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Protesters stand amid clouds of chemical irritant released by police outside the Public Safety Building in Rochester, New York, Sept. 3, 2020. Seven police officers involved in the suffocation death of Daniel Prude in Rochester were suspended Thursday by the city's mayor, who said she was misled for months about the circumstances of the fatal encounter.
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Protesters stand amid clouds of chemical irritant released by police outside the Public Safety Building in Rochester, New York, Sept. 3, 2020. Seven police officers involved in the suffocation death of Daniel Prude in Rochester were suspended Thursday by the city’s mayor, who said she was misled for months about the circumstances of the fatal encounter.

Protests in Rochester, New York, after death of Daniel Prude

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Daniel Prude, a Black man who had run naked through the streets of the western New York city, died of asphyxiation March 30, 2020, after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, according to video and records released Sept. 2, 2020, by his family.

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