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Videos of a black man who died of suffocation after being handcuffed, hooded and restrained by police officers were released Wednesday, and activists demanded that the officers involved be fired and charged.
The case occurred on March 23, with the death occurring on March 30, but the video was only known on Wednesday.
Daniel Prude, 41, who ran naked through the streets of Rochester, a city in western New York, died of suffocation after a group of policemen covered his head with a hood and pressed his face against the ground for two minutes, according to the recordings released this Wednesday by his family.
The death occurred on March 30, after Prude was released from life support, seven days after the incident with Rochester police.
Video posted by the family
His death received no public attention until Wednesday, when his family held a press conference and released video footage from police uniform cameras and written reports, which they obtained through a request for access to public records.
The videos show Prude, who he had taken off his clothes, a obey when the police ordered him to sit on the ground and put his hands behind his back.
After, put a hood on it on the head, used to prevent detainees from spitting and biting, called “spitting hood”.
At the time, New York was in the early days of the pandemic.
Prude asked to have the hood removed. So an agent threw her head to the ground and another officer forced her to the ground, with their hands, while a third knee in the back.
Prude stopped moving and talking.
The images show doctors helping him before he is placed in an ambulance.
Homicide caused by “complications of suffocation”
Prude’s death was considered a homicide caused by “complications of suffocation in the context of physical shame.”
Prude was from Chicago and had just arrived in Rochester to visit family.
Police had responded to a call from Daniel’s brother, Joe, at 112 (911 in the United States) to report that the brother had left the house and was mentally ill.
Several people gathered near the Rochester Public Safety Building, which serves as a police command, Wednesday during the press conference.
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