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On March 23, Joe Prude called the police because his brother Daniel was mentally unstable. When the patrol arrived at the scene, they found the 41-year-old father of five naked on the street. Video from a police camera shows that he complies first. While lying on his stomach, Prude places his hands behind his back and is handcuffed.
Later in the video, which CNN has read through the family’s attorney, he is upset. Prude yells that she has covid-19 and spits at the police, who therefore put a hood on her to spit on.
When he then tries to stand up, the police intervene again and push him to the ground. One of them observes that Prude has spit on the hood and an ambulance is called to the scene. Then he stopped breathing.
At the hospital Prude was later diagnosed with brain death, Brother Joe told reporters on Wednesday. A week after the incident, she died when life support treatment ended.
The autopsy indicated the cause of death was homicide due to complications after suffocation, writes CNN. It also showed that Prude had small amounts of the hallucinogenic drug PCP in her body.
Despite the fact that the intervention took place already in March, the incident has only now been announced. Seven police officers involved in the intervention have been suspended while New York State prosecutors investigate the case.
Mayor of Rochester Lovely Warren said Thursday that she was misled by city police, who allegedly made it look like Prude died of an overdose. At the same time, the mayor says she saw the video a month ago.
– 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 her death, Lovely Warren says at a press conference.
She believes that Prude would have been treated differently if he had been white and that racism within the police authority led to his death.
– I am not going to deny it, I face that fact and I demand that justice is done, says the mayor.
On Wednesday, people gathered to protest in Rochester, which is about 250 miles north of New York. Nine people were arrested and the police dispersed the demonstration with pepper spray. The next day, about a hundred people demonstrated in Times Square in New York.
