Documents Reveal How the Police Kept Daniel Prude's Death Quiet

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Documents Reveal How the Police Kept Daniel Prude's Death Quiet

It was early June, days after the death of George Floyd, and cities around the country were erupting in protests against police brutality.

In Rochester, the streets were relatively calm, but behind closed doors, police and city officials were growing anxious. A Black man, Daniel Prude, had died of suffocation in March after police officers had placed his head in a hood and pinned him to the ground. The public had never been told about the death, but that would change if police body camera footage of the encounter got out.

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.

In a police report on the confrontation, marking a box for “victim type,” an officer on the scene listed Mr. Prude — who the police believed had broken a store window that night — simply as an “individual.” But another officer circled the word in red and scribbled a note.

“Make him a suspect,” it read.

 

[Hank77]

Wow! There aren't strong enough words to describe this level of police corruption. Everyone involved in the cover-up should be fired and decertified.

 

[KCfromNC]

Wow! There aren't strong enough words to describe this level of police corruption. Everyone involved in the cover-up should be fired and decertified.

Feels more like criminal conspiracy territory. If private citizens did the same thing to a police officer the punishment would be more than decertification.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Wow! There aren't strong enough words to describe this level of police corruption. Everyone involved in the cover-up should be fired and decertified.

Why fire them when we can promote them?

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Why fire them when we can promote them?

Or send them to new jurisdictions to continue their good work.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Or send them to new jurisdictions to continue their good work.

Did you read the article through to the very end?

 

[cow451]

Did you read the article through to the very end?

Sir, yes sir! No criminal conduct on this watch, sir.

 

[KCfromNC]

Why fire them when we can promote them?

After all, just think about how dangerous their jobs are.