Emails show Rochester officials' attempts to conceal information about Daniel Prude's death
Source: USA Today
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – In early June, as American cities reeled with angry protests over the death of George Floyd, police commanders in Rochester, New York, were trying hard to prevent the very similar death of Daniel Prude from going public.
Deputy Chief Mark Simmons picked up the urgent thread in an email to Chief La’Ron Singletary a few hours later.
"We certainly do not want people to misinterpret the officers’ actions and conflate this incident with any recent killings of unarmed black men by law enforcement nationally," Simmons wrote in an email. "That would simply be a false narrative, and could create animosity and potentially violent blow back in this community as a result."
Many of the documents touch on actions by leadership in the police department and suggest police actively worked to conceal what had happened.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/15/daniel-prude-death-rochester-police-sought-delay-video-release-mayor-lovely-warren/5803252002/?fbclid=IwAR10Xzi1yAiHV_Jfys3JnGLcUOPpgiEKiZUWemz5POfLVhe28HH7Vm6ez-4
City lawyers recommended that the video and supporting documents not be released to the public.
"I totally agree," Singletary emailed back minutes later.
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Why? Because instead of just hauling off and pumping him full of bullets, you instead hooded and suffocated him outside while he was naked on the ground in cold temps? 
