May 24, 2021
Story #1 Free the People Roc Marches to Promote ‘Daniel’s Law’
Over the weekend, Black Lives Matter group Free the People Roc, held a march and rally to bring attention to mental health needs in our communities. Dozens gathered in downtown Rochester calling on all lawmakers to pass Daniel’s Law, a bill to further expand the creation of mental health response units. The naming of the bill was inspired after Daniel Prude’s death. The bill was first introduced in February 2021 and created to allow mental health specialists to respond to those crises instead of police officers. The two assemblymembers that are sponsoring the bill, Harry Bronson and Samra Brouk, had attended the rally. They hope to include the bill as part of the current legislative session.
Federal lawsuit alleges brutality by Rochester police
CAROLYN THOMPSON, Associated Press
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A lawsuit filed Monday accuses Rochester officials of allowing a culture of police brutality against racial minorities to fester and asks a court to force reforms.
The civil rights lawsuit was filed on behalf of potentially “hundreds, if not thousands” of people it claims have been victimized by officers over the last three years, including while protesting last year in the wake of the revelation of the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who lost consciousness and died after being pinned, naked, to the street by officers responding to a mental health call.
Sweeping lawsuit filed against Rochester police alleges decades of violent, racialized policing msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A lawsuit filed Monday morning in U.S. District Court for Western New York asserts sweeping change is necessary to reform what it describes as the racist, predatory, brutal culture and actions of the Rochester Police Department. Absent external enforcement, the system will not change itself, according to the 96-page filing that outlines constitutional and civil rights violations allegedly perpetrated by Rochester police over the last 50 years.
Named in the lawsuit are Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, former Police Chief La’Ron Singletary, interim Chief Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan, the city of Rochester, Monroe County Executive Adam Bello, Sheriff Todd Baxter, other members of RPD’s command staff, members of the New York State Police and other law enforcement officers, including 200 “John Does.”
Sweeping lawsuit filed against Rochester police alleges decades of violent, racialized policing
The federal lawsuit alleges the Rochester Police Department operates with a sense of impunity and officers face no discipline for unlawful or racist actions.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – A lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court for Western New York asserts sweeping change is necessary to reform what it describes as the racist, predatory, brutal culture and actions of the Rochester Police Department.
The lawsuit comes a little more than a year after the death of Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man who was restrained by Rochester officers until he asphyxiated and lost consciousness, later dying in hospital.