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Family of Daniel Prude Releases Bodycam Footage from Rochester Police
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Sep 3, 20201:36Now PlayingThe man who suffocated after police in New York's third-largest city put a "spit hood" over his head was the loving father of five adult children, had some mental health issues but was harmless, and had just arrived in Rochester for a visit with his brother, said his brother Joe Prude.
Daniel Prude, 41, known to his big Chicago-based family as "Rell," died March 30 after he was taken off life support, seven days after the encounter with police in Rochester. Prude, who was Black, was from Chicago.
His death happened just as the coronavirus was raging out of control in New York and received no public attention at the time.
Thursday, Prude's brother called the death a "full fledged lynching."
"How could you sit here and label that man a threat to you when he's already cuffed up? Why would you do a bag over his head. That's how he used to hang people back in the days," said Joe Purdue.
When officers found Prude, they handcuffed him, put a hood over his head because he had been spitting, and then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, police video shows.
The hoods are intended to protect officers from a detainee's saliva and have been scrutinized as a factor in the deaths of several prisoners in recent years.
Prude had been taken to a Rochester hospital for a mental health evaluation about eight hours before the encounter that led to his death.
He was released back into the care of his family and then abruptly ran into the street and took off his clothes.
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