then he flips out and he starts attacking the officer oh so he gets shot he gets shot the cop used the taser oh okay but heed yeah what's going on you're scaring me dude so the taser didn't work so he used he ended up uh using it a second time another taser holy ████ dude yeah two tasers and it didn't work the second

6:46 time oh god he has a third taser so he ended up taking out his baton he beat him to death oh God he beat him to death the Baton didn't work either stop doing this to us man how does a cop have two tasers on him he has a lot of pocket every taser has two shots Oh I thought you is this guy a big guy he's a big guy dual wiing taser we're at the fourth weapon he's like wait two tasers heuse RPG on him I'm telling you dude if you got bad luck you need to stay home this guy's legit a ████ American Gladiator dude he's a pretty big b so the uh cop ends up having to draw a service weapon and then he shoots Leonard one time uh but then Emergency Services were called and tended to huh and then now he got more money and he died he didn't make it did he really die yeah he died you're lying no yeah he

7:36 died he passed away hey dude hey guys what a bummer story way to ████ bum me out dude why he's got two tasers here's the video of the actual arrest oh no this is this is exactly how it went down ow put your hands back here I ain't ████ oh oh there he goes don't touch me it's already bad Sheriff's Office my name is I don't care step to the rarest vehicle the name of the name OFW the name of say Jesus the name of JW America put your hands on the back of that truck do you see that put your hands on the back of that truck the back

8:26 of the truck oh it looks like he might have been drinking huh oh turn around that's why he's walking the line he's like watch me now4 K send me and that's also a really weird way to put your hands on the truck of a come on dud black Sor County Camy County put your hand behind your back do I have a do I have a warrant wait wait no no no no no no no no hell no and put your hands behind your back and you're getting tased I'm telling you that right now why am I getting tased cuz you are under arrest for speeding and reckless driving I'm not driving nobody was hurt how was I speeding you pass me doing 100 mph oh ████ speed ticket right sir tickets in the state of Georgia are criminal offenses I don't have a ticket in Georgia you do now why you passed me doing 100 miles he doesn't know he's in

9:17 Georgia hands behind your back yes you were going to jail hands behind your back he was pouring to the Lord yeah yeah dude put your hands behind your back oh he's angry ████ this oh damn dude oh no God damn dude that's the crazy ████ though right yeah you can't do that man see if he learned some Jiu-Jitsu he could ████ oh ████ he choke the ████ out of him he's like man I ain't going back oh no well at least he used other options yeah he did escalate one at a time yeah he didn't go straight for the gun like most cops would yeah bro stay down stay down he has a taser on him no that's a gun did he shoot him he already shot him he I didn't even hear it yeah me nether shots fir shots fir I didn't even hear it oh

10:08 ████ that was quick stay down oh that's a Brinks guy oh my God stay down I guess the armor gu guy tried to come help he probably saw the scuffle stay down damn bro get shot just down oh what bu pretty crazy huh so then people are saying that like because of what he went through that like to hear that he was going to jail ofal people don't have you know yeah for sure D was that would have set me off but in a lot of these cases though they're like a lot of them are um resisting arrest right so like is it because they're like TR like to the point where like I don't want to go back to jail or cuz for me I'm like just

10:59 ████ do this and then get processed and ████ them up in court that's my yeah but this guy tried to do that once and then 17 years later also dude it's the way you grow up too like the way the way you're raised in like your Comm like your neighborhood like sometimes these people I've been around these people and they don't like to use their voice and whenever they feel less than it's always violent it's always physical I don't have time to talk I'm going to fix it with my hands that's just the way I know i' rather go to jail get shot as long as I didn't leave looking like a ████ like once you ████ make me feel less you're going to get ████ up I don't care if you have a gun or a knife I see people get into fights and the guy has a knife and you a smarter person would be like yeah I'm not going to he has a knife but they're so angry that he even pulled out a knife that they're going to try to like fight ████ do it yeah he

11:49 like you ████ you pull out a knife on me ████ and they'll just fight him you're like dude that guy had a knife That's crazy cuz they're willing to die than to look like a ████ period yeah there's definitely something different different rules different rules yeah they one and he just spent 16 years in jail innocently so that must have done yeah that anger dude it's just everything is there dude for a lot of trauma I'm sure perfect recipe for disaster yeah yeah yeah cuz like he clearly snapped like he was he was being difficult at first but he was still sort of doing what he was told oh he took the ████ out of that cop God bro that cop I'm like bro you couldn't ████ you don't know you don't have a defense for this brother yeah they don't teach you that mm- is that one of like as someone that does Jiu-Jitsu is that one of the things where you see a lot of these situations and you're like well I feel like look it's not going to be perfect every time but even if he had like if this guy was a ████ like blue belt or

12:39 something either way I feel like cops should be training all the time if you're going to be dealing with situations like this a lot then it's in your best interest to be able to handle yourself physically right like I don't know it's it's never like a street fight like that or when someone has reaching for your gun and all that I'm sure it's very complicated but it's like I don't know I just see that four cops try to arrest someone and the person outruns all four cops and the cops are just ████ rolling around like they don't know what happened I'm like oh ████ yeah there's a lot of overweight cops guy just ████ running all over the he doesn't know what he's doing either he's not even trained either he's just ████ running like out of breath and it's like I don't know bro I I just feel like they should be better trained I don't know when I see that I'm like dude this guy doesn't know what the ████ he's literally getting choked against the car was like like that's his ████ life you know what I mean if you if you if you're a cop and you want to go see your kids

13:29 and you better be you better be ready bro I don't that's just my point of view I don't know I just think you're dealing with really heavy circumstances it's bleeped out but when he's choking him the dude's like yeah ████ yeah ████ that's like ████ terrifying that's what he said but it's bleeped out in this video well it's because he I think he knew at this point I'm going to go to jail for life or I'm going to get killed and it's like ████ right like probably his mind there's no outcome that's not you know the moment he got tased and he looked and he and he just that he's like I'm in it that's it I'm in it and when I'm in it I might as well go all out yeah yeah he's fighting for his life right there bro that's why he was choking that ████ cop out with intent and the cop is like cuz he also doesn't have like anything on his record of like all of his reports cuz you know like they'll have to go through so many valuations when he's in jail and he didn't have any like problems where he was like violent to people or nothing

14:20 like his record's pretty from um being in jail that the 16 years he was a pretty decent dude but his life record is that the law don't work for me yeah exactly yeah yeah D that's what makes him a really interesting case cuz it's like oh you know you see you know like a lot of the time people will go well then just comply just comply it's like bro this fool he did he wasn't even there and the way the cop apprach he he escalated like one by one too so it wasn't like a overaggressive copy either it was just like the ████ ████ store bad yeah yeah yeah and it's like an existing like mental like trauma that he's going through I'm surprised he didn't pull out his gun immediately when he was uh resisting cuz most cops I feel like they would just shoot any minute yeah it was it was definitely incremental yeah he's a big boy dude

15:10 he's a big boy you better call backup for this not is is that the protocol too do they usually call backup for situations like that cuz I feel like two on one is always a little bit safer for if I see someone put the hands on the truck like this I'm already calling for back up like this guy crap we need ████ crazy technically he has his hand in the back and you're just like he's very ████ crafty gets his ████ he's in his hands on the truck yeah but he's doing it weird he's not doing it like normal people this guy's ████ he put his hands down then he's like look the other way he's all gu making my brain think weird dude it's true man it's true but also again like he was doing like a weird it is weird that like it's also a really true thing that that uh how you get pulled over and how you respond and how you everything is like part of Saving your own ask yeah for real no he he was

16:01 frustrated came out like already frustrated agitated and agitated like a like annoyed it's like one of those things like hey like uh come inside no Isaac come inside it'll be a little kid trying to play it off he was just he was just so angry he's like ████ I I don't like the fact that I'm listening to you but I have to and then that just took him off to the next level I get unfortunate that it got to that level and I feel like we all we all watching this and hearing the story understand his why he did what he did which makes it even tough cuz like a ████ I feel you bro but I also know how to control our we know that's not the right thing to do you know but sometimes I mean they took his life away from him bro like being 16 years in hard part is a cop probably didn't have that backstory you know what I mean yeah he of course no the cop watching the cop

16:51 cop did nothing wrong I think the cop did everything the cop's supposed to do took out the gun the last moment he did I'm glad the cop ████ tased him yeah he went through everything he he he's a better cop than me it's like you do point out though it's like if that if he just got a different cop that was better trained at like some kind of a hold cuz honestly too like if you get a guy who's like say say this cop is like a black belt or some ████ right and he's in that same situation he could have saved that dude's life just by restraining him putting him down on the ground and cuffing him obviously like like there there is there is an asp of control you know what I mean the more scared you are the more you're going to pull a gun out he almost killed that cop that guy was winning that fight if we watch if that was a UFC fight you be like yeah I got the guy on the wife beater he's going to kick that guy's ████ ass you know and and the cop is trying his best to stop him from doing that and like to the point where he had to shoot him that's

17:42 true if he yeah I don't know that's I pulled my gun out the minute I saw him Buff Ass Dude a ████ wife how much you how much you B the ████ the ████ is going on what you a bodybuilder for a second i' be like yeah step out the car holy ████ get the ████ get back here what you 65 yeah whole SW team God damn it that's scary to be like that's why but that's that's a good example of why being a cop is a really ████ hard job bro it is cuz it could be a granny in there or it could be a 65 300 lb dude and you're like what F and you want to give him the benefit of the doubt of like he's a normal dude he's fine but then you know and the granny could be a mafia boss's mom and ████ oh yeah like remember that one video of that dude pulling over some guy like it's like in Texas or something he pulls over this pickup truck and the dude just comes out with a big yeah and he starts unloading on he unloads on

18:32 cop's gone i' SE I've seen I've seen I've seen videos of this one girl they this see a video of the girl that got shot and she cuz she works in this neighborhood she knows this guy and she kept saying like oh like you know you know James just get out the car James James get out the car and then she knows him like she knows what he he's a problem he's like James step out the car real quick come on I just want to talk to you buddy like what are you doing huh your horing around he's like eh and he's like horse get out the car and he just pulls out the gun B bam in her chest she's like calling in help oh my God I got shot and I'm like she knew the guy from the neighborhood and he just spazzed out and it's like Fu she walked in there confident that's true man some people do spazz out yeah you know accomplishers trying to be nice trying to a hard ████ job dude it is a is a tough job dude it's a ████ tough job I know I wouldn't have been a that type of CBO but damn when you really look into the details of how he was uh

19:23 prosecuted originally for that case it's pretty ████ up there's a lot of ways that they were able to like convict him that are so dirty man they ████ him over dude but eventually like you said they didn't have a camera on the ATM but but they had the receipt that he was there oh so when they looked through the receipt his story did check out that he was never at the Walgreens well maybe he robbed the Walgreens and when he got the cash you went to the bank to deposit it [Music]

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