The Law Offices of HMD

08/07/2025

BRUNSWICK, GA - The family of Leonard Cure, the 53-year-old Black man shot and killed during a traffic stop by Staff Sergeant Buck Aldridge with the Camden County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) in 2023, will join nationally renowned civil rights attorneys Harry Daniels and Ben Crump as well as representatives from the Camden County NAACP tomorrow (August 8, 2025) at 12:00 PM in front of the Frank M. Scarlett Federal Building (05 Gloucester St, Brunswick, GA) to speak out following the thirteen count indictment of Aldridge on federal civil rights charges.

According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Aldridge, while working in his capacity as a Deputy Sheriff with the CCSO, used excessive force on arrestees on four separate occasions. In addition to the use of excessive force, the indictment alleges Aldridge prepared multiple misleading CCSO reports to justify his use of force.

Cure’s death sparked national outrage following the release of body camera video showing the incident as well as revelations that Aldridge, the deputy who shot Cure, was fired from a different Georgia police department in 2017 after throwing a woman to the ground during a traffic stop and handcuffing her.

Leonard Cure spent more than 16 years in prison for a 2003 robbery before being exonerated based on finding of “actual innocence,” according to the Innocence Project of Florida. Cure planned on pursuing a college degree and frequently spoke at colleges about his experience of being wrongfully convicted.

07/29/2025

07/24/2025

Ryan Biegel and his fellow deputies didn’t just assault Jarrett Hobbs. They beat him mercilessly and then celebrated their brutality confident that they’d never have to answer for their crimes. Well, today shows how wrong they were.

Let us be clear. This has been a long road for Jarrett Hobbs, his family and for the people of Camden and we’re proud to see this moment come to pass. But, as proud as we are, there is more work to be done. Let this sentence serve as some solace to everyone who has been terrorized by violence masquerading as law and order and a warning to their brutalizers. Your badge will not protect you any more than it protected Ryan Biegel.

Accountability is coming. It may take years. But it’s coming.

07/19/2025

BIRMINGHAM, AL - The family of Phillip Reeder, the 53-year-old white man whose needless death at the hands of officers with the Irondale Police Department (IPD) has been ruled a homicide.

Reeder’s wife, Sandra Lee Reeder, is represented by nationally renowned civil rights attorney Harry
Daniels and Roderick Van Daniel.

Reeder, who owned the successful Reeder Construction, was unarmed in the midst of a mental health crisis near Highway 78 in Irondale, AL, a suburb of Birmingham, in the early morning hours of August 6, 2024. Instead of medical personnel, IPD officers responded to the scene and tased the unarmed Reeder without making any attempt to deescalate the situation.Officers restrained the bloodied Reeder with one officer putting his knee on Reeder’s neck while Reeder repeatedly called out that he couldn’t breathe.

When the officer finally removed his knee from Reeder’s neck, the 53-year-old was unresponsive.

As recently as June 2025, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that an officer “pressing his full
body weight onto the back of a suspect’s neck after he is on the ground, subdued, and not resisting,
constitutes the kind of excessive force the Fourth Amendment proscribes.”

Reeder was unresponsive with no pulse when he was transported to the hospital where he was declared dead. An autopsy report from the Jefferson County Coroner Medical Examiner's Office declared Reeder’s death a homicide.

05/30/2025

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - The family of Qualin Campbell, the 31-year-old black father who made
national headlines in 2023 when he was taken hostage and killed less than a mile away from Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) Headquarters, has filed a lawsuit against the owners of the S. Nevada Avenue KFC and Taco Bell whose negligence ignoring the history of criminal activity and violence on their properties attorneys say directly led to Campbell’s murder.

02/08/2024

https://www.gofundme.com/f/maya-millerillegally-arrested-jailed-legal-fees/share/instagram/select/post

On December 2, 2023, my life dramatically changed. I was wrongfully ac… Maya Miller needs your support for MAYA MILLER-ILLEGALLY ARRESTED & JAILED LEGAL FEES

01/29/2024

HENNEPIN CO., MINNESOTA: Minnesota State Trooper, Ryan Londregan, will appear before a judge today on charges stemming from a deadly traffic stop, which tragically claimed the life of Ricky Cobb II.

01/25/2024

The family of Ricky Cobb II, a Minnesota man who was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop on July 31, 2023, called for justice after a Minnesota State Patrol trooper was charged Wednesday in connection to the death of the 33-year-old.

01/09/2024

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) – Reverend William J. Barber II held a second press conference on Monday to talk about his meeting with the head of AMC Theatres after he was forced to leave the theater on Dec. 27

12/25/2023

Happy Holidays!