Black Man Died of Suffocation After Officers Put Hood on Him-Pigs

[malaise]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/nyregion/daniel-prude-rochester-police.html

A Black man died of suffocation in Rochester, N.Y., after police officers who were taking him into custody put a hood over his head and then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, according to video and records released by his family and local activists on Wednesday.

The man, Daniel Prude, 41, died on March 30, seven days after his encounter with the police, after being removed from life support, his family said.

His death occurred two months before the killing in police custody of George Floyd in Minneapolis set off protests across the United States. But it attracted widespread attention only on Wednesday when his family held a news conference to highlight disturbing video footage of the encounter taken from body cameras that the police officers wore.

The New York State attorney general, Letitia James, and the Rochester police chief said they were investigating the death. The officers involved are still on the force.

[edhopper]

1. More bad apples

How many before the whole crate is rotten.

[Mariana]

3. The whole crate is rotten.

We know this because in all of the videos that have come out showing police brutality, when there's more than one cop present, we never, ever see any cops come to the defense of the victims, certainly not in any meaningful way. Sometimes they stand by and do nothing, but most of the time they jump in and participate in the fun themselves. Then they file their lying false reports to protect their criminal colleagues. Every single time.

[SamKnause]

2. I fucking hate them !!!