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A grand jury’s decision not to indict officers involved in a fatal encounter with an unarmed Black man illustrates a hard reality for a special unit created to investigate deaths at the hands of police: Few of the probes overseen by New York’s attorney general have led to charges against officers.

While the brother of Daniel Prude said video recorded by Rochester police body cameras offered irrefutable proof of a crime and was in disbelief over the lack of charges, Prude’s son said the outcome wasn’t surprising given other findings in police deaths involving Black people

A grand jury voted not to charge officers shown on body camera video holding Daniel Prude down naked and handcuffed on a city street last winter until he stopped breathing

Rochester’s former police chief said he did not initially see anything “egregious” in body-cam video of officers restraining Daniel Prude, the Black man who died after being held down naked on a city street last winter. La’Ron Singletary, who was fired by the mayor after the video’s public release, answered questions Friday in a live-streamed, hours-long deposition about the city’s handling...

Rochester, New York’s former police chief alleges the city’s mayor pressured him to lie about her handling of the police killing of Daniel Prude, which was kept from the public for six months, and that she fired him because he refused to do so.

The wrongful arrest of a New York man has led to protests and injury at Rochester’s Public Safety Building. According to a statement from the Rochester Police Department, Nicholas Wilt, 50, was arrested Tuesday due to an apparent clerical error that indicated Wilt was supposed to appear in court on Sept. 22, the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reported. Wilt was…

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren named a new interim police chief following the recent termination of Chief La’Ron Singletary in the fallout over the department’s handling of and involvement in Daniel Prude’s death. Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan will serve as interim police chief in Rochester effective Oct. 14, Warren announced at a press conference Saturday morning. “It is abundantly clear that traditional...

New York State Attorney General Letitia James says police footage related to investigations conducted by her office will be released to the public as soon as possible without the delay or authorization previously left up to local law enforcement involved.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is promising to expedite the release of body camera footage in cases of alleged police misconduct that her office investigates.

Newly released emails show Rochester police commanders urged city officials to hold off on publicly releasing body camera footage of Daniel Prude’s suffocation death because they feared violent blowback if the video came out during nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren has fired the police chief and suspended her top lawyer and communications director in the continuing upheaval over the suffocation death of Daniel Prude.

Mayor Lovely Warren delivered a brief press conference on Monday where she made major staffing changes within several city departments and called on the U.S. Attorney’s Office to investigate Rochester’s role in the death of Daniel Prude.

Protesters who said they were hit by a car full of President Trump supporters in Times Square met with the Manhattan district attorney’s office on Friday, demanding those they believe to be responsible for their injuries be charged.

Rochester’s outgoing police chief has defended his officers’ response to protests over the suffocation death of Daniel Prude, which included the use of pepper balls

NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea did not rule out charges in the future, saying the investigation will go where the evidence leads.

The chief and entire command staff of the police department in Rochester, New York, stepped down on Tuesday — among other department changes — as outrage continued over the death of Daniel Prude.

The chief and deputy chief of the Rochester, NY Police Department retired abruptly Tuesday after days of demonstrations over the March death of Daniel Prude, who lost consciousness after police held him down with a hood over his head. Jonathan Deinst reports.

The chief and deputy chief of the Rochester, NY Police Department retired abruptly Tuesday after days of demonstrations over the March death of Daniel Prude, who lost consciousness after police held him down with a hood over his head.

Protesters demonstrated outside Rochester’s police headquarters naked except for “spit hoods” in reference to the killing of Daniel Prude.

The mayor of Rochester says reforms are coming to the police department as community elders seek to bring calmer minds to a fifth night of demonstrations over the March death of Daniel Prude, who lost consciousness after police held a hood over his head