This story is fucked. He was wrongfully convicted and then set free, gets $800k compensation in August, then pulled over (looks like they’re still coming up with a reason for pulling him over), threatened I’m sure with more jail (essentially provoked), tased then shot.

I think some fucking cops were after him and pissed that the dude got paid.

Video link from a comment below. Not a good look for the guy. Hard video to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GrcptVf8Yk

That cop had better be charged and jailed for the rest of his life.

Mf'ers murdering with impunity over a traffic stop. 😡

This was a hit.

Miller couldn't comment specifically on Cure's death but said he has represented dozens of people convicted of crimes who were later exonerated.

"Even when they're free, they always struggled with the concern, the fear that they'll be convicted and incarcerated again for something they didn't do," he said.

Totally understandable. I would imagine that's kind of traumatic.

(He was incarcerated in FL and killed in GA btw)

Assuming this wasn't execution...

Cops are taught Killilogy. I gather they're trained to protect their own life at all costs and that the public is out to kill them. Also deep seated racism^1 means they fear black men more. So they shoot at the drop of a hat (or for no reason at all).

We really need to disarm the goddamn cops if they can't be trained to de-escalate and control a situation without murdering civilians all the time.

1. Did you know that early 1900s crime "statistics" were heavily biased against black people? These "statistics" established a bullshit racist narrative that black people are more prone to commit crime, which persists to this day, influencing government policies, more than a century later? (Source: The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad)

I think there should be a presumption that this is retaliatory

Anytime you all want to band together and do something about those motherfuckers

Anytime

"I can only imagine what it's like to know your son is innocent and watch him be sentenced to life in prison, to be exonerated and ... then be told that once he's been freed, he's been shot dead," Miller said. "I can't imagine as a parent what that feels like."

Pretty tragic.

How do the police manage to murder someone in a traffic stop??? Doesn't that just entail the police telling someone their brake lights aren't working or ticketing them for being 5mph over the speed limit? Man I'm glad the police (and everybody else for that matter) don't have guns in my country because that would be happening here too. That poor man and his family.

This was a hit. The cops don't like it when someone publicly and professionally embarrasses them.

Hated by two branches out of three

The police are just an organized crime syndicate.

Does the police not have an independent body that reviews any time the police use their firearms? Surely it should be an automatic suspension, regardless of the reason. How does the US seem to have such a big police problem?

People give me shit for saying the South is a store, then stuff like this happens.