ROCHESTER, NY – Rochester’s former police chief has said he initially did not see a ‘serious’ photo of officers beating Daniel Prude, the black man who died after being held naked in a city street last week. did not lay ties.
La’Ron Singletary, who was fired by the mayor after the video was released, answered questions in a lively, hour-long discussion about the city’s handling of the case. The city council investigation is separate from an ongoing investigation by the jury into Prude’s death.
The video shows Prude being handcuffed and naked with a spittoon over his head while an officer presses his face to the ground while another officer presses a knee to his back early in the morning of March 23rd. The officers held him for about two minutes. until he stops breathing. He was taken off for life a week later.
Singletary said he spoke to Mayor Lovely Warren twice on March 23 and that he then looked at the footage of the scene of the scene, according to the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester.
“It seems like there was nothing bad at that point,” Singletary said when he told Warren. “I explained to the mayor that we were going to do an investigation. I told the mayor there are no strikes, and there are no beatings regarding the video. ”
The provincial medical investigator suffered the manner of death as murder caused by ‘complications of suffocation in the vicinity of physical limitation’ and cited PCP as a contributing factor.
The Prude family held a news conference and released the video on September 2, which protested again in Rochester.
Singletary claims in legal documents filed in December that Warren encouraged him to omit facts and give false information to return her claim that she only learned the most important details of the police meeting months after the death of Prude led. On Friday, he said he was asked to “provide false information to support her narrative.”
The city issued a statement Friday in which it said Singletary had made an understatement of what had happened from the beginning to the present day, believing that he and no one in the Rochester Police Department had done anything wrong.