Created: April 05, 2021 08:30 AM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC)- A federal class-action civil rights lawsuit was filed by several groups Monday, and it s suing the Rochester Police Department, several top local leaders, as well as a number of named and unnamed police officers.
The 96-page filing was issued by a number of law firms, as well activists and protestors from organizations like Free the People Roc.
The lawsuit spans decades of allegations of excessive force by the department, with a timeline starting with police responses to the Daniel Prude protests starting in September 2020. There is a pattern and practice in the RPD of using excessive force to suppress demonstrations against the RPD’s racist policing practices, the lawsuit claims.
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A lawsuit filed Monday morning in U.S. District Court for Western New York asserts sweeping change is necessary to reform what it describes as the racist, predatory, brutal culture and actions of the Rochester Police Department. Absent external enforcement, the system will not change itself, according to the 96-page filing that outlines constitutional and civil rights violations allegedly perpetrated by Rochester police over the last 50 years.
Named in the lawsuit are Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, former Police Chief La’Ron Singletary, interim Chief Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan, the city of Rochester, Monroe County Executive Adam Bello, Sheriff Todd Baxter, other members of RPD’s command staff, members of the New York State Police and other law enforcement officers, including 200 “John Does.”
Sweeping lawsuit filed against Rochester police alleges decades of violent, racialized policing
The federal lawsuit alleges the Rochester Police Department operates with a sense of impunity and officers face no discipline for unlawful or racist actions.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – A lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court for Western New York asserts sweeping change is necessary to reform what it describes as the racist, predatory, brutal culture and actions of the Rochester Police Department.
The lawsuit comes a little more than a year after the death of Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man who was restrained by Rochester officers until he asphyxiated and lost consciousness, later dying in hospital.
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