Lovely Warren

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2020-09-04T08:30:01+00:00
Regional News • Americas • United States
Officers involved in death of Daniel Prude suspended
Still of the police body camera footage by Roth and Roth LLP
Still of the police body camera footage by Roth and Roth LLP Credit: Rochester Police via Roth and Roth LLP via AP (Reproduction)

The seven police officers, who were involved in the March arrest of Black man Daniel Prude, have been suspended. Prude was pinned to the ground, put in a "spit hood" and later died of "complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint."

"I am suspending the officers in question today against council's advice, and I urge the attorney general to complete her investigation. Daniel Prude was failed by our police department, our mental healthcare system, our society and, he was failed by me," so Rochester's mayor Lovely Warren, who said that systemic racism led to Prude's death.