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Investigation faults Rochester mayor, police chief for keeping Daniel Prude’s death secret
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
Posted Mar 12, 2021
FILE- In this Sept. 3, 2020 file photo, Rochester, N.Y. Mayor Lovely Warren addresses the media during a news conference in Rochester, N.Y. Adrian Kraus | AP Photo
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NEW YORK (AP) An investigation into the official response to Daniel Prude’s police suffocation death last year in Rochester, New York, is faulting the city’s mayor and former police chief for keeping critical details of the case secret for months and lying to the public about what they knew.
The report, commissioned by Rochester’s city council and made public Friday, said Mayor Lovely Warren lied at a September press conference when she said it wasn’t until August that she learned officers had physically restrained Prude during the March 23, 2020 arrest that led to his death.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) An attorney hired to independently investigate the City of Rochester s handling of the Daniel Prude case concluded Friday the city suppressed information from getting to the public and made untrue statements.
Andrew Celli, who was hired by City Council, released that conclusion as part of an 84-page report which detailed his firm s findings through its roughly six-month investigation. In it, Celli concludes, in part: In the final analysis, the decision not to publicly disclose these facts rested with Mayor Warren, as the elected Mayor of the City of Rochester. But Mayor Warren alone is not responsible for the suppression of the circumstances of the Prude Arrest and Mr. Prude’s death. In his internal communications with the Mayor, the Law Department, and the Communications Bureau in April 2020, Chief Singletary disclosed but consistently deemphasized the role of police restraints in the
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