Seven Rochester, New York police officers were suspended over the asphyxiation death of Daniel Prude who they arrested in March in a brutal incident only revealed in videotape footage made public this week
The tape, which was recorded by an officer’s body camera, shows a group of officers putting a mesh hood over Daniel Prude’s head as he kneels naked and restrained on a Rochester street and snow falls around him.
Protests broke out on Wednesday in downtown Rochester and on Thursday, some 300 miles to the south, several dozen people demonstrated in Times Square in New York City, demanding justice for Prude and police reform.Rochester’s mayor and police chief have also faced questions over why the officers did not face discipline until the videotape became public five months after the incident.
Family members obtained the body camera footage after filing a freedom of information act request, CBS-affiliate WROC-TV reported. The office of New York’s attorney general is investigating the case, as state law requires whenever police are involved in a civilian’s death.
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