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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Rochester police officers whose physical restraint of Daniel Prude may have caused his death will not face criminal charges, Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday.
Clearly upset at a news conference at Aenon Missionary Baptist Church in Rochester, James said that a grand jury had decided the officers committed no crimes in Prude s death. During her announcement, James placed Prude s death as one flashpoint in a history of racist and deadly intersections with police and Black men and women. There needs to be systematic change in the criminal justice system and policing in New York and all throughout this nation, she said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – After news that a grand jury announced no criminal charges would be brought against the Rochester officers whose restraint of Daniel Prude may have caused his death, members of the city s Black community expressed grief, anger and fatigue, along with a determination to set a new path forward.
As they did throughout fall 2020, people in Rochester took to the streets Tuesday evening, including more than 100 people who gathered at Jefferson Avenue and Samuel McCree Way, where Prude had encountered the police. No arrests and no apparent physical clashes with law enforcement were reported.
Protesters expressed frustration with the Rochester Police Department and the grand jury s decision not to charge any officers in Prude s death, which comes on the heels of similar findings in the high-profile cases of Jacob Blake and Breonna Taylor. The Kenosha, Wisconsin, officer who shot Blake was not charged. One Louisville, Kentucky, officer was indicted on co