A black man who had run naked through the streets of a western New York city died of asphyxiation after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, according to video and records released. Daniel Prude died March 30 after he was taken off life support, seven days after the encounter with police in Rochester. His death received no public attention until Wednesday local time , when his family held a news conference and released police body camera video and written reports they obtained through a public records request. The videos show Mr Prude, who had taken off his clothes, complying when police ask him to get on the ground and put his hands behind his back. Mr Prude is agitated and shouting as he sits on the pavement in handcuffs for a few moments as a light snow falls.
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This article was published more than 1 year ago. Some information may no longer be current. In this image taken from police body camera video, a Rochester police officer puts a hood over the head of Daniel Prude on March 23, , in Rochester, N. The Canadian Press. Daniel Prude died March 30 after he was taken off life support, seven days after the encounter with police in Rochester. His death received no public attention until Wednesday, when his family held a news conference and released police body camera video and written reports they obtained through a public records request. Come on. The videos show Prude, who had taken off his clothes, complying when police ask him to get on the ground and put his hands behind his back. Prude is agitated and shouting as he sits on the pavement in handcuffs for a few moments as a light snow falls. At the time, New York was in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
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A year-old black man in South Carolina was embarrassed and feared for his life when a police officer looking for teens who might have been breaking into cars held him outside naked and at gunpoint after he peeked out his door to check on the disturbance, the man said in a lawsuit. Mentesana orders DeVane to stand outside his home naked at 4am, facing the wall, according to the video, which DeVane and his lawyer obtained through a public records request and released on Tuesday. He had the weapon. Once Mentesana got the all-clear, he asked DeVane his name and told him why police were in the neighborhood. DeVane said he was embarrassed because there was at least one woman among the officers and feared for his life; that if he tried to close the door, grab some clothes or argued, the officer with the gun to his head would fire. God forbid, if Mr DeVane had panicked like a lot of people would and tried to close that door. They thought it might be abandoned and the teens could be inside. DeVane was detained by officers and police searched his home in the interest of public safety, the news release said.
