What Happened To Daniel Prude?

A Black man who had a mental health episode is killed by the Rochester Police.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

Tensions are rising in the United States and Donald J. Trump is busy blaming Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for everything happening under his watch.

Black people are getting fed up with this.

We protest.

We call for justice.

We call for peace.

We call for change in the way police handle situations.

We say we all want to go home.

We register to vote.

And nothing ever changes. It's getting to a point where now, if more Black men and women are killed by police, there's going to be someone who harbors hatred towards law enforcement plotting to assassinate police officers at their weakest points.

It touches the nation's politicians, entertainers, athletes, social media activists and families of the victims. We see these incidents over and over again. Never in my life, have I seen this much brutality from police towards people of color.

Trump, himself had told cops to rough up people.

This was a modern day lynching.

BE WARNED THE VIDEO AND IMAGES ARE GRAPHIC.

Still, we see another incident where the police kill a man and someone films it. It hits social media and goes viral. They tell us to not rush to judgement. You're only getting one side of the story. But when the world see the unprecedented killing of a citizen supposedly being detained by police, you're not going to believe the bullshit a cop's gonna tell you.

Trust me, I don't believe the cop's version.

Daniel Prude is the latest hashtag that's hitting social media. Another Black man who died at the hands of police. A 41-year old man with mental issues dead from asphyxiation at the hands of the Rochester, New York Police Department. He was naked when they arrested him. They place a hood over his head and shoving him to the ground. He dies and now the public sees the video.



Protests have erupted in the upstate New York community after a newly surfaced video revealed Daniel while handcuffed died as the cops placed a hood over head, then pressed his face into the ground until he stopped breathing.

He was left brain dead after the incident and later died on March 30 when he was taken of life support -- seven days after the encounter with police in Rochester.

The medical examiner ruled his death a homicide caused by "complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint, excited delirium [and] acute phencyclidine [PCP] intoxication.

This incident happened months before the George Floyd tragedy which kicked off a large scale demand for police reform and nights of unrest in many communities in the United States.

Rochester Police detain a man who is naked. They place a hood over his head and soon he is unconscious.

It also exposed hypocrisy. We see Jacob Blake get shot seven fucking times in the back leaving him paralyzed from the waist down in Kenosha, Wisconsin. A week later, white terrorist shot and killed two protesters in the same town. He came from Illinois to cause havoc under the guise of "protecting" the city. He literally walked past police with a firearm in tow. Not one cop disarmed this guy. He got water and praise from police when he and armed thugs were marching in the streets of Kenosha saying they're prepared to stop protesters. He wasn't arrested until he crossed state lines, got a little bit of sleep and hired an attorney to defend his callous actions. In the wake of the Jacob Blake shooting, white agitators have set buildings on fire, came to communities armed to "protect" business and film incidents where protesters are attacking pro-Trump agitators.

With RPD's murder of Daniel Prude, Rochester is in the national spotlight. If a Kyle Rittenhouse shows up here and starts shooting protestors, who do you think will have inspired him? End your complicity now and retire him. Don't let another day go by. pic.twitter.com/n6NeYuOyYB

— Sean Dobbin (@Sean_Dobbin) September 3, 2020

Now we see the same shit in another city. Protests, the mayor calling for a curfew. New York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo having the national guard on standby to prevent unrest and Trump throwing another tweet rant about how Democratic mayors are letting chaos happen in their cities.

They head outside the Rochester Public Safety Building, which is where the police department is.

They call for the immediate cannon firing and arrest of those cops who killed Daniel Prude.

Daniel's family had called for justice.

"I have placed a phone call for my brother to get help. Not for my brother to get lynched," said Daniel's brother, Joe. "How did you see him and not directly say, 'The man is defenseless, buck naked on the ground. He's cuffed up already. Come on.' How many more brothers gotta die for society to understand that this needs to stop?"

Daniel's brother Joe Prude is calling for the arrest of those six cops who placed his brother in a chokehold.

The incident happened on March 23 where six white cops were called to the scene where a Black man was having a mental health episode. The cops were named.

Officer Mark Vaughn
Officer Paul Ricotta
Officer Andrew Specksgoor
Officer Josiah Harris
Officer Troy Talladay
Sgt. Michael Margri

The law claimed Daniel was causing minor damages to property. They said that he was walking down down the street naked. People dialed 9-1-1 to request for police to tend to a man who has erratic behavior.

Daniel was stopped by Vaughn. Shortly after exiting his vehicle, Vaughn pointed the taser towards him demanding him to lay on the ground and put his hands behind his back, to which he complied.

Vaughn would handcuff Daniel as he lays on his stomach. Then Daniel would yell and spit as he lies completely naked on ground while it was snowing.

In body camera footage, one of the cops placed a mesh hood cover over his head, after he tried to spit on them. He was screaming he had the coronavirus and saying he can't breathe.

He was yelling incoherently at the cops, shouting, "Jesus Christ" and "Give me your gun, I need it."

At one point, he invites officers to "come and look at this bick dick," to which cops laughed off the request. The cops would stand around Daniel at one point trying to get him up right. Then they were seen on camera where they were pushing him back to the ground.

Daniel on the ground screaming that they remove the hood from his head. He was making muffled sounds and screaming that he still couldn't breathe. For more than two minutes, cops pinned Daniel to the ground and Vaughn used both hands to push the side of his head into the pavement, in a push-up position with his knees suspended off the ground.

A makeshift shrine to Daniel Prude.

Another cop used his knee at one point to hold down Daniel's torso, and a third held down his legs.

Daniel is heard screaming under the weight of the officers pinning him down, however his words are muffled as his face is pushed into the ground. Officers are head urging him to "stop spitting."

Cops appears to become concerned when they notice water coming out of his mouth.

"Is he puking? Ugh, he's puking, just straight water. You see all that water that came out of his mouth? My man, you puking," said Tallady.

"Oh man look at his fucking..." Tallady continues, before being cut off by laughter being heard in the background.

Then Daniel goes deathly silent and still, having lost consciousness under the restraint.

The paramedics arrive to check if he's breathing and they start to notice he has no pulse. His body has fallen towards coldness and they start to perform CPR on him.

Once he arrived to the hospital, he was placed on life support and shortly died after he was pronounced brain dead.

The attorneys for Daniel Prude have demanded that body camera footage and witnesses footage be shared. They want to request for disciplinary records of all those cops involved.

Daniel, originally from Chicago had arrived to Rochester on Amtrak to stay with his brother. He was kicked off the train before it to Rochester, in Depew for unruly behavior. Rochester Police had took Daniel into custody for a mental health evaluation around 7pm that day for suicidal thoughts -- about eight hours before the encounter that led to his death. But his brother said he was only at the hospital for a few hours, according to the reports.

Daniel Prude should be alive today. The officers responsible for his horrific death must be fired, arrested and prosecuted. There must be a DOJ investigation into his death and any deaths that occur in police custody. Period. https://t.co/DaTIGdIfaq

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) September 3, 2020

Daniel Prude was handcuffed, naked, and had a hood placed over his head before he was suffocated to death by Rochester police.

Daniel Prude was, of course, Black. And he was MURDERED.

This happened in March, but we're just hearing about it now. https://t.co/R4AhqPlJ2q

— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) September 3, 2020

Family of a Black man who died in March after NY police put a "spit hood" on him released video of police holding him facedown for 2 min.#DanielPrude went off life support 7 days later.

They say he had a mental crisis and they called 911 for help, not for him to "get lynched." pic.twitter.com/XBFXHP27eO

— AJ+ (@ajplus) September 3, 2020

African Americans are going to send a message to the police.... Our message is pure and simple!

STOP KILLING US! STOP USING THE "I FEAR FOR MY LIFE" AS AN EXCUSE!

Everytime a person of color is shot and killed by the police, the far-right wants to look up the criminal history of the suspect.

WE ARE GETTING TIRED OF THIS NARRATIVE! NO MORE EXCUSES! IF YOU CAN DETAIN ARMED WHITE SUSPECT, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO DETAIN A BLACK MAN WITHOUT USING DEADLY FORCE!

Again, why do police believe a fleeing suspect is a "threat on their lives?"

Protests in Rochester after the release of a video showing a mentally ill man being choked to death by the police.

Cops should be able to take down a suspect without use of force. They have them Tasers! Oops, they shot people who grab Tasers.

They get in their vehicles and pull off. Oops. Cops shoot at cars when they back up and flee.

Everyday at least 103 people die from gun violence. I can't even tell you how many stories I've missed involving gun violence in the country. Police shootings are part of the systematic problem with gun violence. No amount of training will ever stop a cop from using split judgement when it comes to a life-or-death situation. However, given how many of these incidents should have involved  deescalation, these fatal encounters should have been prevented.

WHEN COPS SEE A BLACK MAN WITH A FIREARM REGARDLESS OF IT BEING LEGAL OR ILLEGAL, THEY AUTOMATICALLY SHOOT THE BLACK MAN. EVEN AN UNARMED BLACK MAN JUST REACHING FOR A WALLET OR A DOOR HANDLE COULD BE KILLED BY THE COPS. NOW A BLACK MAN FLEEING AN ARRESTING OFFICER COULD BE KILLED. WHETHER THEY'RE IN THEIR VEHICLE OR RUNNING FROM THEM. THE COPS WILL SHOOT THE BLACK MAN.

THE POLICE AND JUNK FOOD MEDIA TRY TO MAKE THE VICTIM, "THE BAD GUY" BY BRINGING UP HIS PAST HISTORY, HIS SOCIAL MEDIA OR HIS FAMILY LIFE. 

MANY WHITES (IN LARGE GROUPS) HAVE FIREARMS IN FRONT OF POLICE AND THEY NEVER GET SHOT OR KILLED. WHY AREN'T THEY AFRAID OF THEM?

WHENEVER SOMEONE COMPLAINS ABOUT THE LACK OF BLACK FATHERS, I CONTINUE TO DENOUNCE THIS BULLSHIT. I OFTEN REMIND THEM THAT THE POLICE KILL BLACK FATHERS. THE POLICE LEAVE CHILDREN OF COLOR WITHOUT A BLACK FATHER. AND NO AMOUNT OF MONEY COULD BRING THE PEACE AND TRANQUILITY TO THE FAMILIES OF THOSE KILLED BY THE COPS.

We have unrest in the nation. African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans had enough of the status quo in politics, religion, entertainment and law. The need to change started on May 25, 2020 when a cop placed his knee on the neck of an American citizen. He screamed, "I can't breathe...." and cried for his "mama."

Another Black man is shot and killed in America. The nation gets another hashtag. Two infamous agitators come out to spark more tensions.

Please do not enlist the help or services of Jeffrey Shaun King. Briahna Joy Gray and Tariq Nasheed.

These individuals are not helpful towards Black America. They are divisive hucksters who profit off of rage and division.

Of course, they'll say that Prude had a criminal history. They will say that he shouldn't have walked away from cops. They would say he should have complied to officers. The Constitution only applies to white men. Because if a Black man uses his right to not be detained without cause, refuse to speak under prosecution, and tries to defuse the situation by walking away, he still dies. And if he was shot in front of children, that is traumatizing. Those children will automatically have disdain for law enforcement.

No amount of criminal acts this man done justified that cop's actions. It's has frustrated me to hear folks like Andy Ngo, Candace Owens, Larry Elder, Leo Terrell, Jesse Lee Peterson, Terrence K. Williams, Kevin Jackson, Diamond & Silk and Allen West defend the actions of bad cops and white vigilantes.

If you continue to embrace these individuals, you're only going to hurt the cause.

What do you see here?

A modern day lynching by the police on a Black man.

The police trying to restrain a man who threatened to pose bodily harm on them.

A mentally ill Black man on the ground naked while police are trying to restrain him.

A man who didn't deserve to die from a police encounter.

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I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT SOMEONE'S PAST ENCOUNTERS WITH POLICE. THAT DOESN'T JUSTIFY THE DEATH OF ANY SUSPECT! IF THE SUSPECT IS FLEEING, THAT'S NOT A THREAT ON THE LIVES OF POLICE! IT'S A FUCKING COP OUT! THE COPS OFTEN USE NON-LETHAL FORCE WITH WHITE SUSPECTS! WHY IS THIS NOT USED ON BLACK SUSPECTS?

IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING .... BLACK PEOPLE ARE LAWFUL OWNERS OF FIREARMS TOO! JUST CAUSE YOU SEE A PICTURE OF A BLACK MAN WITH A FIREARM DOESN'T MEAN HE'S COMMITTING CRIMES. WHITE PEOPLE POSE WITH FIREARMS TOO! YOU BELIEVE WHITE PEOPLE ARE NOT COMMITTING CRIMES WITH FIREARMS! THIS COMMON STEREOTYPE EXIST WHEN BLACK PEOPLE ARE KILLED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT. THEY SEE PICTURES OF [BLACK MEN] WITH FIREARMS AND SOME JUSTIFY THAT AS A REASON FOR COPS TO KILL.

LETS MAKE THE CLEAR: WHITE AGITATORS ARE THE ONES WHO ARE BURNING DOWN BUSINESSES. THEY ARE LITERALLY TRYING TO UNDERMINE BLACK LIVES MATTER AND THE PEACEFUL CALLS FOR CHANGE. THE BLACK COMMUNITY NEEDS THOSE BUSINESSES. WHITE AGITATORS WHO SUPPORT TRUMP WILL DO EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER TO HELP HIM WIN, EVEN IF IT MEANS STIRRING THE POT.

Daniel Prude's life mattered.

It never happens in your community.......! Until it does! Every community in the United States will eventually have a legacy. A legacy of tragedy. A mass shooting will affect your town, your family and your life. So I don't want to hear that bullshit about how "guns save lives." They don't. The only thing that survives a gun shooting is the gun.

FOR EVERY BAD COP, THERE WILL BE A DEAD COP!

I DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET OR THE COP'S VERSION.

GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.

THERE IS NO GOD!

GOD IS NOT FIXING THIS!

We haven't forgotten about the many mass shootings in the United States. COVID-19 doesn't stop individuals from picking up firearms and killing others.