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City Council candidate Stanley Martin stands in front of an informal memorial to Daniel Prude in Rochester, N.Y. Prude was a man with mental health and drug issues who died last year after being taken into police custody.
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Stanley Martin was one of the Black Lives Matter activists who organized last year s protests in Rochester, N.Y. She pushed to change policing from outside the system.
This year, Martin is seeking change from the inside, running in the Rochester City Council primary on June 22. Her focus: reimagining public safety. To Martin, this means a radical new plan to abolish the police gradually.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) A report says city officials suppressed information about the arrest and death of Daniel Prude.
Friday, we, as many of you did, went through the report of the city council s special investigation.
It says the former police chief de-emphasized the main reason why Daniel Prude died.
It says the mayor made an untrue statement to the public in September.
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And it says the city s lawyer used a false excuse to try to keep the police video of Prude s arrest private.
In a statement attached to the report, attorney Andrew Celli, the lawyer hired to run the investigation asked did officials of city government suppress information about the arrest and death of Daniel Prude between March and September? The straightforward answer is yes.
Rochester city mayor LIED to the public over what she knew about the death of unarmed black man Daniel Prude who was put in a spit-hood by cops when he had a breakdown
An independant investigation into the suffocation of unarmed black man Daniel Prude, 41, has found officials hid details about his death
The father-of-five died in March after being restrained with a spit-hood over his head and officers pressing on his back during a mental health emergency
Police initially described his death as a drug overdose
A report was commissioned by Rochester s city council after shocking bodycam footage showed the officers using physical restraint on a naked Prude