(Reuters) – Rochester, New York, Mayor Lovely Warren on Monday fired Police Chief La’Ron Singletary and suspended two city officials over the handling of the asphyxiation death of Daniel Prude, a Black man, local media reported.
Video footage, released by Prude’s family, showed officers using a mesh hood and pinning the 41-year-old to the pavement during the March arrest.
The footage has raised questions of a possible cover-up and turned Rochester into the latest flashpoint in a summer of protests over racial injustice first sparked by George Floyd’s May 25 death in Minneapolis.
(Reporting by Brendan O’Brien in Chicago; Editing by Sandra Maler)
