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A temporary memorial site at the site where Daniel Prude was detained by police in Rochester, New York.
Seven police officers who were involved in the arrest of a black man in Rochester, New York in March were fired.
– Daniel Prude is betrayed by the police, by the health system, by society and by me. I am filled with pain and anger at myself for all the shortcomings that led to his death, says the city’s mayor, Lovely Warren.
Daniel Prude, 41, died after a police intervention in March. Prude’s family and activists have released details of the arrest. Police body camera recordings show Prude receiving a hood and handcuffs and being forced to lie face down on the floor.
Prude’s brother, Joe, had called the police and asked for help because his brother was mentally unstable. When the police arrived at the scene, the 41-year-old man was naked on the street. At first he obeyed, but then he began to protest. It was then that they threw him to the ground, where they held him and after several minutes he stopped breathing.
Died in hospital
A week later, he died in hospital when life support treatment ended. An autopsy determined that he also had small amounts of the hallucinogenic drug PCP in his blood.
– I made a call for my brother to seek help, not to be lynched, says Joe Prude according to Reuters.
New York State prosecutors are investigating the case, and the city’s mayor, who says he didn’t learn of the case until August, calls it a racist act.
– Institutional and structural racism caused the death of Daniel Prude. I will not deny it, I am facing that fact and I demand that justice be done, says Mayor Warren.
Various protests
On Thursday night local time, several hundred people gathered for a peaceful protest in Times Square in New York.
As early as Wednesday, people protested in downtown Rochester, about 250 miles north of New York City. According to the local newspaper Democrat and Chronicle, the police broke up the demonstration with the help of pepper spray and arrested nine people.
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