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The family seeks judgment after saying Camden County Sheriff’s Staff Sgt. Buck Aldridge used excessive force when he shot Cure.
The family has also named Sheriff Jim Proctor in the suit for ignoring Aldridge’s history of violence on the force.
The officer killed Cure in a violent confrontation during a traffic stop on Interstate 95 on Oct. 16, 2023.
The 53-year-old Cure was killed three years after he was freed by The Innocence Project of Florida. He had been jailed for a 2003 armed robbery in Broward County and was later acquitted. He served 16 years in prison before being released in 2020.
The lawsuit was filed in a U.S. District Court. Following the incident, the Camden County Sheriff’s Office released three videos of body camera footage.
CNN reported that Cure’s mother, Mary Cure, gave a statement outside of the federal courthouse. “It’s a terrible day when the citizens have to police the police.”
She added, “And when they want to use excess force there, you have other parts of the body. You can shoot, you don’t have to always kill somebody.”
The paperwork states that Aldridge and Proctor violated Cure’s constitutional rights when Aldridge used excessive force by using a Taser on Cure.
The Georgie Bureau of Investigations said that Aldridge used the stun gun, as well as a baton, to subdue Cure, but pulled out his gun and fatally shot Cure as the officer asserted that the victim resisted arrest.
The lawsuit also stated that the sheriff created an “unnecessary danger and risk of serious harm or death, with deliberate indifference” by hiring Aldridge and keeping him in uniform despite prior instances of unlawful force.PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/
SEE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG, AT THE LINK BELOW: HL:
https://www.blogger.com/blog/
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FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
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YET ANOTHER FINAL WORD:
David Hammond, one of Broadwater's attorneys who sought his exoneration, told the Syracuse Post-Standard, "Sprinkle some junk science onto a faulty identification, and it's the perfect recipe for a wrongful conviction.
https://deadline.com/2021/11/alice-sebold-lucky-rape-conviction-overturned-anthony-broadwater-12348801
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MORE VALUABLE WORDS: "As a former public defender, Texas' refusal to delay Ivan Cantu's execution to evaluate new evidence is deeply worrying for the state of our legal system. There should be no room for doubt in a death penalty case. The facts surrounding Cantu's execution should haunt all of us."
