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Documents Reveal Police Tried To Suppress Footage of Daniel Prude’s Death
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1 min readSep 16, 2020
A batch of documents released on Monday as part of a 323-page internal review launched by Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren shows that officials used a series of delay tactics to avoid making the footage of Daniel Prude’s arrest public. The internal investigation follows Mayor Warren’s decision to fire police chief La’Ron Singletary just weeks before he was scheduled to step down.
“The documents show how the police attempted to frame the narrative in the earliest hours, playing up Mr. Prude’s potential for danger and glossing over the tactics of the officers who pinned him, naked and hooded, to the ground before he stopped breathing,” the New York Times reports.
