Rochester, New York, Mayor Lovely Warren on Monday fired Police Chief La'Ron Singletary and suspended two city officials over the handling of the asphyxiation death of Daniel Prude in police custody, as she called for a federal review of the case.
- Rochester, New York, Mayor Lovely Warren on Monday fired Police Chief La’Ron Singletary and suspended two city officials over the handling of the asphyxiation death of Daniel Prude in police custody, as she called for a federal review of the case.Video footage, released by Prude’s family, showed officers using a mesh hood and pinning the 41-year-old Black man to the pavement during the March arrest.
“We have a pervasive problem in the Rochester Police Department, one that views everything through the eyes of the badge and not the citizens that we serve,” Warren said during a news conference. “It shows that Mr. Prude’s death was not taken as seriously as it should have been.” Warren said she made the decision to terminate Singletary and suspend Curtin and Roj after reading an internal review of the case.
Warren called on the U.S. Attorney General’s office to conduct an investigation to determine if Prude’s civil rights were violated.
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