Rochester, N.Y. -- A grand jury will hear a case against officers who made the fatal March arrest of a man in Rochester, according to the New York Attorney General’s Office.
Video of Rochester police officers arresting Daniel Prude, 41, of Chicago, became public Wednesday, sparking outrage and protests across the city.
Seven Rochester police officers were suspended Thursday by the city’s mayor.
“The Prude family and the Rochester community have been through great pain and anguish,” Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement Saturday.
Prude was arrested March 23 and apparently stopped breathing as police in Rochester restrained him. They placed Prude in a “spit hood” during the arrest. Prude died when he was taken off life support a week later.
Video of the arrest only became public once it was arrested by an activist group called Free the People ROC.
Activists have marched nightly in Rochester and called for increased police accountability. They’ve also called for Mayor Lovely Warren and Police Chief La’Ron Singeltary to step down, and for more to be done to help those who need medical attention during an arrest.
Michael Mazzeo, the Rochester police union president, said officers followed protocol throughout the arrest, according to the Associated Press.
“If there’s a problem with that, let’s change it,” Mazzeo said to the AP.
In the days before the arrest, Prude had shown signs of having trouble with his mental health, according to the Associated Press. He caused a disturbance on a train and was thrown off, then he was sent to the hospital for a mental health evaluation, according to the AP.
“That was was a distress call for help,” his older brother, Joe Prude, said to the AP. “He wanted somebody to grab him up and help him, not sit here and mock him and taunt him, laugh at him like a piece of meat. And that’s what they did.”
Warren and Singletary denied trying to cover up the incident, saying they were waiting for the New York State Attorney General’s Office to investigate the case.
But a report by the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle pointed out the city and police department are not prohibited from doing internal investigations or taking temporary disciplinary action during the state investigation.
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