Inside the Secretive Legal Process That Can Shield Police From Charges
Grand jury minutes in the investigation into Daniel Prude’s death reveal the many ways the criminal justice system struggles when prosecuting the police.
The circumstances of Mr. Prude’s encounter with police were revealed months after his death, and prompted vigils and protests in Rochester and beyond.Credit...Joshua Rashaad McFadden for The New York Times
May 22, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Her voice heavy with emotion, Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, stepped onto a church dais in Rochester in February to announce that a grand jury had declined to indict the police officers who were involved in the death of a Black man in their custody.