Roommates, another tragedy involving a Black man dying at the hands of the police has been caught on video, and the family is calling for the officers involved to be arrested! Daniel Prude was apprehended back in March, and passed away shortly after Rochester, NY police put a hood over his head, and ignored his plea for air.
In graphic body camera footage, Daniel can be seen in handcuffs with multiple officers surrounding him. Although he is already cuffed and on the ground, officers placed a hood over his head, as he screams: “Take this off my head, you’re trying to kill me!”
Despite begging officers to remove the hood, the officers ignore his plea, and continue to hold him to the ground. One officer, Troy Talladay, even puts a knee onto Prude’s back, while holding his head to the concrete. In just a few short minutes, Daniel Prude goes silent, and officers realize he is no longer breathing.
The officers continue to hold Daniel’s lifeless body to the ground, and they begin to speak about him vomiting water into the hood.
“My man, you puking?” one officer asks. “Ah man do you see all that water coming out? It’s just straight water.”
At this point, Daniel is no longer breathing, and the officers decide to roll him over on his side and try to give him chest compressions. The officers remove Daniel’s handcuffs and attempt to resuscitate him, with no success.
One of the EMT’s on the scene begins to suggest that Daniel may have been on PCP, which would’ve prompted him throwing up inside of the hood. She also tells the officers that the situation is “not their fault” because they need to “keep themselves safe.”
Daniel was placed on life support, and was removed one week after the arrest. He died on March 30 at the age of 41, the New York Times reports.
Joe Prude, Daniel’s brother, spoke out about the officers actions, calling the arrest “cold-blooded murder”.
“How many more brothers got to die for society to understand that this needs to stop?” he said.
We’ll continue to update you as the story develops, Roomies.
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