By Spectrum News Staff and Andrew Freeman Rochester UPDATED 10:21 PM ET Feb. 24, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:56 PM ET Feb. 24, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:56 PM EST Feb. 24, 2021
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. Activists took to the streets of Rochester for a second evening in response to the grand jury decision to not indict any of the officers involved in the arrest and subsequent death of Daniel Prude in police custody. Free the People ROC organized the event.
More than 50 demonstrators marched to the Public Safety Building, where they had a short exchange with police, but officers eventually returned inside the building, where they remained for the evening.
They even remained inside while a protestor crossed the barricades and taped papers onto the
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Published Tuesday, February 2, 2021 6:16AM EST Last Updated Tuesday, February 2, 2021 4:01PM EST (CNN) Three Rochester, New York, officers have been removed from patrol duty after an incident in which a 9-year-old girl was handcuffed and pepper-sprayed, Interim Police Chief Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan said. Body camera videos of Friday s encounter released by the police department over the weekend showed officers restraining the child, putting her in handcuffs and attempting to get her inside the back of a police vehicle as she repeatedly cries and calls for her father. The officers were responding to what police called a report of family trouble in an encounter sharply criticized by city officials. The incident led to protests in the community.
Three Rochester police officers are removed from patrol after incident involving 9-year-old girl
Three Rochester, New York, officers have been removed from patrol duty after an incident in which a 9-year-old girl was handcuffed and pepper-sprayed, Interim Police Chief Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan said.
Body camera videos of Friday’s encounter released by the police department over the weekend showed officers restraining the child, putting her in handcuffs and attempting to get her inside the back of a police vehicle as she repeatedly cries and calls for her father.
The officers were responding to what police called a report of “family trouble” in an encounter sharply criticized by city officials. The incident led to protests in the community.