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    Daniel Prude (41) died as a result of Rochester NY Police Brutaluty

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    A Black man who had run naked through the streets of a western New York city died of asphyxiation after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, according to video and records released Wednesday by the man?s family.

    Daniel Prude died March 30 after he was taken off life support, seven days after the encounter with police in Rochester. His death received no public attention until Wednesday, when his family held a news conference and released police body camera video and written reports they obtained through a public records request.

    ?How did you see him and not directly say, ?The man is defenseless, buck naked on the ground. He?s cuffed up already. Come on.? How many more brothers gotta die for society to understand that this needs to stop?? Prude?s brother, Joe Prude, asked at a news conference Wednesday.

    The videos show Prude, who had taken off his clothes, complying when police ask him to get on the ground and put his hands behind his back. Prude is agitated and shouting as officers let him writhe as he sits on the pavement in handcuffs for a few moments as a light snow falls.

    Then, they put a white ?spit hood? over his head, a device intended to protect officers from a detainee?s saliva. At the time, New York was in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

    Prude demands they remove it.

    Then the officer?s slam Prude?s head into the street. One officer holds his head down against the pavement with both hands, saying ?stop spitting? as Prude?s shouts turn to whimpers and grunts. Another officer places a knee on his back. The officers appear to become concerned when they notice water coming out of Prude?s mouth.

    ?My man. You puking?? one says.

    Prude stops moving and falls silent. One officer notes that he?s been out, naked, in the street for some time. Another remarks, ?He feels pretty cold.?

    His head had been held down by an officer for just over two minutes.

    Medics can then be seen on the video performing CPR before he?s loaded into an ambulance.

    Spit hoods have been scrutinized as a factor in the deaths of several prisoners in the U.S. and other countries in recent years.

    A medical examiner concluded that Prude?s death was a homicide caused by ?complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint.? The report lists excited delirium and acute intoxication by phencyclidine, or PCP, as contributing factors.

    Prude was from Chicago and had just arrived in Rochester for a visit with his family. Police responded after Joe Prude called 911 to report that his brother had left his house and was experiencing mental health issues.

    The city halted its investigation into Prude?s death when state Attorney General Letitia James office began its own investigation in April. Under New York law, deaths of unarmed people in police custody are often turned over to the attorney general?s office, rather than handled by local officials.

    James said Wednesday that investigation is continuing.

    ?I want everyone to understand that at no point in time did we feel that this was something that we wanted not to disclose,? Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren said at press briefing. ?We are precluded from getting involved in it until that agency (the AG?s office) has completed their investigation.?

    One officer wrote that they put the hood on Prude because he was spitting continuously in the direction of officers and they were concerned about coronavirus.

    Still, activists demanded that officers involved with Prude?s death be prosecuted on murder charges and that they be removed from the department while the investigation proceeds.

    ?The police have shown us over and over again that they are not equipped to handle individuals with mental health concerns. These officers are trained to kill, and not to deescalate. These officers are trained to ridicule, instead of supporting Mr. Daniel Prude,? Ashley Gantt of Free the People ROC said at the news conference with Prude?s family.

    Protesters gathered Wednesday outside Rochester?s Public Safety Building, which serves as police headquarters. Free the People ROC said several of its organizers were briefly taken into custody after they entered the building while Warren was speaking to the media.

    They were released on appearance tickets, said Iman Abid, regional director of the NYCLU, who was among those taken into custody.

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    Daniel Prude was (41) at the time of Death and now there is a protest and a car has ran over protesters in NYC

    NEW YORK CITY (NEXSTAR) — Videos posted to social media Thursday night show a car driving through a group of protesters in New York City.

    The clips show a vehicle honking at the crowd before speeding by as demonstrators dodge the black Ford Taurus sedan.

    According to NY1, two people may have been injured. Fire officials told the TV station no one was transported to the hospital.

    Amid social media speculation that the car belonged to law enforcement, the New York Police Department tweeted Thursday night, “This auto is NOT an NYPD vehicle.”

    Reporter Gynne Hogan of WNYC Radio tweeted that no one was seriously injured. She reported that the protest continued in midtown Manhattan following the incident.

    The protest was organized following the death of Daniel Prude. Prude, 41, died March 30 after he was taken off life support, seven days after Rochester police took him into custody. Prude’s family said he was suffering a mental health episode, but on the bodycam video, his brother can be heard telling the responding officer that Prude was high on PCP.

    In part of the bodycam video, Prude is seen on the ground, naked and speaking incoherently. At one point, police place a mesh hood over his head, which is standard procedure when a subject is spitting. Prude appears agitated and to be spitting. Prude demands they remove the hood.

    The autopsy report from the Monroe County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death of Prude as a homicide. It says the cause of death includes “complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint due to excited delirium due to acute phencyclidine intoxication.”

    Similiar protests took place today in Rochester.

    Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren announced the seven officers involved in the Prude’s death have been suspended with pay.

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    https://www.koco.com/article/rochest...death/33958220

    ROCHESTER, N.Y. —
    Top police leaders in Rochester, New York, announced their retirements Tuesday amid nightly protests over the handling of the suffocation death of Daniel Prude, whose family filed a federal lawsuit alleging a cover-up by law enforcement.

    Police Chief La'Ron Singletary, Deputy Chief Joseph M. Morabito and a commander retired, while two more leaders gave up command positions. The outgoing chief accused critics of trying to "destroy my character and integrity."


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    The abrupt change of course for Singletary came after "new information that was brought to light today that I had not previously seen before," Mayor Lovely Warren said during a video call with members of the City Council. She said she did not ask the chief to resign but otherwise did not elaborate.

    While the "timing and tenor" of the retirements were difficult, Warren said later at a brief news conference, "I truly believe that we will get through this."

    The sudden announcements came more than five months after the death of Prude, a 41-year-old Black man who died several days after an encounter with police March 23 in New York's third-largest city. There have been nightly protests in the city since the video's release Wednesday.

    "The members of the Rochester Police Department and the Greater Rochester Community know my reputation and know what I stand for," Singletary said in a prepared statement. "The mischaracterization and the politicization of the actions that I took after being informed of Mr. Prude's death is not based on facts, and is not what I stand for."

    Rochester Police Chief La'Ron Singletary, right, seen before a community meeting in Rochester, N.Y., Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020.
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    Rochester Police Chief La’Ron Singletary, right, seen before a community meeting in Rochester, N.Y., Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020.
    Singletary, who spent his entire career in the Rochester Police Department, was appointed chief in April 2019. He will stay on through the end of the month, Warren said.

    "This is great news," said Iman Abid, speaking for Free the People ROC, which has held protests since details of Prude's death emerged. "It says to the people that people are able to move things and to shape things. The police chief wouldn't retire if it weren't for something that he felt he was accountable to."
    But, she said, nightly protests will continue to push other demands, including the resignation of the mayor, defunding and demilitarizing of police, and development of a state law barring police departments from responding to mental health crises.

    Officers found Prude running naked down the street in March, handcuffed him and put a hood over his head to stop him from spitting, then held him down for about two minutes until he stopped breathing. He died a week later after he was taken off life support.

    His brother, Joe Prude, had called 911 seeking help for Daniel Prude's unusual behavior. He had been taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation earlier that night but was released after a few hours, his brother told officers.

    His death sparked outrage after his relatives last week released police body camera video and written reports they obtained through a public records request.

    Seven police officers were suspended a day later, and state Attorney General Letitia James said Saturday she would form a grand jury and conduct an "exhaustive investigation" into Prude's death.

    Letitia JamesGrand jury to be formed for suffocation death of Daniel Prude; crowds clash with police
    In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, Prude's family alleged that it took more than 90 seconds for officers to notice he had stopped breathing because they were chatting and making jokes at his expense. Prude's sister, Tameshay, sued as executor of his estate and named the city of Rochester, Singletary and officers involved in the arrest as defendants.

    Prude's family contends his death and a cover-up stem from longstanding police department policy and practice that "condones and encourages officers to use excessive force as a matter of course, and to lie in official police paperwork and sworn testimony to justify their unlawful actions."

    The lawsuit alleges the police department sought to cover up the true nature of Prude's death, starting with what Warren said was Singletary reporting to her early on that Prude had an apparent drug overdose.

    The lawsuit also argues officers used force against Prude at a time when he "obviously posed no threat to the safety of the officers or anyone else."

    "Mr. Prude was in the midst of an acute, manic, psychotic episode," the lawsuit states. "Mr. Prude was unarmed, naked and suffering. He needed help."

    Police union officials have said the officers were following their training.

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    https://www.koco.com/article/rochest...death/33958220

    ROCHESTER, N.Y. ?
    Top police leaders in Rochester, New York, announced their retirements Tuesday amid nightly protests over the handling of the suffocation death of Daniel Prude, whose family filed a federal lawsuit alleging a cover-up by law enforcement.

    Police Chief La'Ron Singletary, Deputy Chief Joseph M. Morabito and a commander retired, while two more leaders gave up command positions. The outgoing chief accused critics of trying to "destroy my character and integrity."


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    The abrupt change of course for Singletary came after "new information that was brought to light today that I had not previously seen before," Mayor Lovely Warren said during a video call with members of the City Council. She said she did not ask the chief to resign but otherwise did not elaborate.

    While the "timing and tenor" of the retirements were difficult, Warren said later at a brief news conference, "I truly believe that we will get through this."

    The sudden announcements came more than five months after the death of Prude, a 41-year-old Black man who died several days after an encounter with police March 23 in New York's third-largest city. There have been nightly protests in the city since the video's release Wednesday.

    "The members of the Rochester Police Department and the Greater Rochester Community know my reputation and know what I stand for," Singletary said in a prepared statement. "The mischaracterization and the politicization of the actions that I took after being informed of Mr. Prude's death is not based on facts, and is not what I stand for."

    Rochester Police Chief La'Ron Singletary, right, seen before a community meeting in Rochester, N.Y., Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020.
    Adrian Kraus / AP Photo
    Rochester Police Chief La?Ron Singletary, right, seen before a community meeting in Rochester, N.Y., Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020.
    Singletary, who spent his entire career in the Rochester Police Department, was appointed chief in April 2019. He will stay on through the end of the month, Warren said.

    "This is great news," said Iman Abid, speaking for Free the People ROC, which has held protests since details of Prude's death emerged. "It says to the people that people are able to move things and to shape things. The police chief wouldn't retire if it weren't for something that he felt he was accountable to."
    But, she said, nightly protests will continue to push other demands, including the resignation of the mayor, defunding and demilitarizing of police, and development of a state law barring police departments from responding to mental health crises.

    Officers found Prude running naked down the street in March, handcuffed him and put a hood over his head to stop him from spitting, then held him down for about two minutes until he stopped breathing. He died a week later after he was taken off life support.

    His brother, Joe Prude, had called 911 seeking help for Daniel Prude's unusual behavior. He had been taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation earlier that night but was released after a few hours, his brother told officers.

    His death sparked outrage after his relatives last week released police body camera video and written reports they obtained through a public records request.

    Seven police officers were suspended a day later, and state Attorney General Letitia James said Saturday she would form a grand jury and conduct an "exhaustive investigation" into Prude's death.

    Letitia JamesGrand jury to be formed for suffocation death of Daniel Prude; crowds clash with police
    In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, Prude's family alleged that it took more than 90 seconds for officers to notice he had stopped breathing because they were chatting and making jokes at his expense. Prude's sister, Tameshay, sued as executor of his estate and named the city of Rochester, Singletary and officers involved in the arrest as defendants.

    Prude's family contends his death and a cover-up stem from longstanding police department policy and practice that "condones and encourages officers to use excessive force as a matter of course, and to lie in official police paperwork and sworn testimony to justify their unlawful actions."

    The lawsuit alleges the police department sought to cover up the true nature of Prude's death, starting with what Warren said was Singletary reporting to her early on that Prude had an apparent drug overdose.

    The lawsuit also argues officers used force against Prude at a time when he "obviously posed no threat to the safety of the officers or anyone else."

    "Mr. Prude was in the midst of an acute, manic, psychotic episode," the lawsuit states. "Mr. Prude was unarmed, naked and suffering. He needed help."

    Police union officials have said the officers were following their training.

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