Video in Black man's suffocation shows cops put hood on him

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By MICHAEL HILL

A Black man who had run naked through the streets of a western New York city died of asphyxiation after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, according to video and records released Wednesday by the man’s family.

Daniel Prude died March 30 after he was taken off life support, seven days after the encounter with police in Rochester. His death received no public attention until Wednesday, when his family held a news conference and released police body camera video and written reports they obtained through a public records request.

“How did you see him and not directly say, ‘The man is defenseless, buck naked on the ground. He’s cuffed up already. Come on.’ How many more brothers gotta die for society to understand that this needs to stop?” Prude’s brother, Joe Prude, asked at a news conference Wednesday.

The videos show Prude, who had taken off his clothes, complying when police ask him to get on the ground and put his hands behind his back. Prude is agitated and shouting as officers let him writhe as he sits on the pavement in handcuffs for a few moments as a light snow falls.



In this image taken from police body camera video provided by Roth and Roth LLP, a Rochester police officer puts a hood over the head of Daniel Prude, on March 23, 2020, in Rochester, N.Y. Video of Prude, a Black man who had run naked through the streets of the western New York city, died of asphyxiation after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, according to video and records released Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, by the man's family. Prude died March 30 after he was taken off life support, seven days after the encounter with police in Rochester. (Rochester Police via Roth and Roth LLP via AP)


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[No Vested Interest]

1. Sickening, absolutely sickening. nt

[Merlot]

2. Every time I think it can't get worse - it does.

So sad.

[bluestarone]

3. Sorry i wish people could DIE just how they killed someone

[Stuart G]

4. Horrific...March 23??? At least this is public today..No statue of limitations on this...

Time will tell...??? 20 years ago, there was never any video..now at least there is this. Cops never
paid a price...now a few are paying far more than they ever expected..Note I sad some, not all.

[SamKnause]

5. Murderers.

I fucking hate them !!!

[ret5hd]

6. FTP

ACAB

[dalton99a]

7. "Trying to kill me!"

The videos show Prude, who had taken off his clothes, complying when police ask him to get on the ground and put his hands behind his back. Prude is agitated and shouting as officers let him writhe as he sits on the pavement in handcuffs for a few moments as a light snow falls. “Give me your gun, I need it” he shouts.

Then, they put a white “spit hood” over his head, a device intended to protect officers from a detainee’s saliva. At the time, New York was in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

Prude demands they remove it. “Trying to kill me!” he says before making muffled, anguished sounds under the hood.

Then the officers slam Prude’s head into the street. One officer holds his head down against the pavement with both hands, saying “stop spitting” as Prude’s shouts turn to whimpers and grunts. Another officer places a knee on his back. The officers appear to become concerned when they notice water coming out of Prude’s mouth.

“My man. You puking?” one says.

Prude stops moving and falls silent. One officer notes that he’s been out, naked, in the street for some time. Another remarks, “He feels pretty cold.”

[Stuart G]

8. One thing is for sure, the cops were sure that they would never have to worry about killing Daniel.

That is what they had learned. Times are now different..But we will see. This happened in March, today is Sept 2. We will see. The fellow needed to be in a mental hospital alive, not in a grave, dead

[Johnny2X2X]

9. This was worse than the others.

The officer grabs the back of the hood with both hands and cinches it tight. That was horrifying to then listen to the victim’s muffled yells, it was obvious he wouldn’t be able to breath and the officer just held him like they until he was dead. Sickening.

[Johnny2X2X]

10. This was worse than the others.

The officer grabs the back of the hood with both hands and cinches it tight. That was horrifying to then listen to the victim’s muffled yells, it was obvious he wouldn’t be able to breath and the officer just held him like they until he was dead. Sickening.

[tulipsandroses]

11. This is the problem with having law enforcement respond to a mental health crisis

It can go so horribly wrong. I work in mental health and I struggle to tell the family members of my clients to call law enforcement if their loved ones are in crisis. We need solutions other than police for mental health emergencies.
For all the idiots who cannot understand why money needs to be redirected to have other solutions. This is why. Police go into these situations with one thing in mind, to be enforcers. They are not thinking about protecting the person that needs help. Yesterday, I read about another man that was shot and killed when the police were called for a wellness check.

[LuvLoogie]

12. Bullshit. This was murder, not bad training.

Not a casting error.

[iluvtennis]

13. +++ agree. Police depts need to be refactored to include mental health crisis units and also

domestic violence units.

[Illumination]

15. Police should have never been interacting with this individual. There should have been someone

in the mental health field that understands & is compassionate. The police obviously escalated
the situation & then executed him. This has just got to change or there will be more & more
unrest in America until we get it right!

[iluvtennis]

14. This guy is full monty and handcuffed and no threat to anyone. Why the f did they put a bag over

his head. They all need to be charged with murder.

[RobinA]

21. Spitting

is taken very seriously by the law enforcement community, starting with the AIDS epidemic. In turn, spitting is jail behavior that inmates have learned makes LE lose it very fast. In my state, PA, spitting at LE is chargeable as aggravated assault. Cops and prison guards put up with a lot of spitting. Not defending these police, just giving some context. I'm in mental health and police and mental illness is rarely a good combination. I say "rarely" because I have seen police who are trained do an excellent job of deescalation. Unfortunately, police tactics taught for handling normals is the exact opposite of what works for handling the mentally ill.

[RobinA]

23. Spitting

is taken very seriously by the law enforcement community, starting with the AIDS epidemic. In turn, spitting is jail behavior that inmates have learned makes LE lose it very fast. In my state, PA, spitting at LE is chargeable as aggravated assault. Cops and prison guards put up with a lot of spitting. Not defending these police, just giving some context. I'm in mental health and police and mental illness is rarely a good combination. I say "rarely" because I have seen police who are trained do an excellent job of deescalation. Unfortunately, police tactics taught for handling normals is the exact opposite of what works for handling the mentally ill.

[Marcuse]

16. Mistakes were made. Comparable to missing a three foot putt.

[llashram]

17. this man did not deserve to die

he deserved treatment. Trump gave these toxics in blue the encouragement to kill unarmed American citizens, African-Americans specifically, but not exclusively, like this during his last campaign, though the exclusives have to act out in an exceedingly threatening manner or start shooting AT THEM to die in a manner such as this.

This is why so many people are protesting.

[Tom Rinaldo]

18. He was only handcuffed, unarmed, and outnumbered three to one by cops

What choice did the police have?

It might not rise to first or second degree murder, but this is manslaughter at the very least.

[Wuddles440]

19. Beyond sickening!

And once again, what about all the atrocities that are never being and never were documented by video?

[riversedge]

20. "I placed a phone call for my brother to get help. Not for my brother to get lynched," Prude's bro

"I placed a phone call for my brother to get help. Not for my brother to get lynched," Prude's brother, Joe Prude, said at a news conference. "How did you see him and not directly say, 'The man is defenseless, buck naked on the ground. He's cuffed up already. Come on.' How many more brothers gotta die for society to understand that this needs to stop?"

https://greensboro.com/news/national/video-of-black-mans-death-by-asphyxiation-in-n-y-shows-police-put-hood-on/article_a83f8acc-488e-52b4-90f9-7400bab306d0.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_News_&_Record&fbclid=IwAR0SOemzNi4kq19KtDLipqkZ3vVxoGx8rHdhkPuxKNmkpD0iSXpcpVg2syE

[riversedge]

22. A crowd of protesters gather, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, in Rochester, N.Y., near the site where D

A crowd of protesters gather, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, in Rochester, N.Y., near the site where Daniel Prude was restrained by police officers. Prude, a Black man who had run naked through the streets of the western New York city, died of asphyxiation after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, according to video and records released Wednesday by his family. Prude died March 30 after he was taken off life support, seven days after the encounter with police in Rochester. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
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