Outgoing chief lawmaker Singletari announced his intention to retire at the end of September last week. But a review of the case has now ruled him out.
“This initial appearance shows that many suspect we have a widespread problem at the Rochester Police Department,” Warren said in a news release Monday. “It looks at everything through the eyes of the badge and not the citizens we serve. It shows that Mr. Prude’s death was not taken so seriously by those who reviewed the case during the city government at every level.”
The corporation’s lawyer Tim Curtin and communications director Justin Rose were each suspended without pay for 30 days.
The decision was followed by a “cumbersome management review of the city’s role in Daniel Prude’s death and subsequent proceedings,” according to a news post posted Monday on the city’s website.
Although Prud died in March, his family’s lawyers released a video of a police body camera showing officers holding his head and holding him to the ground before he could breathe. Prude stopped breathing and was pronounced brain dead at the hospital, where he died on March 30.
Last week, Prude’s sister filed a lawsuit in federal court against SingleTree, 13 other officers, and advanced New York City, in part covering the death section.
Protests and allegations that local leaders hid the murder from the public followed a long-running announcement that a black man had been killed by police.
CNN, Rochester City Council, the Rochester Police Department and the Rochester Police Loscast Club have reached out to comment.
City attorney Stephanie Prince, who was reached by CNN, declined to comment.
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