Rochester Police Chief Resigns After Accusations of Cover-Up in Prude Case

Posted on AllSides September 8th, 2020
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The police chief of Rochester, N.Y., and several of his department’s highest ranking officials resigned on Tuesday in the aftermath of the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who suffocated after he had been placed in a hood by city police officers and pinned to the ground.

The resignations of the police chief, La’Ron D. Singletary, the deputy chief, Joseph Morabito, and, according to Mayor Lovely Warren, others in the department, came three days after the state attorney general, Letitia James, announced that she would impanel a grand jury...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/nyregion/rochester-police-chief-resigns-prude.html

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