Dec 18, 2020
Lawyers representing former Rochester Police Chief La Ron Singletary say they re prepared to prove the claims made by the former chief in a Notice of Claim filed earlier this month.
In that notice of his intent to sue the city, Singletary said he was told by Mayor Lovely Warren to lie and withold information about the death of Daniel Prude from a City Council Investigation. Singletary says he was fired when he refused to lie about when the mayor was first told about the Prude incident.
The city has dismissed the notice and the suit as untrue and frivolous. Singletary s attorneys, Michael Tallon and Jon Getz, say they look forward to laying the evidence in front of a jury, which will decide by its verdict whether the case if frivolous or not.
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.