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