Skip to main
Malaysiakini logo

Seven police officers in Rochester suspended over black man's death

This article is 4 years old

Seven police officers were suspended Thursday over the arrest and asphyxiation death of black man Daniel Prude in Rochester, New York, after a video clip of the March incident was released, the city’s mayor said, calling it an act of racism.

Prude’s family this week released body camera footage from his arrest, showing a group of officers putting a hood over his head - apparently to prevent his spit from possibly transmitting the novel coronavirus - as he knelt on the ground, handcuffed and naked...

Verifying user