Notorious race-baiting lawyer Ben Crump says Georgia man Leonard Cure, who attacked cop at traffic stop, was shot for being black

In an October 18 press conference alongside the family members of Leonard Cure, who was fatally shot during a traffic stop after attacking a police officer, civil rights attorney Ben Crump claimed that Cure would not have been killed if he was white.

"We absolutely do not believe if he was a white citizen, he would have been killed for a traffic stop," Crump said.

Cure was pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy on October 16 for going over 100 mph in his truck on Interstate 95 just north of Jacksonville, Florida.

Footage from the incident released by police showed Cure not cooperating with the officer, saying "I ain’t doin’ sh*t" when asked to step out of his vehicle, and refusing to put his hands on the back of his truck when he did step out.

Cure was tased by the officer, and went on to lunge at him, grabbing his face and pushing him over the back of his truck, telling the officer "yeah b*tch, yeah b*tch" as he pushed his hand over the officer’s chin and mouth.

The sheriff's deputy eventually managed to wrestle Cure to the ground, and in the ensuing struggle, fired a single bullet, striking him just below the armpit.

Cure was convicted of armed robbery in 2003 and sentenced to life in prison, however, he was exonerated in 2020.

According to GPB, Crump said, "It is just a tragic situation that there wasn't an attempt to deescalate the matter from the beginning by the law enforcement officer."

"Those words — that you're going to be arrested and go to jail — after being wrongfully convicted for all those years, we believe triggered him."

Crump notably represented the families of George Floyd and Trayvon Martin, two black men that were fatally shot and whose deaths sparked riots across the country.

In a separate traffic stop incident involving Tyre Nichols, who was killed after a traffic stop in which five black Memphis police officers beat, tasered, and pepper sprayed the man, Crump said that "Black people have simple encounters with police [and] they end up dead."

"We don’t hear about these things with our White brothers and sisters."

The officers face charges of second-degree murder, aggravated asault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct, and official oppression, according to Fox News, and have been fired.

"We have never seen swift justice like this," Crump said. "Justice didn’t move swiftly for them when they were killed by white officers."

Crump has also called for a police officer to be prosecuted in the case of Patrick Lyoya, who was fatally shot after running from officers during a traffic stop.

"We demand that the officer who killed Patrick not only be terminated for his use of excessive and fatal force but be arrested and prosecuted for the violent killing," Crump said, according to Fox News. "Equal justice requires it."