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In this image taken from police body camera video provided by Roth and Roth LLP on Sept. 2, 2020, a Rochester police officer puts a spit hood over the head of Daniel Prude, on March 23, 2020, in Rochester, N.Y. (Rochester Police via Roth and Roth LLP via AP, File) prev
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In this image taken from police body camera video provided by Roth and Roth LLP, Rochester police officers hold down Daniel Prude on March 23, 2020, in Rochester, N.Y. (Rochester Police via Roth and Roth LLP via AP) prev
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In this image taken from police body camera video provided by Roth and Roth LLP, Rochester police officers prepare to load Daniel Prude into an ambulance on March 23, 2020, in Rochester, N.Y. (Rochester Police via Roth and Roth LLP via AP)
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Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Rochester, N.Y. on Tuesday night to protest the news that a grand jury had decided not to indict seven officers involved in the March 2020 arrest of Daniel Prude, whose death made headlines after video showed he was handcuffed naked and seated on the street while his head was covered with a spit hood.
Demonstrators gathered at approximately 7:30 p.m. in the area where Prude, a 41-year-old Black man, was confronted and handcuffed by police just shy of one year earlier, the Democrat & Chronicle reported. As the night progressed, protesters reportedly chanted and defied police orders to avoid the area of Child and Maple streets, where a police station is located.
Daniel Prude: Protests erupt in Rochester after no charges for cops in unarmed naked man’s death
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
Posted Feb 24, 2021
A crowd gathers near the site of Daniel Prude s encounter with police officers in 2020, in Rochester, N.Y., Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. A grand jury voted not to charge officers shown on body camera video holding Prude down naked and handcuffed on a city street last winter until he stopped breathing. New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the decision Tuesday. The 41-year-old Black man s death last March sparked nightly protests in Rochester after the video was released nearly six months later.AP Photo/Adrian Kraus
Mayor fires police chief following Prude s death; David Lee Miller reports.
A former Rochester police chief who was fired in connection with the department’s response to the death of Daniel Prude revealed the city’s mayor pushed him to lie about her handling of the investigation – and claimed he was ousted when he refused to do so, recently filed court papers show. I repeatedly refused to lie for Mayor Warren. Former Rochester Police Chief La Ron Singletary
La’Ron Singletary, who was fired from the Rochester Police Department (RPD) in September shortly after announcing his plans to retire, on Wednesday filed a notice of claim with the Monroe Court Clerk’s office announcing his intention to sue Mayor Lovely Warren and the city for defamation of character, the creation of a hostile work environment and his wrongful and retaliatory termination, according to the documents.