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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — Activists are calling for the firing of the seven officers who were suspended with pay over Daniel Prude’s death.
On Thursday, the Community Justice Initiative was joined by other groups supporting the Black Lives Matter movement saying they want the officers charged and fired. The groups are demanding action from city leaders and are calling for the immediate removal for all rogue and racist officers from the police department.
Prude, 41, who was Black, died when he was taken off life support March 30. That was seven days after officers who encountered him running naked through the street put a hood over his head to stop him from spitting, then held him down for about two minutes until he stopped breathing.
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren announced the suspensions at a news conference Thursday amid outrage that city officials had previously kept quiet about Prude’s death.
While denying a cover-up, Warren acknowledged that Prude “was failed by the police department, our mental health care system, our society, and he was failed by me.”
The suspended officers are Troy Taladay, Paul Ricotta, Francisco Santiago, Andrew Specksgoor, Josiah Harris, Mark Vaughn and Sgt. Michael Magri.
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