Former Rochester Police Department Chief La’Ron Singletary claims Mayor Lovely Warren told him to lie to support her version of events surrounding the death of Daniel Prude. His assertion was made in a notice of claim, a precursor to a lawsuit, that Singletary filed recently against the city outlining his intent to sue. In it, Singletary alleged that Warren ordered him, and other city officials pressured him, to withhold information from the City Council’s investigation into the Prude matter. “Mayor Warren asked me instead to provide false information and omit material information to support the mayor s public narrative concerning her knowledge of events in the matter of Daniel Prude,” the notice of claim read. “I repeatedly refused to lie for the mayor. Pressure to support Mayor Warren’s narrative also came from other city officials.”
Former police chief says mayor told him to lie about Daniel Prude investigation
La Ron Singletary said Lovely Warren asked him to provide false information and omit material information.
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A former Rochester chief of police filed a claim this week stating that the city’s mayor asked him to “withhold full and truthful information from the City Council investigation” into the death of
Daniel Prude.
Prude died one week after being restrained by Rochester Police in late March.
Former Rochester Police Chief La’Ron Singletary (left) says Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren (right) asked him to “withhold full and truthful information from the City Council investigation” into the March 23 death of Daniel Prude. (Photos by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) Fired Rochester Police Chief La Ron Singletary is suing the city.
He filed his notice on Dec. 3. News10NBC found out about the former chief s lawsuit when we starting reading a new report that says no one at City Hall, including Mayor Lovely Warren, did anything wrong after the death of Daniel Prude in police custody.
The report is by the city s Office of Public Integrity, the office that investigates fraud, corruption and other problems in the city government.
It says the mayor ordered this investigation on Sept. 14, the same day she fired Singletary.
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The mission of the report was to find out what did the mayor and her senior managers know about the death of Daniel Prude, when did they know it and did they violate any city policies.
his head, pinning his neck to the ground. the medical examiner later ruling his death a homicide. the mayor suspending seven officers, saying she d been misled by the police chief. chief singletary never informed me of the actions of his officers to forcibly restrain mr. prude. reporter: chief singletary has ordered internal investigations, and tonight the police union president saying each of the officers followed protocol the night of the incident and are all cooperating with the investigation. the state attorney general s investigation is ongoing. and tom, it appears in anticipation of more protests tonight, rochester police have grabbed riot helmets and barricaded several blocks of city streets. tom? trevor, thank you. we move on now to the labor day warning about the coronavirus. the nation s top health experts say what happens over the next few days could determine the entire fall season. the u.s. now reporting more than 187,000 american lives lost. the cdc projecting an