The Camden County, Georgia, Sheriff's Office on Wednesday released the dashboard camera and body camera footage of the fatal police shooting of 53-year-old Leonard Allan Cure. Cure was wrongfully convicted of armed robbery in 2003 and was exonerated in 2020 after spending 16 years in prison.
The Camden County Sheriff's Office confirmed to ABC News that deputy Buck Aldridge has been placed on administrative leave following the incident on Monday. ABC News has reached out to Aldridge for comment.
Authorities said they decided Wednesday morning to make the videos available for public review "in an effort to be completely transparent as to what happened, and how the incident escalated to the point of extreme Use of Force."
The sheriff's office asserts that Cure was speeding and driving recklessly, "which occurred prior to the body camera video," the office said in an online statement.