From a New York Times. I'm likeable borrow this, today, from what the public Unaware of the annual proves death warrant in police custody. Despite. On camera, video capturing reason questions about a possible cover up. My colleague Sarah Year reports from Rochester it's Tuesday September. If. There just start: what have you learned about Daniel Prude time since this video of his arrest was released. Last week, the day after this really the horrifying video was released,

I flew up to Rochester to learn more about the incident and about the person I don't believe it. I've got my body arguing about his bag, like, whilst also I That meeting with Joe prude Daniel Prudes brother, and he told me that Daniel actually isn't from Russia Esther he's from Chicago run. When danger, living for many years where he was born and raised in Chicago with his sister Thomas J and about a week ago. He started acting strange. Digitally explain what he was doing. Well like no just talking. Stop. You know I he in his life

no real, but she was disturbed by vile worried for him by how he was speaking, because, although I never told his sister called Ispra Joe and said he knows, I'm gonna send him up to you, and- and maybe you as his big brother, can talk some sense and to him. So she puts annual on a train from Chicago to Rochester, he wasn't right from the dog Is he here was saying. People were out to get him like that. When I start it more frequently,

if our brothers well grounded, for she asked me what about addressing rosemary. Some wrong start escaped, so he called an ambulance and asked for his brother to be admitted because he was having a mental health crisis budget just three hours later after arriving at strong memorial hospital, he was sent home. In a medical taxi, and his brother was shocked again. He felt that Daniel should be their undervaluation, but the doktor said, though, he's free to go, but we look like when you came in confusion of sharing version

same of use of being caving game he loved but are taken for doing it for real wasn't was. I thought he was not now with oil, then the two of them sat down at the kitchen table at Jos, home on Child Street, in Rochester doggie lights from the top and Daniel asked for a cigarette Joe said he stood up, walked to his room to fetch a cigarette and when he turned around and Daniel had streaked out the door barefoot into the freezing March weather, and that's when Joe called the police up and went on next so at about three a m on March, twenty third, a police office.

Arrived at Jos House on Child street. Taking report what's happened? Who we looking for? Does he lived visited me? Where does he live and one of the things that is really is. Powerful? When you know what transpired here? Is that Joe? super concerned for Daniel safety. No may not just no reach run, it was trained, which way did he go, which way We all know that we all this so you saw him run. This front door here. He ran back right off the bat or is it in nearby and train tracks and he's very worried. His brother is gonna accidentally hurt himself, a worry want. You didn't say anything de arrange. Your wish that damn drawing beginning, say at some point when the officers in Jos House, with him taking report those here

over? The radio worry. There's a mail at that location with blood all over him tongue, people he he sick and he's not wearing Andrew immediately knows that's my brother one three, whereas they may be this male pantry party, are shared out for is a brother forward later that same morning, an officer returns to Jos House and

in your brothers in the hospital on what the bosses who want me to hang out here with you until the fierce, more more snuff out. Did you call immediately when he? Oh yeah, ok, eastern ransack. Obviously I mean that's his all the way down on Jefferson S so I am very glad that we have not waited day of joint absolutely on Burma. Show has no idea. Why he's in the hospital it was freezing cold out it's late march. He thinks maybe hypothermia. Maybe something bad happened. While he was having this episode running around, he doesn't know put him there, but maybe even where do we gonna? Let you do that?

Captain mice, my Sargassum, in order to stamp out, does not state had just gonna lockdown, picks up the pandemic about a week before He can't visit him at the hospital. He can't go see his brother. No visitors are allowed where the height of the Corona iris, go I'm gonna go or make a phone call real, quick and might be back up with you guys around just to see. And it takes until March Thirtieth when he gets a call from the hospital you can come in and when he arrives at the hospital he realizes that he can come in because time to decide whether or not to take his brother off of life support. And what does your do after that? Will in the meantime, this week of being unable to know what happened to Daniel Joe had contacted a lawyer. He knew and said something fishy. My

the ran out the door and never came back, and I need you to help me so. On April Third, the lawyers file, what's gonna preservation, letter to the city of Rochester, requesting all records be saved regarding Daniel Prude and they file another request: a freedom of information law, request, saying turn over the body: cameras from the police officers, who apprehended him, and they don't hear anything back and they chalked up to Corona virus and things are closed and life is very difficult. But while the family was sitting there in the dark about what had happened to him, other people Something had gone down and we're looking into it, and one of those people was the they'd attorney General Latisha James. On April, twenty first her office launched an investigation

and there was another investigation going on and internal one by the Rochester Police Department. They were reviewing the by camera footage that bear in mind the prince had still ever seen and they concluded in April, that quote, based upon the investigation, the authors, actions and conduct displayed when dealing with prude appear to be appropriate and consistent with their trade so Rochester police, clear their own officers yeah, but. Then on May eighteenth Joe Prude gets startling in the mail, its medical examiners report on how his brother died. What does that say? It says at the top of it Daniel T, prude manner of death, homicide

another cause of death. It says complications of asphyxia and Joe is brother, told me he didn't what that word meant and he quickly looked it up on his phone and it means suffocation suffocation here on the report in the setting of physical restraint, so there he's remains under wraps even going into May, and it continues to stay locked down through June through July until July, thirty first, when the attorney general invites the prude family to her office to view the body camera footed from the police, and it shows what we

happen to Daniel Prude. And what does the family CNN video? What are you doing? You sort of several separate videos from different officers body. Can I their snow lightly falling an officer points is taser at Daniel whose sitting on his knees on the ground totally naked, get on ground around you're on the ground from it on the ground. Man get underground, put your hands on your back behind your back the imo. Here's your man, don't move right. Man is on and initially complies does. With the author says, let him place him handcuffs their officer actually Well, that was easy and fast

one. Male incapacity penury genuine grab my ants, Antis or and it soon spirals and becomes very complicated? Daniel start spitting on the ground. He had told at least one passage according to nine on one reports that he had corona virus mood where'd? You learn. The tow truck driver reminded me of a dynamic and remember this is the height of the pandemic. So officers put him in what is called a spit hood, it's a mesh hood and they put it over his head and it sets Daniel off stops Breton man,

He started asking for the officers guns and is continuing to spit while wearing this heard at one point, the officers say: you're gonna, stay down they press Daniel into the ground, actually one of the officers kind of makes a triangle with his hands and puts his full body weight. Onto Daniels Skull, pressing him down and they hold him against the pavement. One places there knee on his back, even as the hood remains on his head. And freezing out naked for thirty one critical areas, there is another he says he has corona

He also, I don't know until you at one point, Daniel vomit puking is puke the straight water seal that water came out of my services and there's almost some joking between the officers about his condition Zol water man, you puke, look at us, but quickly. It becomes clear that ten, It is no longer moving and he might not be breathing. They started thrown up now looks at you, doesn't have chess compressions

begin to administer CPR. We need you one. He started expounding like all the clear liquid leg you thrown up so peacekeeping. Has Yeah Nordic said that's going to notify you got it It's not your guidance for me, you gotta, keep yourself say: that's I have drawn on my door. I know video from the body cameras is general proved in the hospital. Hopefully here

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has been gone since March Thirtieth and all this time they didn't know what had happened, sitting in the attorney general's office watching that body camera footage is the first time they see what really went down. So senior his father, according to their lawyer, hyper eventually He had an asthma attack and he had to use an inhaler. A few

Weeks later, the family decides took a wide and they release those videos to the public a place for mother. You kill, which no one I say, get rich, doubtless of Wolf lays Tobler none other than cold blue book. You behold, accountability is. Why was he to cover? Why didn't get home when he comply with every day that some people wanted him to do? Why did he get treated like african american mail from nineteen? Sixty justification just deal doble? How many more problems gonna die for society to understand that this? These to stop

and I gave you in Syria, Jordan painted on families with these what the reaction, once these videos become public, so Rochester erupt in but now has become a familiar scene of protests against police brutality of black people at the same time the mayor announces that the seven officers who were involved in Daniels arrests have been suspended from the force, but if there was any hope that that would, the protests, it did not. I watched as about two hundred people gathered in front of the church on Jefferson

Avenue where Daniel Prude was pressed to the ground, it was a passionate yet largely peaceful crowd. They ended up in front of police headquarters in Rochester, where they sat against barricades com looking for more reforms, chanting at police. Why are you in riot gear? We don't see a riot here and it quieted down and someone brought boxes and bucks a pizza and ass. I stood there with them, while they were sitting on the ground, eating pizza and chanting. Suddenly those officers and ride gear rushed the crowd, unprovoked and shot peppers, all over them then set off an ethical nation protesters pulled up. Barricades ran at police, with them police fired more noxious

at them. And I watched as what it had begun as a peaceful night emerged as something much more fraud Is there I have to mention that Part of the reaction here is based on just how long it has taken for the public to learn about what right. I'm in the video is released four months after Daniel Prude step and after me, and months of protests and counter protests across the country about events- just like this, that's thing, that's fuelling a lot of the anger surrounding this. There have been accusations of a cover up and just about.

One involved says no, that's not the case blaming other parties for the reason why they didn't come forward. The mayor, for example, her name's lovely Warren so, did that after our police department responded to the name on one call on March twenty. Third, I was warm later that day by cheese, single theory that Mr Prude had an apparent drug overdose, while in custody she'd been told by the police that there was a death in custody by Daniel Prude had died of overdose. She single Terry, never informed me of the actions of his officers to forcibly restrain Mr Prodi only learned of those officers actions on August Fourth, Incorporation Council, TIM Curtain reviewed the video while fulfilling the foil request from Mr Poos attorney and no time prior to August for the chief singleton,

or anyone make me aware or show me a video of the actions of the army. The officers involved and Mr Poos death marijuana and said that on June forth about three months after Daniel died, but a week after towards food was killed. Actually, the attorney general's office ass, the city not to release the camera footage. The pretext was, do not interfere with the attorney general's investigation, which was ongoing, but the Ages Office says this never happened that this is just how long an investigation takes and that to them explains the delay. The police chief came out the other day and said: oh when we said this was an overdose. We were not covering up what we did here, but the question is: why did it takes

for this to become public, would we have found out about George Floyd? If not for the footage, would we have found out about Jacob Blake? If not for the footage? Often, municipalities dont disclose this, and it's up to us to figure out why what happened with Daniel pay. It is. His family took it into their own hands to take his story public and now it's our job to understand what took so long You know, sir, I'm mindful that in the early weeks following George Floyd staff at the hands of police much of the conversation was about the precise wall that please do play and shit and the question of whether police are being asked to do too much, and this is at the heart of the conversation around to funding the police. This idea that for ample police are not trained as mental health responders they don't instinctively de escalate,

The timing of what happened today approved feels important here but It's easy to imagine that if what had happened, him had been known to the public back when it really happened. The day your prude would have been. A button the very important data point in that. Conversely, But months have passed How much of the conversations surrounding these deaths in the hands of police have become about protests and the car protests and how they fit into the prison Joel Action and in the days since video games prude has been released to the public. We aren't really having the conversation you might expect us to be having around mental health and how the police were spawn? This number one call. Actually, that is the conversation that has just started happening in Rochester good afternoon on Sunday

Mayor Warren announced. It is my solemn duty as the mayor of the city to honour MR prude to not let his death be in vain and to do everything possible to transform how we place our city to truly protects, and so our residents we are doubling the availability of mental health professionals at this shall be moving the family crisis intervention team from the police department, where it's been for a long time into the Department of Youth and recreation services, regulation, cause that law enforcement should handle alone, and we are looking at ways to re imagining policing surrounding mental health and have been for the last summer months. Really, your stated we have already seen Rochester is taking steps to. Maybe you say that police aren't the people

should be responding to every call all the time, and maybe there are other ways to handle different crises, but Finally, your right, Michael, the conversation, has been about protests about who does this get elected and not about police reform, which truly matters is creating a city that is dedicated to serving protecting and lifting up the least among us. We're will always pay me about the death. I'm Mister Daniel Prude is our failure to do that. We had a human being and in need of help and need of compassion. In that moment, we had an opportunity to protect him to keep him warm, to bring him to safety, to begin the process of healing him and lifted him up

we have on the fact that in that moment we did not do that. Sir, I'm curious what job food now says about his decision to call the police. Then they because in his mind the police would protect his brother from harm. I dont think that show gets a moment of rest from exactly that question. What would have happened if I hadn't thought police. I know a million people have been determined to ignore. Mina now goes above all, yeah yeah does

myself. Please make it look like the police were taught unequal, call for help right. That's who you call me gotcha I dont think million people telling you it's? Not your fault will help you Louis always muzzle

Thank you, sir. Over the weekend, New York's attorney General Latisha James announced that she would imperil a grand jury examine evidence in the death of Daniel Prude a move. Was immediately applauded by proof family

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