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By all accounts, in the early morning hours of March 23 last year, Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Rochester, New York, man, was having a psychotic break. Prude’s fate was sealed after his brother, trying to help, called 911. Police responded by handcuffing the naked Prude, pinning him to the ground and suffocating him to death.
“Mr. Daniel Prude was failed by our police, our mental health care system, our society, and by me,” Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren said during a press conference about the incident.
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Over the past year, the use of 911 calls to dispatch police in psychiatric emergencies is coming under long-overdue scrutiny, and momentum is building to divert these calls to mental health crisis teams. Such reforms, advocates say, could have prevented interactions with law enforcement that ended the lives of Prude, Nicolas Chavez, Walter Wallace Jr., Angelo Quinto, Deborah Tanner, and cou
Alameda officers kneeling on Mario Gonzalez s back highlights dangers of restraint death
Death by restraint not unusual in Bay Area
Mario Gonzalez died after Alameda police knelt on his back. There are several other cases of restraint asphyxia in the Bay Area and beyond as well, despite police training that says people should not be handcuffed in a prone position for a long period of time. Evan Sernoffsky reports.
ALAMEDA, Calif. - The cases are strikingly similar. Law enforcement officers pressing down on a person’s back as they struggle to restrain them. Moments later, the person stops breathing.
Before police killed George Floyd last year in Minnesota while restraining him in a prone position, many people had died under similar circumstances in the Bay Area.
Death of Mario Gonzalez draws attention to police putting suspects face down
By Don Thompson
Video shows Alameda police kneeling on Mario Gonzalez shortly before death
The Alameda Police Department released body cam video showing the arrest of Mario Gonzalez, who later died after what was described as a scuffle with police. The video shows an officer kneeling on Gonzalez during the altercation.
ALAMEDA, Calif. - It’s common practice for police around the U.S. to place combative suspects face down and press down on their backs with hands, elbows or knees to gain control.
They aren’t supposed to do it for an extended period because that can lead to injuries or death.