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“Rochester police commanders urged city officials to hold off on publicly releasing body camera footage of Daniel Prude’s suffocation death,” Huffington Post reported on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 (read this story here), that same day that Rochester’s police chief was fired and the city’s corporation counsel (i.e., lawyer) was suspended for 30 days (read that story here).
The cops wanted “the city’s lawyers to deny a Prude family lawyer’s public records request for the footage of the March 23 encounter that led to his death,” Huffington Post said.
“We certainly do not want people to misinterpret the officers’ actions and conflate this incident with any recent killings of unarmed black men by law enforcement nationally,” the assistant chief wrote in an email to his boss.
Yeah right.
“The video … shows Prude handcuffed and naked with a spit hood over his head as an officer pushes his face against the ground, while another officer presses a knee to his back,” Huffington Post said. “The officers held him down for about two minutes until he stopped breathing. He was taken off life support a week later.”
Pretty hard to misinterpret that.
Photos: Above, a protester injured by police; below, Rochester police attack protesters
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