– Nobody deserves to die when they need help – VG

– Watch the video where he is defenseless and is treated as he is, even if he does what he is told is cruel. All I want to say now is that I want justice. I want these cops to be charged.

Tayshyra Prude said this at a press conference on Thursday. There she spoke about the death of her father Daniel Prude.

She says she cannot understand that he must have been a threat to the police since he followed all the orders he received.

– This is simply police violence and racism. This is bad. It is unfair. It has happened too often. Nobody deserves to die when they need help. No one deserves to die when under police control, says the 18-year-old.

The incident took place as early as March 23, two months before the murder of George Floyd, who set his mind on fire in various parts of the country, but has now become public knowledge.

Naked

It all started when Joe Prude called the police because he was concerned about his brother Daniel, who was visiting from Chicago in the city of Rochester in New York. According to Joe Prude, the brother had left the house and had mental problems, writes the AP news agency.

The police found Daniel Prude running naked through the streets and decided to arrest him.

Prude, who turned 41, does not oppose the arrest, but video footage shows him screaming and acting restless after police handcuffed him. Eventually, he also begins spitting, prompting police to put a spitting cap on him, fearing he was infected with the coronavirus.

The 41-year-old screams and demands that his hood be removed. Then it seems that a policeman pushes his head to the ground and holds it against the street, while another policeman puts his knee on his back.

Lifeless

Finally, the liquid starts to come out of the saliva layer and one of the policemen asks if he is vomiting.

Then Prude stops moving and lies apparently lifeless. They then held him for just over two minutes, writes AP.

When the health personnel arrived at the scene, a heart and lung rescue attempt was made, before he was taken away in an ambulance. Seven days later he was pronounced dead. The case is now being investigated as murder, after a medical examination concluded that the cause of death was due in part to asphyxia in connection with his arrest, as well as the influence of the PCP, or angel dust, as stated. He calls you often in Norwegian.

One of the lawyers representing the Prude family says at the press conference that his family does not know him as someone with mental problems, but that it was clear that he needed help at this point.

– But in America today, needing help is dangerous as soon as the police are involved, he says.

– a wonderful person

The daughter tells at Thursday’s press conference that the person everyone sees in the video is completely different from the father she knew.

– Everyone now sees someone who is in poor condition. I knew him as energetic and gentle. He was not a bad person, as the media will now portray him. He was a wonderful person.

For her and her four siblings, it has been cruel lately. She says through tears that everyone loved him.

– It was heartbreaking to see our father in that condition. I’m still waiting for you to come back to us.

Naturally, it does not happen. Instead, she had to celebrate the end of high school and the beginning of college without her father.

– I deserved to have him with me in these events of my life. My brothers didn’t deserve this. He didn’t deserve to die, she says.

Now he is happy that the case has received attention and hopes that it will have consequences for the police officers who participated in the arrest. And that it can help end what she experiences as police violence against black Americans.

– The support we have received in the local community is fantastic. That is what we need. Whether it’s black, white, Hispanic, or whatever, we need people to come together and support the cause.