Joe Prude, 44, right, and his son Armin, 18, stand with a picture of Joe Prude’s brother Daniel Prude, 41, in Rochester, New York, on Thursday, September 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
(AP) A grand jury investigating the police suffocation death of Daniel Prude last year in Rochester, New York, voted 15-5 not to indict the three officers who restrained him, according to transcripts of the proceedings released Friday.
Prosecutors from the state attorney general’s office had asked the grand jury to consider a criminally negligent homicide charge for the officers, who were seen on body camera footage holding and pressing the 41-year-old Black man against the frigid pavement in March 2020 until he stopped breathing.
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Joe Prude, 44, right, and his son Armin, 18, stand with a picture of Joe Prude’s brother Daniel Prude, 41, in Rochester, New York, last September. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) Attorneys for the five children of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died after being restrained by police during a mental health episode, announced a federal lawsuit Monday against the city of Rochester and at least six police officers, alleging wrongful death and civil rights violations.
The family claims in the lawsuit in U.S. District Court that both the actions of the Rochester police and an “attempted cover-up” by the department and city government violated Prude’s constitutional rights, attorneys for the family said.
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